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Example sentences for "twenty francs"

  • Your mistress and I desire to give you a further little gift as you have shown so much zeal to-day, so here is twenty francs.

  • After all you are only risking twenty francs!

  • If you impose a tax of twenty francs upon my countrymen, and give it to me, I shall be a gainer instead of a loser.

  • And how often had he had to content himself with a cup of chocolate and a roll for dejeuner in order to pay the necessary five-and-twenty francs to the superintendent!

  • They recorded one subscription of twenty francs.

  • Twenty francs to pay every time I dare to don the forbidden costume, the costume Bruant.

  • Twenty francs a day--to say nothing of the costs--counts up.

  • She went down to Adèle: "You haven't twenty francs for a note that just came, have you?

  • And the black creature opposite--and that infernal girl as had the face to eat pots of strawberries at twenty francs!

  • Thus he made fifteen to twenty francs on some days.

  • It was arranged that the rest of the bill should be liquidated at the rate of twenty francs a month.

  • Madam offered ten francs--twenty francs--she is going away and is very anxious to hear the bell; she has read about its beautiful tone.

  • And with all dispatch he entered the Southern tower, where the great bourdon hangs, whispering: "Twenty francs!

  • Lantier would now borrow money from Gervaise--ten francs, twenty francs at a time, whenever he smelt there was money in the house.

  • It was settled that they would lend their neighbors five hundred francs; the latter were to repay the amount by installments of twenty francs a month; it would last as long as it lasted.

  • Although Lantier's twenty francs would be used to pay off these debts for ten months, there would be a nice little profit later.

  • He proposes that I should take one of these rooms, which would cost me twenty francs, like the one I have at present, and that we should share the parlor.

  • I have hired a little room at twenty francs a month, near my cousin.

  • The price of a sheep ranges from twelve to twenty francs.

  • Then three pairs of boots at twenty francs.

  • Suddenly one of the players cried: "Twenty francs lacking!

  • Do we find in the Iliad that Patroclus ever said to Achilles: 'I loaned you a hundred sous, or twenty francs; I want you to pay them'?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    distinct from; false step; hewn stone; higher culture; much hurt; nine degrees; sixteen millions; small people; thus translated; twenty acres; twenty cents; twenty fathoms; twenty grains; twenty guineas; twenty hours; twenty leagues; twenty million; twenty millions; twenty minutes; twenty paces; twenty shillings; twenty thousand; twenty times; twenty yards; under arms; wholly different