I raised no objection, gave a sequinto the man for his trouble, and went to the wharf.
Convinced by my sequin rather than my words, he opened the door, I went in, and promising him another sequin for his trouble I requested him to get me a gondola to take me to Venice.
I explained my predicament in a few words, and giving him one sequin I begged his permission to shelter myself under his roof.
The next morning everything came out, and my mother made up the sequin to the doctor.
The pleasantest part about this was that the sequin I had given for the ring belonged to Dr.
Nearly all of the Japanese chestnut, Henry chinkapin, and Sequin chestnuts, as well as inferior hybrids in the climatic test plots during the past several years have died a natural death or have been destroyed.
Alighting from the cab, Tancred hurried to Sequin Court and sent in his card to Sidonia, who in a few moments received him.
The well-trained ear of this guardian of the gate was conversant with every combination of sound which the apartments of Sequin Court could produce.
Do you happen to know, sir, a place called Sequin Court?
When you are face to face with the woman, beg her to hear you, and ask her for her secret, and to inspire confidence put a sequin or two in her hand.
Next day, the impudent fellow told me that he would order us a good supper at Viterbo, and that of course I would lend him a sequin to pay for his dinner at Montefiascone.
For each of these passports a sequin was paid to the secretary who made it out and countersigned it.
The word sequin made him open his ears, and without giving me his opinion of the abolition of that tax upon the French, he pretended I ought to account with him for the others, promising me at the same time equivalent advantages.
All my predecessors had been paid this sequin by Frenchmen and others without distinction.
Anyway the sequin was fished out from somewhere, and shaken and pulled this way and that.
Why don't you get into your black sequin to-night!
But I unveiled the mystery by promising one sequin to a peasant woman if she could find out who had sawn the plank.
I took the bank, lost every sequin I had, and retired, begging the monk to pay what I owed to the landlord, which he promised to do.
During the fifth game, a run of adverse cards made him lose all he had won, and as he tried to do violence to Dame Fortune in the sixth round, he lost every sequin he had.
But his holiness, the papa, might choose to charge one sequin for it.
This single sequin I picked up on the rear end of the off side footboard, and its presence there makes it nearly certain that at some time Miss Grant had put her head out of the window on that side.
With all my heart, said I, I will do all that is in my power to make you easy, and went immediately round all the markets and shops in the town to seek for apples, but could not get one, though I offered a sequin for each.
We passed by several islands, and at last arrived at Balsora, from whence I came to this city, with the value of one hundred thousand sequins[Footnote: The Turkish sequin is about nine shillings sterling.
The rich man's florin is quickly coined into a sequin by vulgar tongues, while the poor man is lucky if he can get the change of a silver mark for an ounce of the better metal.
Were this thy Italy, Gaetano, a sequin would not only supply the place of a dozen signatures, but, by the name of thy favorite, San Francesco!
The Genoese dropped a sequin into the hand of the officer, passing him, at the same time, on his way to the waterside.
As the Genoese concluded, he dropped into a palm that was well practised in bribes a sequin of the celebrated republic of which he was a citizen.
I went immediately round all the markets and shops in the town to seek for apples, but I could not get one, though I offered to pay a sequin a piece.
Mr. Sequin smiled ironically, and ran his fingers through his scant gray hair.
Tain't nothin' shore 'nuff but our ole pond where we uster ketch bullfrogs, but Mrs. Sequin she tole me to call hit de Lygoon.
She confided to Mrs. Sequin that she was afraid he was getting interested in Connie Queerington, and that somebody ought to tell him that Connie had been in love with dear Gerald for years and years.
Mr. Sequin was a thin, stooped man, prematurely old at fifty.
Mrs. Sequin's two plump fingers did duty for the bride and groom, but Mr. Sequin was not interested.
Tell her to wait," said Mrs. Sequinwithout turning her head.
Unless Basil Sequin can make some arrangement, I shall be seriously embarrassed.
The family skeletons that had always lurked in the Sequin closets, seemed to revel in their commodious new quarters.
They asked a sequin in advance, I gave it them, and promised the other to the man who would get on my poop and help me to make the point.
As soon as she saw me, she handed me back the sequin which I had given her the day before, and a letter, requesting me to read it and to let her know whether she was to wait for an answer.
I am satisfied with your abilities, go on, and here is a sequin for expenses.
I do not blush," he added, "in begging from you one sequin which will keep us alive for five or six days.
When she saw the sequin which I had put in her hand the good woman cried for joy, and she told me that, as the gates of the convent were never closed for her, she would deliver my letter the moment she found the young lady alone.
I informed her that I had given a sequin to the messenger, that she would find another for herself under the seal of my letter, and that I would send her all the money she might want.
I wished them all happy slumbers, and after giving a sequin to the servant who opened the door, and another to the coachman, I had myself set down at the door of my lodging.
You say that your fortune consists of one sequin .
He lived very thriftily and retired, carefully adding each sequin to his capital, as the ground-work for some new plan of making money.
No, Omar, I know what that sum is very well; and just so much, and not one sequin less, can save me from the most disgraceful poverty.
The prince then drew from his purse a sequin of gold and placed it in the girl's hand, who went off to the market.
In order to do something for a living I changed my sequin into aspres, and purchased some preserved apples, sweetmeats, balms, and roses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sequin" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
