Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
OE. shilling, schilling, AS. scilling,; akin to D. schelling, OS. & OHG. scilling, G. schilling, Sw. & Dan. skilling, Icel. skillingr, Goth. skilliggs, and perh. to OHG. scellan, to sound, G. schallen,
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
A.S. scilling; Ger. schilling.
In literature:
All the province for forty shillings a year rent!
"The Entailed Hat" by George Alfred Townsend
During the reign of Ethelred, a tax of a shilling a hide had been imposed on all the lands of England.
"The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part A. From the Britons of Early Times to King John" by David Hume
We add the smaller items and it reaches a total of ninety-three pounds seven shillings and fourpence.
"The Triumphs of Eugène Valmont" by Robert Barr
I had three or four thousand pounds clear, and I spent every shilling of it on the Chelsea election.
"Can You Forgive Her?" by Anthony Trollope
He was fined thirty shillings, and ordered to be admonished by the governor.
"Captains of Industry" by James Parton
And now, poor soul, he hasn't a shilling, barring an odd pound or two I give him once or twice a month.
"The Drone" by Rutherford Mayne
Had to give him an extra shilling.
"Love Among the Chickens" by P. G. Wodehouse
Won't the pretty face of her bring the shillings?
"Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends" by Fanny Fern
One was the woman who so kindly gave me the shilling in the market, when I was cold and hungry.
"An Outcast" by F. Colburn Adams
I see that what you paid only came to L4 16 shillings 6 pence, instead of L4 17 shillings 6 pence.
"Tom, Dick and Harry" by Talbot Baines Reed
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In poetry:
The king he blew shill in a siller whustle;
An' tramp, tramp, doon the pier
Cam twenty men on twenty horses,
Clankin wi' spur an' spear.
"The Yerl O' Waterydeck" by George MacDonald
We asked the kid to give his name:
He didn’t seem too willing—
The darkey played the darkey’s game—
We tipped him with a shilling!
"Peter the Piccaninny" by Henry Kendall
"The world was all before him" twice,
But where to chuse he'd now no choice;
Like Cain must wander; and, what's worse,
Without a shilling in his purse.
"The Grenadier" by William Hutton
Little Birds are playing
Bagpipes on the shore,
Where the tourists snore:
"Thanks!" they cry. "'Tis thrilling!
Take, oh take this shilling!
Let us have no more!"
"Little Birds" by Lewis Carroll
"Schall y haff yowr forty shillings," seyde Lytel John,
"Or ye, master, schall haffe myne?"
"Yeff they wer a hundred," seyde Roben,
"Y feythe, they ben all theyne."
"Robin Hood And The Potter" by Andrew Lang
First there's bold Tommy Aitkins himself,
For a shilling a day of poor pelf,
And for love of his King,
And the fun of the thing,
He fights till he's laid on the shelf.
"The Allied Forces" by Abner Cosens
In news:
John Roberts, insurance industry shill .
Cruz Walks Line Between Star and Shill .
The Union Leader's shill game.
Jimmy Kimmel Is a Hilarious, Mean Corporate Shill .
's Andrew Andrew Shill for Roosevelt Island.
Parks and Recreation Stars Shill for New Humblebrag Book, No Big Deal (Video).
Articles by Erik Shilling Email the Author.
Danny Shilling speaks before he demonstrates dog-herding at the South Farm Showcase on Saturday.
OK, admittedly, become a billionaire in Ugandan Shilling s with smartphone apps but that's still real money.
Funeral services will be held at 10:30 am Tuesday, November 27th, at the Union Community Church with Pastor Rick Shill officiating.
Watch Will Ferrell Shill for Beer Again.
Too many of our colleagues make a living traveling around the country as plaintiff shills, spewing vitriolic garbage with no basis and do so solely for the purposes of supporting the plaintiff 's case.
HTC could be shilling out between $6 and $8 to Apple per phone the company sells as part of the companies' recent licensing settlement, according to Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu.
The son of Gisela Shilling Chandla and Edward Chandla, he was born on December 12, 1982.
Republican leaders aren't embarrassed in the slightest to shill for the rich.
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In science:
In this paper, we consider the case of adding one shill to control the collective behavior with the shill denoted as (x0 , θ0).
Soft Control on Collective Behavior of a Group of Autonomous Agents by a Shill Agent
Without any constraint, the shill can fly to anywhere with a ‘deceptive’ heading.
Soft Control on Collective Behavior of a Group of Autonomous Agents by a Shill Agent
The intuition behinds uβ is to put the shill to the position of the ‘worst’ agent s(t) at each time step t and try to ‘pull’ it to the desired direction π .
Soft Control on Collective Behavior of a Group of Autonomous Agents by a Shill Agent
At any time step t, the shill is affecting the agent s(t) with heading θ0 (t).
Soft Control on Collective Behavior of a Group of Autonomous Agents by a Shill Agent
For k ≥ 2, however, the shill may not affect the agent s(t), so the worst case where η (k) has the smallest value is that the agent s(t) is surrounded by n − 1 agents with heading θs(t) (t) again, but without the shill in its neighborhood (see Fig.3-(b)).
Soft Control on Collective Behavior of a Group of Autonomous Agents by a Shill Agent
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