Cheese was tenpence; potatoes from five to ten shillings a bushel.

Leaf tobacco was tenpence a pound, roll one-and-tenpence, snuff two-and-threepence.

Leaf tobacco was tenpence a pound, roll one-and-tenpence, snuff two-and-threepence.

Where I find, for example, that the total assessment on the nett rateable value does not exceed ninepence or tenpence in the pound, I really think such districts ought to be called upon to increase their rates before applying for extraneous help.

If the wife of a burgher brewed his ale, he paid tenpence.

Mr. Thrale's bill at the inn for dinner was eighteen shillings and tenpence.

But earth is very nigh to heaven, and when we saw a series of begging boxes flanking the books, and a looking-glass, which must at some time have cost tenpence, we retreated.

And we hadn't got more than tenpence-halfpenny among us.

"It was no use, he'd got us every way; and at last the skipper turns out 'is pockets, and he ses, 'Look 'ere,' he ses, 'I've got seventeen and tenpence ha' penny.

The general and stated price of an ox was four shillings; of a labouring horse the same; of a sow, one shilling; of a sheep with fine wool, tenpence; with coarse wool, sixpence [m].

"The costs of that loaf is, I believe, to be exact, one and tenpence ha'pennyone and tenpence ha'penny to poor people whose staple food it is.

"The costs of that loaf is, I believe, to be exact, one and tenpence ha'pennyone and tenpence ha'penny to poor people whose staple food it is.

Sixty pence will make, five shillings, Which, we learn is just a crown; Seventy pence are five and tenpence, This is known throughout the town.

"Gloves, woollen, knitted, pairs one, one-and-tenpence.

Now that he was earning a wage,it was about eightpence or tenpence a day,which of course went into the common stock, he ventured occasionally to ask his mother for sixpence to himself.

'You were very poor once?' 'Yes: I've lived on tenpence and a shilling a day.

Those were the days before the violent competition of the half-educated had brought things down to an impossible tenpence the thousand words, and the prevailing price was as high as one-and-six.

After an hour's arduous toil he had earned tenpence-halfpenny, and, rightly considering that the sum was unworthy of the risk, put it back where he had found it, and sat down gloomily to peruse a paper which he had found secreted at the bottom of her box.

Had she not just sold the family's soup for eighteenpence, and made tenpence profit on it, and wouldn't her husband be pleasantly surprised when he saw there were three shillings more on the counter than usual?

Sixpence for a man and tenpence for a horse; ai, ai, what a barin I have found.

Sixpence for a man and tenpence for a horse.

Arter that Joe Barbcomb bought five more ha'pennies afore you could wink a'most, and every man wot sold one went up to the bar and 'ad a pint and got tenpence change, and drank Joe Barlcomb's health.

'Ay; but she's a queer-like aunt,' said Willie, pocketing the useful sum of tenpence.

Supposing, therefore, the average price of apples to be one franc twenty cents (tenpence) the hundred-weight, and the charge amounts to forty cents (four-pence), good sugar may be prepared for three or four sols (two- pence) per pound

Yet, as he tersely put it in his charge to his angry laity of the district guilty of this unmannerly outburst, the Taranaki Maoris and others of their race had already sold 30,000 acres near New Plymouth for tenpence an acre, a million of acres at Napier for a penny three-farthings an acre, the whole of the territory round Auckland for about fourpence an acre, and the whole South Island below the Kaikouras for a mite an acre.