A Shilling's Worth: Preface

..., some about games and customs, one about London alone, and I wound up using information from only four of them. (I now owe the library over five dollars in fines—funny how quickly that adds up.) In...or homes. Once considered or assumed to be a vagabond, it was impossible to be hired again; in short, the poor were punished for being poor. Sometimes thievery was the only way to survive, and the poor...

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A Shilling's Worth: Pepys

...London, as in everywhere else, but give four laundresses a few hours alone together after ... the air ever smelt so fresh?” The four women grumbled something in reply, and the...dressed, with a long braid and a short beard and mustache that did little to...smile and bent her knees in a short curtsey. “How now, Master Thomas?” He ...realize that Mary and Kate were nothing short of mad, and she returned to her...

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A Shilling's Worth: Chandler House

...look. Little Agnes, who had been in the middle of taking a sip from her own mug, stopped short and set the mug on the table as if it had suddenly become intolerably hot to the touch. ... was especially interested in the kinds of candles they used. Since Ned had begun working for Lord Norris four years before, the family had always used beeswax candles—after all, they could afford them. Robert could ...

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A Shilling's Worth: The Stocks Market

... Friday came, he pressed a shiny shilling into each outstretched palm, then added... the older woman the extra shilling, warmed by her blushing fist. ... whole pennies; not quite a shilling, but certainly the most money ... wear hats. Mary breathed a short sigh of contentment, knowing that ... Mary’s age to twenty-four. His hair was dark and ... average height (if a little short), broad-shouldered, and about as ...

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A Shilling's Worth: Cheepside

... young people turned onto Candlewick Street, Will spotted a group of four boys ranging from twelve to sixteen years old standing against a building ... day Mary was a modest, respectable young woman, but three or four times a year she was allowed to be thoroughly reckless and completely ... was tall and the other was fat, and Mary had a short moment to wonder how she knew them before someone tugged her ...

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Leap Year 31: A Kiss Would be Nice

.... It was enough for me . Don’t sell her short.” “I can’t do this.” He repeated. “Do you...think there will ever be enough of a Queen’s Shilling? I have no other skills, Hazel. Roger could always...seemed to grow larger in the flickering light of the short votive candles. "But, there is the knowing of what one...never known, of course; he'd only seen the four or five pieces left and was satisfied when she ...

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Loose ends

...to the intriguing variety of Christian names, surnames are in short supply, almost everyone being a Banda, a Phiri (... two days (7am day one till 9pm day two) four taxis, three buses and one night in the World’s... guy started counting out the 60,000 in 500 Shilling notes, which I quickly put a stop to. At... two stained single beds and one dirty blanket. The four of us were equal to it though, gleefully ...

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THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS: X. THE FURTHER ADVENTURES OF TOAD

... the wide world out of countenance. 'A shilling a leg?' cried Toad. 'If you please,... said, 'A shilling a leg? Why, that comes to exactly four shillings, and no more. O, no; I could not think of accepting four shillings for this beautiful young horse of ... at last he heard it stop just short of him. Two gentlemen got out and ... a fat animal, and his legs were short, and still they gained. He could hear...

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Rebuttal of WGRD DJ's "After Hours" Conservative Commentaries

...assume is also the individual doing the shilling for the oil drilling website) called ...in misappropriating the language and creating some short-lived populist support for some of ... in health care, his plan falls short of universal coverage. And he often ... anything to oil prices in the short term - it will take years (the ... a total gun ban. Second, the four justices that dissented in the case ...

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Crowner One

... to put on my own bed-robe since I was four years old, Andy, even if I did used to get ...cloak, then. I think even I can manage that short distance. Tell Andy to accompany me as soon as may...A bezant was equal to two shillings sterling, and a shilling was equal to twelve pennies, or the value of ...young man hoping later to become a priest. Under twenty four years of age, they helped the clergy in the ...

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