It is necessary to beg them, and to pay them what they ask, for there are no others who can perform these services.
They had to pay for that privilege an annual sum of ten pesos, although the obligation was only eight pesos five reals, so that he burdened them with eleven reals.
The Dutch also hanged another, a Tagalog boy, who served their commander, because he ran away to the natives of that country; and two Dutchmen whom they found in our garrison, in the pay of his Majesty.
Although many remonstrances were made to them on this point, they replied that they would pay those Indians as the Spaniards had done, and that the former should serve them.
Should a player fail to take the conductor's office at the proper time, he must pay a forfeit.
When the bill was presented, the miser suggested that they should cast lots who should pay the score.
Say you will pay it back in instalments, and offer a shilling towards it.
The result is that 'Gene can't sell it and daren't cut it for fear of being involved in a law-suit that he couldn't possibly pay for.
That was trying to drive a bargain to make them pay for something they had never asked to have.
Neale, I believe you are the only person in the world who can really pay attention to what somebody else says.
His real pay was the feeling of managing, of doing a job he was fitted for, and that was worth doing.
Companie of Stationers shall pay unto the said Thomas Buck two full third parts of the several prices they cost.
A fresh arrangement was therefore proposed by which Bathurst should pay ready money for books printed and the university should not be required to advance money to carry on the business.
I will pay them well if they can really amuse us, but I want something more than the old tricks of knife-throwing and balancing.
Moreover, the members of the Dragon Army had been promised double pay if they should accomplish the wishes of their sovereign, while Su-nan's soldiers knew only too well that they would be put to the sword if they should be defeated.
Mirabeau was already in the pay of the monarchy; soon after the return of the court to St. Cloud the queen had a secret interview with him in the park, and boasted to Madame Campan how she had flattered the great tribune.
Andrea del Sarto and Paris Bordone did little more than pay passing visits, and the famous school of Fontainebleau was founded by Rosso and Primaticcio, two decadent followers of Michel Angelo.
Northern men who had come to the South to purchase or lease plantations enjoyed the great advantage of having money, so that they could pay the wages of their negro laborers in cash, which the negroes preferred.
I am going to give up my lease when this class is over, and cannot pay your board nor give you a single dollar now.
I'll pay; I'll pay you a level hundred to start by nine in the morning, cash down on the deck the minute you're outside the bar.
In replying to criticism this bureau will, if necessary, pay the regular advertising rate for the publication of their statements.
It would have been his delight, he said, to have tried Bonaparte on a wind.
He sent them word, that he wouldpay them a disagreeable visit, if there were any more complaints.
Double pay was allowed to every artificer and seaman employed in the naval yard: Nelson had superintended the whole business of that yard with the most rigid exactness, and he complained that he was neglected.
Out of twenty millions of ducats, collected as the revenue, only thirteen millions reach the treasury; and the king pays four ducats where he should pay one.
If nobody will pay it, I will sell Bronte and the Emperor of Russia's box.
On his return to the office, the clerk, finding it was only the annual pay of a captain, observed, he thought it had been more.
The answer which he received was, that "no pay had ever been issued under the direction of the War-office to officers of the navy serving with the army on shore.
I'm told you are an honest man and always pay your debts, so hand over that dollar.
You pay three dollars to have your piano tuned, yet you train your voice to sound harsh and hard.
Then smash the glass and I'll pay the bill to-morrow," said Spurgeon.
I am a southern man, born and reared mid slavery, and I pay this tribute to the black "mammies" of the South before the war.
It's good to laugh, and yet, while I pay tribute to the trait of humor, I would have the undergirding trait of all traits of character, the trait of principle.
He knows he can't pay for it, but there's a boom and he expects to sell for six thousand before the second payment is due.
They quoted in their turn the information they had levered out of the Company men--that Traders had their code and that once pay had been given in advance the contract must be fulfilled.
Dane was reaching for the pay to give the captors when, to his real astonishment, one of them advanced and pointed with an extended forefinger claw to the open port.
Standard pay on the completion of each run--Board rates," he made replies in order.
What is it to me if Schlesinger makes Probst pay dearer for my manuscripts?
I shallpay the paper- hanger Perrichon at once after my arrival.
But before Senor Gomez had done with his tenants, he made them pay for the whitewashing and the replastering of the whole house, which he held to have been infected by Chopin.
I feel better every day; nevertheless, you will paythe portier these fifty francs, to which I completely agree, for my doctor does not permit me to move from here before summer.
When you receive the money from Pleyel, payfirst the landlord's rent, and send me immediately 500 francs.
I shall come back, and shall payhim a visit, and thank him as well as Leo.
But the publisher, whilst professing the highest opinion of the composer's merit, regretted that the sale of the compositions was not such as to allow him to pay more than he had hitherto done.
Besides; the rents they pay now, will be found, I believe, sufficient to reimburse the capitalist for an outlay which would suffice to build tenements of a superior description to the present ones.
He thereupon assessed a tax upon beards, requiring every gentleman who wore one to pay a hundred rubles a year; and if any peasant entered the city wearing a beard, he was stopped at the gates, and rerequired to pay a fine of a penny.
And, at any rate, whatever you decide in respect to these proposals, if you wish to communicate with me on any subject hereafter, I shall pay no attention to what you send unless you address it to me as your king.
So it was agreed that Arthur and this young daughter of Tancred should be affianced, and that Tancred should pay to Richard twenty thousand pieces of gold as her dowry.
Soldiers, you are hungry and naked; the government owes you much, and can pay you nothing.
