... Before we went to bed he offered me sixpence to help me on my way, out of a scanty store he kept in the turf wall of his house; at which excess of goodness I knew not what to do...
Robert Louis Stevenson 「Kidnapped」
...Eustatia, aDutch island, I bought a glass tumbler with my half bit, and when Icame to Montserrat I sold it for a bit, or sixpence...
Olaudah Equiano 「The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African」
...Mr Gabriel also found them employment in unloading a collier, at sixpence a day...
W.H.G. Kingston 「Great African Travellers」
..." And he explainedthat in the record of his three years' stewardship, which he was toturn over to the directors in Berlin, there was somewhere a mistakeof a sixpence...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
...He had dug out the error, and atonce he celebrated the recovery of the single sixpence by giving metwenty-four shillings' worth of champagne...
Richard Harding Davis 「The Congo and Coasts of Africa」
... Putting a sixpence in the old man's hand, Jerome once more started for the depot...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle」
...He paid this last demand with a sixpence, regretting that he had notcommenced with sixpences instead of half-crowns...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
...Putting a sixpence in the old man's hand, Jerome once more started forthe depot...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
..."—"Bestqualities of beef four shillings and eightpence astone—mutton three shillings and eightpence, to fourshillings and sixpence...
Robert Smith Surtees 「Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities」
..." Awayhe rolled, and after the lapse of a few minutes I hearda sort of shilling-gallery cat-call, and obeying thesummons, found he had concluded a bargain for oneand sixpence...
Robert Smith Surtees 「Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities」
... then I'll give a boy sixpence or ashilling to come over to Leather...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Well,there's sixpence for you, my good woman,' said he at length, drawing hishand out of his pocket and handing her the contents through the window;adding, 'don't make a beast of yourself with it...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...Again, apples and a silver sixpence were put in a tub of water; theapples naturally floated on the top and the sixpence sank to thebottom...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
...After this inspection we drove on, and we are glad to be ableto register the fact that Our Guest for once acted up to the first partof the old adage, "Earn sixpence a day and live up to it...
Various 「Argentina From A British Point Of View」
...This proved a great disappointment to the master of the Hope, who indeed sold his spirits at three shillings and sixpence per gallon; but his salted provisions no one would purchase...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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