fourpence

How to use fourpence in a sentence

• Fieldfares and Mistletoe Thrushes usually sell at fourpence each, the rest at fourpence a couple.

  Birds of Guernsey (1879) | Cecil Smith

• The price of tobacco accordingly dropped from fourpence a pound to a halfpenny per pound by 1667.

  Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia | Dorothy M. Torpey

• The vendor said he could get fourpence a pound for the whole, and that it made capital Bristol board.

  Decline of Science in England | Charles Babbage

• I have no money but about fourpence-ha'penny a week for darning stockings, but I have skill with the needle somewhat.

  Maid Sally | Harriet A. Cheever

• Levy, however, secured the first copy for fourpence in Farringdon Street, earning for his sharpness much praise.

  Sinister Street, vol. 1 | Compton Mackenzie