Sentence examples for farthing from inspiring English sources
noun
Former British unit of currency worth one-quarter of an old penny.
"The idea of unions seemed to me as old-fashioned as flares or the penny farthing," admits Stephen Beresford, who wrote Pride after hearing the true story of the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners group (LGSM).
'People complain if we take them out.' It would be foolish to expect verse to appear in modern crackers - many Victorian delights have gone the way of the penny farthing: replaced by better modern inventions.
This is due no doubt in part to the hoggishness of moneyed men who would prefer to croon with crotches aflame than impart an additional farthing to the fisc, as Mr King suggests.
Free-market economies help create a middle class that is less susceptible to state pressure and political patronage.Perhaps most important, democracy needs leaders with an inclination and ability to compromise: what Walter Bagehot, a 19th-century editor of The Economist, called a "disposition rather to give up something than to take the uttermost farthing".
It is like the small farthing wheel bringing up the rear.A disproportionate share of China's investment is made by state-owned enterprises and, in recent years, by infrastructure ventures under the control of provincial or municipal authorities but not on their balance sheets.
"Hope and Glory", a quintessentially English film made without a farthing of British money, went on to garner worldwide acclaim, including a record 13 BAFTA nominations.
That will help boost consumer spending by offering rainy-day protection.The chain-drive was not the only invention required to move beyond the penny-farthing.
A cartoon from the 1880s unearthed by Amir Moghaddass Esfehani, a Sinologist, shows a Chinese rider losing control of a penny-farthing and falling flat on his face.
Like the high-wheeled penny-farthing, which rolled serenely over bumps in the road, it is good at absorbing the jolts in the path of any developing country.
And although China's repressed banking system is inefficient, it is also resilient because most of its vast pool of depositors have nowhere else to go.Not so fastThe penny-farthing eventually became obsolete, superseded by the more familiar kind of bicycle.
It is worth remembering, in these days of charity ocean-rowing, recreational mountaineering and crossing the Australian Outback by penny-farthing, that Earth, population 7.4 billion, still contains vast and real wilderness.
