shillings

LABOURERS to wear coats of cloth that cost _more_ than _two shillings a yard_ (equal to _forty shillings_ of our present money), and forbidding their wives and daughters to wear sashes, or girdles, _trimmed with gold or silver_.

Advice to Young Men And (Incidentally) to Young Women in the Middle and Higher Ranks of Life. In a Series of Letters, Addressed to a Youth, a Bachelor, a Lover, a Husband, a Father, a Citizen, or a Subject. William Cobbett 1799

And when Frank had just turned six he could bring up shillings from the bottom in three fathoms.

THE HEATHEN 2010

And when Frank had just turned six he could bring up shillings from the bottom in three fathoms.

THE HEATHEN 2010

And when Frank had just turned six he could bring up shillings from the bottom in three fathoms.

THE HEATHEN 2010

He was being proved guilty of stealing two shillings from a woman, which he had spent, not for candy and cakes and a good time, but for food.

THE CHILDREN 2010

I paid him in English shillings, which didn't bother him at all; provided it's gold or silver, the Orleanais don't care whose head is on it.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

I paid him in English shillings, which didn't bother him at all; provided it's gold or silver, the Orleanais don't care whose head is on it.

Flash For Freedom Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1971

An English-man on the P.A.C. gets fifteen shillings a week because fifteen shillings is the smallest sum on which he can conceivably keep alive.

The Road to Wigan Pier 1937

Frank had just turned six he could bring up shillings from the bottom in three fathoms.

The Heathen 1914

And when Frank had just turned six he could bring up shillings from the bottom in three fathoms.

South Sea Tales: The Heathen(DL SunSITE) 1911