She pocketed the ten napoleons which he handed her, and, in a tone of ironical compassion, "Are you so very poor, then?
Strange to tell, Jo took the repulse quite meekly and confessed that it was low, but there were not enough Napoleons at the patisserie and she had to fill out with something else.
You know I never have Napoleonsat my teas because you call them yours, but brioche has always been mine; and when I have our neighbors in to my studio, what can I give them?
In a short while the water was boiling and the tea put to draw, and Jo produced from her cupboard a plate of Napoleons (that delicious pastry of Paris) and a brioche.
In a minute the two brass Napoleons opened with a sonorous spang, which drew a spontaneous cheer from the delighted infantry.
The brass Napoleons were still spanging sonorously, and there was a ceaseless spitting of irregular musketry in the distance.
She was angered, though she did not divine how many napoleons had passed into Raphael's hand, who had been pruning olives, and had had much trouble to hold back the faithful Clovis, for whom gold had no charm.
Yet when his twenty pounds came, he changed his notes and pocketed his napoleons with a vast satisfaction.
Nearly four napoleons left, after allowing for his debt to Madame Pyat, which must be payed that day.
I had never disobeyed an order, but in this case I knew that we had a short supply of ammunition for our 12-pound Napoleons in all the Tennessee valley; that guns without ammunition were useless, and so I hesitated.
Must the Napoleons govern the Cretins without their "consent"?
Suppose the Cretins removed from the imagined community, and a colony of Australian ant-catchers or California lizard-eaters be in their stead: must not the Napoleons govern these?
The Napoleons must absolutely control their "life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness," for the good of the community.
And, if you admit inequality to be in birth, then that inequality is the very ground of the reason why the Napoleons must govern the ant-catchers and lizard-eaters.
As he went he remembered that he had slightly increased the six hundred napoleons of yesterday, and that the money was still in his own possession.
And now the game had begun, and the twelve napoleons were duly deposited.
As he thought of this the five-and-twenty napoleons on the table were taken away from him almost without consciousness on his part.
These moments were moments of misery to the captain in spite of the bank-notes for six hundred napoleonswhich were still in his breast coat-pocket.
Che va piano va sano," said the Italian, jingling the four napoleons in his pocket, which had been six on yesterday morning.
In his right hand was a bag of gold, and under his left hand were hidden the twelve napoleons with which he intended to commence.
I think I've got six hundred and fifty napoleons in my pocket, instead of waiting to get them in driblets from my brother.
Here Captain Scarborough jingled the loose napoleons in his trousers pocket.
I was ashamed in that I had not put a few napoleons down on the table.
Thursday week I gave you five Naps; I lost that same night seventy thousand francs; on Wednesday last the same thing; and to-night two thousand Napoleons are gone.
It was for this that I persisted in acting on his fears in the boat; the more wretched we made him the cheaper he became, and when he heaved that last heavy sigh, I took ten Napoleons off his price.
The stranger had lost an immense "coup;" the accumulation of five successful passes had been swept away at once, and several minutes were occupied in counting the enormous pile of Napoleons he had pushed across the table.
They took uncle's money, but they left a lot of French napoleons instead.
Ride back now to Major Bradley, and tell him to bring his Napoleons through the wood, and set two of them to shelling the enemy's centre.
At the fork the battery of Napoleons had halted, and there it was ordered to remain for the present in quiet.
Presently the four Napoleons set forward at a gallop for the wood, while the four Parrotts wheeled to the right, deployed, and advanced across the fields, inclining toward the left of the enemy.
Before starting he went to the sailmaker and got him to open the soles of his shoes; he then inserted tennapoleons in each, and the sailmaker sewed them up again.
That twenty napoleonsmay help me to get out of an English prison.
The French captain said I had fairly earned wages, and gave me ten napoleons when he started.
His remittance awaited him, and he came out of the Rue de la Paix with thirty gold napoleons in his pocket.
Napoleons and Andrew Jacksons amuse it, but it is not amused by perfect balance.
I am here reminded that both the Napoleonshave proved themselves good and intelligent friends to the Opera.
On examining the purse, I found fifty Napoleons in it: they must have been obtained from her father.
O'Brien then pulled out the fifty Napoleons given us by Celeste, for our own were not yet expended, and laid them on the table.
At last her Majesty the Empress, having placed a roll of napoleons in the cradle, had the little bundle in swaddling clothes carried to the concierge of the palace, in order that he might restore it to its parents.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "napoleons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
