10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «THREEPENNYWORTH»
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The country house, a collection of useful information and ...
... Take threepennyworth of rose-pink, threepenny worth of dragon's blood,
threepennyworth of alkanet-root, and threepennyworth of cochineal ; steep in a
pint of the best linseed oil, and rub well in with linen cloths. The above will bear a
...
Country house, Irwin Edward B. Cox, 1866
2
Pharmaceutical Journal;: A Weekly Record of Pharmacy and ...
A servant lad was sent with a written message for threepennyworth of tincture of
rhubarb to the shop of a druggist in a country town. The proprietor himself
measured out the liquid, and gave it to the lad. Half a teaspoonful administered
by the ...
3
The Pharmaceutical Journal and Transactions
At Aldersceugh, Cumberland, the second son of Mr. Wilson Pattinson, farmer, of
the above-mentioned place, went into the shop 0t Mr. Joseph Straughton,
druggist, of Cockermouth, and asked for threepennyworth of white hellebore, ...
4
Diary of a poor young lady, tr. by E. Ritzerow, ed. by J.H. ...
Then I gave Jacob sixpence to buy threepennyworth of rusks, of which Catharine
is very fond, and threepennyworth of Louisiana tobacco for himself. Formerly
Jacob seldom smoked anything inferior, and this will be a memento of better
times.
Maria Karoline E.L. von Nathusius, James Henry Bryant, 1869
5
The Quaint Companions With an Introduction by H. G. Wells
Our efforts to get threepennyworth! There wasonly oneplace for miles round
where there was the slightest chanceof it—a dairy belonging toa greatlady who
supplied thepublic with milk as a favour. I don't mean that she didn'ttake their
money, ...
A labouring man in France considers one halfpenny's worth of a sort of sausage
cheese, sold in slices and made of pork meat, seasoned and spiced, and
threepennyworth of bread, a most excellent and substantial breakfast. The
English ...
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1841
7
The Cry from Street to Street
unequal battle and what she found was a pint of porter or a threepennyworth of
gin of an evening. The pint inevitably turned into two, the threepennyworth into
sixpennyworth and so on and so forth, until the drink ceased to help, and started
to ...
8
Amusements in Mathematics: Mathematische Rätsel für Anfänger ...
"I bought threepennyworth of apples." "But that does not make it into ninepence!"
"I should rather think it did," was the boy's reply. "The apple woman has
threepence, hasn't she? Very well, I have threepennyworth of apples, and I have
just ...
"It's a shame to ask you on a day like this." "It is rather a shame," I agreed, "but I
can always refuse." "Oh, but you mustn't. We haven't got any ice, and the
Thompsons are coming to dinner. Do you think you could go and buy
threepennyworth?
10
Amusement in Mathematics
"I bought threepennyworth of apples." "But that does not make it into ninepence!"
"I should rather think it did," was the boy's reply. "The apple woman has
threepence, hasn't she? Very well, I have threepennyworth of apples, and I have
just ...
