How To Use Shill In A Sentence

_Catty. _ (_speaking very rapidly_) Bless you for that word, counshillor; and by the first light to-morrow, I'll drive all the grazing cattle, every four-footed _baast_ off the land, and pound 'em in Ballynavogue; and if they replevy, why I'll distrain again, if it be forty times, I will go. Tales and Novels — Volume 08
The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
One sheriff admitted handing out 6000 certificates, for which he was either paid a shilling or given a dram of whisky.
Alfred gets nineteen shillings and sixpence for a full week.
At the risk of seeming to be a shill for David Talbot, let me suggest that non-subscribers reconsider.

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There was two or three chairs, that might have been worth, in their best days, from eightpence to a shilling a – piece; a small deal table, an old corner cupboard with nothing in it, and one of those bedsteads which turn up half way, and leave the bottom legs sticking out for you to knock your head against, or hang your hat upon; no bed, no bedding. Sketches by Boz
Material possessions and the means of measuring them by reference to groats, shillings or florins were forbidden in the Holy Parish.
In the end I did ring Flora but even after she'd answered I was still shillyshallying. PROOF
So I suppose this makes me a member of the international neocon conspiracy as well as an evil shill for the oil industry.
The angel-noble of Henry VII, valued at ten shillings, appears to have been the coin given; it was in common use and not made especially for this purpose. Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing
He takes systematic aim at the architects of millennial economic opinion: journalists and columnists, cultural studies academics, ad-men, and the shills of the new management literature.
But want o’ siller it canna be — he pays ower the shillings as if they were sclate stanes, and that’s no the way that folk part with their siller when there’s but little on’t — I ken weel eneugh how a customer looks that’s near the grund of the purse. — Saint Ronan's Well
Don't take offense to that comment, I have just always wanted to use the word shill in a sentance. From The Editors Desk: Concerning Links
Call the paper a rag and suggest that the reporter is a hack and a shill? OH County Commissioner Jimmy Dimora (D) threatens reporter’s wife. | RedState
The real total was thirty-eight pounds, nine shillings, two pence, but why fiddle with details?
The basic monetary unit is the Somali shilling, with one hundred cents equal to one shilling.
Fourteen wagons of timber left the track at Quintinshill, near Gretna, at 9.07 am.
Cameron and Hague both continue to shilly-shally on this topic which makes many suspect that they will seek to avoid the issue if they can, knowing that a vote then to reject the Treaty would open up the whole issue of our membership of the EU at a stroke. Archive 2008-03-02
Clarkson & Co'sdogged shilling for a thoroughly modern ie gleefully irresponsible, stonewashed brand of middle age. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
The Best of Health, the Bellshill-based direct sales company for one of the world's most popular health regimes, is expanding into America and Scandanavia.
Based on the valuation measures I consider valid -- namely Professor Shiller's long-term PE (see chart above and here) -- that would mean prices below 800 on the S&P. Henry Blodget: Now Everyone Thinks the Market's Going to Crash
We don't often shill for things on these pages, but when we do we're blunt about it and go all out.
“It is not,” said Mr. Mack, though he counted out a shilling and thruppence for the boy. At Swim, Two Boys
This is probably a good time to mention that a lot of this might sound like I am a shill for either Google or Flickr, trying to get you to go use their (free) services.
Fifth-placed Eccleshill, with one defeat in four, will provide a stern test tomorrow.
He had had enough of the shilly-shallying that now dominates the game's upper echelons.
If I could threaten the fellow, mayhap I could get it back for you...' `A mere bagatelle...' Cibber was shilly-shallying. THE RIVAL QUEENS: A COUNTESS ASHBY DE LA ZOUCHE MYSTERY
Taxpayers, of course, have to pay for this shilly-shallying, directly in extra pay for legislators and through indirect costs.
Within about five minutes however I found out that LSD also stands for pounds, shillings and pence.
Behind, on a shelf, stands a magisterial cash-register, which looks as if it has been ringing up the pounds, shillings and pence since the dawn of time.
There's no point shilly-shallying about the shallows, you've got to wade into the deep area.
