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And the coins jingling in his pocket like tuppences would rattle in the collection box.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

And the coins jingling in his pocket like tuppences would rattle in the collection box.

At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002

“Handing people a shovel and taking their tuppences,” I said, skipping the part about Eglantine.

To Say Nothing of the Dog Willis, Connie 1997

"Ticking tuppences away like the very dickens, too!" returned Nan, emerging from her room dressed for a journey.

The Moon out of Reach Margaret Pedler

Ive an intellect: a mind and a brain and a soul; and the use he makes of them is to fix them on his tuppences and his eighteenpences and his two pound seventeen and tenpences and see how much they come to at the end of the day and take care that no one steals them.

Misalliance George Bernard Shaw 1903

a short debate the ferryman turned to his passengers and remarked, anxiously: "We'll just tak 'your tuppences now, for we dinna ken what micht come over us."

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