contos
- plural of conto.
Example Sentences
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Have you heard tell of the famous diamond of Abaete, which was valued at more than two million contos of reis?
From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Verne, Jules
Received from the Right Hon. Lord Cochrane, &c. &c. the sum of one thousand milreis, on account of a distribution of eighty contos of reis, &c. &c.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of
I therefore use the freedom to assure Your Excellency the amount of 400 contos of Reis, as an indemnification for your losses.
From Narrative of Services in the Liberation of Chili, Peru and Brazil, from Spanish and Portuguese Domination, Volume 2 by Dundonald, Thomas Cochrane, Earl of
There are fifty-eight words, and that makes fifty-eight contos.
From Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon by Verne, Jules
The sum required was a large one, 20,000 contos, and the venerable Bishop hastened to assure him, with unfeigned sorrow, that the poor and suffering city could not command one-fourth of the amount.
From Diary And Notes Of Horace Templeton, Esq. Volume I (of II) by Lever, Charles James