If you like a short sortie you can choose one, on the other hand if you like a brisk climb you may elect for the Masshill climb.
They may be shills eager to steer you into a favored silver or wood shop, which give them a cut.
This has gotten me labeled, in several online and offline arguments, as a "shill for the recording industry".
You know, you can shilly-shally around, but if you want your players to win then you have to give them everything you can.
However he admitted him, and Worthington sent his son to buy a mutchkin of whisky costing two shillings, sending him first with a pound note and then, when no change was to be had, with silver.
Its huge feet and long legs kept up with her easily, its clawed hands were stretched out ready to grab her, scratching against the walls, making a spine shilling noise.
My senses were all confused as within my sight was a king's ransom - Spanish gold doubloons and shining silver reals, gold pieces of eight, old English milled gold guineas, crowns, minted silver shillings.
Though many of them were shilly-shallying to come to the stage, some were sportive enough to take part.
Buy a little book ruled for the purpose for pounds, shillings and pence and keep an account of cash received and expended.
As we proceeded to Shillong by road the drive from Delhi was an extremely pleasant one.
It now is closed off by the forestry and is about four feet from the edge of a cliff which has a perpendicular drop of 700 ft overlooking the Masshill road.
He continued writing something in a ledger, balancing columns of pounds, shillings and pence.
He said that the publisher got the copyright in each song written by the defendant for one shilling.
The wickedly funny show is set in the days of pounds, shillings and pence, tin baths and condensed-milk butties.
He had sold ladies 'underwear, refrigerators, vacuum cleaners and encyclopedias door to door; he had been a short order cook, elevator operator, puddler in a steel mill, seaman, carnival shill, bulldozer operator, printer's devil and legman for a radio station. Arcana Magi - c.1: Oryn Zentharis, Seeker of the Truth
She was determined to lay out her five shillings to the best possible advantage. CHARMED LIFE
But that same night he raised from several sources a motley mound of coin: Spanish milled dollars, English crowns and shillings, a French half-crown. Robert Morris
A few weeks before departing from England, while in London, I was careful to purchase a ticket, and secure a berth for returning home, in the "Cambria" -- the steamer in which I left the United States -- paying therefor the round sum of forty pounds and nineteen shillings sterling. My Bondage and My Freedom. By Frederick Douglass. With and Introduction. By James M`Cune Smith.
The two manufactures produce about three Kantars, or fifteen or sixteen quintals per month of saltpetre, which is sold at about fifteen shillings per quintal. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land
Many of the older people in the town, including myself, have memories of the 1950s, when the New Towns Commission decided to increase rents by two shillings and sixpence per week.
He was fairly strong at the end of the last session, but went off lamentably on account of his wavering and shillyshallying on so many matters during his speaking trip. Theodore Roosevelt and His Times
Robert Shiller, a Yale economist who has presciently issued warnings about overpriced equities and houses, has already suggested that farmland might be the subject of the next bubble.
You are absolutely not going to believe this, which takes us here, where irredeemably useless CPoC shill and Stephen Harper fluffer Sandy Crux has added the re-patriation of Suaad Hagi Mohamud as an official Harper Government "accomplishment" and part of his "record. You have GOT to be fucking kidding.
So it was that on 15 April, 1755, the two huge folio volumes went on sale for four pounds and ten shillings a set.
That would show Joyful he had to stop shillyshallying. City of Glory
Best known as the maker of the state's first coinage, issuing shillings, sixpence, and threepence silver coins in 1783, Chalmers's marked domestic silver is exceedingly rare.
I plan on rubbing this in for a while as an object lesson to others who consider a career as an ill-bred shill. Sen. Bob Bennett (R, UT) will not be re-elected. | RedState
Eighty chalders of coals, at four shillings and twopence a chalder, suffices throughout the whole year; and because coal will not burn without wood, says the household book, sixty-four loads of great wood are also allowed, at twelvepence a load. (p. 22.) The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part C. From Henry VII. to Mary
The cult series' writer, producer and voice will take people back to the days of pounds, shillings and pence, tin baths and condensed milk butties.
