two-penny

I think Gene was clinking a two-penny piece against a brandy bottle, and I was playing maracas.

Mike Ragogna: Unstaged: Coldplay Plays Madrid, Plus Chatting With The Hollies' Graham Nash & Allan Clarke Mike Ragogna 2011

What Sullivan finds in the file is a forecast of the company's future that makes a stick of dynamite look like a two-penny firecracker.

Margin Call – review 2012

The Pennsylvania woman took Walmart to court over a two-penny discrepancy on her receipt -- and won.

Mary Bach, Consumer Activist, Wins Lawsuit Against Walmart -- Over 2 Cents 2011

I think Gene was clinking a two-penny piece against a brandy bottle, and I was playing maracas.

Mike Ragogna: Unstaged: Coldplay Plays Madrid, Plus Chatting With The Hollies' Graham Nash & Allan Clarke Mike Ragogna 2011

Coinciding with the appearance of Cobbett's two-penny Political Register, there emerged a wave of protest songs within the farming and labouring class.

A Bloomfield Chronology 2009

I think Gene was clinking a two-penny piece against a brandy bottle, and I was playing maracas.

Mike Ragogna: Unstaged: Coldplay Plays Madrid, Plus Chatting With The Hollies' Graham Nash & Allan Clarke Mike Ragogna 2011

One rival in Edinburgh sniped that Donald had used a machine costing ten thousand British pounds to do the job obstetricians routinely accomplished with a two-penny rubber glove.

Origins Annie Murphy Paul 2010

I just wanted to add a Brit two-penny worth from the original private detective, Sherlock Holmes.

The Gravel Road of Broken Dreams 2008

The moneylender's price barely covered the cost of the bamboo, leaving her with a two-penny return on her hard work.

Vivian Norris de Montaigu: The Soul of Microfinance: Purpose, Poverty, Pitfalls and Redemption 2010

Under these titles, the periodical modeled itself after William Cobbett's two-penny Political Register, which took advantage of a legal loophole allowing publications to avoid tax by not printing news.

Annotations To The Text of _Wat Tyler_ 2007