Halfpenny

(noun.) an English coin worth half a penny.

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• A shilling changes masters more frequently than a guinea, and a halfpenny more frequently than a shilling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Six shillings and ninepence halfpenny on the very first day! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I gave him a halfpenny for himself, and I wish he hadn't taken it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Another would set a sum--If a pound of mutton-candles cost sevenpence-halfpenny, how much must Dobbin cost? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Not one halfpenny,' said Mr. Pickwick firmly; 'not one halfpenny. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Was it outside that very house as I first set eyes upon him, rolling in the lap of luxury, when I was selling halfpenny ballads there for a living? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• A halfpenny an hour shan't part us. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Some pounds, odd shillings, and halfpence, I think, were mentioned. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• See, my dear Miss Summerson, he took a handful of loose silver and halfpence from his pocket, there's so much money. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• A knife and some odd halfpence are all he finds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• At last he began to pay me in halfpence at a time; and was full two hours getting by easy stages to a shilling. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• I gave you three halfpence. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But my standing possessed of only three-halfpence in the world (and I am sure I wonder how they came to be left in my pocket on a Saturday night! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He looks at them with an eager eye and rattles something in his pocket--halfpence perhaps. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.

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