Fifty-two thousand rix-dollars were the remittance of Sweden and ❋ Unknown (2003)
I gave three rix-dollars for my boat, including something to drink. ❋ Unknown (2003)
The task was at length finished, and the Jew certified under his hand the value of the ingots submitted to his examination to amount to many thousand rix-dollars. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Slaves who steal to the value of four rix-dollars, shall be pinched and hung; less than four rix-dollars, to be branded and receive one hundred and fifty stripes. ❋ Various (N/A)
"Oh," he replied, "if you will but engage me at one hundred rix-dollars banco salary, I shall soon get fat." ❋ Various (N/A)
"Gustav, remind me to give you three rix-dollars at breakfast." ❋ John Williams Streeter (N/A)
"I had rather this than a thousand rix-dollars," said he, as I sat up and leaned on my arm. ❋ Neil Munro (N/A)
When I counted it over, I found it to be thirteen rix-dollars banco ❋ Various (N/A)
Then, putting his hand to his head, he said, "Do you not know that I am an outlaw, and that one thousand rix-dollars have been offered for this poor head?" ❋ David J. Deane (N/A)
General Shevelling, sent out two ships to search for and take the pirates, offering a reward of 4,000 rix-dollars for Derdrake's head. ❋ Philip Gosse (1919)
After making a few voyages to London as a ship's carpenter, his parents died and left their son a fortune of 10,000 rix-dollars. ❋ Philip Gosse (1919)
And in the cave lie yet fifty and four bars of gold and others of silver, with store of rix-dollars, doubloons, moidores and pieces of eight -- gold coins of all countries. ❋ Jeffery Farnol (1915)
The seven members for Copenhagen are chosen by an electoral college composed of (1) electors chosen by all citizens who are entitled (p. 563) to vote for members of the Folkething, in the ratio of one elector for every 120 voters or major fraction thereof, and (2) an equal number of electors chosen by the voters who, during the preceding year, have been assessed upon a taxable income of not less than 2,000 rix-dollars. ❋ Frederic Austin Ogg (1914)
King of Denmark, asking for 1,200 rix-dollars as a ransom price for the surviving captives. ❋ 1879-1961 (1913)
In addition, the expense of keeping up such a vast community should be borne in mind; the high prices of the new products and iron goods that had to be imported (a Spanish hundredweight, about 102 lbs. of iron from Buenos Aires cost 16 aurei, 1 ell of linen cloth 4 old rix-dollars, and even more, a fine lace alb about 120 rix-dollars); the tribute to the crown, which according to experts, amounted to ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
And now I have kicked off a pair of new jack boots that cost sixteen rix-dollars at Vanseddar's at Amsterdam. ❋ Arthur Conan Doyle (1894)
In that event, if the rating remains as it was, I shall have a salary of twenty-one thousand rix-dollars, but I shall have to keep a large train and household establishment and you, my poor child, must sit stiff and sedate in the drawing-room, be called Excellency, and be clever and wise with Excellencies. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)
Do write very, very often, even if it takes one hundred rix-dollars postage. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)
Up to this time the garden, outside of Kahle's keep, has cost one hundred and three rix-dollars this year, and between now and Christmas forty to fifty will probably be added for digging and harvesting, besides the fuel. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)
Magdeburg from October 20th to November 16th, under penalty of from one hundred to two hundred rix-dollars for each day of absence. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)
