five-hundred-dollar

Men never talked of luck and pluck and five-hundred-dollar dirt without bringing in the name of Axel Gunderson; nor could tales of nerve or strength or daring pass up and down the camp-fire without the summoning of his presence.

An Odyssey of the North 2010

No miner'd look at it; yet they washed five-hundred-dollar pans and took out fifty million dollars.

LIKE ARGUS OF THE ANCIENT TIMES 2010

The FBI must have had the last laugh when her parents, in their naïveté, hired a complete shyster to obtain her divorce—they paid a five-hundred-dollar retainer, with the promise of another five hundred—only to have him turn around and try to blackmail them for more.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Never, for so simple a task, had they been so well paid; for, to each, in addition to office charges, he gave a five-hundred-dollar bill, with the promise of another if he succeeded.

Chapter III 2010

Tonight that table had been removed and replaced by several cozy seating sections for people to lounge on while they noshed on seafood skewers and swigged five-hundred-dollar champagne.

Ominous Kate Brian 2011

Tonight that table had been removed and replaced by several cozy seating sections for people to lounge on while they noshed on seafood skewers and swigged five-hundred-dollar champagne.

Ominous Kate Brian 2011

The FBI must have had the last laugh when her parents, in their naïveté, hired a complete shyster to obtain her divorce—they paid a five-hundred-dollar retainer, with the promise of another five hundred—only to have him turn around and try to blackmail them for more.

A Covert Affair Jennet Conant 2011

Men never talked of luck and pluck and five-hundred-dollar dirt without bringing in the name of Axel Gunderson; nor could tales of nerve or strength or daring pass up and down the camp-fire without the summoning of his presence.

An Odyssey of the North 2010

The day after the story appeared in the Californian, he hightailed it out of San Francisco with three hundred dollars in his pocket and a five-hundred-dollar bail bond in his hand for the release of his friend Steve Gillis, who had been arrested by the local police for braining a bartender with a beer mug.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

The lecture tour had gone well, fake holdup notwithstanding, but it was a lot of work and a lot of traveling for the money earned, a fact brought home forcibly to Twain when the local sheriff attached some of his earnings to cover various outstanding debts in Nevada and California, possibly including his two-year-old five-hundred-dollar bail bond for Steve Gillis.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010