A centime beyond, it would denounce as imposition.
Every evening during the winter these persons came to play an artless game of boston for centime points, to borrow the papers, or return those they had finished.
Would not he, Duvillard, should occasion require it, testify that he, Barroux, had never taken a centime for himself?
I really haven't a centimein the house," said she, "just now I borrowed ten sous for the children from the servant.
Not a centime of the money had gone into his own pocket, he would allow nobody to impugn his personal honesty, on that point his word must suffice.
The monetary unit in Holland is the florin, which is equal to two francs four centimes in our money, so that the Dutch centime and sou are worth more than double the Italian centime and sou; hence the mistake and its correction.
The expense in water, then, does not amount to a centime per cubic meter.
In continuous operation it would produce more than 1,500 cubic meters of gas a year, say a little less than one centime per cubic meter.
In a laboratory, it is of no consequence whether a liter of hydrogen costs a centime or a franc.
Too bad, I've nothing smaller than a centime piece.
To get the money centime by centime and no rest from the police--well, well, if I'm born into this world again I will become a government official.
The story would go out that I had broken my word, and my prisoners would allow themselves to be killed like sheep, without asking a centime of their parents.
I would not have demanded a centime of ransom, if you had been as ignorant as I am.
He laid in a stock of cigars at less than a centime apiece, and dried them in the sun; they left as he smoked them a firm white ash two inches long; and he grew so fond of them that he cared to smoke nothing else.
When the train approached Boulogne, Henry Snow gave up talking and began to juggle with the ten-centime piece; while they were walking along to the boat he looked about him furtively.
About this time, too, he developed a habit of playing with a ten-centime piece.
Then pay the sum you first agreed to give, and not a centime more, and, having discharged the obligation, descend to the saloon.
Sous and fifty centime pieces and franc pieces showered from the side doors of the horses' cars as American soldiers, with typical disregard for the value of money, pitched coin after coin to the scrambling mob of children.
You know he is one that cuts every centime in four pieces.
After all, the storms and sunshine on Parnassus are better than the worry over a lostcentime in the back parlour.
The value of a centime is roughly one-tenth of a penny.
By the same law the minimum rate of postage for small packets of printed matter sent under loose band, the imprim['e]s non urgent, was raised from 1 centime to 2 centimes.
On such packets the rate was 1 centime for each 5 grammes.
Rogers suddenly remembered that Jimbo that morning had asked him for a two-centime stamp.
He had thought the coin was a ten-centime piece such as Daddy sometimes gave him.
The bronze coins are the ten, five, two, and one centime pieces.
There are also copper coins in ten and five centime pieces.
Tell me the truth, Don Orsino--have you seen a centimeof all these millions which every one is dealing with?
But neither he nor his creditors can lay a finger upon the pictures, nor raise a centime upon them.
Do you know that this great and successful firm is carried on systematically without a centime of profit to the partners, and with the constant threat of a disgraceful failure, used to force me on?
He would arrange things in such a way that you would never get a centime of his fortune.
His father did not allow him one centime for his pocket-money; but the attorney, in his capacity of an old friend of the family, did for him what he had never done before for an amateur clerk, and allowed him twenty francs a month.
She had not a centime to begin with, this courageous lady, left a widow without resources, and a son to bring up.
Never, never, never has a single centime been repaid by a single one of these borrowers.
It often happens that the younger children of these small owners give up their share of the little family estate without claiming a centime of compensation, and seek their fortunes in the towns.
Not a singlecentime would she budge from her stated price.
Eventually they gave up a centime themselves; but the hard mouth did not relax, and the pretty head in the snow-white coif was shaken vigorously.
The reader may smile at this picture of overwhelming grief and cruel recriminations against herself apropos of a couple of fifty centime pieces.
And they do not cost the manufacturer above one centime per hundred.
There was one singular trait these people possessed that, in conjunction with their other characteristics, may seem unnatural: they would give and exact the last centime (a quarter of a cent) in a trade.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "centime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cent; dollar; franc; pie; pound; ruble; shilling; sou
