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"Shilling" Quotes from Famous Books

... mention that Mr. Stores Smith has published a modest little book, containing "Selections from the Poetry of Heinrich Heine," and that a meritorious (American) translation of Heine's complete works, by Charles Leland, is now appearing in shilling numbers. ...

— The Essays of "George Eliot" - Complete • George Eliot

... there was enough, even for first-class, leaving a shilling or so over. Hill Horton was not ...

— Peterkin • Mary Louisa Molesworth

... work out, and make a little pin-money, hoein' potatoes or plantin' corn or some such business, and every cent they earned that way they could squander on this here pink-and-blue soap, if they was a mind to; but not a York shilling of my money could they have for such persuasions of Satan—not while we got plenty of soap-grease and wood-ashes to make lye of and a soap-kittle that cost four eighty-five, in the very Lord's stronghold. I dress my women comfortable and feed 'em well—not ...

— The Lions of the Lord - A Tale of the Old West • Harry Leon Wilson

... the Destitute," began to be formed in many places by humanitarians. These took the form of day schools, night schools, Sunday Schools, and the so-called industrial schools (R. 294). The instruction in most of them was entirely free, [12] but some charged a small fee, in a few cases as high as a shilling a month. It was one of these schools that Crabbe described ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... pictures then as they do now!—he said.—All gone! all gone! nothing but her face as she leaned on the arms of her great chair; and I would give a hundred pound for the poorest little picture of her, such as you can buy for a shilling of anybody that you don't want to see.—The old gentleman put his hand to his forehead so as to shade his eyes. I saw he was looking at the dim photograph of memory, and ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. IV, No. 22, Aug., 1859 • Various

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