sixpence

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An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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The transfer of three shillings and sixpence a day to every labourer would not increase the quantity of meat in the country. There is not at present enough for all to have a decent share. What would then be the consequence? Thomas Malthus

For a soldier I listed, to grow great in fame. And be shot at for sixpence a day. Charles Dibdin

Reality TV was to me the worst form of entertainment--the modern equivalent of paying sixpence to watch lunatics howling at the wall down at the local madhouse. Jasper Fforde

Sing a song of sixpence. John Fletcher

There is not the thickness of a sixpence between good and evil. English Proverb

He that has lost a wife and sixpence has lost sixpence. Scottish Proverb

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