Out spilled a stream of doubloons and pieces of eight, a cascade of gold and silver bars, of jewels flowing from the rotten bags which had contained them.
It was to be inferred that Blackbeard had ceased to cut his mirthful capers on the poop and that he would have given bushels of doubloons to regain his sailing-master and men.
Already we had on board a fortune in doubloons and bars of gold, but there was still one more chest to be unearthed.
No one knew his name; and what made him more mysterious was that, although he spoke English, he paid for everything in Spanish doubloons half a century old!
Hang me on the Union Jack," (that was a nautical expression by which Peeler added solemnity to his statement) "if there was not exactly one million Spanish doubloons on board.
Bob got a glorious tuck-out aboard, the two doubloons were safe in his pocket, and the father of Marian treated him like a prince.
But Keekenkettel went mad outright, because he couldn't never fix the treasure again, and found that he'd filled his pouches with shells and stones, as looked mighty like dollars and doubloons in the moonshine.
Then Fernando stammered out, 'Fifty thousand doubloons and fifty Moorish prisoners.
Certain it is that fifty thousanddoubloons were all the Portuguese would offer, and now Lazuraque demanded four hundred thousand!
I was as happy as before, although no more doubloons fell into my hands, after the marriages took place.
This conclusion explains the presence of my friend and his Lady of the Doubloons in the box of the Punch and Judy Theatre that, to me, eventful evening.
Then, becoming absorbed in the play, I forgot him and his companion of the doubloons for a while, and when I looked for them again, they had vanished.
Send me word where you are, as soon as you get a chance; and good luck to you, old chap, and your doubloons and pieces of eight!
Here they came in with their loot, their doubloons and pieces of eight"; and John's eyes twinkled with enjoyment of the rich old romantic words, as though they were old port.
And then I told my story as it is already known to the reader, and I have to confess that, when I came to the chestful of doubloons and pieces of eight, I had a very attentive audience.
The person who writes to you, my lord, has a purse full of doubloons in his pocket; he has already been robbed, and fears assassination in the filthy den in which he has been imprisoned.
She had encouraged him to ask me to lend him a hundred doubloons which would enable them to get married before the end of the carnival.
I'll wager a hundred doubloons that you are in the wrong.
I was anxious to see how the pious girl, who had tried to make me pay a hundred doubloons for the chance of having her after her marriage, would greet me, so I called the same day.
The count," he added, "is madly in love with her, and allows her fifty doubloons a day.
He commuted also the claim to the tenth of the produce of the Indies for a pension of one thousand doubloons of gold.
What is the smallest number ofdoubloons that there could have been in any one of the boxes?
How many doubloons were there in every one of the nine boxes?
More than 11 doubloons he could not possibly have had.
The difference between the number of doubloons in the upper box and the number in the middle box was the same as the difference between the number in the middle box and the number in the bottom box.
Spanish doubloons and pearls and diamonds and rubies!
Not that he was physically afraid; no; he wanted to dig his hands deep into those doubloons and pieces-of-eight.
In drunken frolics they had been known to scatter doubloons in the streets to see men and boys scramble for them.
These men had embarked from Tortuga, with the expectation that dollars and doubloonswould be gathered by shovelfuls.
It is hardly probable that he had any scruples of conscience in seizing the doubloons when transferred to the shore.
Even the children expected to see the strange visitors scatter their doubloons through the streets to be scrambled for.
It is a rare book, a precious book, a book that is not in the British Museum, a book for which collectors would gladly give more doubloons than I lost at monte last night; for here the most moral people play monte.
His father had sewed some doubloons in his jacket, but he gave them to a man in New Orleans to purchase clothing and food, and never again beheld his agent or the doubloons or their equivalent.
She had only twenty-eight doubloons with which to bring home her children, and sixty servants, and the dead body of her husband.
No," I replies, wavin' him off some haughty, for that bag of doubloons has done puffed me up.
The padrone of the vessel had been captivated with the doubloonswhich Jack had so foolishly exposed to his view, and he had, moreover, resolved to obtain them.
And Tom Chist, as he rattled in his breeches pocket the half dozen doubloons he had kept out of his treasure, felt that what his friend had said was true.
Thousands of doubloons are believed to be hidden in the canon, and thousands of dollars have been spent in searching for them.
Ay, ay, sir, gold is gold; and any of it is good enough for me, though doubloons is my favourites.
This was the principal reason why the deacon did not wish to send for him; the expense, though a serious objection to one so niggardly, being of secondary consideration when so many doubloons were at stake.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "doubloons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
