Sentence examples similar to one half penny from inspiring English sources

Falstaff's bar tab is a sight to behold, "but one half penny-worth of bread to this intolerable deal of sack!" Prince Hal exclaims.

Plagiarism, flouting ineffective international copyright laws, helped to launch new, very cheap (10 cents or one half-penny) magazines on both sides of the Atlantic.

For a bribe of between half a penny and one and a half pence per gallon, a typical British customs official was willing to shrink the reported amount of non-British molasses on board a ship by a factor of ten.

Furthermore, the experimental observation that one single half-penny crack rather than the two kidney cracks forms at higher indentation loads is explained by the model.

For practical purposes, that would mean that there's only one copy of a creative thing, and you pay a half penny every time you access it.

Here is one half.

As a final straw, in August 1672 a royal proclamation announced the introduction of copper half pennies and farthings (quarter pennies) made from comparatively cheap copper.

Prime brokers' margins are slim, a half-penny on a dollar.

Fumble in a greasy till and add the half-pence to the pence, and prayer to shivering prayer … Out they tumble, one after the other, with no need for any messing about with search engines – and I speak as a man who struggles with his memory.

In 1672 he introduced the copper half-penny and farthing with the Britannia type.

I passed Rasmussen the 1790 John Wilkinson half-penny.