"Five hundred" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... accordingly, stolen from her father, and carried prisoner to Jamestown. Powhatan offered five hundred bushels of corn as a ...
— Parker's Second Reader • Richard G. Parker
... had begun collecting Napoleonana in my youth I should now have on hand a priceless collection. This reminds me that when I first came to Chicago suburban property along the North Shore could be bought for five hundred dollars an acre which now sells for two hundred dollars a front foot; if I had purchased real estate in that locality when I had the opportunity forty years ago I should be a millionnaire at the ...
— The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac • Eugene Field
... eccentricities a safe site for a town is extremely rare upon the Lower Mississippi. There are but few points in the last five hundred miles of its course where natural elevations offer this advantage. The artificial embankment, known as the "Levee," has in some measure remedied the deficiency, and rendered the towns and plantations ...
— The Quadroon - Adventures in the Far West • Mayne Reid
... time he has paid his creditor two thousand five hundred francs, for principal, interest, costs, and all, he ...
— The Mysteries of Paris V2 • Eugene Sue
... be better for all parties, if the sum were diminished one half. Five hundred pounds would be a prodigious increase to ...
— Persuasion • Jane Austen
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