40 Verbs to Use for the Word pesos

I remembered that he had brought my bag aboard, and, finding a peso in my pocketfive times what he had asked forI gave him the coin.

"Quico," he rejoined in a cavernous voice, "if they've given you six pesos for your work, how much will they give the friars?"

Look at this one, the smallest of all, weighing not more than two carats, which cost me twenty thousand pesos and which I won't sell for less than thirty.

That had been too much to askit were much easier to request the Virgin to send the two hundred and fifty pesos.

Following along the western coast, the Spaniards visited the cacique Taracuru, from whom they obtained eight thousand pesos; a peso, as we have already said, corresponding to an unminted castellano.

The metal is spread over a wide area in Pinar del Rio, and venturous spirits have spent many good Spanish pesos and still better American dollars in efforts to locate deposits big enough to pay for its excavation.

Quiroga the Chinaman offered me six thousand pesos for it in order to present it to a very influential lady, and yet it is not the green ones that are the most valuable, but these blue ones.

The transportation and sustenance of this unwieldy column, which had to carry its own supply of drinking water, it was estimated, cost the Mexican Government nearly 350,000 pesos per day.

The total revenues of the island, including the old-established taxes and contributions, produced 70,000 pesos, and half of that sum was never recovered on account of the abuses and dishonesty that had been introduced in the system of collection.

In virtue of his special appointment as judge auditor of the accounts of all the crown officers, he had condemned Ponce during his absence to pay 1,352 gold pesos for shortcomings in his administration of the royal estates.

"Artacho, who had received 5000 pesos as his share of the second payment, arrived in Hongkong and on April 5 demanded 200,000 pesos of the insurgent funds, probably under the agreement that he should establish a company in Hongkong for the benefit of the former leaders and not merely of those who had accompanied Aguinaldo.

" Then, seeing that Placido gave the two pesos

"The robbers got over two thousand pesos, leaving badly wounded one friar and two servants.

la matiza; La llama en derredor del tronco ardiente Por besar á otra llama se desliza, Y hasta el sáuce, inclinándose á su peso, Al río, que le besa, vuelve un beso.

You've buried infidel Chinamen, and with a requiem mass!" Capitan Tiago had named Padre Irene as his executor and willed his property in part to St. Clara, part to the Pope, to the Archbishop, the religious corporations, leaving twenty pesos for the matriculation of poor students.

Treasurer Castellanos, in 1546, loaned 6,000 pesos for the Government's account, to two colonists for the erection of two sugar-cane mills.

"What do you think about making the contribution two pesos?

"If you can't do it, I'll have to apply to some one else, but then I'll need the nine thousand pesos to cross their palms and shut their eyes.

But what would you say if I should tell you that he still owes me four pesos, five reales, and twelve cuartos?

The curate, as was to be expected after what he had done, was not in his place, for that year he was greatly displeased at having to use all his diplomacy and shrewdness to convince the townspeople that they should pay thirty pesos for each Christmas mass instead of the usual twenty.

The next occurred May 22, 1511, producing respectively 2,645 and 3,043 gold pesos as the king's share.

All duties on the introduction of negroes into Santo Domingo, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Margarita, and Trinidad were commuted in the same year for a moderate capitation tax, and the Spanish firm of Aguirre, Aristegui & Co. was authorized to provide the Antilles with negroes, on condition of reducing the price 10 pesos per head, besides the amount of abolished duty.

He took back the tapis and she hasn't returned the peso yet, but I don't pay her when she wins at panguingui, abá!

Capitan Basilio came with his wife, daughter, and son-in-law, prepared to spend at least three thousand pesos.

The robbers numbered three or four, armed only with bolos, the sum stolen fifty pesos!

40 Verbs to Use for the Word  pesos