Two kopecksfor the night, ten kopecks for the week, and thirty kopecks for the month.
I succeeded in earning only eighty kopecks a day, and our food cost us sixty kopecks.
I was paid fifty kopecks in advance, and laid out the whole of this money on bread and meat.
How dare you give your stolen kopecks for the burial of an honest man?
Char Moore was sitting on the side of the bottom bunk, sipping a glass of tea that she'd bought for a few kopecks from the portress.
Hank stopped at one of the numerous cold drink stands where for a few kopecks you could get raspberry syrup fizzed up with soda water.
A few lucky speculations on the Bourse, starting from the risking of the few kopecks amassed by tuition, rescued me from the need of pursuing my law-studies.
His desire for learning appeared insatiable, and the fewkopecks which he earned in showing strangers through the chapel and running errands for the monks, were invariably spent at the book shops for some bit of precious literature.
Shall he earn a few paltry kopecks in making tzitzith (fringes for the praying scarfs) for the Jehudim in the village?
I pay the kopecks to the priest to-day, But Amine in his sheaf will not be bound.
With shame my mustache bristled when I said, "Troopers must forage where the grain is grown: I share my kopecks with the village priest, Who winnows peccadillos by the sheaf.
The Emperor has put water into the whisky, and reduced the price from fifteen kopecks a glass to five.
One by one, each pilgrim undergoes this rite; and then, on rising from his knees, lays down an offering of a few kopecks on the ledge of rock.
The life in jail was not harder than his life on deck; for the Government paid him, as a prisoner, six kopecks a day; enough to supply his wants.
Then, as you ask me to wait another month for the repayment of the two rubles I have already lent you, you owe me twenty kopecks more, which makes a total of five and thirty.
Is one ruble fifteen kopecks all you mean to give me now?
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.
There were some who ate two entire portions; it cost them a good deal, for they were generally sold at five kopecks each.
For twenty kopecks she brought me a basket full of papers left by the defunct, and confessed to me that she had already employed four sheets in lighting her fire.
Every one indeed knew that he had a liaison with a beggar woman, to whom he gave ten kopecks every six months.
With three kopecks for interest; that will make ten kopecks you will owe me," said the Jew, at the same time slipping his hand into his pocket to get out the sum agreed upon.
To have paid a few kopecks to any one gave the right to turn him to the best possible account, and even to claim his gratitude.
There were also some very poor ones, such as rolls worth two kopecks a piece, and a couple of brown rolls, covered lightly over with sour cream.
She was a brisk, lively person, and it was with her that the five kopecks given by the townsman were spent.
As fresh meat cost only three kopecks a pound, those who always had money allowed themselves the luxury of eating it.
He received five kopecks for a whole night's employment; and what employment it was!
Isaiah Fomitch gave three kopecks each time, except the last, when he placed ten kopecks on the plate; and how happy he looked!
Many prisoners, even the most simple and most economical, after saving up their kopecks throughout the year, thought they ought to spend some of them that day, so as to celebrate Christmas Eve in a worthy manner.
Five kopecks was a ridiculous payment even in our convict prison, and the exigency and hardness of the gamblers astonished me in this as in many cases: "You are paid, you must do what you are told.
The five kopecks were spent the same morning in buying cakes of white bread which were shared equally among us.
The owner of the cards received from the players fifteen kopecks [about sixpence] a night.
I'll borrow that from you," whispered Raissa, taking the fifteen kopecks from him.
Five kopecks for a cabbage, and a tiny little one, too," she said, propping her chin on her hand.
He never touched intoxicating liquor and he used to give his men ten kopecks for vodka on the great holidays; they did not dare to drink on other days.
And here, meanwhile, are fifteenkopecks for the chemist's.
One customer puts down a few kopecks on the counter, saying, "Give me a piece of flag.
A female teacher was engaged for my mother, at three kopecks a week, to teach her the Hebrew prayers; and my grandmother, herself a better scholar than the teacher, taught her writing in addition.
They received a free ticket for the return journey, and a few kopecks a day for expenses.
It was very pleasant to wear fine clothes, to have kopecks to spend at the fruit stalls, and to be pointed at admiringly.
They play and sing, and showers of kopecks rain down from the windows.
Glasses of weak tea were sold at 30 kopecks each, without sugar.
The same people who in the old days scrapedkopecks and waited to get a good place near the ceiling now sat where formerly were the people who came here to digest their dinners.
There was, however, a samovar, and we bought tea at sixty kopecks a glass and lumps of sugar at two roubles fifty each.
They will be distributed on the card system, and he had calculated that they could sell them at twelve kopecks a packet.
When at last he yielded to my desire, we were reduced to living upon twenty kopecks a day (5d.
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He had spent but a few kopecks a week for tea and tobacco, and his pay while he had been a clerk was a good deal larger than while he had been working in the mine.
Godfrey had exchanged twenty roubles for kopecks at the first village they had passed after reaching the river, as he knew that notes would be of no use among the native tribes, and without bargaining he accepted the offer they made.
A hundred kopecks go to the rouble; the silver rouble being worth from two and tenpence to three shillings and twopence, the paper rouble about two shillings.
They look like gold and silver, and only cost ten kopecks apiece.
The men who had carried the flour had received a few kopecks for their trouble, and had gone off as soon as they had laid down their burdens.
I am sending you thirty kopecks in silver, and regret that I cannot send you more.
But I had only twenty kopecks left, and upon them I had been counting for meeting my most pressing requirements.
I have agreed to do the work for forty kopecks a sheet.
I inquired whether he had much money on him; whereupon the poor old fellow pulled out his entire stock, wrapped in a piece of dirty newspaper, and consisting of a few small silver coins, with twenty kopecks in copper.
I will sell you everything at cost price, and if you wish, will give you ten kopecks rebate on the ruble.
If I run after the rubles and lose the kopecks thereby, who will give me something to eat?
They got the silk from a factory close by, and the whole family working together earned next to nothing, twenty kopecks a week.
A week after the Exaltation of the Cross I sold my hay willingly at thirty kopecks a pood.
And when one is with Samorodov he likes to have coffee with brandy in it after everything, and brandy is sixty kopecks for a little glass.
Coin or no coin, we shall have to collect ten kopecks from every hut.
The carp are two kopecks each, the eels are three, and the minnows are ten kopecks the dozen, plague take them!
Grisha feel in his pockets in which the kopecks are jingling.
If Nina or Vanya had been offered forty pounds of sweets or ten thousand kopecks for each kitten, they would have rejected such a barter without the slightest hesitation.
In the middle of the table is a white saucer with five kopecks in it.
If there had been no kopecks in the saucer, he would have been asleep long ago.
On the way to school he gave a beggar two kopecks, in the hope that those two kopecks would atone for his ignorance, and that, please God, he would not get the numerals with those awful forties and eighties.
I will buy it of you; and here are fifteenkopecks for the apothecary: is it enough?
Five kopecks for the very smallest head of cabbage!
There's thirty-seven roubles and forty kopecks in notes to your account, sir,' observed Praskovia Ivanovna.
Four packets of tobacco bought by your orders, eighty kopecks in silver.
I want six yards of fringe for an overcoat, at forty kopecks the yard.
There are three of us, and of every three kopecks of our father's money, one belongs to you.
The black's from eighty kopecks and the coloured from two and a half roubles.
That's forty-five kopecks a yard; of course, it's nothing like the same quality.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kopecks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
