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Gladys Aylward: The Little Woman
6. Ninepence. THOUGH I HAD MADE FRIENDS among the Chinese, I still
longed for fellowship with someone of my own kind. I had prayed for years that
someone would come out from England to share my work, but no one came, so I
went on ...
Y G R U' I I OR I I I NS Ninepence is an odd name for a five-year-old Chinese girl.
But then, Ninepence had led a rather odd life. She'd been kidnapped by a beggar
who thought having a young child would make others more willing to give her ...
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Wordsworth Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
Ninepence. JVice as ninepence. A corruption of " Nice as nine-pins." In the game
of nine-pins, the " men " are set in three rows with the utmost exactitude or nicety.
Nimble as ninepence. Silver nine- pences were common till the year 1690, ...
Ebenezer Cobham Brewer, 2001
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Minutes of Evidence Taken Before the Committee on the London ...
My impression is, it is ninepence a yard, or ninepence halfpenny. ' Do you not
find the highest price for carrying earth to spoil is ninepence halfpenny '.'——I
think it is ninepence I saw in Mr. Rastrick's statement. At what depth and what soil
'.
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Committee on the London and Brighton Railway Bill, 1837
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A simple catechism of modern history
Rebecca Salmon. SIMPLE CATECHISMS, Adapted to the Capacities of YOUNG
CHILDREN. Printed in a Bold Clear Type, and Strongly Bound with Leather
Backs. HISTORY OF ENGLAND. By Mrs. Gibbon. Fifteenth Edition. Price
Ninepence.
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Eighty Years' Progress of British North America: Showing the ...
In the same report, Governor Dongan notices “the custom or duty upon every
beaver skin commonly called a whole beaver, ninepence.” “And that all other fur
and peltry be valued accordingly, that is, for two half beavers ninepence; for four
...
Henry Youle Hind, Thomas C. Keefer, Charles Robb, 1864
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The numismatic chronicle
Gay has also in two places alluded to this custom,“ A ninepence bent, A token
kind to Bumkinet is sent." Fifth Pastoral, l. 129. In his play entitled, “ The What d'ye
Call it," acted about the year 1725, two rustic lovers are introduced, of whom the ...
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A Handy Book of the Land, Assessed, and Income Tax Laws; ...
Drawn—Claimed to have the assessment on him reduced from ninepence to
sixpence, on account of a room in the front of his house, on the ground floor,
being used for the sale of his goods. Goods are placed on shelves in the room for
sale, ...
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The Routledge Dictionary of Historical Slang
Eric Partridge. ninepence, grand or neat or nice or right as . Extremely neat, nice,
right: coll: C.17–20 for neat (e.g. Howell, 1659), C.19–20 for the three others:
grand, Dickens; right, Smedley, 1850; nice, T.Ashe, 1884, but implied in H., 2nd
ed.
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A Dictionary of Slang and Unconventional English: ...
nine wlnlu. A short nap: ca. 1820—50. (Bee.) Cf. forty winks. nine words at once.
See talk nine words... nine yards. 'Everything ("the whole nine yards”)' (S/Ldr G.D.
Wilson, 1979): RAF: late 1970s. ninepence. See devil and n.; nimble as...; ...
Eric Partridge, Paul Beale, 1984
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Tragic Caldicot soldier's medals and letters to be auctioned
... separation allowance will cease on the 20th May 1917 and that she had been awarded a pension of 13 shillings and ninepence a week and ... «Free Press Series, 7월 15»
Revealed: Sunderland legends Kevin Phillips and Gary Rowell's …
Cooper might not be an obvious choice but he was a Jekyll and Hyde character – off the pitch as nice as ninepence; on it he could be a beast ... «Sunderland Echo, 7월 15»
Making of a mogul: The rise of media tycoon Richard Desmond
Later still, I put the price up to ninepence a ticket, pocketing the extra threepence, and eventually, when I realised I was doing all the work and ... «Express.co.uk, 6월 15»
Tony Lewis: "It's human to err - but it's even more human to laugh …
I settled down solo and grumpy in the “nines” (ninepence, the cheapest seat) to see a Goons movie called Down Among The Z-Men. No-one ... «WalesOnline, 6월 15»
Not just jam and Jerusalem as women fought social ills
The competition at a meeting in 1945 was 'What to give a man for supper for ninepence'. “During the Second World War, Radley WI played its ... «Oxford Mail, 4월 15»
Stan and delivered
“Day return from Redcar to Shildon, three shillings and ninepence,” said Stan, with Methodist honesty, and was duly reimbursed. “Bishop ... «The Northern Echo, 4월 15»
The history of a local theatre in Northbridge shows it was used for …
In the 1940s, tickets for the Saturday-afternoon flicks cost sixpence for the stalls and ninepence upstairs, but unaccompanied children had to ... «The Daily Telegraph, 3월 15»
UPDATE 2-New era of gold benchmarking to start with six pioneers
12 that year, set the price of gold at 4 pounds, 18 shillings and ninepence an ounce. The last fix, on Thursday, set the price at $1,166.00. «Reuters UK, 3월 15»
The £600k car once owned by a Norfolk doctor
A gallon of petrol in 1963 cost just four shillings and ninepence, or about 24p in modern money. Keywords: Norfolk. Share link. shares. «Norfolk Eastern Daily Press, 3월 15»
Carlisle barber retiring after 54 years
When the barber shop first opened, a cut cost two shillings and ninepence, rising to 3s and 6d. “When we went metric it changed to 17 and a ... «News & Star, 2월 15»
