four-and-sixpences

Updated: August 11, 2026

Weeks had worn on, and the seven-and-sixpenny town-mades had nearly worn out, when the night arrived for the grand dress-ball at which the whole of the five-and-seventy pupils were to meet together, for the first time that season, and to take out some portion of their respective four-and-sixpences in lamp-oil and fiddlers. Mr.

Charles Dickens - Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people