It would have been all right if you had given him the half lira at once, but with the whole lira in his hand there came the temptation to keep it all.
At this moment a policeman appeared, and asked the boy what troubled him, when he, accomplished actor that he was, pointed to the cage in my hand, and explained that I had taken his wares and not paid him the half lira demanded.
These people see so little money, a lira is quite a fortune to them.
For money we cashed cheques at the rate of 13 lira for L10.
As a lira was worth about two shillings at pre-war prices, living, in spite of its simplicity, was most expensive.
To help us out, officers were given an allowance from the Dutch Embassy of 18 lira a month.
Marcia produced her purse and handed them a lira apiece.
They each paid a lira for a taper which a friar was handing out, and they joined a group of other people, without quite knowing what they expected next.
I gave the lad a lira and had some trouble in escaping from there, because he followed me around everywhere calling me Excellency.
I bet you a soldo against a lira what hour it was.
I bet you a plugged soldo against a lira that you would have done the same.
She has put a lira into her basket and she is telling the man that he must not touch it unless he is willing to give her a good cauliflower and a long string of onions for it.
Molly and May paid him a whole lira for the fun they had in watching them.
Two lists went round, one of one lira and one of twelve lire a visitor, the latter subscription covering the whole staff.
After we had gone a few paces I slipped an Indian rupee and a Turkish gold lirainto Hill’s palm, and began singing.
Price found it—he dug it up in the garden as the Spook said—and he kept the gold lira (he showed it to me) but alas!
The lira he had kept (we gave him one to produce), but he had lost the paper.
Hill smiled a little sourly and threw the lira back into his left hand, and it turned back into a rupee.
If questioned he was to say that while digging in the garden at the spot mentioned above he had come on a tin with a false bottom, on opening which he found a goldlira and a circular piece of paper with curious hieroglyphics on it.
A coin called thelira d'oro or redonda is alleged to have been in use before the ducat was introduced.
But another authority seems to identify the lira a oro with the lira dei grossi.
Some fortnight before while walking with my posta, who was quite friendly towards me after his lira lunch, I told him I wanted to ask some German soldiers what mosques we could go to at Tchouka Bostan.
We all drank German beer obtained in the saloon at a lira a bottle.
I paid a lira for a place to stretch my legs and, later on, slept.
After two trips, and working the right posta with a heavy bribe of a two-lira dinner, I was allowed to a restaurant after the bath, but only on promising not to enter any shop.
Fee, one lira each, which includes guides and lights.
Open every Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday; fee, half lira each to Museum and Gallery.
All the while I was innocently plagiarising that fateful walk of Browning's round the Riccardi Palace in Florence, the day when he bought for a lira the Romana homocidiorum.
I had made up my mind that I ought first to try the direction hinted at by the baron, since I had absolutely no other clue to the whereabouts of the Count von Lira and his daughter.
The Contessina di Lira is desperately unhappy, and if nothing is done she may die.
I would have gone to the Graf von Lira and told him that you were not a fit person to teach his daughter; that you are a singer, and not a professor at all; and that you have assumed this disguise for the sake of seeing his daughter.
Count Lira says he does not require my services any longer, and the man who brought the note says they are going away.
Especially I call to mind his expression of indifference when Ercole began to descant upon the worldly possessions of the Lira household.
No, I think not; and there is no mention of the Lira family.
The baron's originality and extraordinary musical talent seemed to Lira gifts which a woman needed only to see in order to appreciate, and which might well make her forget his snowy locks.
Then, the afternoon papers are full of the whole affair, some right and some wrong, and I am bound to show the Contessina di Lira that this unfortunate accident does not touch my heart, however sorry I may be.
Lira looked more and more amazed as he observed the cool courtesy with which he was accosted.
I had imagined him to be but a chance acquaintance of the Lira family, having little or no personal interest in their doings.
But he was destined to get what he wanted that very day, namely, an opportunity of speaking with Von Lira alone.
At all events, the thing was done, and Hedwig von Lirabecame for the rest of her life Edvigia Cardegna.
Old Lira had left the house ten minutes earlier, to go to the funeral.
But Lira laughed grimly, and the idea of a fight seemed to please him.
Moreover, because the Turkish lira is legal tender, the Turkish Cypriot economy has suffered the same high inflation as mainland Turkey.
Monetary officials were forced to withdraw the lirafrom the European monetary system in September 1992 when it came under extreme pressure in currency markets.
Accordingly ten of us collected about 50 liras--one lira equals 18s.
Nearly all of them had some gold coins, English sovereigns being as numerous as Turkish lira pieces.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lira" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cent; dollar; franc; pie; pound; ruble; shilling; sou
