Ask the honorable company here present if I haven't paid out more than a hundred francs within half an hour--yes, monsieur, a hundred francs!
His clothes cost him a hundred francs, his linen fifty, his washing fifty, but the whole did not exceed six hundred and fifty francs.
Magimel, I think, offered to take him into his house, lodge him comfortably, find him regular work, and pay him one thousand five hundred francs a year.
It would be a hundred francs a month, perhaps a hundred and fifty, perhaps even two hundred.
To gain a hundred francs he will do anything; he makes money only for the pleasure of making it, for he has neither child nor relative.
Of what use now were these two hundred francs, which a few days sooner would have been so much to him?
He asked for his account, as if he meant to leave, and discovered that he was indebted to his landlord to the extent of a hundred francs.
So, if you write two books each year, you will be making a hundred francs a month; you will have a sure income, you will be well off.
Fouque was delighted at seeing his friend answer his obsessing idea, and detailed at length, and within a hundred francs, what he would get for each of his properties.
I started by offering a hundred francs to one of the judge's secretaries, who alleged at first that my admission into this turret was impossible.
Valenod's father had not left him six hundred francs a year.
How could I be otherwise," answered Julien, with a bitter smile, "he has given me a hundred francs.
He will give you a hundred francs a month for pocket-money, and fifty francs for housekeeping.
My daughter gives us a hundred francs a month, while she rides in a carriage and eats off silver plate--she is a millionary, is my daughter!
So it had come to pass that the Cibots had passed the prime of life, and saw themselves on the threshold of old age without a hundred francs put by for the future.
He had asked for the modest loan of a hundred francs, and had received the reply that he must wait for a few days, after which the transaction could in all probability be carried out.
I sold that day more than two hundred francs' worth of iron, but my indignation against Frichard, and my fear of the sergeant, took away all pleasure in anything.
What good will our money do us, when a radish will cost a hundred francs?
The two country people shook their heads, in sign of refusal, but when they learned that they were to have a hundred francs a month, they considered, consulting one another by glances, much disturbed.
Hubières granted it at once, and as she wished to carry off the child with her, she gave a hundred francs as a present, while her husband drew up a writing.
The woman, who was thinking it over, continued: "A hundred francs a month is not enough to deprive us of the child.
Soon, however, the secret of his angry look was revealed, for Madame Wachner opened the leather bag hanging from her wrist and took out of it a hundred francs.
What a pity you didn't start playing with a hundred francs!
Now put on a hundred francs," said Anna, authoritatively.
I mean the afternoon when I made a hundred francs, and bought you and the children a number of delightful little gifts with the money!
I have with me only a hundred francs, in paper, which is not worth above a third of its face value.
He absolutely refused any payment for his services; but I insisted on his receiving a couple of hundred francs, in assignats, for the use of his poorer patients.
My report to His Majesty's Government did not omit a full mention of the matter of the five pounds or hundred francs offered.
He offered me cash down; a cheque for five pounds sterling, or a note for a hundred francs; I could have it which way I liked.
Weeks passed, and every morning I was tempted by the sight of that note for a hundred francs lying in the basket.
Here, take this--" She held out to him a hundred francs in gold, wrapped up in paper.
In this way they could save seven hundred francs a year; which would enable them to give Philippe fifty francs a month until he could find something to do.
But in spite of Joseph's pious lies, she discovered the fact that her dinner was costing him nearly a hundred francs a month.
Pierrette was left in charge of her grandparents who owed her four hundred francs a year, interest on the little property placed in their hands.
In that case I will pay you monthly the good round sum of a hundred francs.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hundred francs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
