Seeing that house, a stranger would never dream that the family was living on an average income of less than sixpence a head per week.

You may sit in a chair and wait till eggs are sixpence a dozen, and you'll be no nearer.

"Sixpence a game," replied the Major, simply.

The wine here was from Ispahán, and cost, the Persian told us, about sixpence a quart bottle, and was, in my opinion, dear at that.

Coals were to be "sixpence a kettle," she saida pretty substitute for scuttle.

I can make about two shillings and sixpence a-week, an' we've a lodger that pays us two shillings a week; but we've three shillings a-week to pay for rent,

" "And do they pay you quite a lot?" "Sixpence a word.