As the drink-money is only fifteen kopeks a stage (and many travellers do not give that), they have not much opportunity of gratifying this penchant, for tobacco runs away with most of their money.
One speculator from that city went to the expense of exporting a quantity to Vernoe, four hundred miles off, on the borders of China, but then only managed to get twenty-five kopeks a pood, the harvests having been equally good.
Whether our personal appearance or the prospect of sundry kopeks did it, I know not, let us hope the former.
Preparations for their arrival were already being made in the shape of cakes, cream, eggs, apples, sweetmeats, and cigarettes spread out on snowy linen cloths for the delectation of lucky convicts who had made a few kopeks on the road.
They can also obtain for three kopeks (about a penny) enough tea to give them half a dozen cups of that national beverage and three pieces of sugar.
He gave Jendrek twenty kopeks and put my cap on my head, and he told me ten acres was a fortune.
Wait, you shall have twenty kopeks for that; a free citizen should never humble himself before anybody.
She had bought a silk kerchief at a stall, given twenty kopeks to the beggars, and sat down in the front pew, where Grybina and Lukasiakowa had at once made room for her.
You shall have another twenty kopeks if you will bring the footman.
In summer her lover kept a boat; and in winter they earned their living by letting lodgings to night-lodgers at three kopeks without a pillow, and at five kopekswith one.
They possessed nothing save the clothes on their backs: and they earned, by working very hard, from forty to forty-five kopeks (8d.
He became cross, and said plainly that there was no one in want but drunkards and idlers; but on learning my object in asking, he begged me five kopeks for drink, and ran to the tavern for it.
And I had gone about with the notion that this was charity,--this taking away thousands with one hand, and with the other throwing kopeks to those I select!
I not fifty kopeks [about fifty cents], and can I not hire an isvochtchik [driver] to take us?
He spent the twenty kopeks on vodka, and started homewards without having bought any skins.
Before winter Simon saved up a little money: a three-rouble note lay hidden in his wife's box, and five roubles and twenty kopeks were owed him by customers in the village.
Then Simon called on another peasant, but this one swore he had no money, and would only pay twenty kopeks which he owed for a pair of boots Simon had mended.
So all the business the shoemaker did was to get the twenty kopeks for boots he had mended, and to take a pair of felt boots a peasant gave him to sole with leather.
These are fifty kopeks each; and these are a little more expensive.
He told them that he would not let them have their cattle unless they paid a fine of fifty kopeks for each of the horned cattle, and twentykopeks for each sheep.
Not much certainly, but it would amount up to about sixty kopeks [1s 2d]--his very own money.
Fedor Mihailovich frowned, took out of his pocket-book a coupon of two roubles fifty kopeks which he found among the bank-notes, and added to it fifty kopeks in silver out of the loose change in his purse.
Here a clerical person from a neighbouring village teaches eight boys at his house, receiving fifty kopeks a month from each.
There a large village or a compact township levies fifteen kopeksfrom each of the twelve hundred souls and hires a teacher for 180 roubles for the winter.
Semen wanted to explain to his wife that he had spent twenty kopeks only, and wanted to tell her that he had found the man; but Matrena began to break in with anything she could think of, and to speak two words at once.
I know Communes that paid fifty kopeks a soul for a school in each of their villages; but it is difficult to compel the peasants to pay fifteen kopeks for a school in the township, if not all of them can make use of it.
The shoemaker was grieved, spent all the twenty kopekson vodka, and started home without the fur coat.
These assistants should receive a salary of fifty kopeks to one rouble per month, and the teacher should work with them separately in the evenings, so that they may not fall behind the others.
All he got was the twenty kopeks for the boots he had mended, and a peasant gave him a pair of felt boots to patch with leather.
Assuming that all peasants pay fifteen kopeks per soul, and the County Council gives three thousand roubles, there will be nine thousand roubles, which will suffice only for thirty schools with the former arrangement.
Toward fall the shoemaker had saved some money: three roubles in paper lay in his wife's coffer, and five roubles and twenty kopeks were outstanding in the village.
From some of the peasants, not from all, fifteen kopeks are levied from each soul, in all about four thousand roubles.
For example: a Commune intends to open a school,--the township gives it a certain number of kopeks per soul.
He went to another peasant, but the peasant swore that he had no money, and gave him only twentykopeks for mending a pair of boots.
A couple of hours later, a messenger entered our room at the hotel, without knocking, in Russian lower-class style, and demanded thirty kopeks for the signature.
I offered to pay for the stamp on the spot, and supply the remaining twenty-five kopeks when furnished with an adequate reason therefor.
The messenger accepted the five kopeksfor the stamp, and set out to deliver the document.
Twenty kopeks a pound for the strawberries, also of the first quality.
The legal price of registration is twenty kopeks (about ten cents), the value of the stamp.
