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shilling

«I am a poor man, but I would gladly give ten shillings to find out who sent me the insulting Christmas card I received this morning.»
«A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.»
«In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.»
«''Write that down,'' the King said to the jury, and the jury eagerly wrote down all three dates on their slates, and then added them up, and reduced the answer to shillings and pence.»
«Still amorous, and fond, and billing, / Like Philip and Mary on a shilling.»
«Go into the street and give one man a lecture on morality and another a shilling, and see which will respect you most.»