A council meeting was held, and the Kurumba fined twenty-five rupees, which were credited to the god.
Dal Partuk offered to come to terms and live in the town again, if the people would pay the value of his lost bullocks, and give him a small income of five rupees a-month.
The establishment kept up consisted of one gardener, at five rupees a month, and two assistants at three rupees each.
The shikari replied that he would be quite satisfied with twenty-five rupees, as he wanted to get his younger brother out of pledge.
The essential part is the tying of a small token or ornament (tali), varying in value from a few annas to four or five rupees by a turmeric-stained string, round the neck of the bride.
He obtained the money by pledging his younger brother to a sowcar, and had paid it all back except twenty-five rupees.
The Sahoukar's pony we sold the next day for twenty-five rupees; and we got but little else, for he had no money but in hoondees, which we burned.
Some of them wear the sacred thread, but in former times the Bastar Raja would invest any man with this for a fee of four or five rupees, and the Bhatras therefore purchased the social distinction.
They conduct their weddings by the Nikah form and the mehar or dowry is always the same sum of a hundred and twenty-five rupees, whatever may be the position of the parties and in the case of widows also.
In the end he got rid of Georgina by a compromise of seventy-five rupees.
In two months I do not receive the worth of five rupees," and he told the thing to his wife that evening.
He cannot drink, he does not smoke, and his living expenses amount to perhaps twenty-five rupees a month, but he is John Hay, the Immortal.
Well, I make reduction in price; take one with the other, and give me one hundred and seventy-five rupees.
The lady selected one of the white and one of the black kittens, and for the two he was induced to accept thirty-five rupees (three pounds ten shillings).
Ram Gopal, who with strong common sense combined the benefit of a liberal English education, thought of the following expedient: He at once suggested that every noybidhi (offering) should be accompanied by a sum of five Rupees.
However he had to give back the cow and pay twenty-five rupees to the panchayat.
But he took care to promise the headman and leading villagers a bribe of five rupees if they decided the case in his favour: so the result was a foregone conclusion and the arbitrators told Bhagrai to take away the old worthless cow.
Then she must become a teacher, or starve on Peru's five rupees.
Five rupees, I suppose, and the tahsildar to have him escorted so far on his way north to the shrine.
That, by rights, was Peru's hereditary trade, which he had deserted in favour of dhooli bearing and a fixed salary of five rupees a month.
I have a chance of having some things washed by a dhobee, but at the exorbitant charge of twenty-five rupees per 100!
A price of five rupees has to be paid for the bride, unless her family give a girl in exchange.
Sweetmeats and other delicacies are then offered to the guru, and the disciple makes him a present of one to five rupees.
For this he usually receives a fee of five rupees, and in some States the appointment is in the hands of the Raja, who exacts a fine of a hundred rupees or more from a new candidate.
The first prisoner (the mother of the girls) disposed of the children to the third prisoner for the consideration of a neck ornament and thirty-five rupees.
A gift of seven and a half rupees and a pig to the castemen, and of five rupees to the bride's father, completes this very primitive ceremony.
This officer gets a salary of twenty-five rupees a month.
All those present, with all seriousness, pacify him, and he is cheered by the sight of five rupees, which are presented to him.
For twenty-five rupees he can claim her much earlier.
The acceptance of these by her father is a sign that the match is agreeable to him, and a jholla tonka (bride-price) of five rupees is paid to him.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "five rupees" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
