(n.) An English silver coin of the value of six pennies; half a shilling, or about twelve cents.
Example Sentences:
(1) But if books are sixpence each you are not going to buy 10 of them, because you don’t want as many as 10.” Natalie Haynes is author of The Amber Fury
(2) Current trails include Birmingham’s anti-slavery landmarks, a tour of city life living on sixpence a day during the 18th and 19th centuries, and a more contemporary side of Birmingham following sculptures around the city.
(3) From 1901 the Antrobus family, who owned the site, charged sixpence admission.
(4) We crept out of a back door and went to a club where a girl was dancing in a bird cage, and sitting on a mezzanine above us we saw Lionel Jeffries and the producer Robert Lynn dropping sixpences on her head.
(5) "I believe that a good penny and sixpence store, run by a live Yankee, would be a sensation here," he wrote in his diary.
(6) You reel back at Cohn’s words, and wonder why anyone would even bother listening to Tex’s records, but then he turns on a sixpence and reels you in with a couple of lines: “He’s funny, he really is, and he obviously enjoys himself.
(7) Cisse turns on a sixpence on the edge of the area, working himself space for a shot.
(8) YES: Jay Rayner, Observer restaurant critic In the old days, the only way to make money out of a Christmas pudding was by getting lucky and almost choking on the foil-wrapped sixpence that your mother had secreted there.
(9) But the full quote from Orwell runs: "The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them."
(10) Makeshift centre-forward Gerard Pique shows the Big Game Bottler Other Big Game Bottlers doff their hats to how it's done by picking up a defence-splitting through-ball from Xavi, drawing Julio Cesar towards him, turning on a sixpence and slotting the ball into an empty goal from 12 yards.
(11) Jack Straw , a former Labour foreign secretary, said: "When things are relatively calm, suspicions, fantasies and sometimes paranoia can take off about the so-called secret state but the moment there is a serious threat of an outrage the very same people and newspapers turn on a sixpence and they demand [to know why] there has been a failure by the intelligence agencies."
(12) What a brilliant finish from Cousin, who takes up the ball in the box with his back to goal, turns 180 degrees on a sixpence to confuse Anderson beyond all reason, and wheechs a thunderous shot past Vercoutre.
(13) Bearing that in mind, Heston has stuffed the tangerine (well, orange) inside your Christmas pud, inviting you to play hunt the orange, not the sixpence.
(14) Helpfully, Amazon explains: “Yes, George Orwell was suggesting collusion.” And that’s true – so long as you come in halfway through his sentence which reads, in its entirety: “The Penguin books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.” It’s a compliment, not a manifesto.
(15) It was never in George Orwell’s interest to suppress paperback books — he was wrong about that.” Well, he would have been, if the full quote – about publisher Penguin’s introduction of paperback books – hadn’t been this: “The Penguin Books are splendid value for sixpence, so splendid that if other publishers had any sense they would combine against them and suppress them.” Several sites have already called Amazon out on its partial quote – notably TechCrunch , which described the decision as “horrible” while noting that “it’s clear that Orwell is praising the paperback, not arguing for its abolition”.
(16) Did my father give the local farmer sixpence to allow us entry?
(17) Bruce Ross-Smith Oxford • In Richard Hoggart's obituary, you recall that he wrote of seeing his widowed mother "standing frozen, while tears start slowly down her cheeks because a sixpence has been lost … you do not easily forget".
(18) In Micawber's example, the deficit is sixpence; in the case of the UK, it is £159.2bn – but the principle is the same.
(19) Even I don't sentimentalise them, and I sentimentalise everything , from crap 80s Chevy Chase comedies I saw as a kid to crap 1990s film soundtracks I liked as a teenager (Lisa Loeb, Sixpence None the Richer, the Cardigans – you are not forgotten ).
(20) Except that Gowing strongly recommended a new patent stylographic pen, which cost me nine and sixpence, and which was simply nine and sixpence thrown in the mud."
Tanner
Definition:
(n.) One whose occupation is to tan hides, or convert them into leather by the use of tan.
Example Sentences:
(1) The police investigating the 1991 murder of the Oxford student Rachel McLean had a strong hunch that the killer was her boyfriend, John Tanner, another student.
(2) Included in the study was a measure of developmental age, assessed by using sex maturity ratings formalized by Tanner.
(3) The original said that Jo Tanner, the PR person now acting as press secretary for Andy Burnham, is the same Jo Tanner who worked on Boris Johnson's London mayoral bid.
(4) Systolic blood pressure for boys and girls showed an increase with a change from Tanner stage 2 to 3.
(5) The methods are used to fit the centiles for boys' weight and for boys' height velocity from Tanner, Whitehouse and Takaishi (1966).
(6) The objective of this study was to determine the utility of Indian Council of Medical Research's (ICMR) height percentile standards in comparison to Tanner's, in the evaluation of children with short stature.
(7) To this end, we sampled blood at 20-min intervals for 12 h overnight in 50 girls, 37 of whom had Turner's syndrome and 13 of whom were healthy Tanner stage I controls.
(8) The diabetic girls showed a slight delay of uterus development, which is adjusted, however, at the end of puberty (Tanner IV and V).
(9) In a study of absorption of iron from meals by preadolescent children (Tanner stage 1), we had noted that erythrocyte incorporation of the extrinsic iron label was somewhat greater by girls than by boys.
(10) Growth of their pelves in length as well as in width was similar to that found by Tanner.
(11) A retrospective cohort mortality study was conducted on 807 fur dyers, fur dressers (tanners), and fur service workers who were pensioned between 1952 and 1977 by the Fur, Leather and Machine Workers Union of New York City.
(12) Finally, it was found that the difference between bone age, as determined by the Tanner Whitehouse (TW2)-method, and chronological age was not significant and the adult height in all patients except two could be adequately predicted from bone age and height.
(13) All four groups of children exhibited different growth patterns from those of the NCHS and Tanner reference curves.
(14) The relationship between lower-extremity strength and flexibility and maturational status as measured by Tanner staging (TS) was assessed in 84 male high school athletes.
(15) The patient progressed from Tanner pubic hair and breast stage I to stage II during treatment, which was terminated due to an allergic reaction to GnRH.
(16) We studied 15 normal boys, 5 sexually developed (Tanner stages IV-V) and 10 sexually infantile, before and after chronic (1-month) administration of a selective micromicron-opiate-receptor antagonist (naltrexone).
(17) These data suggest that for a correct auxological evaluation it seems useful to compare children not only to Tanner's standards but to centiles derived from the same population.
(18) Subjects were 10 non-obese (14.6% fat) and 11 obese (32.3% fat) males matched for age (15-18 years), level of maturity (Tanner stages IV and V), lean body mass, and height.
(19) The McCanns' friend, Jane Tanner has said that at about 9.15pm she saw a man carrying a small child, walking away from apartment 5a.
(20) We evaluated basal somatomedin-C (SmC) levels in 98 subjects 2 to 16.6 years of age, with height less than 3rd centile (Tanner), and in 274 healthy controls 2 to 15.8 years, with height greater than 10th centile.