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Example sentences for "hundred florins"

  • He drew his purse, and, after counting, found he had a hundred florins left; now Peter knew how much he himself had left, without counting first.

  • Excuse me for saying so, but you have thrown away many hundred florins on vile beggars and other rabble; what has it profited you?

  • Peter Munk had now reached the highest point of the Tannenbuehl, and stood before a pine of enormous girth, for which a Dutch shipbuilder would have given many hundred florins on the spot.

  • I'll rise superior to him for a hundred florins," said the gipsy, scratching his curly poll.

  • This very week she purchased three hundred florins' worth of lace from Messrs.

  • Not for a hundred florins,' was the answer.

  • If you choose to buy him,' answered the butchers derisively; 'but for such a treasure we won't take a penny less than a hundred florins.

  • Surely for a hundred florins you'll sell it?

  • She is an aristocrat and she refuses a hundred florins to a nobleman.

  • Aside) The devil has taken my hundred florins.

  • He is a man--I have a hundred florins in my pocket already.

  • He was induced by a friend to take one of his choicest pictures to a picture-dealer at the Hague, who, being charmed with the performance, instantly gave him a hundred florins for it, and treated him with great respect.

  • His paintings were soon in extraordinary demand, and his fame spread far and wide; pupils flocked to his studio, and he received for the instruction of each a hundred florins a year.

  • As Michielkin persisted in saying he was innocent, Spelle had him tortured afresh, while giving him to understand that if he would give him a hundred florins he would leave him free and acquitted.

  • A blind man of Orvieto, of the name of Cola, hit upon a device to recover a hundred florins he had been cheated of, which showed he was possessed of all the eyes of Argus, though he had unluckily lost his own.

  • In the spring I said to my brother, 'Give me a hundred florins' worth of clocks, and let me join you in the clock trade.

  • Thousands and thousands of times I have thought how gladly I would give a hundred florins for a roomful of the air of my native valley.

  • From my sixtieth year I begin to receive a hundred florins annually, till which time I shall manage to scratch through.

  • When he returned, this fiend of a man fined him a hundred florins, because he had been absent from confession and from the sacrament at Easter.

  • A hundred florins I had spent on my journey, and there was a florin a day of present expenses; how, then, should I return home if I must use up my little hoard waiting and waiting?

  • That shall not trouble you,' he said, counting out a hundred florins to me without even a witness, as though I were his brother.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    definite number; hundred and fifty dollars; hundred and fifty years; hundred and twenty years; hundred cubits; hundred ducats; hundred feet; hundred francs; hundred guineas; hundred head; hundred heads; hundred leagues; hundred men; hundred miles; hundred other; hundred paces; hundred pieces; hundred pistoles; hundred pounds; hundred roubles; hundred things; hundred weight; little stick; military preparations; natural bodies; worldly wisdom