From the size of the pile of pennies, halfpennies, and shillings in front of her, my aunt was winning. Secrets of the Tudor Court
Sophisticated news consumers know that Clarke is a fraud and a shill for the campaign.
Father Conmee sat in a corner of the tramcar, a blue ticket tucked with care in the eye of one plump kid glove, while four shillings, a sixpence and five pennies chuted from his other plump glovepalm into his purse. Ulysses
I went into the bookies in Blackrock and had a shilling each way Drybob in error.
But at Port Sudan, halfway down the Red Sea, the restrictions were eased, and for the small charge of two shillings we could board a motor launch to be ferried across the harbour and view the town.
Such information did he gather, over many bottles of beer, that the next afternoon, hiring a small launch at a cost of ten shillings, he journeyed up the harbour to Jackson Bay, where lay the lofty - poled, sweet-lined, three-topmast American schooner, the Mary CHAPTER IX
My wages were four shillings and sixpence per week. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
This bait took "capitally," as Van used to say, and not only were two hundred shanties built, but the praise of the "ginerous contractors" was in every mouth; and "Hurrah for Lofin, Van Stingey, & Co.," became a regular toast among the men, as they went to spend a shilling in the company's grocery store. The Cross and the Shamrock Or, How To Defend The Faith. An Irish-American Catholic Tale Of Real Life, Descriptive Of The Temptations, Sufferings, Trials, And Triumphs Of The Children Of St. Patrick In The Great Republic Of Washington. A Book For The Enter
Yet all we are hearing here, in her fourth year as Minister, is all this delay and dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying.
You could get a leg of lamb for two shillings. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
There are only one shilling and two sixpences in my purse.
He'd no intention of ever paying a shilling on those mortgages. KICK BACK
Thirdly, the sevenpenny reprint of the popular novel is ruining the already ruined six-shilling novel. Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
These are the industry shills posing as journalists who ‘report,’ usually loudly and breathlessly, on the doings of and goings-on among a hundred or two not very interesting people.
A patchwork of state regulations persist in his wake, frustrating the efforts of lawyers wishing to shill for themselves on TV.
The cartels and their shills are what affect them, so their first interest in politics is pushing against corruption, deceit and greed. Swedish Pirates on their way to Brussels
In a case heard at Skipton County Court, a railway worker earning 23 shillings a week was being pressed for non-payment of a debt.
The farmer's wife used to get nine shillings a week for my board and lodging and she had the lot. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
So, love, don't fear surroundings of carefree talk an invade of ground language ear, meet a matter shilly-shally descend a note of promise, you is still have no each express an one's own opinion.
On 17 May 1928, a small aircraft, leased at five shillings per mile, took off on the inaugural flight of the Flying Doctor.
We can more easily tell how old goldsmithery is, which means that sometimes people will melt down 'common' medieval gold coins like Byzantine nummi so as to have authentic gold with which to fake something much more valuable like an Anglo-Saxon shilling. Staffordshire Hoard
The youth, one of whose names was Robin, finally drew from his pocket the half of a little province bill of five shillings, which, in the depreciation in that sort of currency, did but satisfy the ferryman's demand, with the surplus of a sexangular piece of parchment, valued at three pence. My Kinsman, Major Molineux
Ay -- an Edward shovelboard [Note 5], and a new shilling o 'King James, and three groats o' Queen Bess -- that's not fairy silver, I 'count. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot
Ashill, the picturesque east Devon village where Stone lives, is easy to overlook: a tiny dot on the map, west of the M5.
A silver coin formerly used in Great Britain and worth five shillings.
The Coalsack nebula also fits with the description of 'near the galactic plane' it's only visible in optical wavelengths because it's shillouetted by the milkyway itself. Herschel Sees Hidden Stars in the Southern Cross | Universe Today
This girl, this young woman, coming here and asking for the loan of a shilling for a cab fare.
The teenager quickly added up the long columns of pounds, shillings and pence, scoring top marks.
He said that the publisher got the copyright in each song written by the defendant for one shilling.
