I have but now received a letter from Messina, in which my brother bids me sell, if need be, all that I have here, and send him without fail within eight days a thousand florins of gold: otherwise he will forfeit his head.
It is also my desire to be able to recommend you," said he curtly, carelessly taking up a package of the banknotes and playing with ten thousand florins as if they were so many valueless scraps of paper.
But as I told you, nothing less than a thousand florins would do; and where am I to get so much money?
Berger; he agreed we should halve the sum, and his contrivance was, I should make oath I had lent you a thousand florins, without having received your note.
I took up a thousand florins more, in Prague, to defray these expenses, and was obliged, in Vienna, to pay the captain fifty ducats for travelling charges back.
Count Podstadsky, through his frauds, has ruined thousands of my subjects; Baron von Szekuly has stolen sixty thousand florins, and both these men have disgraced their births and titles.
If you should ever wish to sell him, bring him to the imperial stables, and he will be ransomed by me for a thousand florins.
In sum, this little matter cost two hundred thousand florins.
The air was balmy, the country revelling in green; and if I had wanted a thousand florins' worth of cherries, I could have got them far more easily than in Pomerania in the middle of June.
Well, I don't see much to laugh at, old gent, except it be at my own folly, to stand here so long chaffering about these paltry two thousand florins.
Surely, for such a paltry sum as a couple of thousand florins, it was not necessary to assume his brother's name and title.
Davis's letter mentions a couple of thousand florins; but if you are inclined to stretch the amount to five, or even four thousand, we 'll not fall out about the terms.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "thousand florins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
