They leave unsolved the problem of those last seven or eight shillings, on the expenditure of which turns the really vital question which an inquiry like this ought to settle.
He contributes to St. John's Church one pound, eight shillings.
In 1783 a tailor charged him one pound, eight shillings, sixpence for "making a Coat.
Bill said confidently; "and then two shillings for rent, and that will leave us eight shillings a week to put by.
Nearly twenty years after Arkwright had begun to spin by machinery, that is in 1786, the price of a particular sort of cotton-yarn much used in the manufacture of calico was thirty-eight shillings a pound.
We are told that "lambs fed with a turnip-cutter would be worth more at the end of a winter by eight shillings a head than lambs fed on whole turnips.
Five years after, it was raised to seven shillings, and after the lapse of another five years it had been increased to eight shillings.
These poor women were able to clear from six to eight shillings a week: and to earn even that they had to work almost incessantly for fourteen or sixteen hours a day.
At that time the shepherd had to keep his own dog--no small expense to him when his wages were no more than six to eight shillings a week.
How the labourers at that time, when they were paid seven or eight shillings a week, could afford to buy fuel at such prices to bake their rye bread and keep the frost out of their bones is a marvel to us.
I shall haue myeight shillings I wonne of you at beating?
This substantially came to the same thing, as it left the two dollars a week, or eight shillings, with the girls over and above their cost of living.
As my salary was to be eight shillings a week, there wasn't much chance of my eating my head off, in addition to providing myself decently with the ordinary necessaries of life.
That, I suppose, is why Mr. Davies tramps no more, but writes verses and saves money to print them out of eight shillings a week.
Neither of these was a skilful workwoman, and after the payment of their rent there was seldom left at the end of the week more than seven or eight shillings to expend in food.
Say it brings in only twenty-eight shillings, and make the total charges one pound four, and there remains a clear profit of four shillings for the year.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "eight shillings" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
