Crossword-Solution: FIVEPENCE
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| Part of a shilling. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EMAZEC
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FIVEPENCE (5)
They were poor outcast sort of people, and seemed not to have sixpence among them; so my demands for a fee at the end of the consultation ended first in my giving the medicine for nothing, and finally adding fivepence in coppers, which was all the small change I had.
From a five-shilling piece, which is called a bull in Latin because it is round like a bull's head, he would file or clip to the value of fivepence, and from lesser coin in proportion.
Well, I'll bet a bull to fivepence, that the grinner gets upon it, and the snarler doesn't; at any rate, that he gets there first.
Then he had given her fivepence, so that his first patient had absorbed altogether not less than one sixth of his available capital.
Now, friend, five shillings to fivepence--' 'Is very considerable odds,' said the man, rubbing his hands; 'sure you must have good reason to hope, when you are willing to give such odds.' 'After all,' said I, 'it not unfrequently happens that those who lay the long odds lose.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1953).