And in this way, Charlie would make his sixpenny bar of birthday chocolate last him for more than a month.

The present hidden under the paper wrapper was a sixpenny picture-book.

The moon rode high, a sixpenny bit of white gold, over the Town Hall tower.

For example, he started a sixpenny newspaper, Young England, that ended after fourteen issues.

Prizes of small coins such as threepenny or sixpenny bits were also concealed in it.

We also sold sixpenny horoscopes compiled by somebody who claimed to have foretold the Japanese earthquake.

"The Tablet" was a sixpenny paper, reduced to five pence, on the abolition of the newspaper stamp duty.

"Not even sixpenny points at whist?"

When he pulled in front of her house and saw that her car was gone, he could have chewed a fistful of sixpenny nails.

They come in during the winter time, and take off their coats and sweaters and put them in the big dryer for a sixpenny warm-up.

In the space of a century, phrenology went from marble halls and respectability to fairground tents and a quick sixpenny character analysis for granddad.

They would also be given a sixpenny loaf four times a year as the result of a bequest of a Monmouth man who left £100 for that purpose.

Robert Southey recalled that Hoole's Jerusalem Delivered was "the first book he ever possessed," apart from a set of sixpenny children's books.

He got some sixpenny nails and a hammer from the hardware shop in town, dragged several boards out of the scrap heap, put together a stand and painted a sign.

He's a wise dog, Pharaoh, though fierce with some, and you did a good deal when you bought him for a bottle of whisky and a sixpenny pocket-knife."

There seems to be no trade; and a shopkeeper from whom I bought a sixpenny flint-and-steel, was so much affected that he filled my pockets with spare flints into the bargain.

Removing his hands he glanced down upon his recently violated area and observed a hole in the light coloured material not larger than a sixpenny bit, but in a strategically awkward area.

A year or two ago I wrote a few paragraphs in TRIBUNE about some sixpenny rambler roses from Woolworth's which I had planted before the war.

When food was scarce after the long wars with France in 1817 he started a scheme of selling sixpenny loaves for three pence supported by donations from his congregation and distributed 1,000 loaves.

I could drive you back afterwards, no trouble and no extra fare charged, 'cept o' course for the run back and a sixpenny bag of oats for me 'orse while we's waiting.'

I suppose these books were sold to the type of people who believe nowadays in sixpenny fortune-telling pamphlets; they were made to sell, and the most famous among them was the Grimoire of Pope Honorius.

During restoration work in 2012, workers recovered a sixpenny piece placed under the original pinnacle - an unusual feature in a Nonconformist church - in 1872 by the daughter of the builder, industrialist Daniel Edwards.

They learn about anarchists from sixpenny novels; they learn about anarchists from tradesmen's newspapers; they learn about anarchists from Ally Sloper's Half-Holiday and the Sporting Times.

She it was who had told me the Christmas legend; she who had bought those oranges, nuts, bags of fondants, Victoria Holt 145 fascinating cutout cardboard marvels, penny plain and tuppence colored, those sixpenny dolls.