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Definition of Pennyworths
1. pennyworth [n] - See also: pennyworth
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pennyworths
Literary usage of Pennyworths
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1902)
"The priests sold the better pennyworths, and therefore had all the custom. 1713.
SWIFT, Journal to Stella, 25 March, 62. The bishop . . . has bought ..."
2. The Church History of Britain: From the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller, John Sherren Brewer (1845)
"... OR RATHER CHEAP pennyworths, BOUGHT OF ABBEY LANDS. If ever the poet's fiction
of a golden shower rained into Danae her lap found a moral or real ..."
3. Historical Nuggets: Bibliotheca Americana, Or A Descriptive Account of My by Henry Stevens (1862)
"HUH nri |-1 sire ue iini-, many mitr awn mined f>y buying good pennyworths.
Again* Poor Richard fays, Tw foolish to lay o»t Money in a Purchase of ..."
4. The Church History of Britain, from the Birth of Jesus Christ Until the Year by Thomas Fuller (1842)
"MANY GOOD BARGAINS, OR RATHER CHEAP pennyworths, BOUGHT OF ABBEY-LANDS. 1, 2.
The prof use Gifts and Grants of King Henry. King Henry's Engagement to ..."
5. Divers Proverbs with Their Explication & Illustration by Nathan Bailey (1917)
"... ^a\/ceuw: but others on the contrary apply it to fuch as would buy lumping
pennyworths, ... pennyworths."
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