"Ha'penny" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... What he's doing here I don't know. He disappeared quite a while back, and I haven't seen him since. Nor want. Tonight up he turns again like a bad ha'penny. I'd like to know what he's after. No good, if ...
— The Little Nugget • P.G. Wodehouse
... there," resumed Mrs. Cluppins, "unbeknown to Mrs. Bardell; I had been out with a little basket, gentlemen, to buy three pounds of red kidney pertaties, which was tuppence ha'penny, when I see Mrs. Bardell's street-door on ...
— The World's Greatest Books, Vol III • Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
... a twopenny-ha'penny shop, and no doubt about it; a two-storied day-before-yesterday lodging-house, with a bow window like a Metallurgique bonnet and a door about as big as ...
— The Man Who Drove the Car • Max Pemberton
... said Richard; "he will have his joke. Did you ever read the Talisman, Tilly?—jolly story!—all about yours truly. You can get it for 4 pence ha'penny. I say, what's to be done with this chap, Johnny? He's a little like Arthur of Brittany, isn't he? Suppose, just to keep ...
— Boycotted - And Other Stories • Talbot Baines Reed
... cleaned out, though," continued the deserter, "except fi'pence ha'penny. I shall have to risk going home in my uniform ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs |
