Eightpence

(noun.) a coin worth eight pennies.

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• Rachael, pay the eightpence! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Six shillings and eightpence was then, and long afterwards, reckoned the average price of a quarter of wheat. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Guster replied that he insistes on one and eightpence or on summonsizzing the party. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• My friends, says Chadband, eightpence is not much; it might justly have been one and fourpence; it might justly have been half a crown. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• In 1512, six shillings and eightpence contained only two ounces of silver, Tower weight, and were equal to about ten shillings of our present money. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• In 1614, the pay of a foot soldier was the same as in the present times, eightpence a-day. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Eight shillings for a bed and eightpence for a glass of sherry pointed to one of the most expensive hotels. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
• At the rate of six shillings and eightpence the quarter, ten shillings was in those ancient times the price of twelve bushels of wheat. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Four minae were equal to thirteen pounds six shillings and eightpence; five minae to sixteen pounds thirteen shillings and fourpence. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• This is Grosvenor mixture at eightpence an ounce, Holmes answered, knocking a little out on his palm. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• In one of them it is computed at six shilling and eightpence the quarter, in the other at five shillings and eightpence only. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• Here's but seven and eightpence halfpenny! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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