In short, we dined together, and I only took a pistole from them for the lesson, which was very reasonable, but if they had refused me I would have spitted them both like sparrows.
With a full stomach and a pistole in his belt, Chaudoreille was very well pleased with his day's work.
I am sure the king owes for all he hath eaten since April: and I am not acquainted with one servant of his who hath a pistole in his pocket.
Five or six of us eat together one meal a day for a pistole a week; but all of us owe for God knows how many weeks to the poor woman that feeds us.
That a pair of handsome silk stockings, of one pistole value, be given to the handsomest young country maid that appears in the field--with many other whimsical and comical diversions too numerous to mention.
Unlike the Pistole Fee, which touched most directly the larger planters and the burgesses, the Parsons' Cause enflamed the entire populace.
Only a portion survives and is known as A Fragment Against the Pistole Fee.
In 1752 there also occurred a second and more decisive dispute--the Pistole Fee Controversy.
The tea tax was small, but as Bland had said of the Pistole Fee, "the question then ought not to be the smallness of the demand, but the Lawfulness of it.
Shortly after his arrival in Virginia Governor Robert Dinwiddie announced his intention to charge one pistole (a Spanish coin worth about $3.
In Virginia, the Revolution began in the minds and hearts of the House of Burgesses with the Pistole Fee.
In addition to the house resolutions, Bland wrote a closely reasoned essay attacking the Pistole Fee, A Modest and True State of the Case (1753).
For if it is against Law, the same Power which imposes one Pistole may impose a Hundred .
I gave Mrs. South half a pistole for a New Year's gift.
I dined to-day in the City, and saw poor Patty Rolt, and gave her a pistole to help her a little forward against she goes to board in the country.
Nay, father, I do not encourage the lad to be a spendthrift," says Grafton, taking the pistole himself.
And here is a pistole to spend as you will," says Mr. Carvel, tossing him the piece.
The half-pistole is ready," and he put it back again into his pocket.
Half a pistole if you can find out," said D'Artagnan.
Touches upon the Strange Effects a Half-pistole may have upon a Beadle and a Chorister.
To give ten francs to this honest fellow," replied Raoul, taking a pistole from his pocket.
Let us call one of these lackeys, with a demi-pistole in the left hand.
I would have given a pistole for half an hour of the hot-breathed siroc to warm the air till we could heat ourselves by exercise.
If it had been a box of serpents I could not have gazed into it with more horror, my purse feeling lighter by a pistole for every fold he unplied in the rich white silk.
He chang’d my Pistolefor me, and told me what Money would pass in such a place, and what in such a place, and what I should reserve last to pass in Holland.
Footnote 2: The moidore and the johannes were Portuguese coins, the pistole Spanish.
The moidore was worth six pieces of eight, thepistole four, the johannes eight.
He fierd his Pistole and shott downe one Musteese,[30] the rest fiering and lodeing as fast as they could, but the Spaniards coming in uppon them so fast that kill'd capt.
Well, at any rate you had bed and board, coat and breeches, shoes, and a pistole a month.
The Board of Trade considered the pistole dispute most inopportune.
They began by considering the complaints of several counties against the pistole fee.
Soon after Randolph's arrival in England articles began to appear in the gazettes intended to arouse sentiment against the pistole fee, which Dinwiddie wrongly attributed to him.
It was this, no doubt, which gave him the idea of adding to his income by charging a pistole for signing patents for land and affixing the seal.
If it was Stith who aroused the people against the pistole fee, he made a good job of it.
On the other hand, the violent reaction of the people of the colony to the pistole fee should have made it clear to him that they would resist taxation by Parliament fiercely.
But he did not explain how the charging of a pistole fee would have been an incentive to the holders of these lands to have them patented.
And he denied flatly that one person had left Virginia to avoid thepistole fee.
In the seventeenth century the Spanish pistole was actual coin in its own country and coin of account in France; board and lodging on "pension" terms would be reckoned in pistoles in Paris.
These skins were sold in France at a pistole each, or ten livres.
The pistole was a money of account, equal to ten livres tournois, and worth ten francs of the present currency.
Dinwiddie found a million of unpatented acres thus possessed, and he established, with the advice of the council, a fee of a pistole (equivalent to three dollars and sixty cents) for every seal annexed to a grant.
Here, landlord, give them all the house affords; take this pistole to pay for it.
Illustration] The gaoler then fancying I would drop him another pistole rather than be let down into the hole, ordered me to be buried among the rest, which I resolved to endure rather than break bulk any more.
But bless me, if every pistole was a doubloon and I had as many of them as I could carry I would not try another trip.
He had given the captain the last pistole he possessed, as he had been obliged to pay him in advance to get him to undertake the task, so he was again penniless.
Athos offered the man half a pistole to accompany him, but the man refused.
Five or six of us eat together one meal a day for a pistole a week; but all of us owe, for God knows how many weeks, to the poor woman that feeds us.
I am sure the king owes all that he has eaten since April, and I am not acquainted with one servant who hath a pistole in his pocket.
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