The promised wage for this service is forty copecks a man, but with tips and drinks it usually amounts to a ruble.
If you give them a ruble they will swear that you are going to heaven, and even twenty copecks make one's chance pretty good.
A rouble is a sticky thing; the longer it turns about in your hand, the more copecks will stick to it.
I have fired off all the charge of my soul at three copecks a shot.
You have thrown to men a few copecks out of the stolen roubles, and you consider yourself a hero!
Janina knew that the chorus girls even after the most profitable performance received only fifty copecks on account and usually only two gold pieces or forty groszy.
The workmen in the Kamchatka are without tobacco, and pay ten copecks for a cigarette.
Thus on a pound, which is less than ten roubles, you lose about 34 copecks (8d.
Eggs are sold at twenty-eight copecks a-piece (about 7d.
In the language of the Russian postillions the "crow" is the stingy or poor traveler, who at the post-houses only pays two or three copecks a verst for the horses.
In return for a few copecks charitably offered by some good people, the bird-fanciers opened the prison doors of their captives, who flew out in hundreds, uttering their joyous notes.
From Irkutsk there is a branch to Kiatka, on the Mongolian frontier; and from thence, for thirty copecks a word, the post conveys the dispatches to Pekin in a fortnight.
I stole twenty copecks from my mother when I was nine years old.
He meant the sixty copecks brought him the day before by the good-humored woman to be given “to some one poorer than me.
Akim gave you twenty-five copecks the day before yesterday.
I stole twenty copecks from my mother when I was nine years old, and gave it back three days after.
But for the two roubles I lent you before, you owe me now twenty copecks on the same reckoning in advance.
Here, sir: as we say ten copecks the rouble a month, so I must take fifteen copecksfrom a rouble and a half for the month in advance.
I gave three copecks of my own to the postman for it.
So I must give you a rouble and fifteen copecks for the watch.
Thirty copecks she gave me with her own hands, her last, all she had, as I saw.
And here I, her own father, here I took thirty copecks of that money for a drink!
Give me six copecks for a drink, there's a nice young man!
From his dress and appearance they might well have taken him for a beggar asking alms in the streets, and the gift of the twenty copecks he doubtless owed to the blow, which made them feel sorry for him.
Seven copecks the forty pounds, the captain says, is the cost of the fuel, and two and a half roubles the expense of running the vessel at full speed an hour.
They force wages down by asking only 5 copecks (5 cents) a day.
They were skins of the common fox, shot in the neighbourhood, and were being sold at from 30 to 50 copecks apiece.
Avoiding this functionary’s stick, I paid twenty copecks (about 6d.
Sir]" With some difficulty and a promise of FORTY copecks I persuaded him to stop.
For working at the oars day and night he was paid two copecks a day; the passengers gave tips, but the ferrymen shared them out and gave nothing to the Tartar, and only laughed at him.
The cabman charged him one rouble and twenty-five copecks for driving him to Povarska Street, but he did not haggle and submissively took his seat in the sledge.
He himself was paid by contract and paid me and the others by the day, between seventy-five copecks and a rouble per day.
I had no work and I was once more half-starved, earning ten or twenty copecks a day, when possible, by disagreeable work.
I'll bring in your five copecks on my way back from town.
In consideration of fifty copecks the yemshick agreed to take the dog on his homeward trip and deliver him in good order and condition at Krasnoyarsk.
The lowest price of sugar is thirty copecks the pound, and it is oftener forty-five or fifty.
There are many public carriages in the streets, to be hired at thirtycopecks the hour; but the drivers, like their profession everywhere, are inclined to overcharge.
In some years wheat has been sold for ten copecksthe pood, and other products at proportionate prices.
We paid twelve copecks the dizaine for eggs, which frequently sell for one-third that sum.
We each gave ten copecks into his hand, and I observed that he did not drop the gratuity into the box.
We frequently endeavored to excite the yemshicks to the noble ambition of a race by offering a fewcopecks to the winner.
From Nicolayevsk to St. Petersburg the charges are twenty-five copecks (cents) a pound, the distance being seven thousand miles.
Ten copecks were an important item to a yemshick in Siberia, but of little consequence along the Volga.
We bought to Ekaterineburg, 306 versts, paying nine copecks a verst for each vehicle.
On the steppe oats were forty copecks, and wheat and rye seventy copecks a pood; equaling about thirty cents and seventy-five cents a bushel respectively.
Fifteen copecks was a liberal gratuity, and twenty bordered on the munificent.
The doctor attempted to be stern and reproved the delinquent, but ended with giving him five copecks and an injunction to do better in future.
Beef is abundant and good, at an average retail price of sevencopecks a pound.
And the inspector or the convoy soldier accepts, because he has a salary of twice twentycopecks and a family, and he can't help accepting it.
The foreman demanded from the women 30 copecks for each cow or two days' work.
I tell you what, you make your contract so that it brings you in a whole griva apiece, and give me four copecks on each.
According to the price of my contract I gain half a griva on every flask; of that I will make over two copecks to your Excellency.
At the end of the game, when the long score had to be reckoned up, in order to see how many copecks had been won, the postmaster was fain to turn out all his pockets to scrape together enough small coin wherewith to pay his debts.
The father said, "I have nothing to give you, dear brother, for I must pay out the few copecks which I have in my pocket for the christening.
I will give you a few copecks for them, to buy wheaten bread.
The cost of transport, which amounted to between nine and ten copecks a pood (36.
Occasionally he would earn three or four copecks by participating in some special prayer, for a sick person, for instance.
The bulk of the population lived on less than fifty copecks (twenty-five cents) a day, and that was difficult to earn.
When it was my turn to furnish the light it often happened that my mother was unable to procure the required two copecks (one cent).
Salt is now brought from Norway to Mesen, where it costs fifty to sixty copecks per pood.
The price of meal varies; this season it costs one rouble tencopecks per pood in Pustosersk.
He had offered to sell them the hedgehog, and they had paid fifty copecks for it; and the hatchet had so taken their fancy that they had made up their minds to buy it of their own accord.
But what can one earn by teaching the children of Russian merchants at ten copecks a lesson, especially with an invalid mother to keep?
Schneider, the professor who treated me and taught me, too, in Switzerland, gave me just enough money for my journey, so that now I have but a few copecks left.
From Vah Rehnio and Baska Jabianka, fifty copecks each for the chancery," noted down Pan Zolzik.
Meanwhile the secretary wrote down, "From Vavron Repa one ruble and twenty-five copecksfor the chancery.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copecks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
