shilling

How To Use shilling In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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.
• 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
• 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
• 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.
• 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