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Use "ninepences" in a sentence
"The experience of the world on this point has been embodied in maxims such as these: "Take care of your cents, and dollars will take care of themselves;" "Save your ninepences," &c."
"Oh! you know all about it, -- everybody knows that it is just as sure to rain on a May morning, as it is to thaw when your schoolmaster attempts to treat himself and you to a sleigh-ride on _your_ hoarded ninepences!"
"What a pretty picture he makes, as he pushes back his thick locks, and flashes those great, dark, Italian eyes -- it is worth a hundred ninepences to see such a beaming face."