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Sentences ending with penny

When she was widowed, and he found her in dire poverty, he helped her with a large share of his savings, and performed this kind service again, when the second worthless fellow she married had squandered her last penny. [10]
Why, he's an uglier-looking thief than can be seen anywhere for a penny. [12]
Such delectable cakes, two for a penny! [6]
He was willing to pay in kind; but what Oriental ever paid a debt without a gift in return, even as a bartering Irishman demands his lucky penny. [11]
I arrived in this village at night, hungry and without a penny. [5]
Be of good heart, it's all for thee--all--every penny. [12]
He said-- 'I have money--ten thousand dollars--hid away, the fruit of loot and thievery; save me--tell me what to do, and you shall have it, every penny. [5]
With a sudden and horrified misgiving, I put my hand in my pocket, now, and sure enough, I fetched out that Turkish penny! [5]
She didn't waste a penny. [5]

Sentences containing penny two or more times

A penny, dear sir, a penny, to buy a little food; then leave me to my sorrows. [5]

More example sentences with the word penny in them

If you do, you will never have a penny of mine, and I will never--" "Oh, hush--Mother of Heaven, hush! [11]
He always had work, he never saved a penny, he was a most persuasive borrower, he was in debt to every pilot on the river, and to the majority of the captains. [5]
He had been without a penny for two months. [5]
It was the wildest mob Virginia had ever seen and the most determined and ungovernable; and when at last it abated its fury and dispersed, it had not a penny in its pocket. [5]
One penny every week the good priest that teacheth me shall have; mother, Nan, and Bet the other four. [5]
No penny whittle was asked me, but a knife, whereof I have none to spare The Indyans had long before stoallen my knife. [4]
A penny loaf was all they had had that day. [12]
If he buys two cents' worth of peanuts, his father says, "Remember what Franklin has said, my son--'A grout a day's a penny a year"'; and the comfort is all gone out of those peanuts. [5]
One of Mark Twain's friends was Henniker-Heaton, the so-called "Father of Penny Postage" between England and America. [5]
Whatever is the truth about Mr. Wingfield's inefficiency and embezzlement of corn meal, Communion sack, and penny whittles, his enemies had no respect for each other or concord among themselves. [4]
I don't mean to take a penny of your money. [11]
Lavilette flatly refused to give Nic a penny for "the cause," and stormed at his connection with it; but at last became pacified, and agreed it was best that Madame Lavilette should know nothing about Nic's complicity just yet. [11]
There is nothing to be thought of but to hand over every penny as fast as it comes in--and that will be slow enough! [5]
In former, free-trade times, sugar was sixpence a pound, now it is two shillings sixpence; raisins were one penny, and now sixpence. [4]
Perhaps one of these was the coin that was brought when One said to those about Him, 'Bring me a penny, that I may see it. [6]
Kuni timidly asked the price of an indulgence, but the Dominican unctuously explained that they were not sold like penny rolls at the baker's; the heavier the sin, the higher the fine to be paid. [10]
If A, is the penny sufficient, or may he claim consequential damages in the form of additional money to represent the possible profit which might have inured from the dog, and classifiable as earned increment, that is to say, usufruct? [5]
The furniture of the narrow chamber of death we had just visited weighed six millions of francs in ounces and carats alone, without a penny thrown into the account for the costly workmanship bestowed upon them! [5]
Yet he averred that he never expended the value of these penny whittles [small pocket-knives] to his private use. [4]
I strongly advise that every penny that comes in shall be applied to paying off debts. [5]
I'm in that state when every penny I have is out to keep me from getting a fall. [11]
Now, therefore, I realize that there's no more beneficent institution than this penny fund of yours, and I want all the poets to know this. [5]
But, if the penny pinchers in the council of finance refuse to advance the necessary funds, why--charge this medicine to my account. [10]
He means a penny in thickness as well as in circumference. [5]
I haven't a penny in the world. [11]
They haven't a penny and each of them must try to find a living. [5]
Feeling the indignity of what he believed was the cause of the gift, Lawless neither acknowledged it nor used it, not any penny of it. [11]
But the whole of the capital --every penny of it--must be put right to work, and kept at it. [5]
For two months my sole occupation was avoiding acquaintances; for during that time I did not earn a penny, or buy an article of any kind, or pay my board. [5]
I'd give him my last penny and the last drop of blood in my heart. [11]
As to the moneys left to us three by our parents, not a penny thereof would he ever part with. [10]
With all the money at their command they will not loan me a penny in my pressing need. [9]
She would have married him without a penny, but she felt his pride in that particular, and respected it. [11]
You offer me marriage as a prince might give a penny to a beggar. [11]
The first Mrs. Kilquhanity had sworn, with an oath that took no account of the Cure's presence, that not a stick nor a stone nor a rag nor a penny should that Irish slattern have of Matthew Kilquhanity's! [11]
Would you believe it, I have literally not a penny and don't know how to equip Boris. [2]
If the community is anxious to have a reading-room it would put its hand in its pocket and bring out the penny tax. [5]
You really never invested a penny of my uncle's bequest, but only its unmaterialized future; what we have lost was only the incremented harvest from that future by your incomparable financial judgment and sagacity. [5]
