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Example sentences for "thousand ducats"

  • How willingly would I have signed a bill of exchange for a thousand ducats, on my property at Vienna, only to have satiated my hunger on dry bread!

  • She blamed the precipitate anger and unjust suspicions of the King; promised me speedy aid, and sent me a thousand ducats.

  • I afterwards learned the traitorous Trenck had promised Lieutenant F---g a company and a thousand ducats if he would find means to quarrel with me and rid the world of me.

  • Signor Sanguisuela,' said he, 'can you not oblige me with the loan of a thousand ducats?

  • And he left a thousand ducats in the bank of Messer Antommaria da Lignano to carry out the work when he departed for Rome.

  • He asking me what it would cost, I said I believed I could cast it for a thousand ducats, but that it was not my art and that I could not promise.

  • Afterwards, I being in Rome with the said Pope Julius, he commissioned me to make his tomb, into which was to go a thousand ducats’ worth of marbles.

  • He offered a thousand ducats, did he not?

  • Who betrayed me to you for a thousand ducats?

  • They will bring a thousand ducats, and that sum will last us for a whole year.

  • Brazovics, and pushed Timea off his knee; "only a thousand ducats?

  • He declares therein that he has given over to me a thousand ducats in gold, and his remaining property is contained in the cargo, which consists of ten thousand measures of wheat.

  • Here in this casket is money--about a thousand ducats; the rest of my property is in the sacks packed as grain.

  • At once the inquisitors issued letters demanding its release under pain of excommunication and a thousand ducats.

  • Moreover, they would pay him four hundred thousand ducats--one hundred thousand before his departure and the balance in three equal annual payments at the fair of Antwerp in May.

  • Be cunning in the working this, and thy fee is a thousand ducats.

  • Therefore know, I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats.

  • Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of Don John for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.

  • A thousand ducats if you equal my hopes--my just anger if you disappoint them!

  • A thousand ducats in thy willing hand is no novelty" "They who call me rich, Signor Mask, are pleased to joke with the unhappy child of a luckless race.

  • Therefore know I have earned of Don John a 100 thousand ducats.

  • The insatiable Calcena and Aguirre, however, secured a thousand ducats which, in 1515, Ferdinand granted them in recompense for their labors on the composition.

  • When Alcazar was assessed at a thousand ducats it remonstrated to Ferdinand, who kindly ordered execution suspended.

  • The governor's final and conclusive jurisdiction was extended to all cases not exceeding a thousand ducats in value.

  • These judges tried cases with appeal to the governor, and the judgment of the latter was final in cases involving a value of a thousand ducats or less.

  • These supplies could not be furnished to this country for a thousand ducats; and with them the condition of these islands will be greatly improved.

  • We'll play with them: the first boy for a thousand ducats.

  • Therefore know I have earned of Don John a thousand ducats.

  • I helped her to escape and got away myself, and when I came to Zurgos she rewarded me very handsomely with a diamond ring and a thousand ducats.

  • And where are my thousand ducats, you rascals?

  • It was the pretty adventuress, Camilla, who had decoyed me and helped to rob me of my thousand ducats.

  • Therefore know, I have earned of don John a thousand ducats.

  • Grow this to what adverse issue it can, I will put it in practice: Be cunning in the working this, and thy fee is a thousand ducats.

  • Marry, that he had received a thousand ducats of don John, for accusing the Lady Hero wrongfully.


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