Carlini

At the Ponte della Maddalena, where horses are taken to be killed, there are always persons waiting, who, when a horse is brought, buy the hide and hoofs for thirty carlini, which is the price regulated by law. ❋ Various (N/A)

For instance, let us take two carlini — about sevenpence. ❋ Unknown (2007)

A guide, Giuseppe Agnello by name, took upon himself the whole responsibility of our board, lodging, and travelling, at a fixed rate of forty-two (?) _carlini_ a head, -- which sum, including his ❋ Various (N/A)

They gave the blind man three carlini, two for him and one for his dog, and sent him away. ❋ Various (N/A)

"Four _carlini_, your Majesty," answered the peasant. ❋ Thomas Frederick Crane (N/A)

The latter coin was created by Julius II in order to put the carlini of Charles of Anjou out of circulation, these coins being of bad alloy. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Camera, the two being in the ratio of 69 papal florins = 100 florins di Camera = 1 gold pound = 10 carlini. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

Those that are now engaged in cutting the corn receive a daily wage of two carlini ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

I am told that I shall spend here three times as much as there; and this is certain, for a grosso goes further there than two carlini here. ❋ Charles Holroyd (1889)

I gave the knave five carlini, and he would hardly hand it over. ❋ Charles Holroyd (1889)

For instance, let us take two carlini -- about sevenpence. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)

At supper he told me, jestingly, that I ought to stop in Portici the next day to make forty-five carlini out of the three other flagons of mercury. ❋ Unknown (1827)

I handed it to him with a smile, thanking him for the opportunity he had afforded me of earning fifteen carlini, and took care to add that I should leave for Salerno early the next morning. ❋ Unknown (1827)

And there I was, alone in a large city, without a friend, with eight carlini in my pocket, and not knowing what to do! ❋ Unknown (1827)

The Greek, whose surprise was complete, asked me to give him back his own flagon, which was there quite full, and worth sixty carlini. ❋ Unknown (1827)

He remarked that it was considered a very venial sin for a regular priest to say two masses in one day for the sake of earning two carlini more, but that for the same sin ❋ Unknown (1827)

He returned in a few minutes and handed me fifteen carlini. ❋ Unknown (1827)

He remarked that it was considered a very venial sin for a regular priest to say two masses in one day for the sake of earning two carlini more, but that for the same sin a secular priest would deserve to be burnt at the stake. ❋ Giacomo Casanova (1761)