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Example sentences for "shilling piece"

  • Double-fiorin, or four-shilling piece, equal to one-fifth of a sovereign.

  • Florin, or two-shilling piece, equal to one- tenth of a sovereign.

  • Shilling piece, equal to one-twentieth of a sovereign.

  • A crown, or five-shilling piece, equal to one- fourth of a sovereign.

  • I undoubtedly had no ten-shilling piece in my purse.

  • I gave her a two-shilling piece, and as she had no sixpences, she ran to Gwen to ask change for my florin.

  • By the by, can you give me change for a two-shilling piece?

  • For the change from my ten-shilling piece, after paying for the bicycle hire, was a five-shilling piece.

  • Then came the most extraordinary clue of the ten-shilling piece.

  • In the morning I should mention it to the farmer's wife and ask her to change my five-shilling piece.

  • In "The Honest Four-Shilling Piece" we have the adventures of a Norse Dick Whittington.

  • Not until then did he remember that the scullion had given him a four-shilling piece, with which to buy him something.

  • But a four-shilling piece floated, and that I took along, because it was honest," said the boy.

  • You will not diminish the attention upon you if you say to these men at starting that you will remember each of them with a ten-shilling piece, provided you are satisfied with them; they know what to expect and will act accordingly.

  • But the sight of the squire and the curate, and the seven-shilling piece, which latter we put into her mouth, seemed quite to reconcile her to her fate.

  • He passed a bad five-shilling piece on me the last time he was aboard this craft.

  • My dawning suspicions grew stronger on the way home on a penny omnibus, when he offered the conductor another two-shilling piece.

  • Not daring to refuse to buy one even if I wished, I selected, after some hesitation, a copy of the Three Musketeers, which I paid for with another two-shilling piece.


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