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Updated: May 1, 2025
The poorer classes besiege the stores on Saturday with anxious inquiries for 'stickeys, i.e., threepenny-pieces.
If we took away our custom " "I mean the really poor. Mrs Evans would not shut up shop for the want of your threepenny-pieces, but the Mission at Sale is always short of funds. If you had a collecting-box, you could send in a subscription at Christmas." "`The Misses Margaret, Elsa, Agatha, and Christabel Rendell four and sixpence halfpenny," quoted Chrissie derisively.
Brown had paid her four and sixpence one florin and a half-crown and she had three threepenny-pieces in her pocket, and twopence.
'On such a night' our talk fell upon whitebait. As the Sphinx's silver fork rustled among the withered silver upon her plate, she turned to me and said: 'Have you ever thought what beautiful little things these whitebait are? 'Oh, yes, I replied, 'they are the daisies of the deep sea, the threepenny-pieces of the ocean.
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