farthing

Example Sentences

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About 100 people have pedalled for a bone-jarring three hours in a charity penny farthing race.

From BBC • Sep. 11, 2023

A law in Tudor England levied a fine on anyone who passed gas in church; the fine was set at a farthing.

From Washington Post • Jun. 24, 2021

You all are free to put your votes, hearts and contributions wherever you like and we care neither a farthing nor a fig.

From Fox News • Aug. 19, 2019

For his wedding last year, the 26-year-old Slovakian wore a gold trimmed tunic, arrived in a Trabant car and at one point rode a miniature penny farthing across a tightrope.

From The Guardian • Mar. 14, 2016

Madam Platt could not countenance this insubordination, but neither could she insist upon service when she could not pay a farthing in wages.

From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves" by M.T. Anderson