`Then,' says she, turning to her daughter Nancy, says she, `as sure as
tenpence this is the very young gentleman, and he agrees exactly with the squire's description.' The Lord above knows who it was told her: for I am the arrantest villain that ever walked upon two legs if ever it came out of my mouth.
And my wife's income (I like to be particular) is only five shillings and
tenpence short of two hundred a year.
"I fear," said Trefusis, repressing himself and speaking quietly again, "that when a Socialist hears of a hundred pounds paid for a drawing which Andrea del Sarto was glad to sell for
tenpence, his heart is not wrung with pity for the artist's imaginary loss as that of a modern capitalist is.
He was made prisoner, lost his papers and baggage which were seized by the Russians and, being unable to communicate with his friends, lived for many months on an allowance of
tenpence a day.
In his contemporary letters from Ireland, Alexander Somerville noted: "Leaving Kilkenny, and taking the route to Tipperary, I found many people working on the roads for the public pay of
tenpence per day.
'Halfpennies and pennies came flying through the door and when I picked them up I counted
tenpence ha'penny in all.
I only had enough because she 'gave in' over a Jersey
tenpence.
A pounds 2 purchase of anything new, one could have bought for 1/10 - that is a shilling and
tenpence - prior to February 15, 1971.
In one, covering a period from 1936 to 1939, he noted that a repair job on the Swiss Bridge meant employing two joiners for 54 hours at the princely sum of one shilling and
tenpence an hour.
275-76) quote Thomas Macaulay's History of England, from the Accession of James the Second on the consequences of underweight currency in 1695, when It was mere chance whether what was called a shilling was really a
tenpence, sixpence, or a groat ...