They offered to pay two hundred ducats towards the cost of the bull and they demanded that they should retain twenty thousand libras of the servicio until the bull should be delivered to the Diputados.
The same condition was attached to a liberal donation of twelve thousandlibras which they made to the Inquisition--probably a part of the bargain.
The present one was not granted without a binding consideration, for the tribunal of Barcelona was granted six hundred libras a year, secured upon the public revenues.
While under sail we bartered two large knives which we had taken from the governor of Pulaoan for seventeen libras [of cinnamon].
Those people gave us x pieces of gold for xiiii libras of iron [304] (one piece being worth about one and one-half ducados).
One demi-saker, cast in Piru, caliber three libras and a half, length twenty-nine calibers.
Breastwork of Dilao One demi-saker of three libras caliber, old casting of Manila, length thirty-three calibers.
Chapter devoted 3000 librasfor the reparation of the Retablo, though it was not till A.
I have always had |He tenido siempre £20 a year and |veinte libras al my board.
Get three pounds of |Compra treslibras de butter, if it is |manteca, si es good.
How many pounds of |¿Cuántas libras de butter do you |manteca quiere want?
On the twenty-ninth of April, three libras of quicksilver were incorporated with three quintals of ore obtained from a washing-place made by the Ygolotes below the openings, and near the preceding place.
Upon it and seventeen libras of lead was fed the dust and sediment of one-half quintal of ore that was obtained from the hole which I have said was opened in the veins and new mines of Galan, at a depth of ten estados.
On Thursday, May nine, three libras of quicksilver were incorporated with three quintals of ore obtained from the first hole and vein of the new mine, of which mention has been made.
Having consumed twenty-five libras of lead, upon which the metal melted, a grain resulted that resembles silver, and weighs one and one-half reals.
On Sunday, April seven, two quintals of the same ore from the said hole and vein were incorporated with two libras of quicksilver, having roasted the ore while in the form of stone, before crushing it.
The said assay was made by refining, by feeding [the dust of the ore] upon sixteen libras of lead.
The purchase of cloves which was ordered was made in those islands--which, according to the hopes that have been held out to me, must have amounted to even more than two hundred and fifty baras of six hundred and forty libras each.
On the fifth of the same month of May three libras of quicksilver were incorporated with three quintals of ore from the first hole and mouth opened near our fort, as above stated.
On the said day, April six, three libras of quicksilver were incorporated with three quintals of ore from the said hole and vein, which was obtained at a depth of ten estados; and the mixture was compounded with salt.
Thursday, May twenty, two libras of quicksilver were incorporated with one and one-half quintals of ore obtained from a depth of fourteen estados in the said vein and hole which was opened as above stated.
Tuesday, the sixteenth, four libras of quicksilver were incorporated with four quintals of ore obtained at a depth of ten or eleven estados in the said mine and hole.
On being fused with twenty-three libras of lead, nothing was obtained from the said assay.
On the said day, April six, of the said year, three quintals of ore from the same hole and veins were incorporated with three libras of quicksilver and compounded with salt.
The bag of cinnamon shall weigh 150 libras gross (that is, including all packing and covers), but at Acapulco it may be allowed four or five libras more of weight, the difference between the weight of Manila and that of Nueva Espana.
The cakes of wax must weigh twelve arrobas at Manila, four or five libras being allowed at Acapulco for the difference in standards of weight.
The other face bears the lines of Juvenal: "Expende--quot libras in duce summo invenies.
In addition the commissioner could hear the civil cases of familiars, up to the value of twenty libras and execute his decisions.
The surgeon was rated at even less for, in 1510, one is furnished to Saragossa at a salary of five librasand the same is paid to an apothecary, who can scarce have furnished expensive drugs on such a stipend.
As early as 1486, Esteve Costa was "receptor de las penitencias" in Valencia, whose salary of fifty libras shows the office to be of much less importance than that of the receiver of confiscations.
To facilitate these frequent researches, in compiling the Libras Vocandorum and other registers, a separate volume was reserved for solicitation.
By April 4th, the tribunal was taking testimony to show that, a year or two before, he had sold two horses to a Frenchman for three hundred and sixtylibras and that they were to be taken to France.
There is a quantity of honey and wax in their mountains; and since the Spanish have lived there they have built many sugar mills; and sugar is so common there that one may buy twenty-five libras of sixteen onzas apiece for one teston.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "libras" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
