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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.
I stumbled through the dust and the ruins to find Sixpence, dazed but miraculously unscathed, sitting amidst the debris.
Another name for the sixpence was sprat, which probably came from a cross between this word and sprazianna, the Cockney rhyming slang for a sixpence ( tanner ).
This was the day on which Sixpence's innocence had come to an end, and Miss Kingsley's sulfurous expertise with the English language had remained indelibly etched in his memory all his life.
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.