No man can overhear ten words of Italian today without two thousand or two million or ten or twenty or two liras flying like venomous mosquitoes round his ears.
The General Navigation Company sold her for eighty thousand liras years ago, and now she was worth two million.
Through this murk of Liras you peer at Michael Angelo and at Botticelli and the rest, and see them all as through a glass, darkly.
They asked me to keep the door locked, and said this order did not really come from Constantinople, but was an arrangement between Major Baylay and the postmaster who had been paid ten liras to forge a telegram.
Hill allowed them to find about twenty liras more, which Moïse took in charge.
I suppose you have had, in the meantime, the receipt for the 200 liras you sent me.
The wretched tea available is about two liras a pound, and there is little of that.
What with tobacco and medicine, not to mention English food with which we must reinforce this Oriental provender, it will be at least fourteen liras and possibly eighteen a month.
We are to get seven liras a month, and our board and lodging costs nine liras at the least, as we have to pay an unjustified rent.
Pushing some liras into his hand we disengaged ourselves and took to our heels, scrambled over the wall, and got back into bed by inches ahead of the search party.
I heard from a first-hand source that on the second sack of Erzerum, property worth three million liras was divided between the triumvirate and remains invested in various countries against an international finance debacle later on.
I heard that all the money at the fall of Kut was distributed among the garrison, and about three or four gold liras were to have reached me.
Arriving at the caravanserai, and finding myself thus thrown unexpectedly upon my own resources, I inquire of some bystanders where I can obtain elcmek; some of them want to know how many liras I will give for ekmek.
My reply was a draft for two hundred liras (something over eight hundred dollars) with the added dispatch: "Keep the pot boiling; let us know your wants.
He hired 600 mules for the women, to convey them to Urfa, at the rate of three liras a head.
After speaking to his companions, the priest replied that they could pay only ten liras altogether, as they had no more in their possession.
When convinced by his words, the officer took the ten liras and undertook to satisfy the others.
Yes; she had heard that a thousand liras was his fee, and he should have it, if that was right and proper.
Maria was a confirmed and steadfast gambler, of that optimistic type that feels itself amply rewarded for the expenditure of ten liras on a series of numbers that prove quite barren of reward, if at the eleventh attempt she gained five.
Why, her terno would be worth three thousand liras at least, which was next door to the title of a marchioness.
We know why Ucelli entered into this conspiracy with Silwood; it was because of the fifty thousand liras Silwood gave him.
If he had plenty of money, as I suppose his giving you fifty thousand liras shows, he would be able to procure disguises, have his own carriage, and journey as he liked.
There were a dozen of them originally, and I sent the Bulgarian goose-farmer a couple of Turkish liras for them, so that he did not do so badly after all out of his forced sale.
I had only a few liras in my pocket; and how on earth was I to get to the Turkish Embassy in London?
A few words of explanation in regard to the table of expenditures: "Cash sent to the Interior" includes all moneys sent by pony express or draft, and of this amount something over seven thousand liras are in the hands of W.
I gave a necklace worth a thousand liras to a girl who pleased me in the harem.
Ten liras to one that she is by this time in Galata with some of the Genoese Giaours.
I wish your Liras were in Tophet," he continued, presently.
He had amused himself by promising to come back and go with me on my search, perhaps to make a laughing-stock of me, or even of my boy, by telling the story to the Liras afterwards.
Well, I will find out about the Liras for you in a day or two, before I leave Rome again.
They now demanded from each officer another fifteen liras down.
He eventually accepted five liras in gold--the party had discovered that they had some after all--together with some more paper notes.
The peaceful shepherds took their departure exactly at midnight--another touch of true melodrama--each the richer by about thirty paper liras and some gold ones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liras" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
