I'm not bargaining; but still it seems to me that you might knock something off, and that for twenty-four sous one ought to have a superb rosette.
The effect that the ribbon would produce somewhat mitigated his regrets at paying thirty sous for it.
At the Panthéon you paid two sous more, but the coffee was better.
Pay thirty or forty francs a month for a place to live and work, two sous each morning for café au lait passed across the zinc--good coffee too, as you perhaps know.
They wouldn't need any aid if their husbands were not in the trenches earning five sous a day.
I flatter myself that it was not so much for the extra two sous per hour as for the fact that she liked me.
Salt, instead of costing thirteen sousand over, no longer costs more than two sous the pound.
During the following year she hawked caps at nine sous apiece, which proved a more profitable business; only she had to keep a sharp look-out, as street trading of this kind is forbidden unless one be licensed.
That old rogue runs things down all over the markets, and he often waits till the last peal of the bell before spending four sous in purchase.
Come now, Marcel; a hundred sous for that basket there, and four francs for the other one; that'll make nine francs altogether.
She was paid twosous for every dozen lemons that she sold, and on good days she could earn some five or six sous.
When Florent returned home too late to cook a scrap of meat, he was in the habit of laying out a dozen sous or so on a small portion of turkey or goose at this shop.
Then he wanted her to feel the feathers which were lying in heaps on the stone slabs; and told her that they were sorted and sold for as much as nine sous the pound, according to their quality.
He had been able to pay for a seat in the coach as far as Rouen, but from that point he had been forced to continue his journey on foot, as he had scarcely thirty sous left of his little store.
You may have them for two sous the bunch, if you like.
Can you let me have half a pound of mixed meats at fifty sous the pound?
For our part, we prefer to make merely a hundred sous at a time, and to get a hundred sous' worth of enjoyment out of them.
You know quite well that you will sell them again to the Parisians at four and five sous the bunch.
They only recognize the forty sous of their day's work.
Give the boy twenty-four sous and let us go to breakfast.
By playing ten sous a game--never more--Méry managed for a year to make an income of ten francs per day.
From amongst these papers the two visitors would make a selection, paying the grocers fifteen sous a pound, M.
William Peel received eight livres and five sous from the duchess when he brought the first tidings that Rouen was recaptured from the English.
The blowers expect that a few sous will be tossed to them, and children chase you with bunches of mountain flowers to sell.
He even inquired of a porter at the station how he could best reach the Certosa di Pesio; and the man told him it was an hour's drive or more, and got him a little carriage for the journey, and received a few sous for his pains.
As the distance was considerable, and as Batiscombe always gave him a gold piece for a letter, and Leonora another, he thought he could afford himself ten sous a day for the hire of his primitive cab, without any reckless extravagance.
Only one onion cost five sous now, and the life is very hard, but Amerique have the great heart to help us and give us the hand, and we work all the two for the Patrie.
And Maman give me five sous for purchase a bouquet for give them in souvenir of my dear godfather, and the fleuriste give me two roses red and I envelope them in a paper wet for hold them fresh.
But Maman say to him: "This year the little Jesus carry nothing, because with all the sous in the world he want to get our big victory so the dirty boches kill no more our dear Papas.
Dear little godfather, I am very recognizing[23] that you guard 47 sous for my Christmas.
Andrée, and she give me two sous for put in the hole all the Sundays, and it come out nevermore until it break, you comprehend?
His pay, after deducting the necessary demands on it in the shape of regular contributions, amounts to about two sous a day, instead of the two francs he got in my service.
The nett pay of the army is about two sous a day; this is settled by law, passed by the representatives of those who pay two hundred francs a year, in direct taxation.
It is only the poor man, who is never in possession of one or two thousand francs, that is obliged to serve seven years at two sous a day, nett.
Deposit two sous and eight farthings in the common purse, and speak.
Whoso wishes to enter a complaint before these overseers can be heard, but not before he has deposited two sous and eight farthings in the common purse, after which he can demand the party against whom he enters a complaint.
Later the Café Foy made a complete volte-face, raised its ices to twenty sous and grew Royalist in tone.
When fifteen sous had already been spent, they determined to make a day of it and ordered roast goose with hot cakes.
Like Napoleon in his fall, he asked for no more than thirty sous a day, and any man of energy can earn thirty sous for a day's work in Paris.
Supposing some extraordinary luck, fifty sous might be won,--more capital than any person in Guerande spent in the course of any one day.
Brought up in the midst of modern civilization, these young persons cared little for five sous a game, and on such occasions the stakes went higher.
If he plays and wins a trick he is paid /pro rata/ to the stake; that is, if there are five sous in the basket, he wins one sou.
The first stage from Dole, if we remember right, is Mont sous Vaudrey.
He said nothing as I came up this time, but as I put the sousinto his hand, looked up with a pleasant smile and a simple "Thank you," totally unlike the manner of the English or Italian beggar.
There was a great deal of laughter over our endeavours to parcel out the right children to the right mothers, and a positive refusal at first to accept the few sous we brought out as a thankoffering for the fire and shelter.
Even the offer of a handful of sous as soon as the carriage came up, could not induce them to disperse, notwithstanding the persuasion of one of their number, a pretty boy of about eleven.
Alfred de Musset saw in the ladies of Madrid, “sous un col de cigne Un sein vierge et doré comme la jeune vigne.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sous" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
