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"On'y a glim," said the stoker in a satisfied tone, "but it showed me as I've made my money. An' made it easy, too." "'Ow much 'ave you pulled orf, then?" asked the engineer. "Double the value," replied the stoker, smiling broadly through the darkness, "of the property what I've lost in this here conflagration." "That 'ud bring you in about eighteenpence," retorted the engineer bitterly.
The Reading Mercury of May 24, 1819, advertised the rural sports at Peppard, when the not very magnificent prize of eighteenpence was offered to every man who broke a head at cudgel-play, and a shilling to every one who had his head broken. Such was the sport which our old Berkshire rustics delighted in.
"Father, may I? I've got my eighteenpence," asked the boy, turning up his animated face, while Fergus, with an air of patronage, vouched for the honesty of Jacob Green, and undertook to bring his charge back in time for luncheon. Lancelot Underwood had entirely got over that sense of being in a false position which had once rendered society distasteful to him.
"If you don't give me my watch back safe and sound," ses Dicky Weed, in a trembling voice, "it'll cost you twenty pounds." "'Ow much?" ses the conjurer, with a start. "Well, I wish you'd told me that afore you lent it to me. Eighteenpence is my price." He stirred the broken bits up with 'is finger and shook his 'ead. "I've never tried one o' these old-fashioned watches afore," he ses.
The sweat of learned Jonson's brain, And gentle Shakespeare's eas'er strain, A hackney coach conveys you to, In spite of all that rain can do: And for your eighteenpence you sit The lord and judge of all fresh wit." Nor was it in verse alone that Suckling celebrated the praises of wine.
I can easily make a fruit tart for father, as well as the pancakes, and won't he enjoy Mrs. White's nice cream? It was very good of her to give it to me; and it was very cheap, too only eighteenpence. But, dear me, dear me, how I wish Maggie would come!" There was no sign, however, of any stout, unwieldy young person walking down the narrow path which led to the stile.
Wretched creature! my life was to be nothing better than that of the horse in Bewick's terrible picture. I was 'waiting for death. Part of my income was derived from interest on money lent to a cousin. Without any warning I had a letter to say that he was bankrupt, and that his estate would probably not pay eighteenpence in the pound.
Petulengro arose, and motioned me to follow him. ‘Only eighteenpence in the world, brother?’ said he, as we walked together. ‘Nothing more, I assure you. How came you to ask me how much money I had?’ ‘Because there was something in your look, brother, something very much resembling that which a person showeth who does not carry much money in his pocket.
There's a blind home at Exeter, an' likewise a cathedral choir, an' Sunday school, an' a boys' brigade, with other sundries; an' this year the good people financin' half a dozen o' these shows had discovered that by clubbin' two sixpences together a shillin' could be made to go as far as eighteenpence; and how, doin' it on the co-op, instead of an afternoon treat for each, they could manage a two days' outin' for all Exeter to Penzance an' the Land's End, sleepin' one night at Penzance, an' back to Exeter at some ungodly hour the next.
Dawson, you won't regret spending that money, I am sure," said the attendant coaxingly; "and this one shan't cost more than eighteenpence, trimming and all," and she produced a big shady-brimmed, flexible straw, for which was shown as trimming a pretty soft flowered ribbon, to be loosely twisted around the crown.
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