Good rum sold for four pounds a gallon. It was ordered that a warm dinner should cost twelve shillings, a cold dinner nine shillings, and a good breakfast twelve shillings. But the item that pleased us most, and made us regret our late advent, was that for two shillings we could have had a "good lodging, with clean sheets." The colonists were fastidious people.英文原著 · 《The Complete Writings-4》
Ine, 55: a sheep with a lamb until a fortnight after Easter is worth 1 shilling. AEethelstan, vi. 6: a horse 120 pence, an ox 30 pence, a cow 20, a sheep 1 shilling (5 pence). 8, sect. 5: an ox 30 pence. Schmid, App. 7: a horse 30 shillings, a mare 20 shillings, an ox 30 pence, a cow 24 pence, a swine 8 pence, a sheep 1 shilling, a goat 2 pence, a man (i.e. a slave) 1 pound.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
in English 'a hundred') shillings, and a hundred Norman shillings make ?. So according to the Berkshire custom (D. 56 b) he who by night breaks a civitas pays 100 shillings to the king and not (it is noted) to the sheriff.英文原著 · 《Domesday Book and Beyond》
Cloaths for four Children, at L. 7 per Ann. each Child: 28 L. Schooling for four Children, including every Charge thereunto relating, supposed to be equal at least to ten Shillings per Quarter for each Child: 8 l. The Maid's Wages may be: 4 l. Pocket Expences for the Master of the Family, supposed to be about four Shillings per Week: 10 l. For the Mistress of the Family, and for the four Children to buy Fruit and Toys, etc. at two Shillings per Week: 5 l.英文原著 · 《Money Answers All Things》
No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of threepence. But no commodity will bear threepence, or will bear a penny, when the general feelings of men are irritated, and two millions of people are resolved not to pay. The feelings of the colonies were formerly the feelings of Great Britain. Theirs were formerly the feelings of Mr. Hampden when called upon for the payment of twenty shillings. Would twenty shillings have ruined Mr. Hampden's fortune? but the payment of half twenty shillings, on the principle it was demanded, would have made him a slave.英文原著 · 《Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke》
Baillie complimented him on his attainments, but refused to appoint him to the office. When Mr. Monro got back to St. John he had but two shillings in his pocket, and with this meagre sum he started on foot for home. Before he had gone far he found a job of masonry work and earned fifteen shillings. With this money he returned to St. John, and purchased Gibson's "Land Surveying" and some cakes for lunch, and set out again for Westmoreland. On the way he worked a day at digging potatoes, for which he received two shillings, and later on built a chimney and was paid two pounds.英文原著 · 《The Chignecto Isthmus And Its First Settlers》
But you're called my assistant now and you've seven shillings extra every month.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》
I'll take half a crown a lesson. That's five shillings a week.美剧 · 《Downton Abbey》