In the summer her lover kept a boat, and in the winter they lived by letting accommodations to night-lodgers: three kopeks without a pillow, five kopekswith a pillow.
He did understand this, and he would not go with the peasant to tend cattle, and to eat potatoes and kvas with him, but he went to the zoological garden in the costume of a savage, to lead the elephant at thirty kopeks a day.
My friend, a kind and liberal man, hires these women to fill his cigarettes at two rubles fifty kopeks the thousand.
And I had gone so far astray that this taking of thousands from the poor with one hand, and this flinging of kopeks with the other, to those to whom the whim moved me to give, I called good.
I wanted twenty kopeks to give to a poor pilgrim; I sent my son to borrow them from some one; he brought the pilgrim a twenty-kopek piece, and told me that he had borrowed it from the cook.
For two days already, he had been going to the Pryesnensky ponds, where he had hired himself out at thirty kopeks a day in some procession of savages in costume, who led about elephants.
The money which he had laid by on the day when he gave three kopeks amounted to six rubles and fifty kopeks.
Accordingly, six rubles and twenty kopeks was the sum of his savings.
He did understand this, and he would not go with the peasant to tend cattle, and to eat potatoes and kvas with him, but he went to the zoological garden in the costume of a savage, to lead the elephant at thirty kopeks a day.
Even in Russia, wedded as the masses are to prejudice, common sense must gain the day in the end, particularly where roubles and kopeks are in question.
It seemed to be quite an understood thing that each recruit should drop kopeks into the hands of the gendarmes who acted as door-keepers.
We purchased very good Congou tea in the bazaar at 1 ruble 35 kopeks per pound, equal to four shillings.
Freight on general cargo is thirty kopeks per pood, equal to sixty shillings per ton.
Bought postage stamps for 40 kopeks at a small station, but had to give another 10 kopeks as commission.
In addition, a tax of ten kopeks for the whole journey is levied upon each horse, the proceeds of which are due to Government by the contractors who supply the teams.
The steward himself promised thirty kopeksfor digging two cubic yards.
All of a sudden the steward considered it excessive to give thirty kopeks for two cubic yards.
All these boats convey goods from Astrakhan to Nijni Novgorod, Saratof, and other places, and vice versa, charging for freight from ten to thirty kopeks per pood, according to distance.
The taxes paid by these colonists amount to ten kopeks per hectare; in addition to which, each family contributes one ruble fifty kopeks towards the salary of the government officers in their district.
The charge for heavy goods is from sixty to sixty-five kopeks the 100 kilogrammes.
The Frenchman found some small change and gave twenty kopeks to each of the pilgrims.
He rejoiced particularly at this meeting, because he had disregarded the opinion of men and had done the simplest, easiest thing--humbly accepted twenty kopeks and given them to his comrade, a blind beggar.
It wails plaintively, as though a thousand souls were praying for Tikun,[137] or a thousand little boys for five kopeks for a night's shelter.
The statistics give an average annual expenditure of thirty-seven and a half rubles a head--about ten kopeks a day.
As far as I knew, I had no such words in my mind, anyway I certainly did not intend to say them, and perhaps I would gladly have given a few kopeks not to have done so!
It flashed across me that for the ten kopeks which I paid for the scarcely-tasted tea, the poor little boy would have had a half-portion of soup or a piece of bread and a corner to sleep in.
I cannot afford to give five kopeks in charity every day, and yet that was not the reason.
You know, at my 'Thursday' they give me ten kopeksfor supper, and I have four over.
I had paid him his twenty kopeks in advance, so what excuses could he possibly make?
Here, I transfer all the property to you; so that afterwards the creditors will be sorry that they didn't take twenty-five kopeks on the ruble.
He never took a drop of intoxicating liquor into his mouth, but he gave each of them tenkopeks for vodka on festival days; on other days they did not dare to drink.
Fifty kopeks make twenty-five cents in United States currency, which seems a small price to pay for a reindeer, but in the country of which we are writing that is a good average price.
If these should not suffice, the government would buy up reindeer from natives in the interior at fifty kopeks a head, and feed them to the destitute people.
He tore the rag from Yevsey's hand, and shouted in an offended tone, "Five kopeks for such a garment as this?
She's found out that Zhukov's tobacco costs two rubles, while Faler's is only one ruble ninety kopeks a pound.
Flour, for instance, costs twenty-five kopeks or about 6d.
All the stancias on this road are leased by the Government to Yakute peasants, who are legally entitled to receive three kopeks a verst for every pair of deer.
From Verkolensk to Yakutsk, 4½ kopeks a verst per horse.
Of course, the messages had to be written in Russian, but they were sent through at five and tenkopeks a word respectively.
The officials of those days probably reflected that, if three kopeksmust be paid for a verst, the latter had better be a long one.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "kopeks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
