Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 29, 2025
"Ye said naething," answered the poor creature, humbly, and walked on, hanging her head, and pressing her baby to her bosom. The boys looked at each other. "That wasna the gait yer shillin' sud hae gane, Gibbie," said Donal. "It's clear it winna dee to gie shillin's to sic like as her.
"'Ere, do you think I'm a bloomin' Crosus? I've done the trick twice-ten pounds o' loot once, an' ten golden shillin's another. Bloomin' thieves both of 'em said they wuz goin' to Homdurman, and didn't not much! But one of 'em went to 'eaven with cholery, an' one is livin' yet with a crooked leg, with is less than I wuz workin' for." Holgate was sitting bolt upright now.
Mark Hennessy 0 2 6 Luke Clancy 0 2 6 John Doolin 0 2 6 "One would think they all agreed only to give two and sixpence apiece. And they comfortable men, too! And look at their names Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the names of the Blessed Evangelists, and only ten shillings among them! 'Faith! A voice, when the laugh subsided, exclaimed, "I'll make it ten shillin's, your reverence."
We've not done any at A; she's on'y showed us PER!" "PER bushel, then!" "Per bush-el. That's seven 'undered bushels of wheat at six shillin's per bushel. An' y' wants ter know, Dad ?" "How much it'll be, of course." "In money, Dad, or er ?" "Dammit, yes; MONEY!" Dad raised his voice. For a while, Joe thought hard, then set to work figuring and rubbing out, figuring and rubbing out.
"You gave him, meanin' Willum, nothing else, I suppose?" asked the captain, with a knowing look; "such, for instance, as a noo suit of clothes, because of his bein' so uncommon ragged that he looked as if he had bin captured in a clumsy sort of net that it would not have been difficult to break through and escape from naked; also a few shillin's, bein' your last, to pay his way down to Gravesend, where the ship was lyin', that you had, through interest with the owners, got him a berth aboard?"
Na, na; gien I can be a schuilmaister, an' help the bairnies to be guid, as my mither taucht mysel', an' hae time to read, an' a feow shillin's to buy buiks aboot Aigypt an' the Holy Lan', an' a full an' complete edition o' Plato, an' a Greek Lexicon a guid ane, an' a Jamieson's Dictionar', haith, I'll be a hawpy man!
"Why, 'twas half full last week, mother," he ses. "You don't mean," he ses, "you've given him all that as well? It's two shillin's worth," he ses. But I don't grudge it to him," he ses. "I don't grudge him nothin' he can keep." So, 'cardenly, we drinked up what little sup was left. 'An' what come to Mary's Lunnon father? said Jabez after a full minute's silence.
"I don't know 'ow you find 'im, Miss Grimes," she continued, her voice rising in anger, "but if yer believe me, a meaner man niver walked the earth. I've 'ad ter pawn the things in this very room ter pay the baker an' the grocer. That's 'ow 'e makes 'is money. Starvin' 'is own wife ter squeeze a few shillin's for 'is bankin' account.
It's my turn to hae a secret noo! But ye ken weel it's lang sin' there's been onything to be gotten by bidin' at hame." "Eh, but, sir! ye're never gaein' to lea' the laird! Bide an' dee wi' him, sir." "God bless ye, Grizzie! Hae ye ony baubees?" "Ay; what for no! I hae sax shillin's, fower pennies, an' a baubeefardin'!" answered Grizzie, in the tone of a millionaire.
Clem amused herself in listening to them for a few minutes; then she became absent, moving a finger round and round on her plate. A disagreeable flush still lingered under her eyes. 'Have you told her about Clara? 'Told who? 'Who? Pennyloaf, of course. 'No, I haven't. Why should I? 'Oh, you're such a affectionate couple! See, you're only to give her two shillin's next week.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking