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The construction subsidies were the same, except that war-ships built for foreign countries were debarred from receiving bounties. The navigation subsidy per gross ton for every thousand sea miles sailed beyond the Suez Canal and the Strait of Gibraltar was increased to 0.80 lire, the rate to be diminished by ten centimes for steamers and fifteen centimes for sailing-ships every three years.
His doctor ordered me to take him to Turin at once. We don't want any delay. He told me to give you this," and he slipped a note for a hundred lire into the man's hand. The officer expressed surprise, but the merry chauffeur of the rich American exclaimed: "Don't worry. The Americano is very rich; I only wish there were more of his sort about. He's the great Headon, the meat-canner of Chicago.
In the same way as others might offer a cup of tea, he was wont to offer cups of broth to the old cardinals his friends and favourites, quite an invigorating little treat which these old bachelors much enjoyed. And, O ye orgies of Alexander VI, ye banquets and galas of Julius II and Leo X, only eight lire a day six shillings and fourpence were allowed to defray the cost of Leo XIII's table!
Williams, what you did give for it?" Uncle Ezra was an honest man. "Twenty-five hundred lire," he replied, sullenly. I could have got it for " "Mr. Watkins," my wife was hardly civil to him, "it doesn't matter much what you could have got it for."
Her little daughter will be motherless, our home will be broken up. If you grant my request you will earn our thanks and you will not be without a reward for your disappointment." "Reward what reward?" He bent over the back of a chair and looked earnestly at Philip. They were coming to terms pretty quickly. Poor Lilia! Philip said slowly, "What about a thousand lire?"
J'ai un jardin Royal a ma disposition, des collections d'oeuvres d'art superbes, les plus jolis canots, une belle riviere, de bons livres a lire, du succes avec les editeurs et une reputation en bonne voie, et pourtant cette existence ne vaut pas la peine de vivre. Il est bon de savoir ces choses la et de se connaitre.
Seven years later Simeon, archbishop of Ravenna, conceded his lands in Istria to Guido Michele and his successors, with the obligation to renew the contract every sixty years, and reserving the right of appeals. The Castropola bought the feud from the Giroldi about 1300 for 1,800 "lire piccioli."
"Perhaps the stitches are large," she said, sobbing. "I know my eyes are weak. No one will pay me, and I owe the baker more than ten lire. Soon we shall have to beg our bread in the streets." "Don't," Olive said hurriedly. "Don't. I have been with you more than a month and I have not found work yet, but I will not be a burden to you much longer.
The marchesa, with a few kindly remarks about her dancing, would have let her return to her partners, but the duchess moved ponderously aside on the sofa, making a place for Nina. Without prelude she began, "Is it true that you have five hundred thousand dollars a year? Or is rumor mistaken is it only five hundred thousand lire?"
No; add the difference in exchange so as to make it one thousand dollars which I shall receive, taking that sum from the two-hundred and thirty thousand lire which I entrusted to your safekeeping by cable as the result of my enterprise in this place.
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