halfcrown

And as owfally posh with his halfcrown jool as if he was the Granjook Meckl or

Finnegans Wake 2006

I did not stay long because Mr. Bishop was wanting to give me the halfcrown, and he kept it downstairs.

Red Pottage 2004

She used to buy little things for me out of her halfcrown and say that when she was older aunt shouldn't make me miserable.

The Workingman's Paradise An Australian Labour Novel John Maurice Miller

She's never still, poor thing! but paces up and down the room mumbling over a bent halfcrown and a knot of ribbon, "added Lady Bearwarden, with a meaning glance at her husband," that they found on the dead man's body, and keeps pressing it against her breast while she mutters something about their wanting to take it away.

M. or N. "Similia similibus curantur." G.J. Whyte-Melville 1849

After some delay they were able to produce a single clipped halfcrown.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

To pass a halfcrown, after paring a pennyworth of silver from it, seemed a minute, an almost imperceptible, fault.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

A writer of that age mentions the case of a merchant who, in a sum of thirty-five pounds, received only a single halfcrown in milled silver.

The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4 Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay 1829

This ulcer, which is at first no larger than a pin's head, gradually increases to the size of a halfcrown piece, and leaves deep scars.

A Woman's Journey Round the World Ida Pfeiffer 1827

a quavering injunction to me to be a good boy, a very shrunken loose-skinned face and neck, and a ropy hand that trembled a halfcrown into mine.

Tono Bungay 1906