Jordaens was fined 200 pounds and 15 shillings for scandalous or heretical writings between 1651 and 1658. Archive 2009-03-01
They pay likewise subsidies with the temporalty, but in such sort that if these pay after four shillings for land, the clergy contribute commonly after six shillings of the pound, so that of a benefice of twenty pounds by the year the incumbent thinketh himself well acquitted if, all ordinary payments being discharged, he may reserve thirteen pounds six shillings eightpence towards his own sustentation or maintenance of his family. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
Twenty-five pounds and eight shillings. Times, Sunday Times
Economic policy is not merely pounds, shillings and pence. Times, Sunday Times
Bernard Gateshill, for Mancey, handed a huge bundle of character testimonials to the judge and explained that his client had been suffering from depression at the time of the incident.
From No. v on it was an enormous success, and inaugurated monthly shilling numbers as a method of publishing new fiction.
For a decent first floor and two bed-chambers on the second, I payed no more than a scudo (five shillings) per day. Travels through France and Italy
At home it had been so clear that for six dressing jackets there would be needed twenty-four yards of nainsook at sixteen pence the yard, which was a matter of thirty shillings besides the cutting-out and making, and these thirty shillings had been saved. Anna Karenina
Attaching a multi-shilling tax to every court transaction would be murder to tenant farmers and small-time artisans. The Volokh Conspiracy » The Stamp Act
I was given two bob to have one shilling each way on Dawros.
Maybe she has, maybe she hasn't, but surely the folks who are defending this episode based on whether it was technically illegal are the worst of all the shills out there.
Thus, said Friar John, at Seuille, the rascally beggars being one evening on a solemn holiday at supper in the spital, one bragged of having got six blancs, or twopence halfpenny; another eight liards, or twopence; a third, seven caroluses, or sixpence; but an old mumper made his vaunts of having got three testons, or five shillings. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
Perhaps one of the chilblain-fingered girls behind the counters down below had been the "Sympathiser" to whom she had been indebted for a shilling. Mrs. Day's Daughters
Quite clearly, he sees it as his job to shill these things.
If you're no better in the morning, you'd better 'ave a shillingsworth of Baldock. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl
When the quarter of wheat is sold for a shilling, then the wastell, well boulted and clean, shall weigh six pounds sixteen shillings. Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc
For the first couple of weeks I dug up nothing but shot gun cartridges and buttons and then I found a Charles I shilling and I was hooked.
As it was pirated, so the price crept up, ninepence, one shilling, one shilling and sixpence, half-a-crown, and then it came out in instalments.
There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
They gave me what they called a beefsteak pie -- a tough crust and under it some blackish cubes carved out of the muscle of an antediluvian ox-and for this delicious fare and a glass of stout I paid three shillings and odd pence. Afoot in England
But as the Franks established only a decuple proportion of gold and silver, ten shillings will be a sufficient valuation of their solidus of gold. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Why should anyone accept that you are really a person with valid opinions, and not just a government shill trying to make it look like someone still supports them?
English.] so that a karsey is sold there in Persia for foure pound ten shillings: for euery shaugh is sixe pence English, and euery Bist is two pence halfepeny The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
This firm republished it last year (1881) in chromo-lithography, but in 1846 it was produced in outline by lithography, and coloured by hand by a colourer of that time named Mason, when it could not have been sold for less than a shilling. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide
Now, if Mr. Lowe insists on it that our integer is the pound, he is bound to admit that the present integer is the pound, of which a shilling, etc., are fractions. A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II)
That the government has been weak and shilly-shallying, that the public are dupes and the farmers paying the price seems to me to be very much in the current run of things.
Item, we gyve as good as bequest unto a poore of Stratford aforesaied tenn poundes; to Mr. Thomas Combe my sword; to Thomas Russell esquier fyve poundes; as good as to Frauncis Collins, of a precinct of Warr. in a countie of Warr. gentleman, thirteene poundes, sixe shillinges, as good as 8 pence, to be paied inside of a singular yeare after my deceas. Archive 2009-11-01
There are about 2,000 Tanzanian shillings to the £, but, as with most places in Africa, the locals prefer US dollars.
