Sentence examples for a shilling from inspiring English sources

She bought sugar, firewood, oranges and 12 jars, and made marmalade jam, which she sold for a shilling a jar.

Africa Co. to buy ten thousand acres of land for a shilling an acre & returned home to England, in time for the FirstWorld War.

Carters, plowmen, shepherds, oxherds, cowherds, swineherds, dairymen, and farm labourers were to wear only russet cloth at a shilling a yard and undyed blanket cloth.

One staple was breast of lamb: easy to roast and large enough to yield three successive dinners for about a shilling.

What rankled was the measly pay they received from the British government – a shilling a day, worth about four cigarettes on the black market back in camp.

For five hours each day, he welcomed visitors into his home, charging each a shilling.

To win over sceptical locals it was whitewashed, fitted with lighting and a band, and the public charged a shilling apiece to walk through it.

Cleeva Clapp a local farmers daughter, who was named after the abbey, acted as a guide and described her nightly "communings" with the ghosts of the monks for a shilling a head.

No more than a shilling".

That's if I had a shilling.

I won't take a shilling less".