Florins
[flɔrinz]
Examples
- So Galileo did, and as a result the senate elected him to the Professorship at Padua for life, with a salary of one thousand florins yearly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Gutenberg spent 4,000 florins before the Bible was half done, and I do not see how he can ever repay me the sums I have advanced. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Faust advanced Gutenberg the sum of 2,020 florins, taking a mortgage on his printing materials as security. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The highest class pay a hundred florins a year, which, at two-and-twenty pence half penny a-florin, amounts to ?9:7:6. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Gutenberg said he should need two or three thousand florins. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- The firm was ordered to pay Dritzhn’s brothers the fifteen florins, and nothing more. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- As a result of this interview a contract was drawn up between Gutenberg and his apprentices, according to the terms of which each apprentice was to pay the inventor two hundred and fifty florins. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- Then a bill was sent in of one hundred florins for press-work. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
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