Sixpence

(noun.) a small coin of the United Kingdom worth six pennies; not minted since 1970.

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• Five-and-forty green parasols, at seven and sixpence a-piece. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• I don't go about asking busy people what seven and sixpence is in Moorish--which I don't understand. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Three and sixpence for the two. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• Please let me look for my sixpence. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Well, I should put the original cost of the pipe at seven and sixpence. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• On the word of an honest woman, three and sixpence, Mr. Cuff! 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
• No, because I shall hae the crooked sixpence. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Not a bad sixpence--strange as it may sound, I replied. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• Suppose the man says to me seven and sixpence? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Three-and-sixpence has been spent in vain--the screens retire to Miss Clapp's bedroom, who persists in thinking them lovely. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Four-and-sixpence--five shillings. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• I told him mine, which was down that street there, and which I wanted him to take to the Dover coach office for sixpence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Being requested to explain himself, he stated that there was some of 'em wot you couldn't kiver with a sixpence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Why should I go about asking them what seven and sixpence is in Money--which I don't understand? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Mastering at once the sixpence and the hand that held it, I demanded, 'Am I to die without you, or am I to live for you? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Bath being full, the company, and the sixpences for tea, poured in, in shoals. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Not even sixpences. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Upon other occasions, this great company has been reduced to the necessity of paying in sixpences. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• As often as I can, said Charley, opening her eyes and smiling, because of earning sixpences and shillings! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• What we good stingy people don't like, is having our sixpences sucked away from us. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• Here, you little beggars, Dobbin said, giving some sixpences amongst them, and then went off by himself through the rain. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.

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