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Definition of Halfpence
1. halfpenny [n] - See also: halfpenny
Lexicographical Neighbors of Halfpence
Literary usage of Halfpence
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Miscellanies by William Makepeace Thackeray (1877)
"Wherever I saw six halfpence I took one. If it was asked for, ... Why, I am proud
to say that three-halfpence out of the threepence a week of almost all the ..."
2. Original Letters, Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1827)
"Apprehension of losing all the Gold and Silver in Ireland in exchange for halfpence
and Farthings. Debates upon it in the Commons of that Kingdom. ..."
3. The Poetical Works of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift (1834)
"A NEW SONG ON WOOD'S halfpence. YE people of Ireland, both country and city, Come
listen with patience, ... The halfpence are coming, the nation's undoing, ..."
4. Chymical, Natural, and Physical Magic: Intended for the Instruction and by George William Septimus Piesse (1865)
"To pass Six halfpence through a Table. When this trick is well done it is one of the
... Rivet six halfpence together by passing a copper wire through them. ..."
5. A Student's History of England from the Earliest Times to the Death of Queen by Samuel Rawson Gardiner (1902)
"Wood's halfpence. 1724. -The first instance of Walpole's method of averting
popular discontent by avoiding a collision with strong feeling arose when a ..."
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