Wherewithal for some Dutch treats

Usage examples of florins.

He took me into his private office, and, after counting out three thousand florins in notes and gold, he told me that if I liked I could undoubtedly make the twenty thousand florins I had spoken of.

Have you not letters of exchange to the amount of six thousand florins, or the goods bought with them?

Esther gave me the two thousand pounds I had won so easily, and her father at my request gave me bills of exchange to the amount of a hundred thousand florins, with a note of two hundred thousand florins authorizing me to draw upon him till the whole sum was exhausted.

I still had two hundred thousand francs: I had jewellery worth thirty thousand francs, and fifty thousand florins at Amsterdam.

At last I agreed to give him the forty florins, and I handed them to him in a coffee-house where the major told me I should find him.

I congratulate myself on having seized its meaning, for we were on the point of giving him a hundred thousand florins on account, which he said he must have immediately.

If the receipts amount to more than fifty florins, we will share the overplus between us.

I ordered Bassi to give notice that the pit would be two florins and the boxes a ducat, but that the gallery would be opened freely to the first comers.

We were at dessert when a police official brought me five hundred florins, for which I gave him a receipt.

Venetian Specific, which you can sell at two florins a pound, while it will only cost you four gros.

I will engage you myself for a week at fifty florins a day on the condition that you acknowledge me as your manager for the time being, and pay all the expenses of the theatre.

I have made the bargain took me out of prison by giving security for me, and advanced me six thousand florins in four letters of exchange.

Corneman who gave me a bill of exchange for three hundred florins on M.

Before leaving the banker I asked him to shew me some way of making twenty thousand florins in the short time I was going to stay in Holland.

Millionaires are as plentiful as blackberries, and anyone who is not worth more than a hundred thousand florins is considered a poor man.