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Example sentences for "five louis"

  • Remember, Paris without a farthing, or Rome with twenty-five louis.

  • I then gave Clairmont the letter to Bono and twenty-five Louis, for him to hand them over to Possano when he was in the carriage and ready to go off.

  • I will disburse twenty-five Louis, but it is your wife who must receive them; and the only condition is that she must receive me alone for an hour, and be entirely kind.

  • I put twenty-five Louis in a pretty little purse, and left my room thinking that the victory was won.

  • At last I determined on telling the husband that I would give him twenty-five louis if he could obtain me an interview in which I could satisfy my desires.

  • He had advanced his stake, now, with his advancing fortunes, to five louis a turn!

  • Five louis on black;—they went like water.

  • The stranger, who had already given twenty-five louis to the villagers for their past and future care of the young woman, put a purse filled with gold in his rescuer's hands.

  • She had been at the farm six months, when a courier arrived with a package containing twenty-five louis and a note from the Comte de Montreville to the farmer and his wife.

  • In consequence, I hoped that the success of this little manoeuvre would secure me the receipt of the wretched twenty-five louis d'or before the new year.

  • Have I really to wait for the wretched twenty-five louis d'or-- oh!

  • The worthy German gave me twenty-five louis for my portrait, with a promise to make a careful copy of the one I had given to Patu, and he offered to paint for me gratuitously the likeness of every girl of whom I might wish to keep a portrait.

  • She told me candidly that she would not allow me to do that one thing, because in her sister's estimation it was worth twenty-five louis.

  • Before I left the house she told me that, as she was in want of money, she felt disposed to make some abatement on the price of twenty-five louis.

  • This latter I may calculate at something like twenty to twenty-five louis d'or.

  • Give me the twenty-five Louis down, and come or send to-morrow for the drugs, and instructions for using them.

  • Very good, but you must first give me twenty-five louis to reimburse me for my costs and fees.

  • He hesitated at first, but after talking it over the money proved too strong a bait, and he wrote out the receipt and I gave him the twenty-five louis.

  • My pay is to be twenty-five louis a month, a good table, good lodging, etc.

  • Did he see twelve thousand four hundred and twenty-five louis d'or carried by him?

  • At the end of three weeks Beaumarchais hearing nothing of the thirty-five louis wrote to the gentleman in question who replied that he would send them the next day, or the day after.

  • Sablières borrowed of him, although he was a complete stranger, thirty-five louis.

  • I know that I am unhappy enough to owe you thirty-five louis, and I deny that this can dishonor me when I have the will to pay them back.

  • Don't forget, I beg you that Madame Sophie owes me five louis; in a time of misery one collects the smallest things.

  • I send you the twenty-five Louis; you can give them to the man yourself.

  • I beg that you will give him the twenty-five louis I am sending you; they will serve to restore him to health, and to make him forget the bitterness of the pleasure I am so sorry to have procured for him.

  • I chose stockings and vests to the amount of twenty-five louis, and I paid the price without trying to cheapen them.

  • Twenty-five louis means as much to you as a thousand francs does to him.

  • I shall be quite rich with twenty-five louis.

  • Yes, but you must give me twenty-five louis as commission, and you will pay him in advance for each volume,' said Rastignac.

  • I told her that she must come and sup with me, and that I would give her the twenty-five louis if my happiness was complete, and that if I were unsuccessful she should have six louis instead of one, provided that she was not tied.

  • Raton was not so much handsome as attractive, but what chiefly made her an object of desire was the fact that she had put the price of twenty-five louis on her maidenhead.

  • It was not her first trial, and I consequently need not have given her the twenty-five louis, but I was well satisfied, and not caring much for maidenheads rewarded her as if I had been the first to bite at the cherry.

  • It was an exceedingly pretty miniature, and the diamond setting had cost me twenty-five Louis.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    five and twenty thousand; five books; five cases; five centuries; five days; five divisions; five fathoms; five generations; five hours; five inches; five leagues; five marks; five mile; five months; five pairs; five pesos; five pound; five pounds; five rams; five sail; five sous; five states; five times; five versts; half calf; one might