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Definition of Shillings
1. shilling [n] - See also: shilling
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shillings
Literary usage of Shillings
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Historical Review by American historical association (1896)
"Item, to the Abbot of Clyve 60 shillings. Item, to John Roger £ io. Item, to John
Spore 60 shillings. Item, to Simkin, clerke of the kitchen 100 shillings. ..."
2. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1875)
"Such Lenten fare would scarcely have suited the eight lovers of good living,
whose dinner bill (in 1751) came to eighty-one pounds eleven shillings and ..."
3. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (1892)
"I give to my brother Mr George Willis and to my sister M" Mary Willis his wife
ten shillings apiece, and to my two nieces Hester and Amy Willys four pounds ..."
4. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fritz-Gilbert Waters (1896)
"To my sister Backler twenty shillings. Item, I give unto my sister Bacon in New
England ... To my loving sister Sherman, Edmond's widow, twenty shillings, ..."
5. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (1889)
"To the poor of St. Sepulchres seven pounds, in bread or otherwise, about the time
of my :'uiu-nil. and forty shillings to be at that time bestowed upon a ..."
6. A survey of London by John Stow (1842)
"And if the noble so paid be better than five shillings and eight pence, the king
to pay again the surplusage that it was better than five shillings and ..."
7. Nature by Nature Publishing Group, Norman Lockyer (1883)
"Price Four shillings ami Sixpence. (Ready.) DR. CLAUDIUS. A True Story. ...
Price Four shillings and Sixpence. DEMOCRACY. An American Novel. Crown 8vo. ..."
8. The New England Historical and Genealogical Register by Henry Fitz-Gilbert Waters (1886)
"To the Society of the Vestry of St. Saviors thirteen shillings & fr>nr pence.
The residue to Rose my well beloved wife whom I make & ordain my full & sole ..."
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