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Example sentences for "three dollars"

  • I arrived in New York with two or three dollars in pocket change and a ten-dollar bank-bill concealed in the lining of my coat.

  • He took me out of the "Courier" office and engaged my services in his own at three dollars and a half a week, which was an extravagant wage, but Orion was always generous, always liberal with everybody except himself.

  • Now that old letter of mine sold yesterday for forty-three dollars.

  • If she worked in a good family at two or three dollars a week, it is easily demonstrable that, at the present cost of these items, she would make as much clear profit as she now does at nine dollars for her shop-work.

  • She was at that time engaged to be married to a young mechanic, who earned something like two or three dollars a day.

  • Frank and Dick paused before the shop door, and finally saw them knocked down to rather a verdant-looking individual at three dollars.

  • I can't afford to give up a independent and loocrative purfession for a salary of three dollars a week.

  • The pay will be three dollars a week for the first six months.

  • Three dollars a dozen, but as I have only twenty dozen left, you can have them at two dollars and seventy-five cents per dozen.

  • I then closed a sale with her, and as she had been so very courteous and complimentary in her opinion of agents and peddlers, I let her have two bottles for three dollars.

  • After sending ten of it home to my wife I reached Fargo with twenty-three dollars, having made the trip with my pass.

  • I bought several pelts during the day, and sold them to a dealer before returning home, making a profit of three dollars.

  • I never could earn more than two or three dollars a week when I had work, which was not always.

  • Dick saw him speed away with a renewed splutter and a cloud of dust, while to himself he was saying: "Three dollars a week will never satisfy me just now.

  • I think I ought to have' three dollars a day," he said.

  • Chapter 20 But a big man cannot stay drunk very long on three dollars.

  • About the end of March he had got hold of Ona's bankbook, and learned that there was only three dollars left to them in the world.

  • Why, three dollars is han'some pay for what little you do.

  • Why compare with this the hours of toil in a grocery store--seventy, at least--which had been necessary to earn the small sum of three dollars.

  • Perhaps," he said, nervously, "you would raise me to three dollars and a half?

  • Papa tried to get the man, Mr. Wood, to pay us three dollars a load.

  • He paid me three dollars a day all the time I worked for him.

  • At the end of that first Saturday Mr. Gay paid me three dollars.

  • Now, on Tuesday evening, if any member of this mess asks a question that he can't answer himself, let it be agreed that he pay into the mess a fine of thirty-three dollars to cover the shortage.

  • You all know that in some way, owing to the carelessness of some one, there is an unexplained shortage of thirty-three dollars in our mess-fund.

  • Why not levy an assessment upon the members of this mess sufficient to make up the thirty-three dollars?

  • We now beg to report that the thirty-three dollars cannot be accounted for.

  • When we reached Washington, my cash was diminished to three dollars and a half, and all was the consequences of brandy and folly.

  • Mr. Paulding advised me to get his certificate, for all hands in the Department seemed anxious I should not go away without something better than the three dollars a month.

  • Jack Mallet and I, also, set up a shop, on a capital of three dollars.

  • I had Jim Fletcher put it on again and he charged me three dollars, the old skin.

  • Then he raised it three dollars, and, as this looked like a bluff, Gallagher called.

  • Jake he made good, takin’ three dollars, an’ Sam he raised it five.

  • It will cost you three dollars, indeed; but its excellent moral hints and influence, its useful and entertaining knowledge, are worth all that, and much more.

  • Three dollars secures it for one year: and what three dollars ever went so far?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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