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Example sentences for "twenty sous"

  • I say, do you think us capable of cheating you out of twenty sous?

  • Leon burst into a laugh, and tossed the man a piece of twenty sous.

  • Bourget come out again radiant, and present him with a whole piece of twenty sous.

  • As to that, the young baron often gave me a piece of twenty sous, when he could not afford it so well as other people," returned the concierge, imperturbably.

  • Yes, the trifle of twenty sous,--a mere nothing!

  • I know that I should be shabby enough to accept them; and thus, you see, it is from consideration, and you will do wisely to give me twenty sous in advance.

  • Do you suppose us capable of doing you out of twenty sous?

  • For instance, there were to be 2,000 notes each of twenty sous.

  • During the first half of the year 1789 there were seventeen thousand men at twenty sous a day in the national workshops at Montmartre.

  • Fuel costs "four hundred francs per cord of wood, forty sous for a bushel of charcoal, twenty sous for a small basket.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    become the; favourable opportunity; linen yarn; long after; long before; normal salt; short story; twenty cubits; twenty dollars; twenty drops; twenty grains; twenty guineas; twenty guns; twenty hours; twenty inches; twenty leagues; twenty miles; twenty miles; twenty million; twenty millions; twenty pounds; twenty shillings; twenty sous; twenty windows; twenty years; would better