He paid a thousand and five hundred sequins for her, for she was brought from Georgia,' said another.
They were the chains of sequins that Phratos gave me when I used to dance to his music in the mountains; and I have sold them.
They were little Oriental sequins engraved with Arabic characters, chained together after the Eastern fashion.
The night I was brought here you stole the sequins off my head.
She slipped the sequins in her bosom, and went back to her own bed of hay in the loft.
He mused a moment whether he should offer her back her sequins as a gift; he thought not.
At the third blow a burst of gold poured out, and sequins ran in every direction.
The blowing-up of his little steam-boat, which had nearly furnished his drama with a tragic catastrophe, added to its effect; and his discovery of the sequins was managed by three of his countrymen.
I will see to all that," said I; and four sequins soon made her all smiles again.
As soon as we were alone she drew my ear-rings from her pocket, and said, with a smile, that she had just been shewing them to a jeweller, who had offered her a thousand sequins for them.
He then asked if two sequins would be enough, and I answered in the affirmative.
He would not confess to being a miser, but I made him admit that if the Inquisitors would give him a hundred sequins for every day of his imprisonment he would gladly pass the rest of his life under the Leads.
I had three sequins so I gave him one, and he went off.
Take these seventeen livres, which is all that remains to me of the two sequins Count Asquin gave me.
Father Balbi finished by asking me to send him a few sequins for pocket-money, as he was too much of a gentleman to ask the dean who, quoth the ungrateful fellow, "is not gentleman enough to offer to give me anything.
I was quite willing to let Count Seriman have his money, but I claimed a reduction of a hundred sequins on account of the costs of the lawsuit.
The next day Lawrence gave me an account of my money, and on finding that I had a balance of four sequins I gave them to him, telling him it was a present from me to his wife.
I searched for the sequins but they were not there.
Lawrence told me that I might spend to the amount of six sequins a month, that I might have what books I liked, and take in the newspaper, and that this present came from M.
On opening the desk I saw the copy of a letter advising the Proveditore of Corfu of a grant of three thousand sequins for the restoration of the old fortress.
I explained to him how I was situated, and asked him to let me have sixty sequins on my note of hand, drawn on M.
The pattern of the crescent-shaped sequins I recognised as the same as those worn by the mysterious Halima.
Rows of golden sequins hung upon her brow, and upon her wrists and bare ankles were jingling bangles.
And yet you would spend a thousand sequins for the pleasure of passing a night with me.
He was well enough pleased when he touched the two sequins with which I rewarded him.
It came from his cousin the abbe, who begged the count to apologize to me for him if he was unable to pay the twenty sequins he had lost to me in the proper time, but that he would discharge his debt in the course of the week.
While they were making some coffee for us, and Barbaro was entertaining the young lady, I took a pack of cards, and had not much difficulty in inducing the officer to risk twenty sequins against the twenty I put on the table.
I will get you the best masters, and in that time you can perfect your dancing, and will be able to ask for a first-class appointment, with a salary of five hundred sequins a year.
He bought the phaeton and horses, and I only lost thirty sequins by the transaction.
I gave her the hundred sequins I had promised her, and told her to go on with her play.
I gave Zenobia twelve sequins for the trouble she had taken.
If you like to stop at Parma for three days, and if you will promise to give me fifty sequins when I bring you the news that the borgello is dead, I promise to shoot him within the next twenty-four hours.
I decided on giving her fifty sequins without letting Veronique see me, as I did not intend to be so liberal towards her.
I was touched with compassion, and I borrowed twenty sequins from Canano, and gave them to the poor wretch, telling him to write to me.
I spent thirty sequins in what I considered necessary, but then I noticed that there was no English point on her mask, and burst out again.
I took the watch, and gave the father six sequins for it, and then handed it to Irene.
This engagement prevented my paying a visit to Canano, who had won a thousand sequins of me since my great victory as Pierrot.
The sequins lose their garishness; the painted faces preserve an illusion of reality.
She heard quite plainly the tinkle of the sequins and spangles as the girls came trooping down the stone stairs into the wings to wait there for the curtain's rise.
