It was here that Richard Arkwright shaved chins at a halfpenny each, in the meantime working out his bold and ingenious schemes, with patient faith in their ultimate success.

I know that there are many poor people yet in Lancashire who use decoctions of herbs instead of teamint and balm are the favourite herbs for this purpose; but I could not imagine what this herb beer could be, at a halfpenny a bottle, unless it was made of nettles.

O, that I were within my fort of Bungay, Whose walls are wash'd with the clear streams of Waveney, Then would not Gloster pass a halfpenny,

Another friend of Vincent Novello's uses the same couplet (from Watt's Divine Songs for Children, Song XXVIII., "For the Lord's Day, Evening") in the description of glees by the old cricketers at the Bat and Ball on Broad Halfpenny Down, near HambledonI refer to John Nyren, author of The Young Cricketer's Tutor, 1833.

The newspaper stamp in those days was threepence-halfpenny, raised in 1815 to fourpence.

Some whistled a littlebut they seemed to be only learners and couldn't get on very well with tunes; others tossed halfpennies about, a few operated upon the floor with marbles, and all of them were exceedingly lively.

Now you've had a statement of policy from me for which the halfpenny Press would give me a thousand guineas if I'd sign it.

Also he had stories for them, and halfpennies or sweetmeats in mysterious pockets, and songs which he taught them: Giroflé, girofla, and Compagnons de la Marjolaine, and

During their two or three years with the colours the men receive an allowance or pay of twopence halfpenny a day.

Knowing the prestige attached to the brave marines, the Communist generals made use of the naval clothes found in the marine stores, and dressed therein some of the valliant heroes of Belleville and Montmartre.] FOOTNOTES: [Footnote 46: The game of pitch-halfpenny, in, which, in France, a cork (bouchon), with halfpence on the top of it, is placed on the ground.]

Seven of the large feathers out of the great eagle's wing would not weigh more than two halfpennies.

With the exception of the halfpenny stamp we put on circulars I can think of nothing that has not gone up or, in other words, lost buying power.

The scholar drew out a halfpenny, which he concluded was the beggar's object, when he was surprised to receive his thanks for the kindness he had shown to Jemmie, and at the same time a cordial invitation to dine with them next Sunday, 'on a shoulder of mutton and potatoes,' adding, 'ye'll put on your clean sark, as I have company.'

The smallest clerkships, twopenny-halfpenny postmasterships in unheard-of villagesall, all that can be dispensed with, must make way for the friends of the incomers to power.

I will never take a halfpenny from you; no, not if I starve for it.

For instance, you go into a shop, and you say to the man, "I want the largest penny bun you can let me have for a halfpenny."

Augustus at the age of two invariably changed it on the stairs with the butler for two pennies and two halfpennies, keeping one penny halfpenny for himself.

"Hot pennies and halfpennies were thrown from the windows at a West Hartlepool wedding party.

"The great chances of our destiny," said he to his troops, "have brought us hither to the place where we desired to be, after traversing so many bad roads, in midwinter, with snows and frosts so great, with rain, and mud, and encounters of the enemy, in hunger and thirst, and without a halfpenny.

Bank of England notes or pounds are never worth less than four shillings and twopence, i.e., 480 cents or halfpennies, which, of course, is four dollars and 80 cents, there being 100 cents in a dollar.

There's Richard Bateman, thought she to herself, [E] He was a parish-boyat the church-door 265 They made a gathering for him, shillings, pence And halfpennies, wherewith the neighbours bought A basket, which they filled with pedlar's wares;

Jenkins slept forgiven beneath his twopenny-halfpenny tombstone, and Thompson, reflecting that not only was his own monument designed (with a canopy of Carrara marble), but the cost of it invested in the three per cents., walked contentedly back to the station, repeating on his way with gentle scorn "A Father kind, a Husband dear, A faithful Friend, lies buried here.

I think it would be a good move if you were to drop these, increase the number of pages, and reduce the price to a halfpenny.

"But some folks forget," continued Mr. Swan, "that transplanted trees won't grow the first year, and others want too much for their money, and too good of its kind; but fair and softly, thinks I; you can't buy five shillings with threepence-halfpenny in any shop that I ever heerd of; and when you've earned half-a-crown you can't be paid it in gold.

It was at first indented with a cross so as to be broken for halfpennies and farthings, but silver coins of these denominations were coined by Edward I. Edward VI. stopped the farthings, and the halfpence were stopped in the Commonwealth.