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Example sentences for "soldo"

Lexicographically close words:
soldierlike; soldierly; soldiers; soldiership; soldiery; sole; solebat; solecism; solecisms; soled
  1. At the low price of a soldo you may choose your own portion of the hideous dainty, warm it in the water and devour it on the spot.

  2. There is the seller of hot food with his caldron, not unlike the stall at which the workman stops to-day in the Piazza Cavour and pays a soldo to have his hunch of bread dipped into hot tomato broth.

  3. What they call the Soldo vivo in Spain is, when the same Pay is advanc'd as if the Corps was actually on an Establishment or Footing.

  4. I bet you a plugged soldo against a lira that you would have done the same.

  5. But Pinocchio had such a quick mind that when he found he couldn't puzzle it out he invented a letter and did it so well that he earned a soldo by it and the deep gratitude of his clients.

  6. If you are a creditor come back six months after peace is declared, because now I won't pay you a soldo even if I had one.

  7. I bet you a soldo against a lira what hour it was.

  8. When I give a soldo to a beggar, and he says to me, "God preserve your health, and the health of all belonging to you!

  9. Saturday morning he gave a soldo to one of the upper first class, who was crying in the middle of the street, because his own had been taken from him, and he could not buy his copy-book.

  10. It is as though a soldo and a flower fell from your hand together.

  11. Oh, never again, Enrico, pass a mother who is begging, without placing a soldo in her hand!

  12. In this country every one can sell bread and wine, and the wine is worth at most one soldo the bottle and a pound of veal one soldo, and salt ten dinari and butter the same and their pound is 30 ounces, and eggs are one soldo the lot.

  13. The gold solidus, a name which gave birth to the Spanish and Italian soldo and the French sol.

  14. A supposititious lira di grossi was taken and divided into 40 soldi, each soldo was subdivided into 12 denari, and each one of these denari was equivalent to the grosso, the actual coin existing in the system--already described.

  15. Play till one of you's won every soldo of it.

  16. A few centesimi and perhaps a soldo or two still lie on the floor, thrown through the grating by pilgrims, and the number of these which any chapel can attract may be supposed to be a fair test of its popularity.

  17. The fourteen figures at the foot of the mountain he assigns to Gaudenzio Soldo of Camasco, a pupil of the sculptor Dionigi Bussola.

  18. Signore," he answered, "he wants you to give him a soldo to go and buy you a cigar with.

  19. I gave him a two-soldo piece, and in a few minutes the dog returned with a small loaf of bread, which he laid at my feet, at the same time gazing wistfully in my face.

  20. These shops are therefore resorted to for family supplies day by day; and the poor lay in provisions there in portions graduated to a soldo of their ready means.

  21. A favorite artifice is to approach Charity with a slice of polenta in one hand, and, with the other extended, implore a soldo to buy cheese to eat with the polenta.

  22. Sadder music I have never heard, but though it has at times drawn from me the sigh of sensibility without referring sympathy to my pocket, I always hear the compassionate soldo of Giovanna clink reproof to me upon the pavement.

  23. Never have I had a soldo from your private purse, never a single ornament, and never have your foul lips touched mine.


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