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Example sentences for "scudo"

Lexicographically close words:
scuba; scud; scudded; scudding; scudi; scuds; scuffed; scuffing; scuffle; scuffled
  1. Scudo having died in 1864, he was succeeded on the Revue des Deux Mondes by Blaze de Bury, who proved even more hostile to Gounod than his predecessor.

  2. In this, Scudo was perhaps not altogether wrong.

  3. There are ten paoli to a scudo Romano and ten bafocchi to a paolo, The bafocco is a copper coin.

  4. On arrival at Portici we dismissed our guide Salvatore with a scudo pour boire, besides the stipulated price.

  5. When the illustrious ladies descend, for Christ's sake beg a scudo of them for the unhappy Cantapresto.

  6. Each of the latter received a scudo and a pound of wax; and by one of them, Padre Ludovico Munaxho, the funeral oration was pronounced.

  7. The income of the judges, whom we have already mentioned as located in the towns and villages, varied from half a scudo yearly to 240 scudi, the latter being the pay of the Captain of Urbino.

  8. He had made a little money, and had squandered most of it before he died, leaving the small remainder to his only son, who had spent every scudo of it in the first year.

  9. A party of twelve is sufficient to pay the expense at the rate of a scudo and a half for each person.

  10. Footnote 7: The scudo is the Roman dollar.

  11. Tell him it will cost us a scudo and a half apiece.

  12. The credulous Neapolitan was delighted to have an opportunity to earn a scudo by so easy a service.

  13. In silver, there is the scudo of six livres, the mezzo scudo of three; and the quarto, or pezza di trenta soldi: but all these are very scarce.

  14. Ten paoli=one scudo (six livres or about 5s.

  15. For a decent first floor and two bed-chambers on the second, I payed no more than a scudo (five shillings) per day.

  16. There was a portrait of him by Paul Veronese in the Hall of the Great Council, but it perished in the fire of 1577; and that which is now seen in the Sala dello Scudo is, like the companion portrait of Marco Polo, imaginary.

  17. But I should suspect the map to have been a copy of the old one that existed in the Sala dello Scudo of the Ducal Palace.

  18. The zecchino was the gold standard coin in Rome before that of the scudo was adopted.

  19. He lived very comfortably for the rest of his life, taking a scudo out of his purse for whatever he had to pay, and his brothers likewise got on very well with their legacies, for he restored them as soon as he had rescued them from the queen.

  20. The steward did as he was told, and left a scudo that the man might get a supper without eating stolen food, but without saying who sent him, for he had learnt by his inquiries that he was the servant whom Borghese had sent away.

  21. He is very charitable, and gives a great many pensions of a scudo a day to poor individuals of the mezzoceto class.

  22. When people were ill, upon their paying a scudo for the carriage, the Santo Bambino was brought by two of the monks, and left upon the sick-bed, to be fetched away some hours after in the same way.

  23. And the proportion in value of the scudo and the piastre was exactly the same as that of the guinea and the sovereign, the former being worth ten and a half pauls, and the latter ten.

  24. As he finished these words he seemed a little heated, and almost offended, as if he thought that these people had come to give him this news by way of flattering him, or in order to have the violent criticism of Scudo confirmed.

  25. When he came out, he found he had half a scudo to pay for the water, half a scudo for towels, quarter of a scudo for soap, and another quarter scudo for a buono mano to the bath-girl.

  26. Scudo says; but the glory was that of a shooting star.


  27. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "scudo" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.