Away from home he only smoked fourpenny cigars, but at home he smoked pipes.
"Renée Mauperin"
Edmond de Goncourt and Jules de Goncourt
I can stake my pistoles-that is, sir, so far as a fourpenny bit goes.
"What Will He Do With It, Book 10."
Edward Bulwer-Lytton
She had had so little experience of the world, of men and of women, that she fell easily into the error of thinking that they were all to be treated alike and with equal success by little maxims culled from fourpenny-halfpenny devotional books.
"From One Generation to Another"
Henry Seton Merriman