I offered Rousselot the three sequins from my own purse, as a discharge of the debt.
Blond to endeavor to obtain from him the three sequins on giving him a receipt for the amount, or to prevail upon him to renew the note by way of duplicate.
If so," I answered, "I will give you ten sequins for her virginity.
When he had done so, I handed him eight sequins out of my own purse, and made him give me a receipt in the name of the captain, who could only speak German, Hungarian, and Latin.
I give you my word that I have compelled the thief to refund this money, together with the fifty sequins of which he had likewise cheated me.
I punted so as not to appear unwilling to join the game, and after losing a few sequins I went out to breathe the fresh air, for we had drunk freely.
I asked for new packs of cards, and put three hundred sequinson the table.
The magician is ready; it is I, but unless you give me five hundred sequins cash down we cannot agree.
Two hundred sequins were asked for it, although it had but two seats and a bracket-stool for a third person.
After dinner, being alone with Madame Querini, I told her all about Alfani, alias Celi, and handed her the fifty sequins of which I was the depositary.
Please to tell her that I intend to give her the thirty sequins I received from the Bishop of Cesena, and that if I were rich I would give her more substantial proofs of my tender affection.
I sent my cicerone, who was also my servant, to tell the girl in the garb of an officer that I would give her ten sequins for an hour's conversation.
I had taken a fancy, not to purloin five hundred sequins from those poor fools, but to go and unearth the amount at their expense in the house of another fool, and to laugh at them all into the bargain.
I counted my money, and found that I had wan two hundred and fifty sequins, besides a debt of fifty sequins due by an officer who played on trust which Captain O'Neilan took on his own account.
Without more ado, I got hold of a broomstick, and gave her a good lesson, in order to get something for the tensequins which I had been foolish enough to pay in advance.
His dancing partner laughed till her sequins jingled from throat to ankle: "They call us Fifi and Nini," she replied.
There will be war," remarked Nini with a shrug of her bare, brown shoulders over which her hair and her gilded sequins fell in a bright mass.
Marzio--He came to me the other day in all secrecy, to beg me to lend him ten sequins on a pair of earrings of his wife's.
Here; go to the jeweler's yonder, show him these earrings of Signor Eugenio's wife, and ask him for me if they are security for ten sequins that I lent him.
He immediately ordered a large bagful of sequins to be brought, a thousand were counted out, which the dyer took after weighing them, and the judge then ordered the marriage contract to be drawn out.
There were bales of silk and cloth of India, with twenty purses, each containing a thousand sequins of gold.
He ordered me ten thousand sequins out of his treasury, and granted me permission, the moment I asked it, to quit the court and carry with me the eunuch Schapour.
My lord," said he, "I am prepared to obey you; but I will not part with Cayfacattaddhari unless you give me a dowry of a thousand golden sequins beforehand.
I will content myself with ten gold sequins a day.
He sent his confidential servant, and my treasurer gave him thirty thousand sequins for the first month.
The worthy Mardocheus begged him to give me a hundred sequins in case I needed any money, adding that any politeness shewn to me would be as if shewn to himself.
He drew the whole of his income from vineyards, which produced an excellent white wine and a revenue of a thousandsequins a year.
Two hours later one of his servants came to me and promised if I would give him six sequins to warn me if his master made any preparations for flight.
All this, plus a servant, only cost me ten sequins a month.
In three weeks the consul received orders to give me another grant of a hundred ducats, and to allow me ten sequins a month, to encourage me to deserve well of the State.
I left Florence poorer by a hundredsequins than when I came there.
This new present, and the monthly payment of ten sequins put me at my ease, for I had expensive tastes of which I could not cure myself.
After the procurator had gone I began to enjoy life at Trieste, but in strict moderation and with due regard for economy, for I had only fifteen sequins a month.
Sasso Sassi, the banker, had already paid Zanovitch six thousand sequins by my lord's orders.
A poor woman had come before the archbishop, and had complained bitterly that the midwife Teresa had seduced her, promising to give her twenty sequins if she would give her a fine boy to whom she had given birth a fortnight ago.
