I therefore use the freedom to assure Your Excellency the amount of 400 contos of Reis, as an indemnification for your losses.
I expect six frigates of fifty guns, manned and armed, and completely formed for action, for the purchase of which I have already given orders; and according to the information I have received, they will not cost above thirteen contos of rees.
But why not call the capture of Demetrios Contos the last?
Charley mooned over it for a couple of days; then word was brought to us, as before, that on the next Sunday Demetrios Contos would repeat his performance.
But it is to show that they could act generously as well as hate bitterly that this story of Demetrios Contos is told.
Demetrios Contos not only never broke the law again, but he became a very good friend of ours, and on more than one occasion he ran up to Benicia to have a gossip with us.
I saw Demetrios Contoslooking back from his boat, and heard the vindictive and mocking tones of his voice as he shouted exultantly.
A compliment from Demetrios Contos was a compliment indeed, and I keenly appreciated it, though I could only nod my head in acknowledgment.
Romero and Braga, Contos populares do Brazil, 1885, no.
Perhaps the rascal chose the number of contos representing the amount of the booty!
In addition, a reward of one hundred contos (or three hundred thousand francs) was promised to any one who could discover the cipher so fruitlessly sought after--and read the document.
Have you heard tell of the famous diamond of Abaete, which was valued at more than two million contos of reis?
The 69th tale in Coelho's Contos Populares, Os Dois Mentiroses, bears a strong resemblance to this.
This story is found in Coelho's Contos Portuguezes, p.
XIV in Coelho's Contos Populares Portuguezes, and in Gaal's Maerchen der Magyaren, p.
Story in Coelho's Contos Populares Portuguezes, and the 29th in the Pentamerone of Basile.
This part of the story may be compared with the story of As tres Lebres in Coelho's Contos Portuguezes, p.
Coelho's Contos Portuguezes, in which tale pearls drop from the heroine's mouth.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "contos" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
