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Meanings of bad shilling in English

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Usage of bad shilling in English
1
Here I am again, you see, like the proverbial bad shilling.
Birds of Prey
2
No fear of Bryan, certainment; he like one bad shilling-hecome up toujours.
Ungava
3
Denny had a bad shilling, with a head on both sides, and three halfpence.
The Wouldbegoods: Being the Further Adventures of the Treasure S...
4
One day some one gave him a bad shilling.
Reminiscences of Scottish Life & Character
5
Back again, you see, like the proverbial bad shilling!
The Unseen Bridegroom; Or, Wedded For a Week
6
God bless her, and you, and (like a bad shilling slipped in between two guineas.)
Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey
7
She's coming back like a bad shilling.
The Prime Minister
8
The one gave a bad shilling, the other an imperfect hour; but both broke the bargain, and each is a thief.
Lay Morals, and Other Papers
9
Already he had got the name, in the family, of "the bad shilling," for his always coming back unlooked for.
Philip Winwood / A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American...
10
He was, as you know, Mr. Jennings, arrested for trying to pass a bad shilling, but there is no doubt he fired the place.
The Secret Passage
11
He could not stand the climate, and was sent home about a month ago- aregularcase of bad shilling, I am afraid, poor fellow!
The Clever Woman of the Family
12
God bless her and you, and (like a bad shilling slipped in between two guineas), your faithful and affectionate friend, S. T. COLERIDGE.
Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1
13
Mr. Clare's lips opened to hail his son's return, in the old character of the " bad shilling"; and closed again without uttering a word.
No Name
14
She had attempted to pass two bad shillings at a grocer's shop.
The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851
15
The Bad Shilling Turns up Once More in Queen Street.
Philip Winwood / A Sketch of the Domestic History of an American...
16
'Like a bad shillin'-likea damned bad shilling.
The History of Mr. Polly
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