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1  Carry me back at once to Constantinople, and you shall receive the money directly.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XXVII
2  They had some money left, with which they hoped to save themselves from starving, after they had escaped drowning.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In V
3  You doubtless have not the money of the country; but it is not necessary to have any money at all to dine in this house.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XVII
4  It is said that Venice is fit only for its own nobility, but that strangers meet with a very good reception if they have a good deal of money.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XXI
5  As the old woman had shrewdly guessed, it was a Grey Friar who stole Cunegonde's money and jewels in the town of Badajos, when she and Candide were escaping.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XIII
6  I myself was taken for a robber and was imprisoned for eight days, after which I served as corrector of the press to gain the money necessary for my return to Holland on foot.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XXI
7  The latter threw himself at the feet of his deliverer, and bathed them with his tears; the former thanked him with a nod, and promised to return him the money on the first opportunity.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In XXVII
8  In three months time, having lost all his money, and being grown tired of my company, he sold me to a Jew, named Don Issachar, who traded to Holland and Portugal, and had a strong passion for women.
Candide By Voltaire
ContextHighlight   In VIII
9  Next day Candide, all benumbed, dragged himself towards the neighbouring town which was called Waldberghofftrarbk-dikdorff, having no money, dying of hunger and fatigue, he stopped sorrowfully at the door of an inn.
Candide By Voltaire
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10  I have coined money, and now am not worth a farthing; I have had two secretaries of state, and now I have scarce a valet; I have seen myself on a throne, and I have seen myself upon straw in a common jail in London.
Candide By Voltaire
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11  The barber found me a place as lackey to a knight of Malta who was going to Venice, but finding that my master had no money to pay me my wages I entered the service of a Venetian merchant, and went with him to Constantinople.
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12  This advice was well received, the old woman approved it; they said not a word to his sister; the thing was executed for a little money, and they had the double pleasure of entrapping a Jesuit, and punishing the pride of a German baron.
Candide By Voltaire
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13  The sailor ran among the ruins, facing death to find money; finding it, he took it, got drunk, and having slept himself sober, purchased the favours of the first good-natured wench whom he met on the ruins of the destroyed houses, and in the midst of the dying and the dead.
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14  Besides, Candide was possessed of money and jewels, and though he had lost one hundred large red sheep, laden with the greatest treasure upon earth; though the knavery of the Dutch skipper still sat heavy upon his mind; yet when he reflected upon what he had still left, and when he mentioned the name of Cunegonde, especially towards the latter end of a repast, he inclined to Pangloss's doctrine.
Candide By Voltaire
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