Pence

(n.) pl. of Penny. See Penny.

(pl. ) of Penny

校对:菲利斯

• It cost eighteen-pence. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• Not five shillings, sir; nor five pence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• These were about eighteen pence or twenty pence a-day before the tax, and they are not more now. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Two half-pence is all the same, and four farthings is received with joy. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Yes, he's a havin' two mile o' danger at eight-pence,' responded the son. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• Mrs. Chadband merely laughs and contemptuously tells him he can offer twenty pence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• This whim suited me the better at this time, from the cheapness of it, not costing us above eighteen pence sterling each per week. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But I love children, and Four-pence a week is Four-pence. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The highest class pay a hundred florins a year, which, at two-and-twenty pence half penny a-florin, amounts to ?9:7:6. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Anybody could have bread for asking, and a loaf cost only three-ha'pence. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• My pence were duly paid, and the rest is familiar to you. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• More than a thousand pair of Shetland stockings are annually imported into Leith, of which the price is from fivepence to seven-pence a pair. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• The lesson which he thus receives, makes him cautious; he leaves politics, represses his pride, and saves pence. 柏拉图. 理想国.
• Eighteen pence a day may be reckoned the common price of labour in London and its neighbourhood. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Adding machines are made that figure in English pence, shillings and pounds; in Japanese yen, and in the monetary system of most civilized countries. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.

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