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- noun Plural form of
sixpence .
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Examples
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He coined sixpences for Ireland worth only fourpence in
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Wot they liked a'most as well as the sixpences was the idea o 'getting the better o' Bob Pretty.
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Wot they liked a'most as well as the sixpences was the idea o 'getting the better o' Bob Pretty.
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Apt, really: the defence should be paid in sixpences, and they drive the fans to drink.
Peter Reid sacked after auctioning FA Cup medal to help pay staff 2011
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Hidden among the horrors were the bits of good news, the silver sixpences in a manure and gravel pudding.
Spending review serves up sixpences in a pudding of manure and gravel Simon Hoggart 2010
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Stay safe, my friends, and watch out for sixpences in the plum pud.
Cheeseburger Gothic » A Christmas card from the Playboy Mansion. 2009
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He bribed me with sixpences (yup, that truly dates me too!) for every shot over a certain yardage.
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He bribed me with sixpences (yup, that truly dates me too!) for every shot over a certain yardage.
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Then we talked about her profession; she told me that she was paid ten shillings a week and half the sixpences she earned.
Movie Night 2010
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They expected pennies and halfpennies and threepences and a few shiny sixpences but all the coins were silver.
A Small Death in the Great Glen A. D. Scott 2010
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