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Example sentences for: sixpence

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The name tanner for a sixpence coin was first used at the beginning of the 19th century.
His relationship with the renowned traveler had ended in some acrimony after just eight hours, during which time Sixpence had managed to consign the whole of her insect collection (painstakingly accumulated for the British Museum) to the bonfire which he had lit in the compound outside her chalet for the express purpose of burning the rubbish from within it.
Sixpence's eyesight was failing badly when we first met, and he was disaster-prone.
Until then they were usually given a sixpence, the nearest single coin to the amount of the fare and few people hiring the cab bothered to ask for the change.
Sixpence's main claim to fame was that, as a very young lad living in Cameroon, he had been employed by the celebrated Mary Kingsley as a houseboy.