shilling

• I then got some halfpence for a shilling, and made up the deficiencies of Boswell's distribution, who had given some money among the children. —  Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries)
• I came back by water in a common boat twenty miles for a shilling, and when I landed at Billingsgate, I carried my budget myself to Cornhill before I could get a coach, and was not much incommoded' Ib . —  Life Of Johnson, Volume 4
• The term 'shilling' comes from the Italian solidus, and penny from denarius. —  cafebabel.com
• The stock market has dived over 30 percent this year, the shilling is at a four-year low of around 80 to the dollar and many Kenyans say their leaders have no idea of how they are struggling to pay for food, school fees and other basics.
• "Did you think the shilling was a knife to cut you off something? —  Out in the Forty-Five Duncan Keith's Vow

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