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Example sentences for "kopeck"

Lexicographically close words:
kool; koom; koon; kop; kopa; kopecks; kopecs; kopek; kopeks; kopet
  1. Mr. and Mrs. Kopeck Louis d'Or Jones are not going to Newport this summer.

  2. Raskolnikoff stopped and joined one or two listeners, took out a five-kopeck piece, and gave it to the girl.

  3. I can't take a kopeck less, and even so I am making a reduction of nearly a hundred rubles the pound.

  4. See here, batuchka: if I take a ten-kopeck piece a month on each ruble, I ought to receive fifteen kopecks on a ruble and a half, the interest being payable in advance.

  5. On the table beside the bed lay a silver watch and a silver twenty-kopeck piece.

  6. He was unusually upright, and never gave a single kopeck for anyone else's benefit.

  7. He took with great satisfaction the five-kopeck piece Ershova gave him, and on the way he spat zealously into the hat on his own account.

  8. But she had had hardly a kopeck to call her own.

  9. The man who deserted and defied the Black Hundred, who broke his vows, and never paid a kopeck for the privilege; the man who had been appointed for the supreme work and who ran away.

  10. Pavel moved alongside of him and said in a low voice, pointing to Sizov and Rybin: "We three are authorized by all the comrades to ask you to revoke your order about the kopeck discount.

  11. A kopeck is equal to a French sou, or an English halfpenny.

  12. Three podvods, or fifteen dogs, are considered as equal to one horse in Siberia, for which a courier pays a kopeck per werst, and other travellers two kopecks.

  13. Dig it up and take it home with you and when you have a kopeck drop it in.

  14. There was nothing in my knapsack but a three-pound loaf of barley bread, which we had bought of a Tartar with our last five-kopeck piece.

  15. Petunikoff took his purse from his pocket, took out two five-kopeck pieces, put them at the feet of the dead man, and crossed himself.

  16. It is only too well known that anyone can put many a five-kopeck piece in his pocket in this way.

  17. The comic man fumbled in his pockets, found a fifteen-kopeck piece, and ran to the chemist's.

  18. Andrey Yefimitch, who could never refuse anyone anything, gave him a ten-kopeck piece.

  19. I have not a five-kopeck piece for a night's lodging.

  20. I've forgotten to put a kopeck for the burying," he says.

  21. Since every rouble and kopeck we have came from Prince Pojarsky, it is right that some should go back to his heir.

  22. My father quickly doubled it; and, unlike most men, he brought every kopeck honestly to his lord.

  23. The kopeck that you win by guile may swell your roll today, but in the clammy afterwhile it melts that roll away.

  24. I would not rob you; you will want every kopeck you have.

  25. Luka, too, had saved every kopeck he had received from the day when Godfrey told him that he would take him with him when he ran away.

  26. The cadets gave him a twenty-kopeck piece each.

  27. She gibbered and she gibbered something in a foreign language, all the time pointed to heaven with her hand, and then distributed a five-kopeck Testament to every one of us and rode away.

  28. Her eye was bruised, and she assiduously applied a five-kopeck copper to it.

  29. Let us condemn the hungry, petty thief who has stolen a five- kopeck loaf out of a tray, but if the director of a bank has squandered somebody else's million on race horses and cigars, let us mitigate his lot.

  30. His mother gives him a ten kopeck piece for a French roll with sausage, but he's economized out of that for a wench.

  31. Roly-Poly neatly caught in its flight the thrown fifteen-kopeck piece; made a comical curtsey and, pulling down the uniform cap with the green edging at a slant over his eyes, vanished.

  32. He was left to pay for it himself, and he never had as much as a ten-kopeck piece.

  33. And the kopeck rolled away and clinked upon the steps; he could not bend his red fingers to hold it tight.

  34. One lady went up to him hurriedly and slipped a kopeck into his hand, and with her own hands opened the door into the street for him!

  35. As regards the first half, he had been in the habit, as often as he received a rouble, of placing a kopeck in a money-box.

  36. If I have only a kopeck in my pocket, I always go there.

  37. The titular councillor pressed a ten-kopeck piece into his hand.

  38. Cannot I also see that YOU are ruining yourself for me, and hoarding your last kopeck that you may spend it on my behalf?

  39. For my father's sake I tried hard to learn my lessons, for I could see that he was spending his last kopeck upon me, and himself subsisting God knows how.

  40. In those days I never had a kopeck to spare.

  41. See here, batuchka: if I take a ten- kopeck piece a month on each ruble, I ought to receive fifteen kopecks on a ruble and a half, the interest being payable in advance.

  42. But if they obey their parents, and give the beggars a kopeck each, or a roll, God will have pity on them, and will let them into Paradise.

  43. A rouble is worth more than a kopeck anyway," the schoolboy explains.

  44. It appears there is not a single kopeck in the kitchen.

  45. I preserved that kopeck a considerable time.

  46. On seeing me the little girl blushed, and murmured a few words into her mother's ear, who stopped, and took from a basket a kopeck which she gave to the little girl.

  47. He was proud of his skill, and used to take with a careless air the kopeck he received; one might have thought that he worked from love of his art, and not in order to gain money.

  48. I soon found a remedy for it--Akim Akimitch pointed it out to me--a prisoner in the military section who for one kopeck shaved those who paid for it with his own razor.

  49. He had been working like a negro for many months in order to save up, kopeck by kopeck, a small sum which he was resolved to spend all at once.

  50. For a kopeck this man consented to cede me his place.

  51. These were the offerings of the poor to the poor, on which a last kopeck had often been spent.

  52. Tis with a kopeck, and with a kopeck only, that a man must begin.

  53. Were a loan of mine to remain out three years, I should never demand a kopeck of interest on it.

  54. It is necessary to begin from the beginning rather than from the middle; from a kopeck rather than from a rouble; from the bottom rather than from the top.

  55. On the contrary, to show you that I am not a usurer, I will decline to ask of you a single kopeck for the serfs.

  56. Pay her, will you, for I have not a kopeck left.

  57. He who is born with thousands, and is brought up to thousands, will never acquire a single kopeck more, for he will have been set up with the amenities of life in advance, and so never come to stand in need of anything.

  58. Three times did I have to begin life afresh, and each time that I lost my all I began with a single kopeck at a moment when other men would have given themselves up to despair and drink.

  59. I believe that never in your life have you done a deed not innately dishonourable--that not a kopeck have you ever obtained by aught but shameful methods of trickery and theft, the penalty for which is Siberia and the knut.

  60. I thrust a five-kopeck piece into Ieronim's hand for taking me across and jumped on land.

  61. How could one give away the last kopeck and arrive penniless in a strange land?

  62. It was too dismal to confess he had not collected a kopeck or one recruit.

  63. Another tax, also for the maintenance of the newly-organized Government schools, was levied--one kopeck and a half per page!

  64. I accept the position of her mother, but on the condition that she shall never lose a kopeck of her inheritance.

  65. He is good, brave as a warrior, but I wouldn't give a kopeck for his police.

  66. And the bandit, hanging onto the two roules, returned the fifty-kopeck piece to the trembling child and added a ten-kopeck piece out of his own pocket.

  67. The young woman touched it with the end of her fingers, as if she were placing a twenty-kopeck piece in the hand of a hooligan, and withdrew from it with disgust.


  68. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kopeck" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.