Sentence Examples

1. The spot, as he described it, was about the compass of a silver threepence, but in the course of time grew larger, and changed its color for at twelve years old it became green, so continued till five-and-twenty, then turned to a deep blue at five-and-forty it grew coal-black, and as large as an English shilling, but never admitted any farther alteration.
2. I answered, it was very true and I wondered how I could forbear, when I saw his dishes of the size of a silver threepence, a leg of pork hardly a mouthful, a cup not so big as a nutshell and so I went on, describing the rest of his household stuff and provisions after the same manner.