36 Verbs to Use for the Word livre

Then Sicard, the Baron of Lescure, was so completely humiliated that he not only consented to pay eighty gold livres to the consuls of Albi, but went before them bareheaded to ask pardon for himself and his vassals.

Up to our days they had, for fifty-one years, given him 5,000 livres of silver.

She named and displaced the controllers-general, and she herself received annually nearly fifteen hundred thousand livres, besides hotels, palaces, and estates.

You have had a hundred and fortyno lessand many of them cost as much as twenty-five thousand livres.

By this article Rousseau, before the expiration of a year, gained 50,000 livres.

So he determined to sleep under the starry vault, and as for his meals, he made the following calculation; he presumed that the vessel which bore his fortune would be six months before coming back to Havre; Croisilles, therefore, not without regret, sold a gold watch his father had given him, and which he had fortunately kept; he got thirty-six livres for it.

I left you a hundred thousand livres of my own money to help you to meet the expenditure it requires.

The people here all dance much better than those of the same rank in England; but this national accomplishment is not instinctive: for though few of the laborious class have been taught to read, there are scarcely any so poor as not to bestow three livres for a quarter's instruction from a dancing master; and with this three months' noviciate they become qualified to dance through the rest of their lives.

The Jacobin party have in general opposed this additional eighteen livres, with the hope of casting an odium on their adversaries; but the people, though they murmur, still prefer the Moderates, even at the expence of paying the difference.

In a few months King Louis XVI. had lent to the United States or procured for them on his security sums exceeding sixteen million livres.

Bacon must at some period of his life have possessed money, for we find him speaking of having expended two thousand livres in the pursuit of learning.

In 1471, according to what appears, he lent Commynes six thousand livres of Tours, which the Duke of Burgundy's councillor lodged with a banker at Tours.

Rochemadour Fait tants miracles, tants hauts faits, C'uns moultes biax livres en est faits.'

They stated that the Holy Father, to whom they had gone to confess their sins, had then ordered them to wander about the world for seven years, without sleeping in beds, at the same time giving direction to every bishop and every priest whom they met to offer them ten livres; a direction which the abbots and bishops were in no hurry to obey.

Accustomed to an insensate prodigality, asserting everywhere that a man of gallantry could not live on twelve hundred thousand livres a year, he had considered it very natural that the queen should have a fancy for possessing a diamond necklace worth sixteen hundred thousand livres.

Mais, en même temps, il est, pour ainsi dire, la première page d'un autre livre.

That volume, the end of which the dreamer foresees, the poet proposes to write: Ce livre, c'est le reste effrayant de Babel; C'est la lugubre Tour des Choses, l'édifice Du bien, du mal, des pleurs, des deuils, des sacrifices, Fier jadis, dominant les lointains horizons, Aujourd'hui n'ayant plus que de hideux tronçons Épars, couchés, perdus dans l'obscure vallée; C'est l'épopée humaine, âpre, immenseécroulée.

Hugo himself says sadly in his Preface, 'Les tableaux riants sont rares dans ce livre;

She makes numerous presents, and this under advice, without increasing her receipts, as well as reducing them annually two millions five hundred thousand livres by the diminution of the duty on salt; and so augments her expenses that, upon mature consideration, we shall rather be applauded for being in the state we still are after so many necessary outlays, than blamed for having incurred them.

Abbe Terray had to refund nearly 900,000 livres to the public treasury.

We have, besides, reimbursed the Count of Vermandois the three thousand livres he had lent us for your service.

They kept them until they were repaid the 6,500 livres of silver, which had been taken from them.

On his coming into office, the treasury was empty, there was no scraping together as much as five thousand livres.

ONCE, f., seizième partie d'une livre.

The bourgeois here showed great practical good sense, especially in matters of finance; they proved clearly that the assessment was illegal, and that the accounts were fictitious, inasmuch as the latter only showed 1,650,000 livres of subsidies, whereas they amounted to three times as much.

36 Verbs to Use for the Word  livre