thrippence

He is only three and a half -- "thrippence, ha'penny," he says if you ask him, but beguiling -- oh, as beguiling as Cleopatra, or the serpent in the Garden of Eden, or -- or as his mother!

At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell

"I've got one and thrippence – yes, just one and three."

Bliss, and Other Stories 1920

They, of course, don't care thrippence about me; it's you they hope to annoy.

The Life and Letters of Walter H Page Hendrick, Burton J 1922

"Duty thrippence," sez wan av thim, "an 'damned cheap at that price!"

Soldiers Three Rudyard Kipling 1900

[As he steps up to her and takes the cage -- thoroughly alarmed] I gave Bobbie thrippence for it!

A Bit O' Love John Galsworthy 1900

[As he steps up to her and takes the cage -- thoroughly alarmed] I gave Bobbie thrippence for it!

Complete Plays of John Galsworthy John Galsworthy 1900

[As he steps up to her and takes the cage -- thoroughly alarmed] I gave Bobbie thrippence for it!

Complete Project Gutenberg John Galsworthy Works John Galsworthy 1900

Handkerchiefs at two shillings thrippence each, sugar at a shilling per pound, which is more than double our war-time prices.

Dwellers in Arcady The Story of an Abandoned Farm Albert Bigelow Paine 1899

Aw can buy a square o 'glass that size, for abaat thrippence, an better glass nor that wor too.

Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877

Braikin another pane doesn't amaant to mich; -- they're nobbut thrippence a piece; aw think th 'best plan' ll be to tak th 'sash aght an put it on th' table, an then it'll be easier to get at.

Yorkshire Tales. Third Series Amusing sketches of Yorkshire Life in the Yorkshire Dialect John Hartley 1877