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"But you got a good many twopences back," murmured Raphael.

From Children of the Ghetto A Study of a Peculiar People by Zangwill, Israel

Ardiune, presiding 251 at the cauldron, mixed cups of cocoa as speedily as possible, and handed them out in exchange for twopences.

From The Madcap of the School by Salmon, Balliol

I did not mean, of course, that they put their twopences in her pocket. 

From The Revolution in Tanner's Lane by Rutherford, Mark

The Dean and Chapter of St. Paul's, in withdrawing the sevenpences, show that the loss of the twopences sticks in their Gizzards.

From Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) by Various

Here on Saturday nights from seven till ten he took an almost innumerable succession of twopences from the farm laborers who flocked thither in crowds from the country.

From The Woodlanders by Hardy, Thomas