Yes, sir," I replied; "but it cost me a hundred sequins ready money.
I offered the young man twenty, fifty, eighty, even a hundred sequins in addition to his two hundred, if he would part with the cloak.
There were many would-be purchasers for the cloak, the extraordinary beauty of which attracted everybody; but none resembled the stranger in the slightest degree, and nobody was willing to pay such a high price as two hundred sequins for it.
Bravely spoken, O Zafar," she answered, her cheeks flushing with excitement and her sequins tinkling musically as she moved.
For a second we saw the face of a beautiful woman with hair like golden sheen, and were both amazed to discover that in place of rows of sequinsshe wore a single ornament suspended upon her white, unfurrowed brow.
Antonio stared at Pietro, and then burst out spasmodically, "Comrade, you may earn another ten sequins and more if you like.
Let us now turn our eyes upon yon neatly dressed handsome youth who is going up and down the Rialto with his purse of sequins in his hand, conversing with Jews, Turks, Armenians, Greeks.
From a distance he shouted to her, "You shall nevertheless have a new hood, and as many sequins besides as you like.
Turning abruptly round, he recognised the old woman, and, dipping his hand into his purse, took out a handful of sequins with the intention of throwing them to her.
Signor Antonio, the best of good greetings to you; your sequins have brought me good luck.
Look yonder, look yonder at yon blazing fire in the west; there are sequins for you!
My small trunk was laid open before the old woman, to whom was handed an inventory of all its contents, together with six sequins for six months paid in advance.
I readily consented, and she handed me twenty-four sequins for the supper and for the band, undertaking to send people to place chandeliers in the hall and in my other rooms.
Then she took the stuff and went her ways; and I, O our lord the Sultan, had sold to her for five hundred sequins a piece of cloth worth at cost price three hundred and fifty gold pieces.
And he besought the boy and spread out sequins before him.
She had a gold necklace, like what we used to call esclavage, of several rows, one below another, to which were hung rows of sequins pierced.
The Count added his advice that they should abandon an attempt foredoomed to failure, and, being concerned for the two sequins with which he had so reluctantly parted, he argued the case at great length.
He opened a desk, and rummaging in it, found a letter addressed to the Proveditor of Corfu, advising a remittance of three thousand sequins for the repair of the fortress.
He complained of being still kept in tutelage; he had calculated that he could spend eight hundred sequins a month, and thought his allowance of two hundred sequins a month an insult.
After returning me the hundred sequins he embraced me affectionately, and, shewing me a large letter of credit on Bettoni, said that I must consider his purse as mine.
Medini who had only lost about fifty sequins was desperate, and would have thrown himself out of the window.
I paid the bill, gave something to the waiter, and took them back to the convent, where the porteress seemed well enough pleased with the new rules when she saw two sequins in her palm.
As I was walking through the streets of Grand Cairo, considering how I should lay out my fifty sequins to the greatest advantage, I was stopped by one who called me by my name, and asked me if I could pretend to have forgotten his face.
My master put a purse containing fifty sequins into my hand, and bade me farewell.
As its pilgrims are known to be sectaries, they are exposed to great extortions on the road: Saoud exacted a heavy capitation-tax from them, as did Sherif Ghaleb at Mekka, amounting in latter times to thirty sequins per head.
The price of dollars and sequins fluctuates almost daily, and the serafs are always sure to be gainers.
Then I placed some sequins in his hand, and left him to the elaboration of his petition.
Sacchi was with me this morning; he gave the merchant security; I have got the stuff on credit, and three sequins a month are to be deducted from my salary to pay for it.
No Jew would give you two sequins for these things, not to speak of a hundred.
There are hardly fifty men of us living here in Praousta, and really it seems to us quite sufficient that each of us has two sequins to pay at the end of each summer.
Bardissi's officials flew from house to house, levying a contribution of five hundred sequins from each Frank and Levantine.
I, however, am a poor man, and have not the hundred sequins to give her for her jewelry, in order that she may take them to the people of Praousta, for from them only will Mohammed accept payment of the tax.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sequins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
