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Meanings of livre in English
Usage of livre in English
1
C'est un metier que de faire un livre comme de faire une pendule.
2
Oh, it was not worth a livre to make such a row about!
3
Exchange rates also varied enormously: a livre was worth between a shilling and 1s.
4
Old Flourens ('Examen du livre de M. Darwin sur l'origine des especes.'
5
Set down one livre more for that, quoth I.
6
He leered in a conciliatory way upon the official and pressed a livre into his palm.
7
Only, he knew the value of a livre.
8
See Thiers tome iii, p. 458, livre xiv.
9
Andre-Louis placed in it a three-livre piece.
10
The livre would be devalued by a sixth, but a substantial amount of debt would be absorbed.
11
Then do I likewise and semblably throw the dice for him, and forthwith livre him his chance.
12
And for what you must give, let each livre seem to be the last in your pouch.'
13
Like the French of Europe, their unit of value was the livre, nearly equivalent to the modern franc.
14
A sou in the livre on eight thousand francs therefore brought in about four hundred francs to the Cibots.
15
The French livre contained, in the time of Charlemagne, a pound, Troyes weight, of silver of a known fineness.
16
L'avenir de la science est garanti; car dans le grand livre scientifique tout s'ajoute et rien ne se perd.
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Livre through the time