"Sixpenny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... to London, attended on the party, and presented her granddaughter with a sixpenny pincushion. The Colonel had sent Ethel a beautiful little gold watch and chain. Her aunt had complimented her with that refreshing work, "Allison's History of Europe," richly bound. Lady Kew's pincushion made rather a poor figure among the gifts, ...
— Boys and girls from Thackeray • Kate Dickinson Sweetser
... like a fellow in the pit of a sixpenny theatre, then said, "don't know much what you meant, but it went ...
— The Confidence-Man • Herman Melville
... the purse and brought it to the bed. Her mother opened it and brought out a thimble, a bootlace, five buttons, one sixpenny piece and a penny. She gave ...
— Mary, Mary • James Stephens
... small table—"My Liquid Pork!" he gasped. "Ah! of course!" was her quick response, as she bounded across the room, and returned with an eleven-and-sixpenny bottle of "BOLKIN's Liquid Pork, or, the Emaciated Invalid's Hog-wash"—a stimulating, flesh-creating, life-sustaining food; sold in bottles at 1s. 11/2d., 2s. 9d., 5s. 7d., and 11s. 6d.,—of which she quickly poured out half ...
— Punch, Or The London Charivari, Vol. 99., December 27, 1890 • Various
... that they were belonging to the privateer, and of course could not comprehend him, both the parties looked at him, and at each other, with astonishment, until the first who had appeared addressed the latter with, "I say, Paul, did you ever see such a thing before? Damn it, why he's like a sixpenny ...
— The King's Own • Captain Frederick Marryat
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