Sauci settled an annuity of a thousand crowns on me on the condition that I left the stage.
In the first place I have not a thousand crowns to throw away, and if I had I would not sacrifice my money to threats.
And so Michelagnolo set to work with high hopes; and, in order to make a beginning, he went to Carrara to excavate all the marble, with two assistants, receiving a thousand crowns on that account from Alamanno Salviati in Florence.
Jacopo heard of Michelagnolo's arrival, and, not finding him in Florence, sent him a thousand crowns to Carrara.
Rastignac manage to keep their son in Paris, when, as we know, their income is under a thousand crowns?
Now, a sub-prefect's salary only amounts to a thousand crowns, and there he stops in his arrondissement, wearing away time like the rung of a chair.
That was a bit of 'chantage' that you did with Dauriat; he gave you a thousand crowns to let Nathan alone.
I will just say, that after the lapse of two or three days from the time of my last visit, the idea occurred to me of sending him a thousand crowns in an Indian casket.
Thus saying, I was hastening to the adjoining room, where stood my secretaire, to take from it a thousand crowns I wished to give for the purpose.
This apartment, at a rent of a thousand crowns, crammed with all the vulgar magnificence that money can buy, occupied the first floor of a fine old house between a courtyard and a garden.
I will shell out to the tune of a thousand crowns!
Write to them, go and see them; they might get you a situation in the royal household which would give you a thousand crowns or so; your wife could earn as much more, and perhaps your daughter also.
The house at Dieppe was found to be eaten up with mortgages to its foundations; what she had placed with the notary God only knew, and her share in the boat did not exceed one thousand crowns.
He saw the glitter of a thousand crowns in fees from La Cibot, and five thousand francs from the Presidente.
Now this is what we stand in need of: twelve or fifteen thousand francs for the trousseau, and a thousand crowns to pay the tradesmen and to prevent any appearance of straitened circumstances in our house, when M.
And now, in order to arrange the marriage of Julie, my business is to find a thousand crowns in a pocket which pretends to be empty--to find entrance into a heart in order to find entrance into a cash-box!
Mercadet Mercadet (watching Virginie as she goes out) That girl has a thousand crowns of our good money in the savings bank, so that we needn't worry about the kitchen for awhile.
One of these men had a cashmere shawl on his shoulders worth quite a thousand crowns.
I wanted a chaplain on board my frigate; I asked His Majesty to let you fill this post, and he graciously granted it, together with a stipend of a thousand crowns.
A thousand crowns were to be given to any one who would deliver up the leader of those that had rescued the criminal, and two thousand crowns to those who would deliver up the criminal himself.
To incur a debt of a thousand crowns at the wrong time may be the first step towards ruin.
One day his wife came into the office and asked him for a thousand crowns to buy a piano.
Through all Prince Rudolf looked on, but was bound by his wager not to undeceive her; moreover, he found much entertainment in the matter, and swore that it was worth three times a thousand crowns.
I'll lay you a thousand crowns to a hundred that you do not gain a kiss, using what means you will, save force.
And Rudolf had paid the sum of a thousand crowns to the marquis, so that the fugitive was well provided for his journey, and, travelling with many relays of horses, made good his escape from the clutches of King Henry.
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