Almost before he knew where he was, John Douglas found himself at work in the docks, at fivepence an hour.
"The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols"
William Black
To ensure its delivery the same evening, I ought to have put a special-delivery stamp on it-price fivepence-in addition to the ordinary two-cent stamp.
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
In all Sunwich there was only one person who grieved over his departure, and he, after keeping his memory green for two years, wrote off fivepence as a bad debt and dismissed him from his thoughts.
"At Sunwich Port, Complete"
W.W. Jacobs