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Sentence Examples When Shilling himself first arrived to partake in West Coast water sports, he bodysurfed naked. 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. Before the body was sent to the crematorium, Shilling and Crump filled the casket with animal bones, meat, and a mannequin. In 1812 Russian engineer Pavel Shilling exploded an underwater mine using an electrical circuit. The Shilling a Week Band's vigorous reinterpretations of Corrie poems had audiences stomping their feet, and a soundtrack EP was released online to accompany the show's run. From 1430 onwards, the franchise was limited to Forty Shilling Freeholders, that is men who owned freehold property worth forty shillings or more. They also snatched her purse, and took two old shilling pieces and a ladies watch. 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. The symbol for shilling d and for pence s came, respectively, from Latin denarius and sestertius, but in usage their values were reversed. He stood at the gates in sun and downpours of rain but never pressured anyone for a shilling. He is unresolved whether to buy it or to spend the extra shilling on his dinner. However my sister changed that for me when my Aunt put a lovely shiny silver shilling piece in my hand for luck. It included a threepenny bit, a sixpence, a shilling, a two shilling, a half crown, and four and five shilling pieces. Nominal damages of one shilling were awarded to the crown, which had claimed 100 pounds. 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. In very little time my order arrived in a small plastic container and I paid the shilling and sixpence that the meal cost. Tea Coffee and other refreshments were always ready and a good meal could be had for one shilling and sixpence. I'll take anything, even old pennies from the pound shilling and pence era. Renovation work at the Blenheim Road school has also unearthed an old shilling and a farthing hidden behind the children's coat pegs. Prior to decimalization, the pound was divided into twenty shillings, each shilling into twelve pennies and each penny into four farthings. Show More Sentences In 1921 the average price of butterfat received was only one shilling and tuppence halfpenny a pound. Knowing that there were 12 pennies to the shilling, and 20 shillings to the pound, was second nature. And who would go back to 12 pence to one shilling, 20 shillings to a pound with no calculator? The novice was released only once he put a shilling towards the mowers' beer. Before 1971 there were 240 pennies in a pound, 12 pennies in a shilling, and maths lessons were a lot more difficult. I went into the bookies in Blackrock and had a shilling each way Drybob in error. In High Wood the ancient tenants had common of estovers, for which each paid annually with a hen or one shilling in lieu. One sheriff admitted handing out 6000 certificates, for which he was either paid a shilling or given a dram of whisky. During the holidays I borrowed a hand cart from the mill and carried suitcases up to Rishton station for a shilling. Honor was permanently surrendered for the king's shilling as otherwise decent men chose to become informers. Perhaps it was made by a journeyman printer, who sold it on the market to earn a shilling? The entrance fee was one shilling, and we had to borrow several pails to hold the coppers and other coins that were paid in. A bed for the night is only one shilling and stabling for yer horse is a mere four pence. 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. For the purpose of this article I will be figuring a shilling to be worth an average 5 pence. For example in old British measures there were twelve inches in a foot, twelve pennies in a shilling etc. At the close of trade on Friday, the Ugandan shilling traded at nearly 2,000 to the U.S. dollar. The basic monetary unit is the Somali shilling, with one hundred cents equal to one shilling. But they're definitely not the real thing, not the full shilling, so to speak. We've sat in front of them with that sinking feeling, the realisation that this person thinks we're not the full shilling. Show More Sentences Now, he was not the full shilling so to speak and he ended up being cared for from the Parish funds. They are not the full shilling and could be seen as servants of their creator, masked, and sent forth to accomplish certain limited tasks. They took the Queen's shilling without asking too many questions about what it involved. As much as I hate federal requirement and restrictions, it seems to me that he who takes the King's shilling must do the King's bidding. Geoffrey was just 19 when he followed in his father's footsteps and took the King's shilling. Damage ensued and some local leading lights offered the sum of four pounds and a shilling for repairs. As for antelopes, baboons, chimps, crocodiles, gazelles, giraffes, hippos, hyenas, warthogs and zebras, well, they're ten a shilling. A group of Lancastrians thought we were too tight to put a shilling in the meter! 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. The shop was promoting gold brooches from six shillings and sixpence, and gilt paste brooches from one shilling. Having stood for pre-selection and having been elected as a member of the Howard Government, the member for Kooyong has indeed taken the king's shilling. There were twenty shillings in a pound and twelve pence in a shilling. They blabbed about their time in the desert, became zillionaires and ruined it for everyone who fancied earning a bit more than the king's shilling. I was given two bob to have one shilling each way on Dawros. The hootenanny on political websites about the contest being up for grabs is shilling for advertising dollars. It is not the full shilling and some people are arbitrarily excluded. If you take the Queen's shilling, then you have to expect it. For a broader understanding of why his army lost the war he ought to poll the many who dodged the draft, not just the few who took the King's shilling. 