How To Use Shilling In A Sentence
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The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
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One sheriff admitted handing out 6000 certificates, for which he was either paid a shilling or given a dram of whisky.
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Alfred gets nineteen shillings and sixpence for a full week.
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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
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Material possessions and the means of measuring them by reference to groats, shillings or florins were forbidden in the Holy Parish.
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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
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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
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The real total was thirty-eight pounds, nine shillings, two pence, but why fiddle with details?
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The basic monetary unit is the Somali shilling, with one hundred cents equal to one shilling.
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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
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“It is not,” said Mr. Mack, though he counted out a shilling and thruppence for the boy.
At Swim, Two Boys
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Within about five minutes however I found out that LSD also stands for pounds, shillings and pence.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Buy a little book ruled for the purpose for pounds, shillings and pence and keep an account of cash received and expended.
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He continued writing something in a ledger, balancing columns of pounds, shillings and pence.
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He said that the publisher got the copyright in each song written by the defendant for one shilling.
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The wickedly funny show is set in the days of pounds, shillings and pence, tin baths and condensed-milk butties.
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She was determined to lay out her five shillings to the best possible advantage.
CHARMED LIFE
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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So it was that on 15 April, 1755, the two huge folio volumes went on sale for four pounds and ten shillings a set.
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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.
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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
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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.
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From the size of the pile of pennies, halfpennies, and shillings in front of her, my aunt was winning.
Secrets of the Tudor Court
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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
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I went into the bookies in Blackrock and had a shilling each way Drybob in error.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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There are only one shilling and two sixpences in my purse.
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He'd no intention of ever paying a shilling on those mortgages.
KICK BACK
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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
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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.
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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
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On 17 May 1928, a small aircraft, leased at five shillings per mile, took off on the inaugural flight of the Flying Doctor.
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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
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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
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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
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A silver coin formerly used in Great Britain and worth five shillings.
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This girl, this young woman, coming here and asking for the loan of a shilling for a cab fare.
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The teenager quickly added up the long columns of pounds, shillings and pence, scoring top marks.
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He said that the publisher got the copyright in each song written by the defendant for one shilling.
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Jordaens was fined 200 pounds and 15 shillings for scandalous or heretical writings between 1651 and 1658.
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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)
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Twenty-five pounds and eight shillings.
Times, Sunday Times
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Economic policy is not merely pounds, shillings and pence.
Times, Sunday Times
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From No. v on it was an enormous success, and inaugurated monthly shilling numbers as a method of publishing new fiction.
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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
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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
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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
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I was given two bob to have one shilling each way on Dawros.
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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
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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
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If you're no better in the morning, you'd better 'ave a shillingsworth of Baldock.
Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl
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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
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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.
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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.
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There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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.
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There are about 2,000 Tanzanian shillings to the £, but, as with most places in Africa, the locals prefer US dollars.
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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.
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In 1921 the average price of butterfat received was only one shilling and tuppence halfpenny a pound.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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He produced three shillings and a few coppers for the purchase of spirits saying that was all he had in the world.
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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
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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
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They need to learn Micawber economics - earn nineteen shillings, spend twenty shillings - result unhappiness. Earn twenty shillings spend nineteen shillings - result happiness. Simples.
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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.
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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.
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For 10 shillings a week, plus his keep, Trevor worked on the moor where Mr Middlemiss had moor rights.
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The entrance fee was one shilling, and we had to borrow several pails to hold the coppers and other coins that were paid in.
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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.
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Boiling oil," said she, with a flush of honest shame, "and a shillingsworth o 'paint.
The Little White Bird; or, Adventures in Kensington gardens
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[A "krone" is equal to one shilling and three-halfpence.]
Ghosts
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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.
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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
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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
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‘Thank you,’ Clara said, giving a shilling from her reticule to show her appreciation.
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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’.
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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
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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.
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What would her mother say if she lost the murrey skirt, which had cost six shillings at
Mary Anerley
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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
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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
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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
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The book was subscribed in NW England, Yorkshire, and London, five shillings to subscribers.
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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
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Journalists use the word to refer to a PR person's job of flacking - as in shilling - for a company.
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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
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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
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But pounds, shillings and pence are unspecified.
Times, Sunday Times
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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.
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So Samson , who earned a pound a month, was docked two shillings.
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She uses her last shillings to buy passage on a coach to the farthest destination they afford.
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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
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I will venture five shillings on it.
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Coal used to cost 3 shillings a sack.
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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
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It will be little different from when we scrapped pounds, shillings and pence and switched to the decimal system.
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'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
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Thus at Gravesend a sculler requires a shilling for going less way than he would row in
The Journal of a Voyage to Lisbon
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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.
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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.
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Tea Coffee and other refreshments were always ready and a good meal could be had for one shilling and sixpence.
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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.
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In their heyday, the Penny Dreadfuls sometimes called "bloods" or "shilling shockers" were produced en-masse.
