shillings

He took the sailor's notes and deliberately folded them, and put them with the shillings in a high remote pocket, with an air of finality.

If he was in my sporran, and your belly full of shillings, I would not hurt a hair upon his body.

Nevertheless, as a gesture of good will I come today prepared to honour this debt of 453 pounds and three shillings.

while he pulled out a worn little black pocketbook and began counting out shillings and pennies on to the counter.

He had been a witness to our bargain and to my payment of the five shillings.

"Thank you, " said the woman, and she gave the fairy twelve shillings, which was the price of the barleycorn .

We took lodgings together in Little Britain at three shillings and sixpence a week-- as much as we could then afford.

They explained that she would be awarded one pound, seven shillings and six pence per week.

It is said that money can't buy love, but for six shillings young Wiliam waved to Rupert Brooke as the boat pulled out.

It's about a year since, now, that I put five shillings on Blush of Dawn for him - and we lost.

a new bien venu or sum for drink, being five shillings, was demanded of me by the compositors.

he jokes, picking out a fleecy top to counter Nairobi's morning chill for a mere 200 shillings at the Gikomba street market.

Sally's landlady has put up the rent by 10 shillings a week.

if god will de soy a person will shillings its crazy. But I crazy so long why god was not put my ruin.

Village women rushed to join the throng in the hopes of pulling in a few shillings, tables balanced on their heads.

We were rather awkwardly fixed for money; the Banks were closed, and we had only a few shillings between us.

With the increasing appreciation of Uganda shillings Ukrainian domestic market and export prices of manufactured goods have risen.

The unit rates and prices shall be in Kenya Shillings. Tenders shall remain valid for a period of 120 days from the date of submission.

With mother's money order, eight shillings, the banging door of the post office slammed in your face by the usher. Hunger toothache.

Then the luck turned, with that ten shillings he had from you, that we put on Singhalese .

Many deals are done in Somali shillings, a currency without a central bank to support it.

How can you put a value in pounds, shillings and pence on an individual's life?

I was paid only six shillings a week.

Dey take my name and where I work down on paper, an' both of dem ladies give me ten shillings.

At 35 shillings a bottle, the soft drinks consume 14 percent or more of her income.

He would give a book worth 40 shillings to anyone who could deduce Kepler's laws from the inverse-square law.

Hundreds of salesmen have seized the chance to make a few extra shillings.

Britain changed over from pounds, shillings, and pence to the new decimal money system.

A seamstress, Kimeu earns about 1, 000 Kenya shillings ($12) a week when business is good.

After training on how to assess profit and loss, her profits rose to 20, 000 shillings a week.

More than 200 years ago Benjamin Franklin coined the now famous dictum that equated passing minutes and hours with shillings and pounds.

Pounds, shillings, and pence are denominations of English money.

This book is five shillings sixpence.

At times she carries more than 75, 000 Kenyan shillings ($1, 000) in cash, but says she has never been robbed.

Shillings have now gone out of use .

She would have five shillings clear after paying tram fare.

The going urban rate for a day's labour is 250 Kenyan shillings, around $3.

Farmers get 26 shillings a litre, more than twice what they were paid before the dairy opened its doors.

So Samson, who earned a pound a month, was docked two shillings.

I could hardly scare up ten shillings.

He bought it for five shillings.

equal to Twenty shillings were equal to one pound before 1971.

The charge for labor works out at almost ten shillings an hour.

you owe me ten shillings, say the bells of st. helen's.

The cloth was sold at fifty shillings a yard.

The boy answered, "Thank you, my boy, Give your mistress and her son my thanks for their kindness and here is two shillings for yourself. "

It cost two shillings eight pence.

Let 'em keep their shillings!

He that idly loses 5 shillings worth of time loses 5 shillings and might as prudently throw 5 shillings in the River.

If interest was taken into account, 453 pounds and three shillings in 1651 would have been worth approximately 47, 500 pounds in 2007.

"About 480, 000 Kenyan shillings, " he answered.

On January 3rd a judge ruled against Rolling Stone; Mr Kato received compensation of 1. 5m Ugandan shillings, or $640.

A Child thinks 20 Shillings and 20 Years can scarce ever be spent.

An English and Scottish monetary unit that was equal to 13 shillings and 4 pence.

The 500-milliliter sodas cost 30 Kenyan shillings (37 cents) each.

Seventy-two solidi went to the pound of gold, so that its value was about twelve shillings and sixpence.

He drank on, however, and had four or five shillings to pay out of his wages every Saturday night for that muddling liquor;

This is it, is it? Very good--ninety-three pounds, four shillings.

hynes might have paid me that three shillings

She. . . pushed the thin rug against the door, made sure the windows were tight shut, put two shillings in the meter, and turned on the GAS

that will save you twelve shillings a week

british pounds , shillings and pence

You shall hand me over six shillings and sixpence, cash down;

the bawd ten shillings a maidenhead

Twenty-four old pence is epual to two shillings