When the pleasures of Tortuga or Jamaica had swallowed up all the hard-earned winnings of these men, they returned to sea, expending their last pistoles in powder and ball, and leaving heavy scores still unsettled with the cabaretiers.
At the first intelligence of some terrified fisherman, the frightened townsman threw his pistoles into wells, or mortared them up in the wall of his fortresses.
Mr. Stanhope, who was always as generous to me as possible, was also very serviceable to me at my Departure, for he lent me 40 Pistoles for my Journey.
On one occasion he pocketed very complacently a gratuity of fifty pistoles as the price of a service which he had rendered to the States General.
It was well known that at that embassy all the arts of corruption were well understood; and there could be little doubt that, at such a conjuncture, neither intrigues nor pistoles would be spared.
Achilles received his pistoles with great glee, and I believe valued them more than the diamonds themselves.
I suffered to take up his own money after I had repossessed myself of the pistoles which he had won before I had discovered his fraud.
I had lost six pistoles out of the money my father had given for my journey to Spain.
I have fought from Trois Pistoles to Michilimackinac for the toss of a louis-d'or.
Two men are required for the thing I speak of, and there are fifty pistoles for each.
To seal the bargain, and in earnest of all the gold to come, Garnache gave Arsenio a couple of gold louis as a loan to be repaid him when their nameless employer should pay him his fifty pistoles in Grenoble.
Tell me how the fifty pistoles are to be earned, and you may count upon me to put my hand to anything.
Florimond was a sick man, and were he otherwise, there was still Fortunio to stand by and see to it that the right sword pierced the right heart, else would his pistoles be lost to him.
The prospect of fifty pistoles has rendered it immutable.
When the thieves had left them, and while Fieubet was complaining of his misfortune, Courtin began to applaud himself for having saved his watch and fifty pistoles that he had time to slip into his trowsers.
Blunt observing it, went to the commanding officer and told him that the cadet had nineteen pistoles in his pocket, and it was a shame the French should have them.
But observing she had a great kindness for an old chambermaid, sister to one of my monks of Buzai, I did all I could to gain her, and by the means of a hundred pistoles down, and vast promises, I succeeded.
But money was the only thing wanting, for my treasury, was so drained by the gift of the hundred pistoles above mentioned that I had not a sou left.
I have twopistoles left, let them be given to these good fellows to drink.
He met Frontenac, with the intendant, near the Jesuit chapel, accosted him on the subject which filled his thoughts, and offered him a hundred pistoles if he would prevent the playing of "Tartuffe.
If you execute it well, I will give you one hundred pistoles to spend here.
Nor need we wonder if a bag of Rose Lempriere's pistoles lent weight, even to royal scruples.
Marry this," answered his companion, "that there be some among your friends who do not choose to starve while there are pistoles to be won by a brave action.
Provided with about three hundred pistoles and some jewels, which he had purloined from the ambassador, Guzman set out on his travels.
In the morning he returned to the place, and, digging up the bags of money, found that they contained two thousand five hundred reales in silver and thirty pistoles in gold.
He must have the harness and pistols, and that will cost very nearly twenty pistoles more.
Here are two hundred pistoles I have got from your father.
La Fontaine, with a little air of pride, "you must not suppose that I have only brought this idea and the eighty pistoles to the surintendant.
It was the picture, it will be remembered, drawn by Aramis, when he offered the thousand pistoles which he had with him in the carriage to the prince, and the enchanted Eden which the deserts of Bas-Poiton hid from the eyes of the world.
For these hundred pistoles I had the mortification, against which M.
Here we finished our matters of money, and I delivered into his hands seven thousand eight hundred pistoles in bills and money, a copy of an assignment on the townhouse of Paris for four thousand pistoles, at three per cent.
O capededious," said Chaudoreille to himself, "a hundred pistolesif I render him amorous.
But I mustn't forget the most interesting item--the hundred pistoles that the marquis is to give me if Blanche pleases him--and I must go to the little house.
A hundred pistoles for you if you gratify my wishes, a hundred strokes of the stick if you are not successful.
I will lay a wager that, in wigs and ribbons alone, there are certainly twenty pistoles spent, and twenty pistoles brings in at least eighteen livres six sous eight deniers per annum, at only eight per cent interest.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pistoles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
