Oysters from fifty centimes to five francs a dozen were packed in wicker baskets, passed by their guardian every few minutes under the fountain.
Six years before the war, twenty-five francs would do the trick, and do it well, on the Grands Boulevards.
But when he came back, Captain, he would not give me my five francs.
You have just given twenty-five francs to a man who, not an hour ago, was quietly helping to hide the traces of a robbery committed upon you this very morning.
I owe twenty-five francs, and they may wring my neck twenty-five times before I can pay them.
Five francs," said the old man, looking Blondet in the eye with a hesitation which betrayed an enormous overcharge.
To this circumstance the old man was indebted for his twenty-five francs.
Notwithstanding his indignant eloquence, the judges acquitted two and condemned the other only to a fine of five francs.
Duprat then imposed upon each offender a fine of five francs.
Duprat, whose fine of five francs could be raised, as we have explained, to enormous sums, was sufficient to terrify the great mass.
If you will, I will let you have them at five francs, and give fourteen to the dozen.
The reply was, that he had none, but that he might possibly procure them at the rate of five francs a tin and box.
At the Cafe Riche it would have been twenty-five francs, and, at the present time, one would be charged double that sum.
Nor is ordinary wine much dearer than it was in years of great plenty; it is, in fact, less by twenty-five francs or thirty francs than in the middle of the fifties.
The volumes were to be issued in four parts at five francs each, making the cost of the complete work in each case twenty francs.
A Neapolitan guide will fix his services at five francs a day, "and something for myself if you are satisfied.
Thus a guide whose tariff is five francs a day should be satisfied with half a franc, but, if he has been specially zealous and useful, you can give him a franc with safety.
Convinced of the truthfulness of the landlord's statement, the stranger engaged a carriage and paid twenty-five francs in advance, the balance being due on arrival at Chamouny.
An allusion to the twenty-five francs a day officially payable to the members of the Assembly.
The second means would be to lay upon the public a tax of five francs, and to give it as a premium to the iron manufacturer.
Could we not have attained the same end by lowering the tariff to five francs?
Evidently the result of such a course will be to get the Belgian article at Paris for thirty-five francs, viz: 20 francs--price at Brussels.
The first, is to put upon foreign iron a duty of five francs.
Indeed, if you are found guilty, you will only have two or three months, imprisonment and twenty-five francs fine.
She left the next day, forgot to pay for six months' board, and left behind her wardrobe, cast-off clothing to the value of five francs.
Michonneau, could only muster forty-five francs a month to pay for their board and lodging.
Towards the end of the third year Father Goriot reduced his expenses still further; he went up to the third story, and now paid forty-five francs a month.
One day at a market in Normandy people were much surprised at seeing a woman offer an excellent horse for sale at the price of five francs, and still more astonished at her asking 500 francs for a dog she wished to dispose of.
Her ear is at this moment bereft of the twenty-five francs' worth of gold which hung in it just now.
A few years ago an old man of eighty went about Paris singing with a voice which was almost extinct and scarcely exceeded a whisper, but which, nevertheless, brought him in regularly forty-five francs a month.
But the little watch was thirty-five francs, and one can imagine how many hours at night I would have to work for it.
I had already the thirty-five francs, but I did not know how to tell Monsieur Goulden that I wished to buy the watch; I wanted to keep the whole matter secret; and I did not at all like to talk about it.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five francs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
