The King's shilling, sometimes called the Queen's shilling when the Sovereign is female, is a historical slang term referring to the earnest payment of...
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The British shilling, abbreviated "1s" or "1/-", was a unit of currency and a denomination of sterling coinage worth 1⁄20 of one pound, or twelve pence...
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The shilling is a historical coin, and the name of a unit of modern currencies formerly used in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, other British...
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This shorter story, written between The Turkish Lieutenant and The King's Shilling, is 36 pages and is in black and white rather than color like the full...
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since no binding contract has been entered into.[citation needed] King's shilling List of real estate topics Andrews, Neil (2016). Arbitration and contract...
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taverns, surreptitiously dropping a King's shilling ("prest money") into a man's drink, as by "finding" the shilling in his possession he was deemed to...
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the glass-bottomed tankard was developed as a way of refusing the King's shilling, i.e., conscription into the British Army or Navy. The drinker could...
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Blake, John. "No Bars for this Hershey" Pittsburgh Press May 4, 1968.Pg.6 King, Susan (January 18, 2012). "'Last Summer' to have rare screening from American...
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Beatrice Shilling OBE (known as Tilly) (8 March 1909 – 18 November 1990) was a British aeronautical engineer, motorcycle racer and sports car racer. In...
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the shifting sands of wartime Alderney, the dangerous allure of the King's Shilling, the loves and the losses and the stars and the whores and the drink...
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