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Example sentences for "five pieces"

  • If ministers of state or Panglima Pihaq are robbed, the thief shall be fined twenty-five pieces of calico.

  • Whoever attempts to kill, but fails to kill, a freeman shall be fined twenty-five pieces of calico, to be paid to the attacked party, and ten gajahilaw to be paid to the governor.

  • If property of datus with official titles or that of Twan Sarip Usman is stolen, the thief shall be fined thirty-five pieces of calico.

  • Four or five pieces of meat may be done on one trough.

  • Called on betimes by Murford, who showed me five pieces to get a business done for him and I am resolved to do it.

  • General Santa Anna at once, on receipt of this information, sent an officer to Coyoacan with orders to General Perez to move at once to Padierna, and himself with two regiments and five pieces of artillery proceeded to join him.

  • The main body of the Mexican army was encamped on level ground, with a battery of five pieces, half a mile in rear of that height toward Jalapa.

  • Dutch cheeses, five pieces of dried goat's flesh, which we lived much upon, and a little remainder of European corn which had been laid by for some fowls which we brought to sea with us, but the fowls were killed.

  • Just then General de Wrede arrived on the ground with twenty-five pieces of excellent artillery, and solicited the honor of taking part in the decisive movement, to which Napoleon consented.

  • He had also lost seventy-five pieces of cannon, thirty generals and twenty-two stands of colors.

  • Five thousand prisoners, five standards, thirty-five pieces of cannon with their caissons fell into the hands of the French, and Wurmser himself narrowly escaped being taken.

  • That makes one hundred and eighty-five pieces in all, if I know anything of arithmetic.

  • There is the sum we agreed on," said the baron, tendering him the twenty-five pieces.

  • You shall have it for ninety-five pieces, or say ninety, in consideration of my having waited on you for a month.

  • Five Pieces of Runic Poetry translated from the Islandic Language.

  • Canterbury Puzzles"), no geometrician would have had any difficulty in doing what is required in five pieces: the whole point of the discovery lay in performing the little feat in four pieces only.

  • We have just seen that two crosses of the same size may be cut out of a square in five pieces.

  • I have received what purported to be a solution in five pieces, but the method was based on the rather subtle fallacy that half the diagonal plus half the side of a pentagon equals the side of a square of the same area.


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