Captain Askew had raised every shilling he could for the undertaking, and he felt sure that Captain Cumming would get friends at Liverpool to help him yet further.
A lady with her daughters or her nieces Shine like a guinea and seven-shilling pieces.
Audrey looked at the splendid shilling gleaming upon the table beside her, but made no motion toward taking it into closer possession.
A slipshod, blue-eyed Cherry brought it, and spoke her thanks in broad Scotch for theshilling which the gay Colonel flung tinkling into the measure.
He must needs go and stick himself four seats off Mrs. Aiken, in the two-shilling places, the intervening three seats being vacant.
Oh no,' replied Bob; 'he gave a lad a shilling to lead him, and they trudged away very quietly together.
I found a boy carrying it on the road, and rated the young rascal soundly for taking it, but I'm afraid the shilling I gave him made more impression than the lecture.
But that is just the beauty of it; he hasn't any belongings, for I asked him; beyond paying a shilling for a bed to some hag he calls Skimmidge, he seems to have no tie to any living creature.
He shan't have a shillingof it--not till my death.
Better or worse, he shan't have a shilling of it--not a shilling.
Indeed, I afterwards got to hear that far better men than the average run of stowaway were, in their anxiety to get abroad, very willing to sign articles for a shilling a month, and lead the lives of dogs for that wage.
The queen she gave me a shilling To fight for 'er over the seas; But guv'ment built me a fever trap, An' Injia gave me disease.
A few days afterward Jack went to college, and Captain Cowen reduced his expenses, and dined at the shilling ordinary, and, indeed, took all his moderate repasts in public.
I composed this letter to Bell in such haste that my hand shook, and sent it off with a shilling to the bailiff's servant, that it might catch the post.
And that afternoon we had a two-shilling bottle of port for dinner, which we shared with a broken-down parson who had been chaplain in ordinary to my Lord Wortley, and who had preached us an Easter sermon the day before.
And the landlord shook his fist at us and shouted back, who was to pay him his four pounds odd, which included two ten-shilling dinners and a flask of his best wine?
I never received one shilling from the minister, or any other present, except that of a few books; nor did I want their assistance to support me.
Many a poor man has often expended his shilling when he could ill spare it, to purchase a choice tulip or dahlia, which he treasured as the pride of his garden; and this is one amongst other pleasing sights to witness in this market.
Forty-shilling freeholders in Ireland and forty-shilling freeholders in England were quite different classes.
So that a shilling rate levied off Mullaghderg would produce just £16 12s.
When the Emancipation Act was passed in 1829, the forty-shilling freeholders were disfranchised, and, being no longer of use to their landlords, every means has since been employed to get rid of them.
He placed a shilling in her hand, with a feeling somewhat akin to enthusiasm.
It is in vain to deny or to conceal the truth in respect to that franchise [the forty-shilling franchise].
Road-making and other labor is performed by Klings, who get one shilling a day.
The coolies are paid by piece-work, and are earning just now about one shilling and sixpence per day.
Not even a Queen's Shilling given me, as I am conducted off to another table close by.
Meantime, get a Shilling Handbook on the Management of the Ostrich.
You must have a professional model, a girl you pay a shilling an hour--I might sling the hammock from there to here--I wonder where I could get a girl who would do.
My father might cut me off with a shilling if he were to hear I had married without his consent, and I should be left with the few hundreds which I draw out of the distillery, a poor man all my life.
The quarterly fee is 1 shilling (for use of the library, attending lectures, etc.
Of argument there is not even the show; and the jests are such as, if they were introduced into a farce, would call forth the hisses of the shilling gallery.
He continued, however, to practise the frugality which he had learned when he could scarce spare, as Swift tells us, a shilling to pay the chairman who carried him to Lord Halifax's.
In Queen Mary’s days, the pound Scots represented in value the shilling English.
This five-shilling charge did not include the cost of boarding and landing when that required, as so often happened, the use of small boats, or of porters wading out.
Obviously, I can get for a shilling much more potatoes than bread, and bread than beef, and beef than essence of beef.
Similarly, bronze coin is a legal tender only up to the amount of oneshilling in all.
After some deliberation, therefore, he resolved to ask Robinson to lend him a shilling or two of that money which was lately his own.
Booth protested in the solemnest manner that he would not touch a shilling of it, saying, he had already received too many obligations at her hands, and more than ever he should be able, he feared, to repay.
In the afternoon Booth indulged his friend with a game at cards; at first for halfpence and afterwards for shillings, when fortune so favoured Robinson that he did not leave the other a single shilling in his pocket.
I want to be off and swim my beautiful seven-shilling ship.
Because I spent one shilling on a pipe for you, and sixpence on a thimble for stepmother as a present," answered the child, with a flicker of hope in his dim eyes that this would propitiate his father.
