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Example sentences for "skillings"

Lexicographically close words:
skillet; skillets; skillful; skillfull; skillfully; skills; skilly; skim; skimmed; skimmer
  1. Near the entrance they found a man selling programmes of the evening's entertainment, at two skillings each.

  2. One mark and six skillings would be thirty skillings, or about thirty cents.

  3. Kendall or Shuffles rewarded each of them with a few skillings for the service.

  4. Twenty-four skillings make a mark, and a skilling is about a halfpenny English," Ole explained.

  5. A couple of skillings for a plateful was evidently received as a great prize.

  6. I was dismayed to find that my förbud had not been received, but the ostler informed me that by paying twelve skillings extra I could have horses at once.

  7. They demanded only twelve skillings (ten cents) for the row of three miles, and then posted off to a neighbouring farmhouse to engage horses for us.

  8. That kind is three skillings a dram," she answered.

  9. Out of the remainder of the oil you can pay yourself for the chronometer, and Mr. Harry Skillings for the trade I had from him.

  10. Harry Skillings I never saw again, but heard that he went to Truk in the North-west Carolines.

  11. Calculations are, however, made in an all but imaginary denomination called dollars and skillings banco, which are as 3 to 2 of the actual rigs-gelt.

  12. There was Professor Skillings in his canoe, drifting rapidly into the middle of the current, and plainly without his paddle.

  13. There was poor Professor Skillings hobbling along with one foot continually in the gutter, his eyes fixed on a book he was reading as he walked.

  14. The party got under weigh on the Go-Ahead and were some miles down the lake ere it was discovered that Professor Skillings had forgotten both his shoes and his hat, for he had paddled over to the girls' camp barefoot as usual.

  15. Professor Skillings has got a whole canister of best gunpowder in his private stores--and there he is on that log, examining specimens.

  16. So Green Knoll Camp presented a very orderly appearance when the boys and Professor Skillings appeared ahead of the bateau that was to take all their goods and chattels back to their home town.

  17. When the laugh on Tubby had subsided Professor Skillings said, with a twinkle in his eye: "Our friend, Blaisdell, should be able to exist some time on his accumulation of fat.

  18. Professor Skillings was going to paddle up the river with them, although Mrs. Havel would take the afternoon train to the lake.

  19. Is Professor Skillings going with them again?

  20. Professor Skillings led the laughter himself over this simple joke.

  21. Professor Skillings may be forgetful; but he is very particular about that.

  22. But Professor Skillings is not an angel--thanks be!


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "skillings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.