Shillings

Shillings, not greetings.

In New York, the dollar was worth eight shillings.

It cost me more than fifteen shillings.

But as he was always spending money, and never made any more, at last the day came when he had nothing left but two shillings, and he had to leave the beautiful rooms in which he had been living, and go into a little attic under the roof, and clean his own boots, and mend them with a darning-needle.

But as he was always spending money, and never made any more, at last the day came when he had nothing left but two shillings.

The General Court of Massachusetts followed the example of the English Parliament in 1659 when it enacted that ' anybody who is found observing, by abstinence from labor, feasting, or any other way, any such day as Christmas day, shall pay for every such offense five shillings.'

My uncle lent the joiner five shillings.

My aunt lent the joiner five shillings.

In 1205–06, apparently fearing a storm, he reduced his imposition to twenty shillings, and then waited for three years before laying another.

Ergo, I am a cleverer man than the great financier; but he makes his thousands where I make shillings and pence.