Pennyworth

(noun.) the amount that can be bought for a penny.

埃菲编辑

• On approaching nearer, Bella discerned that the refection had the appearance of a small cottage-loaf and a pennyworth of milk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The cottage loaf and the pennyworth of milk had been set forth on a sheet of paper on the window-seat. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The person who works the lace of a pair of fine ruffles for example, will sometimes raise the value of, perhaps, a pennyworth of flax to ?30 sterling. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
• My own exclusive breakfast of a penny loaf and a pennyworth of milk, I provided myself. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Such zests as his particular little phial of cayenne pepper and his pennyworth of pickles in a saucer, were not wanting. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• And again, _At a great pennyworth pause a while_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• For in another place he says, _Many have been ruined by buying good pennyworths_. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.

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