I wish you had not been in such a confounded hurry--six-and-twenty shillings!
Mr. Gresham bought the coat, and after it was paid for five-and-twenty shillings of Ben's three guineas remained.
He imposed a feudal aid towards the knighting of the Prince Henry, of twenty shillings on each knight's fee; but this produced only twenty-eight thousand pounds.
The Crown lawyers ridiculed the refusal of a man of Mr. Hampden's great estates to pay so paltry a sum as twenty shillings; and declared that the sheriffs of Bucks ought to be fined for not putting upon him twenty pounds.
The duties imposed by the Irish parliament, at this time, upon the export of manufactured wool, was four shillings on the value of twenty shillings of the old drapery, and two shillings upon the like value of the new, except friezes.
I did so, and found the estate could never pay sixpence if it was compulsorily realised, but that there was a probability of twenty shillings if the man could be allowed to work on without the fear of writs.
Nay, said Scogin keepe thy Cow still, and give metwenty shillings of my mony.
That no man shall give to any stranger, not dwelling in Brighthelmston, any more than a share for his travel in any voyage, upon pain of forfeiting for any time so doing, twenty shillings.
With wheat the fluctuation was excessive; a table of its possible variations describes it as ranging from eighteenpence the quarter to twenty shillings; the average, however, being six and eightpence.
Suppose, for example, that gold rises in value relatively to silver, so that the quantity of gold in a sovereign is now worth more than the quantity of silver in twenty shillings.
Am I to sing at twenty shillings a day for just as long as Mr. Moss may want me?
Now Mr. Moss, you are to pay me twenty shillings a day.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "twenty shillings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
