cut off with a shilling
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"So I'm to be cut off with a shilling."
From The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine
My uncle had married in direct opposition to his father's orders, in an age when filial disobedience was deemed a very heinous offence, and he was cut off with a shilling.
From The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood by Arthur Griffiths
If I am now to be cut off with a shilling as the reward of twenty years of service, I shall be left not only a beggar, but a bankrupt.”
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
Only hint the propriety of cutting it off to your great-uncle or your grandfather, and you may rely on being cut off with a shilling yourself.
From Auriol or, The Elixir of Life by W. Harrison Ainsworth
The cook gave birth to a son named Joseph, who succeeded to all the lands of the family, while James was cut off with a shilling.
From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
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