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Recruits may enlist either for the "short-service" or "long-service" term; the first being for six years in the ranks and six on furlough, and the last for twelve years in the ranks; the furlough of short-service men is passed in the army reserve, and then, in consideration of liability to be recalled to the colors, the men are paid sixpence a day.
Speaking of the former rudeness of manners, now gradually refining away, of the Manchester people, Judge said that, when he first knew Manchester, women, meeting his wife in the street, would take hold of her dress and say, "Ah, three and sixpence a yard!" The men were very rough, after the old Lancashire fashion.
You are determined to invest these savings of yours in the common stock, are you? 'If I hadn't been determined to make that wentur, sir, answered Mr Tapley, 'I shouldn't have come. 'How much is there here, did you say' asked Martin, holding up a little bag. 'Thirty-seven pound ten and sixpence. The Savings' Bank said so at least. I never counted it.
"Your plans, I suppose you mean." "You have some debts, you know, and things may turn out inconveniently after all. The heirship is not absolutely certain." Grandcourt did not answer, and Lush went on. "It really is a fine opportunity. The father and mother ask for nothing better, I can see, and the daughter's looks and manners require no allowances, any more than if she hadn't a sixpence.
Upon the other hand, fifty or sixty of O. gloriosum, comparatively worthless, are often secured. The cutters receive a fixed price of sixpence for each orchid, without reference to species or quality. When his concession is exhausted, the traveller overhauls the produce carefully, throwing away those damaged pieces which would ferment in the long, hot journey home, and spoil the others.
Isn't it worth sixpence?" "What's 'it' what do you mean by 'it'?" "O, anything I mean you know what I mean." Long pauses came between each of these remarks; they were uttered in toneless and monotonous voices. The couple stood still on the edge of the flower bed, and together pressed the end of her parasol deep down into the soft earth. Who knows? Who has ever seen this before?
They got down and walked back a hundred yards till they came to the doors. They got capital seats for sixpence each, high up but not in the gallery, and the night was so fine that there was plenty of room. Mildred's eyes glistened. She enjoyed herself thoroughly. There was a simple-mindedness in her which touched Philip. She was a puzzle to him.
Goldsmith said that in conversation he was like the man who had a thousand pounds in the bank, but could not compete with the man who had an actual sixpence in his pocket. So the ballad that you bear in your mind outweighs the whole bookshelf which waits for reference. But I want you now to move your eye a little farther down the shelf to the line of olive-green volumes.
'Don't ye be timorous for me, my dear, said the stanch old heart, observant of Bella's face: when I take my seat with my work, clean and busy and fresh, in a country market-place, I shall turn a sixpence as sure as ever a farmer's wife there. The Secretary took that opportunity of touching on the practical question of Mr Sloppy's capabilities.
But alas! when thrown back upon our inward resources, we are so conscious of our poverty that we think sixpence or a shilling is probably of greater value than anything which can come straight from our spirit. Of the lame man little is told us which may give us a clue to his state of mind. He was one of those who had been left unhealed by Christ.
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