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Definition of Tuppences
1. tuppence [n] - See also: tuppence
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tuppences
Literary usage of Tuppences
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Can Grande's Castle by Amy Lowell (1918)
"A grateful country augments his state by creating him the smallest kind of peer,
with a couple of tuppences a year, and veneering it over by a grant of arms ..."
2. Handley Cross by Robert Smith Surtees (1903)
"He had been in business long enough to remember each succeeding lord mayor before
he was anybody—" reg'lar little tuppences in fact," as he used to say. ..."
3. Memories of an Old Actor by Walter Moore Leman (1886)
"Sawmills and Paul tuppences! You had better close this theatre, and go off on
the war-path with your tribe, and take Archer along with you! ..."
4. In Thackeray's London by Francis Hopkinson Smith (1913)
"... but eat up the tuppences whether you ride or not — you can hear it now.
First thing you know it's ten bob." "Harry! come here this minute! ..."
5. Of Reformation Touching Church-discipline in England by John Milton (1916)
"Wakeman, Hist. Eng. Ck., p. 332; Frere, Hist. Eng. Ch., p. 55). 71. 5. Once a
year in Jerusalem. Cf. Luke 2. 1 ff. 71. 8. tuppences in their ..."
6. Labor Copartnership: Notes of a Visit to Co-operative Workshops, Factories by Henry Demarest Lloyd (1898)
"The English workingmen saved their tuppences for flour and tea and fustian clubs
to buy social regeneration for themselves out of what they could save by ..."
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