shilling造句

In former times, 12 pence went to a shilling.

In England he had seized a great mining corporation without investing a shilling.

At cost of precious money which he had long been saving up, shilling by shilling, he put a lightning-rod on the house.

If I give you a shilling, we shall be all square.

Spiralling food costs and the diving value of the Somali shilling have made things worse.

Every penny was hard earned, and every shilling was kept until I had to spend it.

If she had only a shilling in the world, she would be very likely to give away sixpence of it.

The paper presents a new method for predicting the hydrodynamic performance of the shilling rudder behind a propeller.

He found franklin, for instance, trimming arc lamps in an ipswich factory for a few shilling a week.

James' s crops never paid for the expense of raising them, and he found that he had improved away every shilling of his fortune.

The rupee, however, has plunged 14%, making it the world's third-worst performing currency, after the Turkish lira, down 17%, and the Kenyan shilling, which has lost 15%.

The tawny sibyl no sooner appeared, than my girls came running to me for a shilling to cross her hand with silver.

Blogging is a beautiful thing. The prospect of this young media being overrun with "pay for play" pseudo-shilling is not an attractive one to us.

Walter Scott wanted to give him a six penny piece to reward him for this service; but not finding any in his purse he presented him with a shilling saying, "You will owe me six pence, my good fellow."

I could not find any sixpenny entrance and, fearing that the bazaar would be closed, I passed in quickly through a turnstile, handing a shilling to a weary-looking man.

'in my youth,' said the sage, as he shook his grey locks, 'I kept all my limbs very supple By the use of this ointment — one shilling the box — Allow me to sell you a couple?'