10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHILLINGLESS»
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shillingless in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
shillingless and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
The Playfair papers, or Brother Jonathan, the smartest ...
The veterans were arrested while at dinner in " John O'Groats' " eating-house,
and hurried, shillingless to a spunging-house in Chancery- lane. There they
knew not what to do or say, and there for the night did they remain ; and, from
having ...
2
The Metropolitan Magazine
the beauty ofthe Park waters, and we conceive that_its effect upon the lower
classes .of the population will be immediately and permanently beneficial. It is not
only that an opportunity is afforded to the shillingless to become acquainted with
a ...
... have been ambitious of the honour of conveying him. . Penniless but not poor,
our shillingless friend takes his 36 THE WORLD OF LONDON.'
Penniless but not poor, our shillingless friend takes his homeward way, perusing
the shop-windows as he goes along, criticising and admiring the thousand-and-
one luxuries and vanities which he does not wont. Let us suppose our tourist ...
5
The European Magazine, and London Review
... and pours redund. an' forth Double entendres, or brisk repartees. But I, whom
distant streets from coach dehar. And poeket shillingless, with Tunic vast Or
spread umbrella (as occasion suits), 'unequal shissts 1 my shivering eorse prote t
.
6
The St. James's Magazine
... orphans ; — an appeal which rarely failed to leave Emily as bare and
shillingless as if quarter day never came to governesses in Ireland. But
Madeleine considered with alarm what might happen in her absence. Honor was
faithful, but was a ...
7
Richard Arbour: Or, The Family Scapegrace ...
... quarter of an inch of its curly tail in the possession of the racoon. Dick elbowed
his way through this shillingless crowd, whom he sincerely pitied, and ascended
the steps amid a tempest of welcome from the band. The vinegar-faced woman ...
8
Passages from the English Note-books
As I was almost shillingless, M1-.—— now offered to cash it for me. He is very
kind and good. . . . . Arriving at his shop again, he went out to procure the money,
and soon returned with it. At my departure he gave me a copy of a new poem of
his ...
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Sophia Peabody Hawthorne,
1871
9
The History of Merthyr Tydfil
... and all the many hues and tints of the rainbow. Afar off are rustic sports ; within
tents lurk lovers of sandwiches and porter ; over walls glare the excommunicated
— the shillingless. Around and around the dancers go ; they brush against the ...
Charles Wilkins (of Merthyr-Tydfil.),
1867
10
The Christian Remembrancer
... to part company with the Regulator; and as he descends from his perilous
elevation, magnanimously resolves to walk into Devonshire ; while at the same
time he indignantly dismisses the coachman shillingless, accounting him "
dangerous.
William Scott, Francis Garden, James Bowling Mozley,
1844
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHILLINGLESS»
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