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. The soldier was no longer an individual who simply took the King's shilling for lack of alternative, but a symbol of a national cause and thus, potentially, a hero. Show More Sentences I browsed and noted the Tanzanian shilling prices being demanded for learned academic tomes on Law, History, Commerce and Science, all of them published in Britain. As the Kenya shilling fights its way up against the dollar, shareholders are capitalizing on the stock market before, inevitably, the prices start coming down. Before 1971, the primary coinage had 20 pence equal to one shilling. There were twelve pence to a shilling and twenty shillings to a pound. The British pound with 100 pence, had until recently 20 shillings and each shilling had 12 pence, like our pre-1957 rupee with 16 annas and each anna divided into four paisa. Most of them appear not the full shilling so allowing someone to come on and flash the audience given the intelligence levels is something I find deeply uncomfortable. 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. For a shilling you could get a big packet of colourful perforated postal appendages displaying palm trees in Barbados and giraffes in Nyasaland. This is a Macbethian Gothic, a subtype of the shilling shocker designed to thrill the reader with gory supernatural spectacle. Many of them were effectively economic conscripts with little choice but to take the King's shilling or starve. If they decide to stay, then they should realise that accepting the king's shilling brings certain obligations. No one brave man no matter how willing, Can lose so much for one King's shilling. His passion for photography started when he was a child after he was given a a ten shilling box camera as a Christmas present. Less esteemed was her attempt to drive all snakes from the Apple Isle by paying convicts a shilling for each reptilian head brought to her. He had begun at four, playing with a miniature cleek and a found shilling ball over the municipal links. Prior to decimalisation, the pound was divided into 20 shillings and each shilling into 12 pence, making 240 pence to the pound. Coupled with modest foreign investment, the inflow of funds have helped the Somali shilling increase considerably in value. Although the first request was not met, the second was and the Scottish shilling was given the fixed value of an English penny. The abbreviation for the old penny, d, was derived from the Roman denarius, and the abbreviation for the shilling, s, from the Roman solidus. Hedgehogs were declared noxious animals and a bounty of one shilling a snout paid by regional authorities for several years. Show More Sentences The shilling is a unit of currency formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, United States, and other British Commonwealth countries. The solidus symbol is still used for the shilling currency unit in former British East Africa, rather than sh. In the Irish Free State and Republic of Ireland the shilling was issued as scilling in Irish. In 1967, New Zealand's currency was decimalised and the shilling was replaced by a ten cent coin of the same size and weight. With the replacement of the rixdollar by the rupee in 1852, a shilling was deemed to be equivalent to half a rupee. On the decimalisation of the currency in 1869, a shilling was deemed to be equivalent to 50 Ceylon cents. After the United States adopted the dollar as its unit of currency and accepted the gold standard, one British shilling was worth 24 US cents. Owing to a lack of confidence in the Somali shilling, the US dollar is widely accepted as a medium of exchange alongside the Somali shilling. Elsewhere in the former British Empire, forms of the word shilling remain in informal use. After that, Neilson and his partners licensed it widely at one shilling per ton iron made, a level low enough to discourage evasion. To win over sceptical locals it was whitewashed, fitted with lighting and a band, and the public charged a shilling apiece to walk through it. In 1966, two stamps were issued, priced fourpence and one shilling and threepence, both carrying Burns's portrait. Owing to a lack of confidence in the local currency, the US dollar is widely accepted as a medium of exchange alongside the Somali shilling. As a result of this, on 15 February 1971, the UK decimalised the pound sterling, replacing the shilling and penny with a single subdivision, the new penny. The other ranks were given a pint of beer with their dinner and one brand new shilling, two for a sergeant, that they bought tea and a cake with in the Canteen. At first the shilling each way I put on horses was not my own but the concession allowed me by the street bookmaker for the other bankers' bets I brought him. About 200 spectators paid one shilling each to watch the final. Dollarization notwithstanding, the large issuance of the Somali shilling has increasingly fueled price hikes, especially for low value transactions. The 10 shilling note then in use was lasting only five months and it had been suggested that a coin, which could last fifty years, would be more economical. A cartoon appeared showing the Mayor shilling for a hootchy-kootchy show. Show More Sentences Dollarization notwithstanding, the large issuance of the Somali shilling has increasingly fuelled price hikes, especially for low value transactions. In the traditional pounds, shillings and pence system, there were 20 shillings per pound and 12 pence per shilling, and thus there were 240 pence in a pound. The Somali shilling has been the currency of parts of Somalia since 1921, when the East African shilling was introduced to the former British Somaliland protectorate. His father had a franchise from the Burnaby estate that allowed only him to put bathing boxes on the south beach for which he paid a rent of perhaps a shilling per box. Following the breakdown in central authority that accompanied the civil war, which began in the early 1990s, the value of the Somali shilling was disrupted. Robbery is the felonious and violent taking of any money or goods from the person of another, putting him in fear, be the value thereof above or under one