Crossword-Solution: NINEPENCE 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

Perhaps it is different in the eye of other people—but I don’t say it; though public thought will out.” “What do you do on the farm?” “I does carting things all the year, and in seed time I shoots the rooks and sparrows, and helps at pig-killing, sir.” “How much to you?” “Please nine and ninepence and a good halfpenny where ’twas a bad one, sir—ma’am I mane.” “Quite correct.

After all her painful traffic, the whole proceeds were perhaps half a dozen coppers, and a questionable ninepence which ultimately proved to be copper likewise.

His clothes could scarcely be called shabby, at least they passed muster in the half-light, but one’s imagination could not have pictured the wearer embarking on the purchase of a half-crown box of chocolates or laying out ninepence on a carnation buttonhole.

And then there was that boy in the village who had caught a young squirrel, and I had never yet possessed one, and he wanted a shilling for it, but I knew that for ninepence in cash--but what was the good of these sorry, threadbare reflections? I had wants enough to exhaust any possible find of bullion, even if it amounted to half a sovereign.

You stood two hours watching to see that men didn't put volumes in their pockets, and at the end of that time you'd made a profit of ninepence.