Tommy uses every trick in the book to catch his man: dressing as a rodeo clown, shilling prizes as a slick Vegas huckster, or pretending to be a backwoods hick, Tommy has all the right moves.
In 1921 the average price of butterfat received was only one shilling and tuppence halfpenny a pound.
I send you ten shillings for pocket-money, and again implore you to let Mrs. Bax have a little rest and peace. New Treasure Seekers
And his farming was well done; for though he was, out-and-out, a gentleman-farmer, he knew how to get the full worth in work done for the fourteen shillings a week which he paid to his labourers, — a deficiency in which knowledge is the cause why gentlemen in general find farming so expensive an amusement. The American Senator
He noticed the bottle of meths had no top on it and told us to be careful because it could start a fire. He made us pay for the broken glass, it cost me five shillings.
As much as 80 per cent of the currency is bogus, so no one has any idea what the shilling might be worth. Times, Sunday Times
Falstaff made love to her with his hand upon "a parcel-gilt goblet," and followed up the declaration with a kiss and a request for thirty shillings. Inns and Taverns of Old London
It is interesting that he introduced the silver crown of five shillings which was the first English coin to have a date written in Arabic numerals rather than Roman numerals.
If they hadn’t mindlessly shilled for Bush and made total asses of themselves in railing against Gore and Kerry for turning out to be right about the main arguments of the day, then maybe they’d be taken more seriously. Matthew Yglesias » More Condescension Needed
Then 1 James I.c. 29 awarded three months 'imprisonment "without bail or mainprise" to any person who should "shoot at, kill, or destroy with any gun, crossbow, stonebow, or longbow, any house-dove or pigeon," but allowed an alternative fine of twenty shillings to be paid to the churchwardens of the parish for the benefit of the poor. Daddy Darwin's Dovecot: A Country Tale
Our whacking shillelaghs came over their heads,
Sergo, search me, the incapable reparteed with a selfevitant subtlety so obviously spurious and, raising his hair, after the grace, with the christmas under his clutcharm, for Portsymasser and Purtsymessus and Pertsymiss and Partsymasters, like a prance of findingos, with a shillto shallto slipny stripny, in he skittled. Finnegans Wake
Befo 'I pernounces de benediction, I wants ter' spress de thanks o 'dis chu'ch ter de' oner'ble visitor wha 'set' isse'f so modes 'in de las' pew dis evenin ', _an' den sen 'up de bigges' conterbutiom_, fulfillin 'de words o' de Scripture, which say _de las 'shill be fus' an 'de fus' shill be las_ '. Moriah's Mourning and Other Half-Hour Sketches
Moreouer, euerie man and woman that might dispend in lands the value of twentie shillings Chronicles (3 of 6): Historie of England (1 of 9) Henrie IV
There are people out there willing to be tested, who do not shilly-shally and stall.
He produced three shillings and a few coppers for the purchase of spirits saying that was all he had in the world.
In my youth I earned pennies, and even shillings occasionally, in the streets and in public house parlors by my natural talent for stepdancing. Major Barbara
I thought at the time," said Mr. Branghton, "that three shillings was an exorbitant price for a place in the gallery: but as we'd been asked so much at the other doors, why I paid it without many words; but, then, to be sure, thinks I, it can never be like any other gallery, we shall see some crinkum-crankum or other for our money; but I find it's as arrant a take-in as ever I met with. Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World
You can tell it's an industry shill -- a "greenwash" -- because nowhere on this "nonprofit" site does it ask for contributions or even accept them. Consumer Watchdog Updates
They need to learn Micawber economics - earn nineteen shillings, spend twenty shillings - result unhappiness. Earn twenty shillings spend nineteen shillings - result happiness. Simples.
Except in certain rural areas, ‘to go for a sodger’, ‘to take the King's shilling ’, had for ordinary people been an act of desperation in a time of unemployment or personal catastrophe.
It just makes me laugh to see them get high and mighty about the blogosphere being shills for politicians.
