How To Use Doubloon In A Sentence
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So I took my mother's spoons and headed out for the backyard where I proceeded to dig about a zillion holes in the ground searching for gold doubloons.
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The Brasher coin was called a doubloon because it is approximately the weight of a Spanish gold doubloon, a common coin in colonial America.
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Starbuck is the religious man and he sees in the doubloon a symbol of the Trinity.
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[24] A doubloon is a coin used in Spanish America in Carter's time worth 16 pieces of eight.
Robert Carter Diary, 1725
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My senses were all confused as within my sight was a king's ransom - Spanish gold doubloons and shining silver reals, gold pieces of eight, old English milled gold guineas, crowns, minted silver shillings.
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Look here at this gold doubloon, this ounce of Spanish gold!
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[41.5] A doubloon was a coin used in Spanish America in Carter's time worth 16 pieces of eight.
Robert Carter Diary, 1722
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Ducats and doubloons, princesses and plum-cake, swords awave and cannon blazing, great galleons with crimson sails -- no wonder that they were smiling in their sleep when
The Black Buccaneer
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A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit my going out, and sometimes six pistoles.
George Washington
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`We haven't found a doubloon for at least half an hour," Pete agreed.
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In 1800, a fisherman, John Richard, found a quantity of gold moidores and doubloons among the rocks here.
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As the three filed out, he tossed the doubloon in his fingers.
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In my spare time, I also look for rare Spanish doubloons in Coke machines.
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More and more he pauses to observe a doubloon made of pure gold, fastened into the main mast.
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Next, I decreed and superintended the disembarkation of the stolen slaves; and, lastly, I concluded the morning call with a request that Brulôt would _produce the five hundred doubloons and his "promissory note" for two hundred slaves_!
Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver
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Most valued are the doubloons, aluminum coins about the size of a silver dollar with the krewe's emblem.
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The Brasher doubloon is considered the first American-made gold coin denominated in dollars; the U.S. Mint in Philadelphia didn't begin striking coins until the 1790s, and foreign coins of various currencies were in use in the nation's early years.
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After this he commanded that all that had belonged to him should be given to the lady, the which was not so little but that it outvalued ten thousand doubloons.
The Decameron of Giovanni Boccaccio
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For a brief instant, he imagined opening the chest to find gold doubloons or the like but then the adult in him rose up and chastised his childish side.
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He confided with pride: “A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit my going out, and sometimes six pistoles.”
Washington
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And a lot of people really wanted to call the twonie a doubloon, but it just didn't stick. twonie rhymes with loonie, and there you go.
It's the little things
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On other days, he scrambled across the slick rocks that jettied like islands out of the sea, searching for gold doubloons that toyed with a glint of sun trapped under the water.
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She had picked up Pete's pillow, and there was the gold doubloon.
THREE IN ONE
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A doubloon is my constant gain every day that the weather will permit of my going out, and sometimes six pistoles.
Boys' Book of Famous Soldiers
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In the late 1990s America's superior growth prospects were perceived to be good for the Cheap potbs Doubloon dollar, as the country attracted portfolio flows into technology stocks.
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I headed out for the backyard where I proceeded to dig about a zillion holes in the ground searching for gold doubloons.
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My senses were all confused as within my sight was a king's ransom - Spanish gold doubloons and shining silver reals, gold pieces of eight, old English milled gold guineas, crowns, minted silver shillings.
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In English (following Spanish) a doubloon was a coin worth two pesetas -- the pirates '` piece of eight,' because the peseta was equivalent to four reals.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol 1 No 3
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'Tut, tut, Buonesperado,' laughed he, 'you shall forget that Tyburn is not a fable if you care to have doubloons reminted at the Queen's mint.
Michel and Angele — Volume 3
