1 It was usually threepence ha'penny or fourpence for a single cigar.

2 He supplied me with money - fourpence a week to be precise.

3 Apart from my fourpence a week, his brothers likewise never ever saw a penny from him.

4 Anyway I was given sixpence, fourpence for the papers and tuppence for myself.

5 There is fourpence on the table.

6 Thirty-eight pounds, eight shillings, fourpence!

7 Fourpence was a private soldier's daily pay at that time.

8 Come me little washer lad, come let's away, We're bound down to slavery for fourpence a day.

9 At the thought of the failure of her little surprise and of the two and fourpence she had thrown away for nothing she nearly cried outright.