In the east, in those days, the smallest moneyed denomination was a penny and it represented the smallest purchasable quantity of any commodity. [5]
The thing had hit her where soul and body were closely knit; and she had realized for the first time how we all must pay to the last penny for every offence we commit against the laws of life and nature. [11]
Do you think his father that I friended in this thing--did he ever give me a penny, or aught save that hut on the hill that was not worth a pound a year? [11]
Without a penny, he would be a great man, with a great future; but you are only a pretty little woman with a fortune, who has thought a great lot of herself, and far too much of herself only, when she wrote that letter. [11]
He is to have his portion, but not a penny additional. [9]
Chateau-Leoville, Goulet, and Havanas at a bob?--Jove, I thirst for a swig of raw Bourbon and the bite of a penny Mexican! [11]
It reached Dyck's hands on the day after the last penny had been paid out for their lodgings, and they faced the streets, penniless, foodless--one was going to say friendless. [11]
A certain lady had the misfortune to have a spot as big as a silver penny at the corner of her eye, caused by a bruise, or some such injury. [6]
But, before they had reached the corner of the lane, the man came running after them, and, pressing her hand, left something in it--two old, battered, smoke-encrusted penny pieces. [12]
I think we had "Aunt Sally," too,--the figure with a pipe in her mouth, which one might shy a stick at for a penny or two and win something, I forget what. [6]
I whipped the gold piece out of the poor old pauper's palm and dropped my Turkish penny in its place. [5]
Several of you gentlemen bought of that stack (without paying a penny down) received dividends from it, (think of the happy idea of receiving dividends, and very large ones, too, from stock one hasn't paid for! [5]
I've got some friends who'll be glad to give a penny to know all about Kruger's guns. [11]
Aren't Irishmen in France grown rich in industry there after having lost every penny of their property here? [11]
After that, we found a jodeler every ten minutes; we gave the first one eight cents, the second one six cents, the third one four, the fourth one a penny, contributed nothing to Nos. [5]
One of the forms of worship in Thibet is to carry a praying-machine through the streets, and stop at the doors to earn a penny by grinding out a prayer; whereas civilization pays for clerical prayers, in lofty edifices. [5]
He had fought for his uncle's fortune, and had got it at last yesterday without a penny of backsheesh. [11]
Speaking of patience; for example, one of the local companies went steadily on with its deep borings and searchings without show of gold or a penny of reward for eleven years --then struck it, and became suddenly rich. [5]
A loathing of food that she was not conscious of until they expended their last penny in the purchase of another loaf, prevented her partaking even of this poor repast. [12]
I wanted that five thousand dollars for her, and to her it shall go; not one penny to you, or to me, or to any other human being. [11]
I have never felt so desperate in my life--and good reason, for I haven't got a penny to my name, and Mrs. Clemens hasn't enough laid up with Langdon to keep us two months. [5]
I crept close, feeling unspeakably mean; I got my Turkish penny ready, and was extending a trembling hand to make the nefarious exchange, when I heard a cough behind me. [5]
As her mind dwelt on him, her uncle gave forth his judgment, that she should never have a penny if she married Tom Fairing. [11]
As well as doing your own work, you have done my business since my accident as well as a lawyer could do it; and you've given every penny to my wife. [11]
Many's the hard day's walking in rain and mud, and with never a penny earned, we've had down in the West. [12]
The voyage to Compostella, the principal place where he was reverenced, which annually attracted thousands of pilgrims, cost her her last penny, and the cold nights which she was obliged to spend on deck increased her cough until it became almost unendurably violent. [10]
The money never came--no penny of it ever came; and how long, how pathetically long, the fame has been deferred --forty-seven years! [5]
I was to begin life a stranger in a strange land, without a friend, or a penny, or any clothes but those I had on my back. [5]
She paid me back every penny, too, year by year for five years. [11]
When you went away to the woods you never left a penny for candles, nor for Masses to be said for your father's soul; yet you sold his horse and his little house, and spent the money in drink. [11]
The doctor comes and feels of his heart, now, and his pulse, and thumps his breast and his back and his stomach, and listens for results through a penny flageolet; then orders the man's bath--half a degree, Reaumur, cooler than yesterday. [5]
For example, the American Bible Society offers an edition of the whole Bible as low as fifteen cents and the New Testament at five cents, and the British Society at sixpence and one penny, respectively. [5]
He was thinking also that he had not a penny in the world to pay for the rest of the paper he had bought. [11]
His brother, though also mining mad, was rather inclined to be penny wise in the matter of office luxury--not a bad idea, as it turned out. [5]
But on they all went, one after another, and there was not a penny stirring. [12]
We shall earn a pretty penny at the mass in Frankfort if you can only manage to look as sorrowful when you hold out your hand as you do now! [10]
You shan't lose a penny, if you'll only see me through. [11]
Being in for a penny, I am ready, as the saying is, to be in for a pound. [12]
Well--" He took a penny from his pocket. [11]

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