half sovereign

How to use half sovereign in a sentence

• It chanced that he was reduced to his last coppers, and so the half sovereign was a boon indeed.

  In Friendship's Guise | Wm. Murray Graydon

• What Betty would have said had there been no half-sovereign forthcoming history will never relate.

  Girls of the Forest | L. T. Meade

• The cabman asked for a few shillings more, reminding his fare that the half-sovereign given to him was 'on account.'

  Miser Farebrother (vol 3 of 3) | Benjamin Leopold Farjeon

• They are called half-Sovereign States because they are sovereign within their borders but not without.

  International Law. A Treatise. Volume I (of 2) | Lassa Francis Oppenheim

• And so, before putting any other questions to him, I felt in my pocket for a new half sovereign, which I hoped would answer.

  Erema | R. D. Blackmore