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• At an old stubborn Root I chanc’d to tug, When the Dean threw me this Tobacco-plug: A longer ha’p’orth never did I see; This, dearest Sheelah, thou shalt share with me.
• ‘Mighty fine certainly,’ said Ralph, with great testiness. ‘When I first went to business, ma’am, I took a penny loaf and a ha’porth of milk for my breakfast as I walked to the city every morning; what do you say to that, ma’am? Breakfast! Bah!’
• You rascal thief! it is not merely three-ha’p’orth of sooty fruit you rob me of, it is my peace of mind.
• A well-built and handsome boat is worth varnishing, and it would be a pity to “spoil the ship for a ha’p’orth of tar”.
• Halfpennyworth is best spelt and pronounced ha’p’orth.
• It’s very simple. Not because our people are ignorant and ungrateful, as you always explained it to yourself, but because in all your fads, if you’ll excuse the word, there wasn’t a ha’p’orth of love and kindness!
• Mrs Dobson shouted: “Put on your anorak, Frank, you daft ha’p’orth, the maroon one I fetched you for your 60th, or you’ll catch your death.”