When you finished selling your load at a shilling a bag, you could lie down and fall asleep in the dray and the auld horse would make his own way home.
Well, the truth is, I saw you did not want to go; you kept holding back from it; and if I _had_ spoken you would have shillyshallied over it until the season was over. Elster's Folly
For 10 shillings a week, plus his keep, Trevor worked on the moor where Mr Middlemiss had moor rights.
Is there a single person anywhere who studies gun policy who isn't just a shill for one side or the other?
The entrance fee was one shilling, and we had to borrow several pails to hold the coppers and other coins that were paid in.
Mrs. Catherine Weston of Ferryland Plaintiff on the 17th August last made Complaint upon Oath before Our Justices of our Court of Common pleas that William McDaniel of Ferryland planter is justly Indebted to her in the sum of One hundred and nine pounds four shillings and fivepence sterling being for the Amount of a Book-debt, and that he refuses payment thereof although thereunto frequently required. Gutenber-e Help Page
Boiling oil," said she, with a flush of honest shame, "and a shillingsworth o 'paint. The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens
[A "krone" is equal to one shilling and three-halfpence.] Ghosts
The other was always held up to us as a model because she married a Government labourer in the Deptford victualling yard, and kept his room and the three children neat and tidy on eighteen shillings a week - until he took to drink.
At some distance from the more frequented parts of the city, a man may hire a large house for thirty crowns a year: but near the center, you cannot have good lodgings, ready furnished, for less than a scudo (about five shillings) a day. Travels through France and Italy
a franc should be different in weight and value from a shilling, and a zwanziger vary from both, is wanton loss of commercial power. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing
But I don't believe in shilly-shallying around.
‘Thank you,’ Clara said, giving a shilling from her reticule to show her appreciation.
The Gravy Train is the story of Philip Bushill-Matthews's journey to Brussels on a PR wagon-lit.
A 1706 contract with a London clothing merchant to outfit sailors listed: ‘Leather caps faced with red cotton and lined with black-lined at the rate of one shilling and twopence each’.
Quinlan: "I don't shilly-shally around on this issue. For Chronic Reduplicators, Things Aren't Hunky-Dory
I could break stones well," holding out a big arm, "but fourteen shillings a week will do no more than buy bread and bacon for a stonebreaker. The Shuttle
The designs were reproduced from etchings by means of glyptography, a cheap form of graphic reproduction, enabling the publisher to sell the entire series of prints for one shilling.
The Government's shilly-shallying and reluctance to act only led to thousands of disputes simply getting out of control.
What would her mother say if she lost the murrey skirt, which had cost six shillings at Mary Anerley
Flour is sold in Carolina for from twelve to sixteen shillings a centner. Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languag
At which point we wondered why the whole economy didn't just base itself on the dollar, and cut out all of this shilly-shallying.
The TWA also known as the "Dog Licence Act", or the "Dog Collar Act" allowed for the dismissal of the wharfie work force, and their replacement by untrained, non-union workers, each of whom needed only to purchase a licence for one shilling to work on the wharves. The Pig-Iron Song
Each person had one platter of this provision; after which were distributed to them shoes, stockings, linen and woollen cloth, and leather bags, with one penny, two-penny, threepenny, and fourpenny pieces of silver and shillings; to each about four pounds in value. 04/01/2004 - 05/01/2004
The book was subscribed in NW England, Yorkshire, and London, five shillings to subscribers.
Every boy had a shilling a week pocket-money, which we called battels, and which was advanced to us out of the pocket of the second master. An Autobiography
They showed six-year-old Folds Veronica - one of six pure-bred Cleveland Bay mares they keep at their farm in Godshill.
To shilly-shally about something, not do something, ruminate over it, finally decide to take the plunge--and by then it's too late. Hitchhiker in the rain
Journalists use the word to refer to a PR person's job of flacking - as in shilling - for a company.
