eightpenny

I asked Papi why they are called tenpenny, eightpenny, an' sixpenny darters, an' he said it was 'cause they looked like nails an' that nails used to be sold by the pennyweight.

The Celebrated Jumping Flippit of Tau-Ceti IV Hugh Barlow 2011

His lordship is meekly going to dine at an eightpenny ordinary, his giants in pawn, his men in armor dwindled to “one poor knight,” his carriage to be sold, his stalwart aldermen vanished, his sheriffs, alas! and alas! in gaol!

George Cruikshank 2006

In the eightpenny dormitories the beds are comfortable, but there are so many of them (as a rule at least forty to a room), and so close together, that it is impossible to get a quiet night.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Finally she slapped on the table two ‘large teas’ and four slices of bread and dripping — that is, eightpenny-worth of food.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

It was when you told me to put the eightpenny scuttle in Miss

The Splendid Folly Margaret Pedler

Finally she slapped on the table two ‘large teas’ and four slices of bread and drippingthat is, eightpenny-worth of food.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

In the eightpenny dormitories the beds are comfortable, but there are so many of them (as a rule at least forty to a room), and so close together, that it is impossible to get a quiet night.

Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

An eight-shilling meal stands out, among eightpenny teas, as a rare extravagance ....

Anthony Lyveden Dornford Yates 1922

"This, I presume," he remarked, "is not where you serve the eightpenny table d'hote?"

The Yellow Crayon 1906

Even on ordinary days those low-ceiled dining-rooms, stretching far back from the street in a complicated vista of interiors, were apt to be crowded; for the quality of the eightpenny dinner could be relied upon.

Clayhanger Arnold Bennett 1899