Lexicographical Neighbors of Livres
Literary usage of Livres
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Collection of the Best and Most Interesting Voyages and Travels in by John Pinkerton (1809)
"42 Faggots 1 8 livres to 24 livres the hundred. * Charcoal 70 livres to 80 livres
the forty-two barriques. La Fleche. — Cord i б livres to 2 1 livres, ..."
2. The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents: Travels and Explorations of the by Reuben Gold Thwaites, Jesuits (1900)
"I took 9 livres' worth of iron from monsieur gode- froi, on account of The ...
I owe chauvin 14 livres for mending a plowshare. I owe 12 livres to parent, ..."
3. Memoirs of the Duke of Sully: Prime Minister to Henry the Great by Maximilien de Béthune Sully, Walter Scott (1890)
"... three million five hundred and eighty thousand livres : to the Duke of Guise
and others comprehended in his treaty, three hundred and eighty thousand ..."
4. The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Being His Autobiography, Correspondence by Thomas Jefferson (1859)
"After these, they are reckoned common wines, and sell from five hundred livres
down to one hundred and twenty livres the ton. All red wines decline after a ..."
5. The Monthly Review by Ralph Griffiths (1772)
"Perpetual indulgence for a brotherhood, forty livres. 7. Indulgence for leven years,
... livres j if the irregularity be great, fifty livres. A 11. ..."
6. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"Only by great efforts was one fifth of the billion livres demanded collected.
... A compulsory loan of 600 million livres was authorized, payable in cash, ..."
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