Sentences with phrase «of ducats»
Shylock is enraged at the loss of his ducats, but he is also heartbroken over his daughter's heartless betrayal of him.
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He had had to pay a great fine to Rome in order to get approval of the former; a further great fine was payable again for approval of the latter: a fine of 21,000 ducats for the appointment, and one of 10,000 ducats for wrongly accumulating ecclesiastical offices.
Catalano was one of about two dozen who sprang for the $ 1000 ducat, explaining, «I just couldn't face the prospect of Julian Schreibman as our congressman for the next 30 years.»
(However, interest rates were unusually high: borrowing 3,000 ducats cost you a pound of flesh.)
Botticelli pocketed thousands of tainted ducats from Lorenzo de» Medici and gave the world The Birth of Venus.
Even Peyton Manning, who was playing in this year's Super Bowl (more or less) had to appeal to his little brother Eli to snag him a few ducats, which Eli could obtain by dint of being a player on one of MetLife Stadium's «host teams.»