He drank on, however, and had four or five shillingsto pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor--an expense I was free from.
I watched the pay table on Saturday night, and collected what I stood engaged for them, having to pay sometimes near thirty shillings a week on their accounts.
We took lodgings together in Little Britain[62] at three shillings and sixpence a week,--as much as we could then afford.
While I pay you sixpence a day I am practically two hundred and fifty-nine pounds ten shillings poorer than I should be if I kept the sixpence a day to myself.
Sixpence a day is three shillings a week, and three shillings a week is one hundred and fifty-six shillings a year--seven pounds sixteen.
Yeomen are those which by our law are called Legales homines, free men born English, and may dispend of their own free land in yearly revenue to the sum of forty shillings sterling, or six pounds as money goeth in our times.
Henry the Seventh), embezzling of goods committed by the master to the servant above the value of forty shillings (Ann.
The price of everything was extremely high, flour and sugar often selling at one shilling per pound, while wages for ordinary hands ranged from thirty-five shillings to fifty shillings a week, and men were scarce even at that.
Good Master Corporate Bardolph," said Bullcalf when the troops were left alone with that warlike personage, "stand my friend, and here is four Harry ten shillings in French crowns for you.
But these commodities, to such people, are merely what shillings and pence are to the retail purchasers--the base counters by which the value of their connection is to be estimated.
A hundred and forty-one pounds eight shillings seven pence and a fraction is costly posting for times like these, Sir John.
It should be observed that four ten shilling pieces added to forty shillings at that period, as now, made a total of four pounds sterling.
There was two shillings (out of the first four of my earning), soon after our coming to London, to replace your torn doublet, which you declared you dared not write to your lady mother about.
The sum Evans had written on that piece of paper was seven thousand three hundred and eighty-four pounds, seven shillings and fourpence.
It is from a Virginia newspaper: "The said fellow is outlawed, and I will give ten pounds reward for his head severed from his body, or forty shillings if brought alive.
Although his pay varies according to whether the tributaries of the river are full or low, so making the moving of the logs easy or difficult, he can earn about three pounds ten shillings a month, paid in cash.
The expenses, it was ascertained, would amount to one thousand nine hundred and seventy-one pounds twelve shillings and sixpence--no very extravagant sum for purchasing all the wealth of Ophir.
And that information was all the return his Highness got for his little outlay of one thousand nine hundred and seventy one pounds twelve shillings and sixpence.
There only remains, then, the question of the five shillings to be settled.
Think you I would begrudge the seven or eightshillings it would cost?
As early as 1652 Massachusetts had sought to supply the deficiency by the issue of shillings and sixpences.
Thirty shillings for twal veesits, and him no mair than seeven mile awa, an' a'm telt there werena mair than four at nicht.
There was no roof to receive him save an attic roof, rented for a few shillings a week.
And he had not two shillings to rub together, but he possessed the gift--genius.
Before we slept that night, it was agreed that Caroline should enter a Halifax family where she would earn some ten shillings per week teaching two children and doing some other light duties.
Meanwhile the sliding scale was to be abandoned in favour of a fixed duty of ten shillings the quarter on corn, and other concessions for the relief not only of agriculture but of manufactures and commerce were announced.
When good wheat rises to seventy shillings a quarter, the average price of all wheat is fifty-seven or fifty-eight shillings, and the duty fourteen or fifteen shillings a quarter.
In the spring of 1841 action of some kind grew inevitable, and the Cabinet determined to propose a fixed duty of eight shillings per quarter on wheat, and to reduce the duty on sugar.
With Spanish tobacco selling at eighteen shillings a pound in 1619, the opportunities for gain from tobacco production seemed unlimited.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "shillings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
