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Example sentences for "hundred sous"

  • I am sure of it, and, to prove it, I'll bet a hundred sous.

  • Adhémar could not help laughing, and, on the strength of the jest, lent Dodichet a hundred sous.

  • And Brument said: 'Do you wish to earn a hundred sous more?

  • If I were a doctor I would sell for a hundred francs what I now sell for a hundred sous; and I would supply it probably of an inferior quality, for my title would be enough to sustain my reputation.

  • And then Cornu gave me a hundred sous, not Brument, Cornu; it was Cornu gave them to me.

  • Well, Brument said to me, 'Do you wish to earn a hundred sous?

  • You gave me a hundred sous, and I said to you: 'I don't want your money.

  • Three pieces of a hundred sous," said Fauchelevent.

  • But in what trade can one earn a hundred sous a day?

  • When an official spends for his own profit an extra hundred sous, it implies that a tax-payer spends for his profit a hundred sous less.

  • Government officer for a really useful service, it is exactly the same as when he gives a hundred sous to a shoemaker for a pair of shoes.

  • Just as we have concluded our arrangement the tax-gatherer comes, takes my hundred sous, and sends them to the Minister of the Interior; my bargain is at end, but the minister will have another dish added to his table.

  • For instance, I want to agree with a drainer to make a trench in my field for a hundred sous.

  • Everything is comparative; I usually give you only a hundred sous.

  • After hesitating for some time between a superb Malacca joint at seventy-five francs, and a light switch at a hundred sous, he finally decided upon the latter.

  • Do we find in the Iliad that Patroclus ever said to Achilles: 'I loaned you a hundred sous, or twenty francs; I want you to pay them'?

  • A hundred sous, a pièce only, refused or offered, will make or break a bargain almost on the eve of being concluded.

  • And he took a piece of a hundred sous out of his pocket (how had it got there?

  • A grosse pièce of a hundred sous, one sees that, one knows what it can do--but for the other!

  • A hundred sous is a hundred sous, and I have to undress myself; but I did not fancy undressing before those two good-for-nothings.

  • For our part, we prefer to make merely a hundred sous at a time, and to get a hundred sous' worth of enjoyment out of them.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    cannot endure; dwell together; hundred and fifty feet; hundred and twenty thousand; hundred different; hundred eyes; hundred florins; hundred gold; hundred guineas; hundred gulden; hundred head; hundred knights; hundred louis; hundred marks; hundred pounds; hundred sequins; hundred talents; hundred tons; hundred weight; hundred yards; hundred years after the; musical comedy; strong heat; various degrees; with many; your uncle