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  • n  the amount that can be bought for a penny

  • Playwright Krasna's pennyworth of wit and plot is about as much help to the proceedings as a sliver of ice to a long summer drink.
  • For want of that sum I was lost to woodwind forever and had to adopt a profession in which the equipment was 6 pennyworth of stationery.
  • As they whirled home through the underground, the purchasers of this rare pennyworth perused a little story, in the now familiar vein, which described the adventures of a boy .
News & Articles

  • Letters to the editor for Aug. 9, 2013
    Pennyworth was Joe Palooka's sidekick To the editor: Re: “Palooka’s Place”’ by Rebecca Bayens, published in the Times-Mail Monday. Humphrey Pennyworth was J ...
    Aug. 10, 2013 - Bedford Times-Mail
Quotes

  • Mary Delany in Independent
    Went to Lee's at Hammersmith, in search of flowers,wrote Delany on 11 May 1780, "but only met with a crinum, a sort of Pancratium; from thence returned to Kensington, bought cheesecakes, buns, etc, a whole 18 pennyworth."

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