tenpence

Women, and plenty to spare, are found to toil under the sweat-shop masters for tenpence a day of fourteen hours.

A VISION OF THE NIGHT 2010

He had to pawn his watch to get money & was found by a Policeman wandering about in the streets of Exeter at midnight with tenpence in his pocket.

Storyteller Donald Sturrock 2010

So they took some coffee, and after paying the bill, — twelve and twopence the dinner, and the odd tenpence for the waiter — thirteen shillings in all — started out on their expedition to manufacture a night.

Sketches by Boz 2007

For, in splendour of appearance, he was at least equal to the Deputy Usher of the Black Rod; and the idea of his carrying, as Jeremy Diddler would say, ‘such a thing as tenpence’ away with him, seemed monstrous.

Pictures from Italy 2007

FOR THREE-AND-TWENTY WEEKS RUNNING, making two shillings and tenpence-halfpenny.

The Fatal Boots 2006

The cabbage, for example, cost tenpence in the normal course of things, and a cauliflower a shilling.

Kangaroo 2004

I was left with just forty-seven francs — that is, seven and tenpence.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Sometimes half a dozen PLONGEURS would make up a party and go to an abominable brothel in the Rue de Sieyes, where the charge was only five francs twenty-five centimes — tenpence half-penny.

Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

Those were the days before the violent competition of the half-educated had brought things down to an impossible tenpence the thousand words, and the prevailing price was as high as one-and-six.

Love and Mr Lewisham Herbert George 2004

The smith went up to it, coaxed and patted it, making use of various sounds of equine endearment; then turning to me, and holding out once more the grimy hand, he said, ‘And now ye will be giving me the Sassannach tenpence, agrah?’

Lavengro 2004