ninepenny

How to use ninepenny in a sentence

• You can't expect to get much for the contents of a ninepenny puzzle, not even the price of a cab fare, Pugh.

  The Lock And Key Library | Various

• She, like the ninepenny kettle of the song, "is Irish tu," and belongs to the well-known sept of the O'Killinghams.

  A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 | George Saintsbury

• I see a real good ninepenny paper once, all covered over with green brakes.

  Meadow Grass | Alice Brown

• I heard the clink of approaching glasses—the ninepenny creams.

  The Story of a Bad Boy | Thomas Bailey Aldrich