Sentence examples for a shilling each from inspiring English sources

Colonel Stanton Pendleton, the jailer, charged curiosity seekers a shilling each to view his unusual prisoners.

The exhibition was a huge success, with more than 20,000 catalogues sold at a shilling each.

The recipients were so impressed that Cole decided to print a thousand of the cards and sell them for a shilling each.

Lithographed and hand coloured, 1,000 were produced and sold for a shilling each – an entire day's earnings for a labourer at the time.

Anxious to exploit the anti-German feeling that the medal aroused, the Foreign Office's propaganda department commissioned the department store magnate Harry Gordon Selfridge to mass-produce exact copies, of which 250,000 were sold at a shilling each, with the revenue donated to charity.

Doubtless, Britain would have survived somehow – but where else could it have found 400,000 strong and reasonably willing workers for a shilling a day each?

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

The set of prints could be purchased for a shilling or in little three-penny pamphlets, each consisting of one sheet of criers.

Inside each bottle was a postcard that promised a shilling to anyone who returned it.

No more than a shilling".

That's if I had a shilling.