64 Verbs to Use for the Word sixpences

It no doubt had its barbarous aspects, regarded from a humanitarian point of view, but it was not so demoralizing as the spectacle of some poor creature risking his neck in a performance for which the spectator pays his sixpence, and the whole excitement consists in the knowledge that the actor may be dashed to pieces before his eyes.

Cartwright had won by a few minutes and was satisfied, although he had given Mrs. Seaton twelve-and-sixpence for her shares, when perhaps he need not.

There was a crooked man, and he went a crooked mile, He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile: He bought a crooked cat, which caught a crooked mouse, And they all lived together in a little crooked house.

The Venetians were too much for Shylock, and he lost his ducats and his daughter; amongst Christian Greeks, Christian Armenians, and Musalman Persians, from Constantinople to Tiflis, Teheran, Bagdad and Cairo, the poor man could not have saved sixpence a year.

'Every member present at the Club shall spend at least sixpence; and every member who stays away shall forfeit three-pence.

You look as if you had lost a sovereign and found sixpence!"

" Eliza was perhaps the first to recover from the fatigue, for in a little more than two months the continuation, costing sixpence more than the first instalment, was offered to her readers.

'I don't care sixpence now for the ideal!

We made answer, that he was gone two hours before, left sixpence for her, and took her bundle with him.

I LOVE SIXPENCE I love sixpence, a jolly, jolly sixpence, I love sixpence as my life; I spent a penny of it, I spent a penny of it, I took a penny home to my wife.

Read as Shakespeare wrote: "I sent thee sixpence for thy lemma"lemma is properly an argument, or proposition assumed, and is used by Sir Andrew Aguecheek for a story.p.

" All the other chaps said the same thing, but Bob pointed out to them that they 'ad taken their sixpences on'y the night afore, and they must stay in for the week.

Why did he punish with death for stealing a very little, perhaps not a sixpence worth, of that sort of property, and make a mere fine, the penalty for stealing a thousand times as much, of any other sort of propertyespecially if God did by his own act annihilate the difference between man and property, by putting him on a level with it?

His surprise when he found that the best cigar they stocked only cost sixpence almost assumed the dimensions of a grievance.

"Yer tell'd me as how the sausingers wur sixpence," I sed; "an' the slices o' bread ud cut off a tuppeny loaf

"As often as I can, sir," said Charley, opening her eyes and smiling, "because of earning sixpences and shillings!"

"He only gets sixpence a week, and he's always breaking windows and other things, and having it stopped.

"Here's your instrument for extorting the sixpence by force or fear.

If I lose you'll 'ave sixpence to buy a rabbit-hutch with.

As it was, I told him to go about his business, and never to expect another sixpence from me as long as he lived.

[ILLUSTRATION: "Bang! went sixpence."

I could have done it quite as effectually for myself; but, it seems, the old people of the neighborhood haunt about the church-yard, in spite of the frowns and remonstrances of the sexton, who grudges them the half-eleemosynary sixpence which they sometimes get from visitors.

And of course, if ever he marries, I shall have to look for a new home; for I know too much of his ways, I daresay, for a wife to like to have me about herand me of an age when it seem a hard to have to go among strangersand not having saved sixpence, where I might have put by a hundred pounds easy, if I hadn't been working without wages for a relation.

On one occasion a person, wishing to test whether he knew the value of money, held out a sixpence and a penny, and offered him his choice.

" "Yes," broke in Rosamond, "but nothing would induce a woman worth sixpence to take the law against her husband.

64 Verbs to Use for the Word  sixpences