I will make his fortune, and will present your monastery with twenty thousand crowns.'
He cried out bitterly that their crowns were stolen and their robes of glorious memories were shams.
The town is composed of some sixty houses, arranged on the plain which hereabouts crowns the river-bank.
That refusal has cost him an important appointment and an income of three thousand crowns, which would now be his."
Thirty thousand crowns in alms is not given, as you have done for the last six months, out of pure Christian charity; that would be too grand.
Sire, there are not sixty thousand crowns in the treasury, answered the minister.--I'll pawn the best jewel in my crown, quoth Francis the First.
We do not find that his circumstances were ever prosperous, and though 8,000 crowns were due to him from Bohemia he could not manage to get them paid.
And not only the Americans did her honor, but the French as well, for the Marquis de Lafayette with his own hand presented her with a purse of golden crowns.