sixpenny

And as they came in sixpenny numbers weekly, he had about as many hours to read as other boys spend in play.

Letter 20 2009

Some of us play solitaire, some read a "sixpenny", some doze or try to talk in bad

Ballads of a Bohemian 1916

He told his mother about his thinking perhaps the fairies had brought the "sixpenny," and she explained to him that now-a-days, alas! that was hardly likely to be the case, though she seemed quite to understand his fancying it, and did not laugh at him at all.

"Carrots": Just a Little Boy 1882

"sixpenny"; but he had promptly "trapped" his way to the head of the class, and so into the more noble "tenpenny," which he entered before he was six.

Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895 1887

Eightpenny darters hurt when they bite, an' sixpenny darters will draw blood, but the tenpenny darters don't hurt at all.

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

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 pieces are, he says, an attempt to produce 21st-century equivalents of these Victorian numbers, which may or may not incorporate ideas from the original sixpenny editions.

This week's new live music 2011

That's why tenpenny darters are SMALLER than sixpenny darters.

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

Each was clad in a sixpenny undershirt and wrapped about the loins with a strip of cloth.

A SON OF THE SUN 2010

I don't know, but if'n it was ME, I'd make it so that tenpenny darters was bigger'n sixpenny darters.

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