He shall grow up like thee, and Oriana shill be o mother to him when I am gone: and the blue-eyed stranger, whom she loves as I loved thee, shall guide his hand in war, and in the chase.

The shillings was in a little heap on a shelf at the back o' the bar, and he did all sorts o' things to 'em to prove that they was bad, and threatened Joe Barlcomb with the police.

Seven shillings to nine shillings a week was the farm labourer's wage, and it took twenty-six shillings then to buy the food that seven would buy now.

"Fifteen shillings," ses Silas, in 'is most awful voice.

If anybody supposes that two shillings a week is the maximum to each individual, he will be greatly mistaken.

It is too much; a shilling were good game.

And yet a solace soothes my brow, Making my air a shade less gloomy: Six shillings in the pound is now The figure out of which they do me; But, were we man and wife to-day (So close the Treasury loves to link 'em), A grievous super-tax they'd lay On our coagulated income.

Ten shillings a column is our magnificent rate of payment, and we can hardly afford that" Then he began pulling out one book and another from the piles of all sorts that lay around him.

This vexed me; because it shewed a desire to impose upon strangers, as they knew that even a shilling was high payment.

of seventeen pounds is eight pounds ten; 'arf of five shillings is 'arf-a- crown; and 'arf of fourpence is twopence.'

There are many little girls who, having left the infant school, go out to work for a shilling a week, and the mothers have declared to me, when I have endeavoured to persuade them to send them to the National School, for at least one year, that they could not do it, for they were so poor, that every shilling was a great help; they have, however, promised me that they would send them to the Sunday school.

Eight shillings and sixpence is, indeed, no great sum, but nineteen octavo volumes are a good many books.

of seventeen pounds is eight pounds ten; 'arf of five shillings is 'arf-a-crown; and 'arf of fourpence is twopence.'

Thirty shillings, thirty-six shillings, are common prices.

Fifteen shillings was her demand for a minute bedroom and a small sitting-room, separated by folding doors on the ground floor, and her personal services.

Jobling squirted some oil into the bearings, knocked the dust off the cushioned seat, and remarked that a shilling an hour was the proper charge; but that, as he always favoured the Ronleigh gentlemen, he would say two shillings, and they might keep it the whole afternoon.