The average pay of the weavers is less than thirtycents per day, and the boy helpers, who work the shuttles, receive but twelve.
The price of admission is about five cents of our currency, and from six hundred to a thousand persons often gather at these theatres.
Laborers at Singapore get twelve and fifteen cents a day for work on the wharves, and less inland; but the cost of living to these people is proportionally insignificant.
The same authority assured us that it did not cost over ten cents a day each to feed these men, they being quite content with boiled rice, three times a day, seasoned with a little dried fish or curry.
The guide informed us that the men received as wages twelve cents, the women ten, and the boys eight cents per day of ten hours.
Their boiled rice and dried fish would cost them four or five cents for the day, and so they would be able to save ten cents.
The local agent told us they were paid for the ten or twelve hours' work fifteen cents each.
There is a ready market for it at five cents a small bunch, and with intelligent grafting the bearing of the plant can be increased tenfold.
The reason more people do not succeed in this Get-Rich-Quick scheme is that they become discouraged when they get about 75 cents in bank and give it up.
He had five dollars in his pocket that Ned Talcott had given him for his uniform, and eighty cents in loose change.
When these were not for the bank or business houses in the near center of the town, but for individuals, the agent employed Ralph to deliver them, allowing him to retain the ten cents fee for charges.
But I only spent thirty-five cents for car fare, and the suit of clothes I soaked is as good as ever," declared Ralph.
Sometimes Ralph picked up as high as fifty cents a day, the average was about half that amount, but it was welcome pocket money.
Hundreds could not get work at ten cents a day, besides rations.
I left each with fifty cents and returned to my own sweet home.
Ten cents apiece," replied the ferryman, "or three for a quarter.
With wheat at eighty cents a cental, an' barley not wuth the haulin', it seems most an impertinence to ask grangers ter buy books.
Hogs, he pointed out, were selling at two cents a pound; bacon and hams at twelve and fifteen cents.
An old debt of half a dollar came in, and there were thirty-five cents for the babies.
I was goin' to git a norange, but the cheek of 'em, wantin' five cents for wan!
And so when Wiley came to see me I gave him an option on it for--well, I believe it was five cents a share.
I should have taken your offer, when you said you'd give ten cents for every share of stock that I had.
In fact, I have seen a letter written to Mrs. Huff in which he offers her ten cents a share.
And whenever she was ready to write to his father she could receive her ten cents a share.
It was good, in fact, for thirty cents cash, with a gambling chance up to five dollars; and the wise ones began to buy.
Yet even so he, Wiley Holman, had fully safeguarded his interests, for by his other option he could buy all Blount's stock for the sum of five cents a share.
He offered to sell it to me for five cents a share when I took out that option on the Paymaster!
If you send your stock to John Holman at Vegas, he'll give you ten cents a share; but I won't give you a cent.
The small payments on past royalties and his five cents a share would be all that Blount would receive; and then he would be left, a spectacle for gods and men--a banker who had been beaten by a boy.
And if his father stood ready to pay ten cents a share for two hundred thousand shares of stock why did Wiley refuse to redeem her mother's holdings for a petty eight hundred dollars?
Ten cents or ten dollars--it makes no difference to me.
And so it was still, for the Widow Huff remained; but across the front of the hospitable gallery where the Colonel had entertained the town, a cheap cloth sign announced meals fifty centsand Virginia, his daughter, was the waiter.
Ten cents a share," he answered, and Wiley's stern face hardened.
Just five cents more than nothing," observed Wiley judicially and waited for Blount to rave.
The stock she had refused to sell for ten cents a share and then had turned around and put up with Blount as security on a quick-action note.
Gimme eighty-three dollars and forty-one cents and you can have it back, with costs.
The postman names some member of the company, generally of the opposite sex; he is then asked, "How many cents are to be paid?
Half a dozen boxes of matches labeled: "10 cents the lot.
On to these curtains you sew a number of small brass rings, which you can buy for about 20 cents a dozen, or even less.
No one offered to put up the two cents and so the curtain was saved.
Then an assessment of fifty centseach was levied and Jack spent the best part of three days collecting the sums.
His first job was pasting labels on blacking-pots, for which he received twenty-five cents a day!
This is my debt, towards which I pay fiftycents a day.
You'll get your money back, and twenty-five cents more.
Solon Talbot regarded it enviously "I will give you twenty-five cents to exchange," he said.
Mark took it, and opening it, saw that it contained three dollars in bills, and a dollar and seventy-five cents in silver.
If you are ever worth a thousand cents you will be lucky.
When he was in New York he had no money at all, and succeeded in obtaining only twenty-five cents from his aunt.
That would only cost me nine cents in place of the dollar that you demand.
No, she is afraid to, though I offered her twenty-five cents interest.
I will exchange without the twenty-five cents if you prefer the lower berth.
When they met in New York Jack was very hard up, and had only succeeded in obtaining twenty five-cents from his parsimonious aunt.
No; I will give you ten cents for car fare, and when you return and make your report you shall be paid for doing the errand.
But the Chicago price--" "Are you going to pay six cents for them?
Roosevelt had agreed to sell the Marquis eighty or a hundred head of cattle at a price, on which they agreed, of about six cents a pound.
For two years he furnished the Northern Pacific dining-cars with venison at five cents a pound.
One hundred tickets were advertised, at fifty cents each, and the music hall of the fashionable Exchange Hotel engaged for the occasion.
The truth of the matter is that but two hundred and fifty tickets were printed, the price being fifty cents each, and, as Dr.
Seventeen days of paddling a fifty-foot boat made of great planks and laden with five tons of goods, hauling it over portages, is not exactly a picnic, and the men certainly earned their forty-eight cents a day.
For two cents I'd pour this pink slop down your neck!
The pipe had been sold to a junkman for thirty cents and the boy had spent the proceeds on a ticket for a cheap theater and some cigarettes.
After that I asked some other brokers about the stock, and they told me it was not worth five cents on the dollar.
When Lucy got through with me, Tom, I looked like thirtycents and felt like twenty-five of that was plugged.
One woman, whose children had been taught verses from the New Testament, gave me twenty-five cents to get her a Bible, saying she wondered why their clergy forbid them reading it.
One poor woman asked me if I would get her a Bible, and she would pay twenty-five cents a month.
Another poor woman paid 25 cents for one, for 'she wanted it in the house for the good of the children.
But we red cents can never know the good that our purchases do in the world.
Then he put his other hand into the pocket and jingled me against the rest of the change in a most unpleasant manner—picking me up and dropping me again just as if red cents had no feeling.
Cal confessed to being the Croesus of the party, having the magnificent sum of four dollars and some cents on his person, and, unlike some wealthy persons, he was quite willing to share his riches.
I've got a dollar and sixtycents left, though, and I'll gladly devote it to the cause.
On brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon.
Upon brandies, or other spirits manufactured or distilled from grain or other materials, one dollar and seventy-five cents per proof gallon.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "cents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
