...Some went to the forest, cut firewood, and brought it to town for sale; others unloaded a coal-vessel in the harbor, at the magnificent wages of a sixpence a day...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
... could not be afforded under sixpence-halfpenny—and this is the necessity! ...
Thomas Clarkson 「The History of the Rise, Progress and Accomplishment of the」
...75 to $1, with leave to return at pleasure; the "liberated" preferred, however, to live upon sixpence at home, suspecting that the bait was intended as a lure to captivity...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 2」
...—Have I got yourhalf-a-crown, sir?"—"Here's three shillings if you willgive me sixpence...
Robert Smith Surtees 「Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities」
...Heknew the damage: sixpence for carriages, and he doubted that Sponge wouldpay it...
R. S. Surtees 「Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour」
...After that heoffered sixpence and departed, leaving the fowl in the church...
Sir James George Frazer 「The Golden Bough」
...Whoever could lift an apple or the sixpence from the waterwith his mouth, without using his teeth, was counted very lucky andgot the prize to himself...
Sir James George Frazer 「Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I.」
... The agent of the island employed the boys, and paid them a sixpence for every dozen birds, that he might sell the feathers...
Thomas Wentworth Higginson 「Tales of the Enchanted Islands of the Atlantic」
...She was hired by the month at fifteen shillings and sixpence per ton, and was to be in government employ until her return to Deptford...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
...This proved a great disappointment to the master of the Hope, who indeed sold his spirits at three shillings and sixpence per gallon; but his salted provisions no one would purchase...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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