"Sixpence" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I have worn out six stout ROBINSON CRUSOES with hard work in my service. On my lady's last birthday she gave me a seventh. I took a drop too much on the strength of it; and ROBINSON CRUSOE put me right again. Price four shillings and sixpence, bound in blue, with a picture ...
— The Moonstone • Wilkie Collins
... passed through those curly heads during breakfast-time as to what a sixpence could buy; and it was with many bright visions that they darted away to be dressed to go into ...
— Adventures of a Sixpence in Guernsey by A Native • Anonymous
... I've a notion I shall be out of pocket by this job. Seven-and-sixpence won't pay for labour and all. However, never ...
— Jacob Faithful • Captain Frederick Marryat
... were very provoking, and neither Mrs. Rusk nor Catherine Jones spent sixpence with him;—he was a stupid ...
— Uncle Silas - A Tale of Bartram-Haugh • J.S. Le Fanu
... astrologers, Diviners, and interpreters of dreams, I ne'er consult, and heartily despise: Vain their pretence to more than human skill: For gain, imaginary schemes they draw; Wand'rers themselves, they guide another's steps; And for poor sixpence promise countless wealth. Let them, if they expect to be believed, Deduct the sixpence, ...
— The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3 - With Translations and Index for the Series • Joseph Addison and Richard Steele
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