shilling. All members were to attend the funeral or be fined a shilling. Women who could bear children were protected by a 600 shilling fine while the fine for murdering a woman who could no longer bear children was only 200 shillings. Examples from Classical Literature He left it with a ruined constitution, an incumbered estate, and not a shilling of ready money! He had expended the enormous sum of a shilling the day before on a grass snake. These can be viewed at any hour by standing still at a hundred yards from any cabstand and holding up a shilling. They may be considered to have been worth about a shilling of our time, with reference to buying power. Liz took the shilling, looked at it and at me with an earnest air, and shook her head. Idler or bungler, he is willing to fork out his penny and pocket your shilling. On the way, I intrusted a newsboy with an English shilling to go and get me change. In the decline of his popularity he permitted his door-keeper, whom he dignifies with the title of ostiary, to take a shilling! A hundred acres were promised for forty shillings, with a quit-rent of one shilling annually to the proprietor forever. If I were writing a shilling volume, I should put them in by way of padding. You know, or you ought to know, the difference between a pistareen and a smooth-faced shilling. Some of the English women living near the air base were selling chances on a fruit cake for a shilling a ticket. One shilling and twopence were lost in agio, in exchanging my small remaining stock of Prussian dollars into Austrian gold. With their usual frankness they quite admitted that I might have pilfered the shilling. I asked what he meant, telling him that the pikeman owed me at least a shilling. Received from Mr. James of Dunekier eighty pund sexteen shilling six penes Scots in full of the within account depussd by me. Some of them had to pay a shilling a week to a tallyman or credit clothier. I never lost a shilling in East Lothian, or by a bad debt, as a lean-cattle dealer. When they parted, Burns paid Clark his wages in full, gave him a written character, and a shilling for a fairing. A shilling or two were sufficient to equalise the balance against all the weight of my heroism and patriotic ardour together. Show More Sentences Of course, a halfpenny a night sounds nothing, but think of a shilling a month! Each one was worth a denary, which was a coin worth about a shilling, or a quarter of a dollar. The large fivepenny, sixpenny, eightpenny, and shilling often had unusually wide margins when perforated. They fail so invariably, that the Unions do not risk a shilling by proffering them. The weak-kneed wastrel, receiving to his astonishment a shilling, departed. Kirkwood slapped a shilling down on the ticket-window ledge. One shilling and sixpence is a kye, now and then an eighteener. The price of a mass varies from a shilling to one pound sterling. You'll be glad to spend another shilling or so, in almond cakes, I dare say? Medford is just producing 63his shilling when the Professor returns. I could see he grudged prospectively every single shilling which must be spent so absurd ly. It seems Robin's fame attracted more visitants than was consistent with the growth of the heather, upon a moor worth a shilling an acre. Absence from roll call was punished by a fine of a shilling. In extravagant Hartford the opulent doctor got a shilling a visit. They might have found a shilling or a half-dollar, but we didn't try them. A beggar met him one day on the brae, and got a shilling from him. I got mixed up with the Philip on the shilling, and I kept yelling, shill! Hurriedly emptying her pocket, old Betty laid down on the table, a shilling, and two sixpenny pieces, and a few pence. He had been caught somewhere in the Malayan Archipelago, and was going to England to be exhibited at a shilling a head. I would spend myself a shilling to have him swinged well.Chat. Show More Sentences To cut the delinquent son off with a shilling, was like delivering him over to his evil propensities. Smilash demanded half-a-crown for the job, but on her demurring, immediately apologized and came down to a shilling. I therefore am of the opinion that Nathaniel Bumppo has lost his chance, and must pay another shilling before he renews his right. My long-bow 'gainst a plugged shilling that he would run and bellow lustily at sight of a quarter-staff. Every shilling with which they overburden the inferior number, is a shilling saved to their own pockets. Yes, but I have won my game, and am gainer of a shilling on this rubber. Here is the gentleman wanting to get our child, without a shilling to bless himself with, and the poor girl refusing to marry the man of her heart, because she is penniless. There's twelve of us an' my father only gets sixteen shilling a week. I'd give a shilling a line for a verbatim note,' said the Editor. A great boaster was he withal, and to-day he strutted about on one of these corner stages, and vaunted of his prowess, and offered to crack any man's crown for a shilling. A sprightly tramp promised greater difficulty, and nothing but some ferocious pantomime and a shilling persuaded him to forego a choice fantasia of cockney humour. As the lad stood in a dubious attitude, Durbeyfield put his hand in his pocket, and produced a shilling, one of the chronically few that he possessed. Any curious stranger who chooses to pay a shilling for the privilege may enter that office, and may read any will in the place at his or her discretion. And another shilling or so in biscuits, and another in fruit, eh? Shuttleworthy had distinctly avowed to the said nephew his irrevocable determination of rescinding the will originally made, and of cutting him off with a shilling. He then commissioned Maggy to return with his replies, and gave her the shilling of which the failure of her supplemental enterprise would have disappointed her otherwise. We shall be sending a boy to market as usual, for which he will get his usual shilling, on the 24th to get the big prize turkey from the poulterers. Find more words! 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