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Example sentences for "gold pieces"

  • Moreover, at nightfall he gave the physician Duban two thousand gold pieces, besides the usual dress of honour and other gifts galore, and sent him home on his own steed.

  • I had in my pocket a purse of blue silk lined with twenty good gold pieces and he took it, whilst I was in the crush.

  • Then Commodus again shot in sight of a pile of gold pieces on an expanse of crimson velvet spread on the sand of the arena.

  • On this arduous frivolity they wagered ten million sesterces and had the actual gold, fifty thousand big, broad, gold pieces, carried into the arena and piled up in a gleaming mound on a monster crimson rug for all to behold.

  • Actually Agathemer was gone about two hours and came back with a portly bag of gold pieces.

  • Then she tapped the next cask, and out came a bushel of gold pieces.

  • They took a boat and put out to sea, carrying with them the bushel of gold pieces, and enough dresses to last the Princess ten years if she wore two every day, and they did nothing but laugh and sing.

  • A little beggar was passing through the square; Miretta ran to him and thrust into the little fellow's hand the purse filled with glistening gold pieces.

  • Without a word in reply, the Gascon took from his belt a stout purse full of gold pieces, and threw it on the table at which his hostess was seated.

  • Bahuchet could hardly hold in his hand the purse that Valentine placed there, it was stuffed so full of gold pieces to its very mouth.

  • So saying, he put into her hand five broad gold pieces of Philip and Mary.

  • When the appointed day came, their foster-father presented each of them with a good gun and a dog, and let each of them take as many of his saved-up gold pieces as he chose.

  • As soon as he came to the door of the hut, the old woman, who was sitting inside counting the gold pieces, jumped up and started her scolding.

  • Well, they heaved it up, and there below it was a deep hole, and the hole was filled with gold pieces to the very top; more gold pieces than ever you will see copper ones if you live to be a hundred and ten.

  • Stop sneezing, goat," says the old man; and the goat stopped sneezing, and stood there panting and out of breath in the middle of the sea of gold pieces.

  • Illustration: "'Mother, this chair was full of gold pieces!

  • The sultan was delighted to see he had got them, and gave him again four hundred gold pieces.

  • Instead of gold pieces, be content to receive rain-drops through thy roof, eat bread when thou hast any, and go fasting oftener; it concerns me no more.

  • Laying a roll of gold pieces on the table, he continued: "Thus do I pay my debt, Chevalier.

  • That letter is worth any amount of gold pieces!

  • He was asked whether there was any way of scaling the cliffs, and replied that there was, and promised, in consideration of a couple of gold pieces, to act as guide.

  • Masinissa unlocked it and took out a rouleau of gold pieces, which he gave to Cleanor.

  • He is a fellow of the lowest class, and will do anything for a score of gold pieces.


  • The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "gold pieces" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.


    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    borne along; branch office; gold and; gold coin; gold coins; gold cord; gold embroidery; gold florins; gold ground; gold lace; gold medal; gold ornaments; gold pieces; gold production; gold round; gold standard; gold watch; golden calf; golden chain; golden color; golden light; hereditary disease; intellectual development; line clear; long course; winged bird