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Example sentences for "fifteen shillings"

  • Precisely as much as in the first case: that is, fifteen shillings.

  • On the other hand, when the value of labor rose from twelve shillings to fifteen shillings, the price of a hat would not rise by one farthing, but would still continue at eighteen shillings.

  • Yes, Highgate has its charms; your Uncle John lived at Highgate," she jerked in the direction of Katharine.

  • In a moment of nervousness, so Ralph thought, Katharine had turned on innumerable electric lights.

  • He was destined in her fancy for something splendid in the way of success or failure, she knew not which.

  • While with a manager named Butler, at Northampton, Kean played walking gentlemen, Harlequin, and sang comic songs for a salary of fifteen shillings a week.

  • Harriet's salary for some years was only fifteen shillings a week.

  • The idea of a cottage where one grew one's own vegetables and lived on fifteen shillings a week, filled Ralph with an extraordinary sense of rest and satisfaction.

  • Fifteen shillings a week," she repeated, coming out on the other side of the hedge, and running her fingers through her hair to rid herself of a bramble which had attached itself to her.

  • I could live on fifteen shillings a week--easily.

  • But the words would not come, his brain was fogged; he went off into a reverie, and awoke to find himself scribbling in arabesque, "Fifteen shillings to buy a scourge.

  • Fifteen shillings to buy a scourge wherewith to do penance.

  • Fifteen shillings a week is not much,' said Nicholas, mildly.

  • Potatoes for dinner there must be found, And there’s none for less than a penny a pound, And I must have a sixpenny gown, Out of fifteen shillings a week, sir.

  • Of course I can't do much out of fifteen shillings a week.

  • Fifteen shillings a week wouldn't pay the interest, my boy," was Con's rejoinder.

  • Your wages at the office are still the same, Alfred--fifteen shillings a week?

  • And there was three pounds, fifteen shillings, and sixpence in Donald's old shoe," said I.

  • The price of this one is--fifteen shillings," said I.

  • He saw nothing again of the policeman, nor of the crowd, nor of the lady who had lost her purse with its thirty-seven pounds, fifteen shillings, and a threepenny bit.

  • Fifteen shillings a week--not quite that, if I spread my money out.

  • A certain sum of money was due to her for rent; suppose this were repaid in the form of board and lodging, which might be reckoned at--should one say, fifteen shillings a week?

  • Can one live on fifteen shillings a week--rent, food, washing?

  • She lent me fifteen shillings to buy a single third to come to Rosebury, and I forgot all about it.

  • Please, Primrose, try and spare me fifteen shillings to send to Poppy.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    another church; brown eyes; continual burnt; dans une; each glass; fifteen cents; fifteen drops; fifteen feet; fifteen francs; fifteen grains; fifteen inches; fifteen leagues; fifteen minutes; fifteen months; fifteen thousand; fifteenth century; food needs; front and; oblong shape; private rights; seedless raisins; slight smile; speaking thus; spiritual world; stale bread; written promise