"Ha'penny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... responsibility, I'll bet you, Harry, a simple fiver, and I'll bet you Dolly, a new Parisian hat, and half a dozen pairs of gloves that you won't live up to your good resolutions, and that on next New Year's Day you'll neither of you be one ha'penny the better for all the wise counsels Mr. Pilcher ...
— Dolly Reforming Herself - A Comedy in Four Acts • Henry Arthur Jones
... to Simon, never very hot, had dried up. He had wounded her to the quick in unpardonable fashion in driving her only child out of the house, and all for the sake of a two-penny-ha'penny signboard. ...
— The Broom-Squire • S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
... a ha'penny a stick! Come and pick! Come and pick! Cherries! big as plums! Who comes? ...
— Rhymes Old and New • M.E.S. Wright
... twopenny-ha'penny shop, and no doubt about it; a two-storied day-before-yesterday lodging-house, with a bow window like a Metallurgique bonnet and a door about as big as the ...
— The Man Who Drove the Car • Max Pemberton
... Whigs crack o' the Saints in the Bass, my faith, a gruesome tale; How the Remnant paid at a tippeny rate, for a quart o' ha'penny ale! But I'll tell ye anither tale o' the Bass, that'll hearten ye up to hear, Sae I pledge ye to Middleton first in a glass, and a health to ...
— Ban and Arriere Ban • Andrew Lang
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