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Example sentences for "three shillings"

  • Although Gaff had only paid his first year's contribution of three shillings, I took upon me to give the sum of 5 pounds to Mrs Gaff and her little girl, and the further sum of 3 pounds because of Furby's membership.

  • Poor Furby had been a member for several years, and regularly paid his annual sum of three shillings.

  • I've been one myself for many years, an' it only costs me three shillings a year.

  • And I remembered that even now, when I had been debited my three shillings to be present, I did not see the place in its normal daytime aspect at all.

  • Nor had I any desire to linger about those premises my first sight of which in the daytime had cost me three shillings in cash, and a murderous rage that might indeed have closed the gates of heaven in my face.

  • The good workmen among us had been earning in the summer thirty-five shillings a-week; and the bricklayers had just had a rise of three shillings.

  • Thirty-three shillings is not bad wages, and it is only a delusion to say it is.

  • Labor is still at its old value of three shillings a day; but, from increased difficulty in any part of the process, five days' labor are now spent on the production of a hat instead of four.

  • There were clothes enough in her bag to last her for some time with those she was wearing, and money in her purse--two or three shillings in small change and the sovereign which had been in her possession for several months.

  • The grand total of one pound, three shillings, and a penny stared her in the face.

  • They did count the sum, doing it wrong once or twice, but finally producing a total which could not be gainsaid, and which came out precisely at one pound, three shillings, and a penny.

  • Sevenpence a day will feed a mule, and hire comes to three shillings a day.

  • Every morning S`lam was dispatched to the city with a basket, instructions, and two or three shillings.

  • The pamphlet, though sold at the same price as Burke's, three shillings, had a vast circulation, and Paine gave the proceeds to the Constitutional Societies which sprang up under his teachings in various parts of the country.

  • Mr. Pitt has mentioned, in his speech, the tax on Carts and Wagons- that on Female Servantsthe lowering the tax on Candles and the taking off the tax of three shillings on Houses having under seven windows.

  • In the chamber over the parlor was a bedstead with its trundle bed, a table valued at three shillings, four chests and two boxes; not a chair or stool is named in connection with the room.

  • In 1713 two quires of painted paper cost four shillings, and two quires of blue paper, three shillings.

  • If we sold all the kittens, it will only make twenty-three shillings.

  • Erebus was for at once increasing their salaries to three shillings a week.

  • They had already eight shillings and eightpence out of the sixty-three shillings.

  • In the more densely populated parts, arable land is worth that sum, and often much more; but in the pastoral districts, three shillings an acre is in truth a high price.

  • In Western Australia alone, however, are these grants to be found; and here excellent land may be purchased at three shillings an acre.

  • An ewe-sheep is worth about nine shillings; and if you have to buy three and a half acres of land, at three shillings, to keep her upon, the amount of capital you invest will be nineteen shillings and sixpence.

  • In 1909 the low-water mark was reached; the following spring saw a slight revival, and at present the average may be put at three shillings.

  • I know several men who frequently add two or three shillings to their week's money in this way.

  • Since their marriage, twenty-three years earlier, the couple had occupied always the came cottage, at a rental of three shillings a week.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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