Lexicographical Neighbors of Contos
Literary usage of Contos
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Brazil Today and Tomorrow by Lilian Elwyn (Elliott) Joyce (1917)
"86 Matches 18000 contos. . 4 contos. .99.9 Conserves 13300 contos. . 9800 contos.
. 58 Pharmaceutical specialties 11700 contos ..."
2. Latin-American Year Book for Investors and Merchants for 1918- (1920)
"The principal items were: Import duties, 55219 contos, gold, and 52567 contos,
paper; tax on consumption, 116007 contos, paper; stamp tax, etc., 7 contos, ..."
3. An Overland Journey to Lisbon at the Close of 1846: With a Picture of the by Terence McMahon Hughes (1847)
"The annual receipt of the custom-house of Figueira is 47 contos; ... 6 contos;
of Vianna, 52 contos (a quantity of goods is cleared here to go contraband ..."
4. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1904)
"The receipts for 1902 (rough figures) reached a total of 43051 contos gold, and
238381 paper. Including late receipts the totals would be 43007 and ..."
5. Brazil and the Brazilians, Portrayed in Historical and Descriptive Sketches by Daniel Parish Kidder, James Cooley Fletcher (1857)
"Department of Empire 5309 contos. Department of Justice 3002 " Department of Navy
4537 ... 61778 50096 Total debt of Brazil 111864 contos, 6 per ct. ..."
6. The Marquis of Pombal by John Smith Athelstane Carnota (1871)
"dant-General, with a salary of two contos, to examine into the condition of the
land of the ... contos ..."
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