ha'pennies
- plural of ha'penny.
Example Sentences
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In a league that barely has two ha’pennies to rub together.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 19, 2016
It’s hardly surprising that this massive change in the reading audience was associated with shifts of subject matter that tended to replace gold sovereigns with ha’pennies.
From Slate ● Dec. 10, 2014
Photograph: Laurence CendrowiczCendrowicz This was the year a heartwarming about slimy, crying heads bursting through cockney women's ha'pennies became a mainstream hit.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 29, 2012
He carefully picked all the ha'pennies from the collection, marched to the church door, pitched them into the street.
From Time Magazine Archive
“Of course,” he said as he emptied his purse onto the table then fingered through the jumbled coins: heavy silver talents and thin silver bits, copper jots, broken ha’pennies, and iron drabs.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
