Albert placed a five-franc piece in Sans-Cravate's hand, and left him.
Sans-Cravate held up the five-franc piece he had received, crying: "Paid in advance!
One thing I'm sure of is that he's a fine fellow, for I saw him one evening run after a gentleman and give him back a twenty-franc piece he'd given him by mistake for twenty sous.
Lucien was tired of the shabbiness of provincial life, and weary of the sordid frugality that looked on a five-franc piece as a fortune, but he bore the hardships and the pinching thrift without grumbling.
At the outset they won three thousand francs, then they lost and fell to five hundred; again they won three thousand seven hundred francs, and again they lost all but a five-franc piece.
He has not taken me on as his collaborator, he has not give me so much as a five-franc piece, but I hold out a hand to grasp his when we meet; I cannot help myself.
Victorin took a five-franc piece from a little pile on his table, and handed it to the stranger.
In these days, when the five-franc piece is always lurking in our thoughts and intruding itself into our speech, Dr.
Pons had been wont to give him a five-franc piece once a month, knowing that he had a wife and family.
She pointed with a shaking finger to the door, and Sylvia put a five-franc piece down on the table.
With a hand that trembled a little, she put a twenty-franc piece down on the green table.
Sylvia put down a ten-franc piece, and a moment later it had become twenty francs.
Madame Wolsky smiled a little grimly, and pulled out a twenty-franc piece.
Sir Tancred: and he tossed a five-franc piece to the woman.
Before saying a word Sir Tancred showed him a twenty-franc piece; and the gendarme spoke, he was even voluble.
I perceive that the opinions of the committee are running strongly in favor of adopting, as the unit, the existing French five-franc piece of gold.
On the French and German steamers a ten-franc piece is the usual fee to each of the servants above mentioned.
Moreover, he only worked when he had been unable to get a five-franc piece out of Silvere or a comrade.
The silence which generally greeted his numerous requests for money did not awaken the least suspicion in him; Pierre's stinginess sufficed to explain the difficulty he experienced in securing from time to time a paltry twenty-franc piece.
And thereupon he hands me a twenty-franc piece to make it a bargain.
As a proof of this, the wife of the broker put grandly a five-franc piece on the mantlepiece, and quietly slipped out.
She opened a drawer and took from it a ten-franc piece, her savings for the last three months, with which she had intended to buy a New Year's present for her little boy.
She had only some gold with her, two twenty-franc pieces and one ten-franc piece.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "franc piece" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
