fourpence

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Examples

• Fieldfares and Mistletoe Thrushes usually sell at fourpence each, the rest at fourpence a couple.

• The price of tobacco accordingly dropped from fourpence a pound to a halfpenny per pound by 1667.

• The vendor said he could get fourpence a pound for the whole, and that it made capital Bristol board.

• I have no money but about fourpence-ha'penny a week for darning stockings, but I have skill with the needle somewhat.

• Levy, however, secured the first copy for fourpence in Farringdon Street, earning for his sharpness much praise.