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PENNIES

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pennies plural de la penny (2, 3).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

At one place a man was selling green lemonade, and when the children bought it Dorothy could see that they paid for it with green pennies.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

The moon shone brightly, and the white pebbles which lay in front of the house glittered like real silver pennies.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

It was like the slot machines wherein one dropped pennies, and, with a metallic whirl of machinery had delivered to him a stick of chewing-gum or a tablet of chocolate.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

All day a stream of pennies, varied by silver, poured in upon me, and it was a very bad day in which I failed to take £ 2.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Now a bag of remarkable clothespins, next, a wonderful nutmeg grater which fell to pieces at the first trial, a knife cleaner that spoiled all the knives, or a sweeper that picked the nap neatly off the carpet and left the dirt, labor-saving soap that took the skin off one's hands, infallible cements which stuck firmly to nothing but the fingers of the deluded buyer, and every kind of tinware, from a toy savings bank for odd pennies, to a wonderful boiler which would wash articles in its own steam with every prospect of exploding in the process.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Every pocket stuffed with pennies and half-pennies—421 pennies and 270 half-pennies.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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