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  • This led to closer intimacy, so that when I brought to light all of a shilling's worth of coppers (ostensibly my all), and put aside sixpence for a bed, and sixpence for more arf an 'arf, he generously proposed that we drink up the whole shilling.

    A MAN AND THE ABYSS 2010

  • I said yes, and by the time we had soaked ourselves in a whole shilling's worth of beer, and slept the night on a miserable bed in

    A MAN AND THE ABYSS 2010

  • BILCHIK: Analysts say that strong donor and interbag (ph) inflows in a dollar-demand subdued market are contributing to the shilling's recent upward move.

    CNN Transcript May 10, 2003 2003

  • The World Bank is denying responsibility for the Ugandan shilling's steady slide.

    CNN Transcript May 31, 2003 2003

  • Give me a shilling's worth o 'candles, and tell me what good your toil is like to bring you.

    Patriotic Plays and Pageants for Young People Constance D'Arcy Mackay

  • The Honourable Miss Nathan, when we last heard of her, was dancing a hornpipe among a shilling's worth of new laid eggs, at Tivoli.

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, September 25, 1841 Various

  • His imagination boggled at the thought of a Scotsman, at any rate, paying for a seat in a theatre in order to purchase a shilling's worth of "sweeties."

    Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 158, 1920-03-31 Various

  • 'Well, I shall have to give you a shilling's worth of coppers,' answered the conductor.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

  • And away he swaggered, carrying his shilling's worth with him in the commendations of the rustic circle.

    Aunt Rachel David Christie Murray

  • But, when Thea saw the prices -- ten shillings, twelve shilling's -- she refused to go in, saying she could have it just as pretty in Wardour

    The Bill-Toppers J. Andr�� Castaigne

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