I'm so sleepy I couldn't tell a doubloon from a doughnut.
Notorious is it that the captains-general have regularly pocketed a fee of one doubloon or more for every slave landed, and that this has been a prolific source of wealth to them.
In the year 1822 silver became so scarce, that, it was impossible to get change of a doubloon without allowing a consideration for it.
Not the same instant; not the same--no, the doubloon is mine, Fate reserved the doubloonfor me.
The inquiry at Stratham was calculated to elicit the truth; and, after all, there is not the slightest reason to suspect that he knew that the doubloon was in his pocket-book.
Why, especially, should they put a doubloon in their father's pocket-book?
Washington died possessed of property worth about three-quarters of a million, although he began life glad to earn a doubloon a day surveying.
By the time he was sixteen the boy was on the frontier helping Lord Thomas Fairfax to survey the princely domain that belonged to his lordship, and received in payment therefor sometimes as much as a doubloon a day.
He brought the wine and seven sequins, the change for the doubloon I had given him.
As the ball was to take place the same evening, I gave the mother a doubloon to get a mask and domino.
That treasure exists, and that doubloon gave me the clue to its whereabouts.
That doubloonwas a part of the lost treasure of the Varonas.
In fact, I didn't believe until this moment that there was a doubloon at all.
He thinks thatdoubloon is a clue to your father's fortune, but--I can't put much faith in it.
At the time of her brother's recital she had been swayed by his conviction, but now on cooler thought a dozen explanations of Dona Isabel's possession of that doubloon offered themselves, no one of which seemed less probable than Esteban's.
Take for all,' says one of the company, offering a golden doubloon to the attendant.
In 1712 a general tax was laid of a doubloon per hearth, which was assessed in each community according to the wealth of the individual.
The doubloon of Spain was subsequently equivalent to about a guinea sterling.
I felt a kind of anger against him, that any chap with such a yarn should take such an indifferent way to spin it; and presently plucking out the doubloon and holding it under the lights, I came to the crowning wonder of all.
With studied carelessness I took the doubloon on my thumb, flipped it and stuck it in my pocket.
But, all the same, it was stupid of me to flash the doubloonwhen I got back to Funchal.
Jack also tossed a doubloon to the men for them to drink on their arrival, and all the men of the transport were in a transport, at Jack's coming to "reign over them.
Jack replied that a doubloon would not last for ever, and that the sooner they drank it out the better.
Here's a doubloon and a half, which, with what you have already received, will make the accounts square.
I did so, and he gave me a quarter-doubloon as before.
Since you are so poor, and gold must pass, here is a piece for you," and I offered him the doubloon which I had received from the other cavalier.
Add this to the other,"--and he put a quarter-doubloon in my hand and disappeared.
He put a doubloon in my hand, and immediately disappeared.
It had been Tobias and none other whose evil eye had sent her so breathless back to me, waiting in the shadow of the woods; and it was the same evil eye that had fallen vulture-like on her golden doubloon exposed on Sweeney's counter.
And I took from my pocket the sacred doubloon that I had bought from John Sweeney--may Heaven have mercy upon his soul!
That doubloon still suggested that it was the key to a door of fascinating mystery to which Chance might at any moment direct me.
At all events, it was the thought of that doubloon that swayed the balance of my hesitation in taking the moon-path in the track of that bright apparition.
This doubloon is all I have in the world; and it's not likely I could borrow another just now.
In all these you may meet the robed priest of the morning, and stake your dollar or doubloon against his, if you feel so inclined.
Finally, the two-faced doubloon was given to Preciosa, who told her companions that she would change it, and share the amount honourably with them.
I have here a doubloon for you with two faces, and neither of them as good as your own, though they are the faces of two kings.
I regret to state that the first thing which the Urchin did was to feel in his pocket and draw out the doubloon which he had found in the cave.
The Urchin had across his knees the rusty old gun bought for him by Jeconiah, who had nevertheless exacted the doubloon from him in exchange.
For twenty minutes I stood with the billetita in my hand, and the doubloon in my pocket, both ready to be entrusted to him.
If a doubloon should prove sufficient bribe, my letter would be delivered.
The cochero in black glaze hat and jaqueta of blue camlet cloth, driving a pair of frisones, could be no other than he who had once lost a doubloon by staying too late over his stable duties?
We searched him and found a doubloon and a half on his person, which Towser and I divided equally between us.
The doubloon and all the other coins were duly sewn in.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doubloon" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: coin; crown; doubloon; ducat; eagle; guinea; piece; rouleau; sovereign; specie
