更多threepenny例句

1. Jo managed to get next to the driver and extracted a deal of information at the expense of a threepenny tip.
2. He was a good-natured and honest man, though he did take bribes--from a threepenny bit up to a crown piece inclusive.
3. He does about three shillings' worth of labour for a bed whose only virtue is cleanliness, and about threepenny worth of food.
4. Egad, I was born under a threepenny planet, never to be worth a groat.
5. I then asked for a threepenny loaf, and was told they had none.