Examples of 'farthings' in a sentence

Meaning of "farthings"

farthing (noun) - A former British coin worth a quarter of an old penny, now obsolete and used idiomatically to refer to something of little or no value or significance
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You are not worth two farthings as an officer.
Six farthings were struck during her reign.
Iceland was effectively divided into farthings quarters.
Three farthings for a slice of bread with smearcase.
He can live with three farthings a week.
Four farthings bar on dickens street where you met a woman.
So that at least a few farthings stay in the village.
The penny was also divided into four farthings.
There were four farthings in a penny.
I seem to remember that it cost either a halfpenny or three farthings.
I still got two farthings left.
All farthings produced during his reign are of the darkened finish.
I do not have two brass farthings.
Take care of the farthings and the guineas will come quite natural.
And i remember when bread was farthings a loaf.

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They donated the farthings to a poor man and the ghost never came back.
You can not buy a new future with a few farthings.
Just two farthings.
Gloucestershire was once divided into Farthings.
Bitter contested farthings And coffers heaped with tears.
But there is more foil around the old lirlyard than farthings in seven shillings.
Farthings of Iceland.
The stolen farthings.
Early farthings were silver, but surviving examples are rare.
For each beloved hour bitter contested farthings sharp pittances of years.
It was minted in bronze, and replaced the earlier copper farthings.
He thinks we have not got two brass farthings to wipe our arses with.
They sold her to a trader for three pence, three farthings.
But the Lord said two farthings could buy five sparrows.
The Shire was originally divided into four Farthings.
The same goes for the two farthings Baldrick thinks he has hidden.
Also known as high-wheelers and penny farthings.
On the reverse of all subsequent farthings appeared a charming rendition of the English wren.
Now a stranger approacheth to tell us, what to do with those extra farthings.
Wyatt knew I did not have two farthings to rub together.
For the sake of simplicity, the example chosen did not have farthings.
There used to be about a thousand farthings to the pound, of course.
The first base metal coins were also introduced, tin and copper farthings.
Unlike the larger coins, farthings did not contain their value in metal.
But there is more foll around the old lirlyard than farthings in seven shillings.
Edward III 's farthings remain fairly rare.
Mouth of the Indus - for no more than three farthings.
In all of the Hunsrück! Three farthings for a slice of bread with smearcase.
Farthings were struck in most years of Queen Victoria 's long reign.
There is more folk around the kirkyard than farthings and seven shillings.
There were four Farthings to a Penny, twelve Pennies to a Shilling and twenty Shillings to a Pound.
Like Buckland, it was not part of any of the four Farthings.
Historically, Iceland was divided into farthings that were named after the cardinal directions.
Now, I bet you get that dimber there for a pair of farthings.
You then walked to this … Four farthings bar on dickens street where you met a woman.

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