Penny Dreadfuls
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In High Wood the ancient tenants had common of estovers, for which each paid annually with a hen or one shilling in lieu.
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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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You can take the rest of the five shillings on account.
CHARMED LIFE
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His father, a simple saddler, had so poor an appreciation of his son's magnanimity, that he apprenticed him to a butcher; but Hind's destiny was to embrue his hands in other than the blood of oxen, and he had not long endured the restraint of this common craft when forty shillings, the gift of his mother, purchased him an escape, and carried him triumphant and ambitious to London.
A Book of Scoundrels
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Dickens made good use of the 29 shillings he received for The Pickwick Papers by marrying Catherine Hogarth, a daughter of a newspaper editor.
Bill Lucey: Remembering Our Mutual Friend, Charles Dickens, on his 200th Birthday
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The charge for labor works out at almost ten shillings an hour.
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The Topagi Bassi, Master of the artillerie, one hundred and twentie aspers, two hundred, three score and two pounds, sixteene shillings.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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In the 32nd District, state Rep. Jennifer Shilling of La Crosse handily defeated fake Democrat James D. Smith, a former county Republican executive committee member also from La Crosse.
Fake Democrats lose in Wisconsin primary recalls
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In the original, what is here translated a pound, is in Latin, mina, in value of our coin, three pounds two shillings and sixpence.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision
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There were twelve pence to a shilling and twenty shillings to a pound.
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She uses her last shillings to buy passage on a coach to the farthest destination they afford.
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To begin with, it is only the actual coal getter who is paid at this rate; a dataller, for instance, who attends to the roofing, is paid at a lower rate, usually eight or nine shillings a shift.
The Road to Wigan Pier
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You say that as if purging the Hill of corporate shilling whores on both sides of the isle is a bad thing.
Think Progress » VIDEO: Tom DeLay Exercises His Right To Incriminate Himself
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When such rooms can be rented for from three to six shillings per week, it is a fair conclusion that a lodger with references should obtain floor space for, say, from eightpence to a shilling.
MY LODGING AND SOME OTHERS
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An ordinary beater got five shillings.
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A proprietor had noted in 1910 that he had applications for jobs at twenty-five shillings a week from competent reporters of forty and fifty years of age with families.
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And the point I want to make is how very little pounds, shillings, and pence have to do with all this.
HUMAN VOICES
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A drunk might steal shillings set aside to feed the gas meter.
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It is your little twopenny-halfpenny authors - the sort that would be dear at six for a shilling - that ‘knock off’ things in a few hours.
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I would have bought a new one, but when Daisy and I looked in the ironmonger's shop this afternoon, the big ones were about fifteen shillings.
The Mystery of Holly Lane
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Before 1971 there were 240 pennies in a pound, 12 pennies in a shilling, and maths lessons were a lot more difficult.
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The rent was only three shillings and sixpence a week, and a further three shillings and sixpence for a week's breakfasts.
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‘If one of us had a cough, Mam would send me to the chemist for a ‘shilling mix’ (bring your own bottle), which consisted of three-penny-worth each of glycerine, syrup of squills, liquorice, and ipecac wine.
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Our little party now separated, and got into two post-chaises, each of which hold three persons, though it must be owned three cannot sit quite so commodiously in these chaises as two: the hire of a post-chaise is a shilling for every English mile.
Travels in England in 1782
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A bold statement of traditional values, in something as close to pounds, shillings and pence as an opposition party will ever allow.
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They also snatched her purse, and took two old shilling pieces and a ladies watch.
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Because of the high volumes of change that passed through my hands, every few days I'd find an old silver shilling, or a two shilling florin.
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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.
Philadelphia Reflections: Shakspere Society of Philadelphia
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It soon raised the maximum to five shillings.
Times, Sunday Times
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The first man to draw blood was given a prize of two shillings and sixpence and all the beer he could drink.
Times, Sunday Times
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However, iroko was in short supply in this area and cutting it required a permit, which cost 15 shillings in 1964.
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The duty per chalder, Newcastle measure, was five shillings in foreign bottoms, and three in British bottoms, but the duty was not collected on coal sent to the British plantations or Ireland.
Collections
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Printed on glossy paper and lavishly illustrated with photographs and artists' drawings, it cost no less than 50 shillings when published.
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Twenty-six or - seven -- you're over twenty-five right now, I'll bet you on it, shillings to ha'pennies, and you'll make thirty when you get your full weight," Dag Daughtry told him.
CHAPTER 1
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Halle Shilling, who was attacked in the park two weeks after Levy disappeared, is to testify today, Haines said, and will recall her harrowing attack.
Open statements begin in Chandra Levy trial
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The war-time legacy of the five-shilling legal maximum on restaurant bills was an open cheque for profiteers to pose as restaurateurs.
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He separated the captured officers, took their paroles of honour not to attempt escape, then advanced each captain $50 (circa 200 New York shillings) towards private accommodation for themselves and their subalterns on Long Island.
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Coal used to cost 3 shillings a sack.
