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    Use "sixpenny" in a sentence

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    sixpenny


    1. A young man with a Wellington nose, who had occupied a seven-and- sixpenny seat, made his way down the stone stairs when the opera ended, as if he were still set a little apart from his fellows by the influence of the music


    2. "No, I didn't! And when I was in service, I knew as soon as one of the maids came out in bare shoulders what sort SHE was, going to her sixpenny hop!"


    3. A box of paints, threepence: a sixpenny tea service, a threepenny drawing slate, and a rag doll, sixpence


    4. There was something suitable for each child that was coming, with the exception of Bert White; they had intended to include a sixpenny pocket knife for him in their purchases that evening, but as they had not been able to afford this Owen decided to give him an old set of steel paining combs which he knew the lad had often longed to possess


    5. Misery sent her several patterns of sixpenny papers, marked at a shilling, to choose from, but she did not fancy any of them, and said that she would come to the shop to make her selection


    6. Without waiting to clean the mud off his clothes, he ordered Budd, the pimply-faced shopman, to get out rolls of all the sixpenny papers they had, and then they both set to work and altered the price marked upon them from sixpence to a shilling


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    Synonyms for "sixpenny"

    sixpenny threepenny tuppeny two-a-penny twopenny twopenny-halfpenny

    "sixpenny" definitions

    of trifling worth