If she had only a shilling in the world, she would be very likely to give away sixpence of it.
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%.
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.
At cost of precious money which he had long been saving up, shilling by shilling, he put a lightning-rod on the house.
The paper presents a new method for predicting the hydrodynamic performance of the shilling rudder behind a propeller.
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.
In England he had seized a great mining corporation without investing a shilling.
He found franklin, for instance, trimming arc lamps in an ipswich factory for a few shilling a week.
'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?'
Every penny was hard earned, and every shilling was kept until I had to spend it.
In former times, 12 pence went to a shilling.
The tawny sibyl no sooner appeared, than my girls came running to me for a shilling to cross her hand with silver.
James' s crops never paid for the expense of raising them, and he found that he had improved away every shilling of his fortune.
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."
Spiralling food costs and the diving value of the Somali shilling have made things worse.
If I give you a shilling, we shall be all square.
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