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She was in love with her match just as farmers are in love with wheat and eighty shillings a quarter; or shareholders — innocent gudgeons — with seven and half per cent interest on their paid up capital.
Doctor Thorne
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They paid the princely sum of one shilling to queue up on the narrow staircase and head downstairs into a room filled with the noise of revelling mop-headed boys and coltish girls with pale-painted mouths and thick, black eyelashes.
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No more will the devil's mouthwash flood their coffers with shillings and florins.
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Shilling for the unregulated banking industry and foreign governments again patsy?
Think Progress » Top DADT Advocate Says Abu Ghraib Abuses Happened Because Women Are Allowed In The Military
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As the Dutch had pounds, shillings and pence, before the English had them, we see what _d_ in the signs £ s.d. means, that is, a denary, or a white penny, made of silver.
Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks
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As I returned by the east side of the lake, the splendid high farming-lands that extend from the shore to the foot of the mountain were strikingly in contrast with the flatness and barrenness of the plain on the water-side, which is so slightly elevated above the level of the salt water that a few inches of rise in the laguna spreads out an immense sheet of saline water, and yet there is not a solitary evaporating vat where there is an unlimited demand for the evaporated article at fourteen shillings the _aroba_.
Mexico and its Religion With Incidents of Travel in That Country During Parts of the Years 1851-52-53-54, and Historical Notices of Events Connected With Places Visited
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It is not my part then, I think, to tak 'fro' ye - to be under obligations (as they say) to ye; and that day ye came to our house, and called me to t 'door, and offered me five shillings, which I doubt ye could ill spare, - for ye've no fortin', I know, - that day I war fair a rebel - a radical - an insurrectionist; and ye made me so.
Shirley, by Charlotte Bronte
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Mr Harold Boardman, Labour MP for Leigh, is to ask the Secretary to the Treasury on Tuesday whether he is aware of the inconvenience caused in the Manchester district due to the shortage of sixpences and shillings.
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From 4.30 in the morning till the last light at night, she said, she had toiled at making cloth dress - skirts, lined up and with two flounces, for seven shillings a dozen.
THOSE ON THE EDGE
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The greatest reward went to the post master who received one shilling for each score of beaver or an amount of furs of the same value.
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The ‘tickey’ might become a quarter-shilling, but existing names, though incongruous, would probably linger.
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There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
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The going rate, non-returnable, was 10 shillings - a social obligation rather than a favour.
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There were farthings, pennies, oxfords, crowns, florins, shillings, guineas, and pounds, among other divisions.
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When the Romans, therefore, had occasion to order more corn than the tithe of wheat amounted to, they were bound by capitulation to pay for the surplus at the rate of four sestertii, or eight-pence sterling, the peck; and this had probably been reckoned the moderate and reasonable, that is, the ordinary or average contract price of those times; it is equal to about one-and-twenty shillings the quarter.
XI. Book I. Of the Rent of Land
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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
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We are not told what sort of fish it was in whose mouth Peter found the "stater," a piece of money worth about three shillings, which was exactly enough to give, as the Lord told him, to those who had come to ask for money to meet some expenses belonging to the temple.
Twilight and Dawn Simple Talks on the Six Days of Creation
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We may as well go back to pounds, shilling and pence.
Times, Sunday Times
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It'll be a cheap ten shillingsworth, and we mustn't waste time.
The Red Triangle Being Some Further Chronicles of Martin Hewitt, Investigator
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A crowd of 2,000 attended the match and they each paid one shilling for the privilege.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'll take anything, even old pennies from the pound shilling and pence era.
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Who wanted to go to the Snake Park in Nairobi and pay two shillings just to see a python?
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I started work as a dogsbody in a small City advertising agency at £13 pounds 10 shillings a week, and rented a room in Crouch End for £5 a week.
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Well, I seed little chance of ever seeing them again, or of my seeing five shillings, but as it so happened next tide, the very 'denticle pair of trowsers comes up staring me in the face.
Jacob Faithful
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We may as well go back to pounds, shilling and pence.
Times, Sunday Times
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I had 35 shillings wrapped up in a hankie in my mackintosh pocket.
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Mr Arthur Clennam, enclosing the sum of twenty – four pounds nine shillings and eightpence, being the amount of principal and interest computed at the rate of five per cent. per annum, in which their client believed himself to be indebted to Mr Clennam.
Little Dorrit
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He knew that he must seek them in their own social world, and to this he would surely be raised by his phantasmagorial income of thirty shillings a week.
The Fortunate Youth
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Haying comforted my interiors with hot grog of the stiffest, I called for another shillingsworth of brandy, and deliberately emptied it, to the astonished edification of beholders, into my boots! literal fact, and it kept my feet comfortable all night long.
My Life as an Author
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He was notoriously avid for every shilling he could earn.
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Making like a star-spangled version of Paul Hogan, the president can now be seen shilling for the U.S. travel and tourism industry in a new TV commercial.
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My pay was to be two pounds eight shillings a week.
Seminary Boy