Book-fanciers now and then bid a few shillings, for a copy of the catalogue of his library; and some sly free-thinkers, of modern date, are not backward in shewing a sympathy in their predecessor's fame, by the readiness with which they bid a half-guinea, or more, for a _priced copy_ of it. Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance
The definition of the word shill is someone being paid. Sun Journal top news
As soon as we were out of doors, Egbert, with the manner of a little footpad, demanded a shilling of me on the ground that his pocket-money was "boned" from him. Bleak House
I'm normally not one to shill for corporate franchises.
But pounds, shillings and pence are unspecified. Times, Sunday Times
In 1853 there was very little argol deposited; but the gross lees of the wine were in great demand, and sold for about 15 shillings per basket.
I think the major parties have shilly-shallied around this for far too long.
So Samson , who earned a pound a month, was docked two shillings.
She uses her last shillings to buy passage on a coach to the farthest destination they afford.
silversmith," who will ask a pound sterling for a bit of metal which cost him perhaps five shillings or even less, and who hates to be bought by weight. Arabian nights. English
I will venture five shillings on it.
Coal used to cost 3 shillings a sack.
It is to be added that the tremendous supply of sevenpenny bound volumes of modern fiction, and of shilling bound volumes of modern belles-lettres Books and Persons Being Comments on a Past Epoch 1908-1911
To do that they shill for the people who pay them.
It will be little different from when we scrapped pounds, shillings and pence and switched to the decimal system.
'Give me a shilling!' was her reply, while the slaver drivelled unrestrained from her mouth, rendering utterly disgusting a chin that a statuary might have wished to model. Camilla
Thus at Gravesend a sculler requires a shilling for going less way than he would row in The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
Catherine Weston of Ferryland made Complaint upon Oath that William McDaniel of Ferryland planter is justly Indebted to her in the Sum of one hundred and nine pounds four shillings and five pence sterling which he has refused to pay; … praying that justice may be done her. Gutenber-e Help Page
The string was for making any running repairs if any part of the harness should break or come adrift, the knife to cut the string and to pierce the leather to make the repair; and the shilling in case you needed to use a phone box to call home.
Tea Coffee and other refreshments were always ready and a good meal could be had for one shilling and sixpence.
The minimum wage would be 89 shillings 11 pence per week for those producing a full complement of weaves and 74 shillings for those who didn't.
In their heyday, the Penny Dreadfuls sometimes called "bloods" or "shilling shockers" were produced en-masse. Penny Dreadfuls
The north-south-trending, east-facing monocline that crosses upper Weardale near the village of Cowshill is the block's only major structural feature and essentially divides it in half.
Critics have argued that advocates for stricter standards for admissibility of expert evidence are mere shills for corporate defendants seeking to deny plaintiffs just compensation.
But to add weight to his analysis, Cashill tells us that no fewer than five teams of researchers have been doing the stylometric thing, with four already reporting in. Archive 2009-10-01
In High Wood the ancient tenants had common of estovers, for which each paid annually with a hen or one shilling in lieu.
Shillinger said some officials at the U.S. Agency for International Development are also concerned their humanitarian programs could be "stigmatized" by direct links with the military, which has melded aid programs with combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan - wars unpopular in most of ANC Daily News Briefing
Reading itself, which "loomed for a Shillington child as an immense, remote, menacing, and glamorous metropolis," is a remarkably recognizable Brewer, with its depiction over the Rabbit series offering a nearly perfect rendering of the actual city's respectable past, attempts at renewal and hardscrabble present. Keystone to Updike's Imagination
If you like a short sortie you can choose one, on the other hand if you like a brisk climb you may elect for the Masshill climb.
A casual observer might have noticed they were all drinking pints of Caledonian 80 Shilling, but they were not only there to enjoy the local ale.
Or why should people be allowed to ride quickly for eightpence a mile, after Parliament had come to the solemn decision that they should pay a shilling a mile for riding slowly? Sketches by Boz
Holland, the quarter-ruble of Russia, the 200-reis piece of Portugal, the 5-piastre piece of Turkey, the half-milreis of Brazil and the half-rupee of India, all interchangeable with the English shilling, and all of them about the value of the quarter-dollar of North and Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889

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