This last suggestion pleased Miguel, because he saw clearly that his thirty thousand duros depended on the influence that he might gain over.
That I should also guarantee the twelve thousand duros which he had furnished besides, and then he will wait.
With this thought his pride revolted; he could have wished that he were not burdened with a family, so as to fling the thirty thousand duros through the window, at the same time slap this vile wretch in the face.
Last evening Eguiburu presented himself at my house, and without any preamble demanded of me the thirty thousand duros which have been spent on La Independencia, and which I guaranteed, yielding to your entreaties.
He took out of his drawer the forty duros which he had requested and handed them to him.
Do you remember that day when, after I had guaranteed the thirty thousand duros for the paper, so that it might go on, I asked your opinion?
Besides, you must give me your word that if the sixty duros a month are not sufficient for your living expenses, and you find yourself in a tight place, you will come to me first of all.
You have fifteen thousandduros in your pocket, my boy.
He found in the Chamberi a rather pretty third-story apartment in a house recently built, at the moderate rent of twelve duros a month.
These caramels, which at that time did not cost the State more than five hundred duros a day, are an institution, the history of which has unfortunately been very much neglected.
I tell you frankly that at present it is impossible to get the thirty thousand duros from the general; I know his affairs well, and am certain that he is not in a situation to pay down this amount.
The general said that the party who furnished the money for publishing La Independencia gave him to understand that he would not give another quarter unless he were guaranteed the thirty thousand duros which he had already spent.
For example, the alcalde gives him 60 duros as an advance for forty measures of sugar at the harvest time.
A hundred duros to the man who takes El Sarria alive!
Alcázar and Petra paid sixteen duros per month for their rooms on Relojo street, and took in boarders: a mail clerk and other railroad employés.
Let them give twoduros to man's industry and kill it.
Don Telmo was ready to lend me ten thousand duros on condition that I'd give him half of the fortune as soon as I entered into possession of it, if I won.
The Archbishop of Toledo has three hundred thousand duros a year, and his clergy have four hundred thousand, amounting to two million francs in French money.
Yesterday I paid five duros for a hen in the market," said one of the old servants of the house.
Five duros you may have, you coward, you thief, not a fraction more!
This was sold for five duros yesterday in the market.
And the day following all this theatrical pomp, when the lights and the censers were extinguished and the church had recovered its ordinary aspect, began this miserable life of poverty and intrigue to earn one's bread--seven duros a month!
The priest is poor, the temple is poor also; but the prince of the Church retains his thousands of duros yearly, and his great ecclesiastical state, and he sings his psalms tranquilly, certain that his pittance is in no danger.
He received seven duros a month, which were all his means of supporting himself and his old mother, a common peasant woman, who had denied herself bread in order to give an education to her son.
To-day I have been to the palace to tell them they may dispose of my seven duros monthly and my chaplaincy of nuns.
He can only see before him long years of waiting and of hidden poverty, borne with dignity, until some promotion provides him with a few duros more monthly.
I could have hooked out this preferment that allows me to live in Toledo on seven duros a month!
Amber and meerschaum; it cost three duros in Madrid.
Consequently our wise youth was really more than a hundred leagues from the lovely heiress's three thousand duros income, while he believed that he could touch them with his finger-tips.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "duros" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
