This is not the ass we sought and he is not worth more than half a score paras to us.
Every shopkeeper has a board secured by a ledge and running to a point, on which the paras are reckoned, and then spouted into a canvass bag.
He goes into a Baccùe, or huckster’s shop, while it is open, and purchases for a few paras a circular fold of paper.
So, the result being satisfactory, the Paras brandy was brought forth again, and toasts were drunk to Pepe's and Pancha's long happiness.
The Paras were living together now, as they explained to her.
Before the Turkish conquest, the usual currency at this market was dhourra; at present, piastres and parasare taken.
Forty paras make a piastre; but in the time of the Hadj, when small change is necessary for the immense daily traffic of the pilgrims, the serafs gave twenty-five paras only in [p.
One piastre equal to fortyparas or diwanys, as they are called in the Hedjaz.
The value of a shilling, distributed in paras at each of the Mouleds, fully answers the expectation of the greedy and the indigent.
The pound, which costs twenty-five paras at Mekka, was sold here for ten.
Wearing the above ornaments, they go to a temple, in front of which they empty out on a mat a few paras of paddy, and again play and sing.
The coffee is served steaming hot in tiny cups holding about two table-spoonfuls, the price varying from ten paras upward, according to the grade of the establishment.
A woman has charge of a store of seeds and grain, and visitors purchase a handful for ten paras and throw to the pigeons, who flock around fearlessly in the general scramble for the food.
The usual percentage charged is, for changing a lira, eighty paras; thirty paras for a medjedie, and ten for a cherik, the percentage on this latter coin being about five per cent.
The salt is sold at the mine, and owners of transportation facilities in the shape of pack animals make money by purchasing it here at six paras an oke, and selling it at a profit in distant towns.
The first named is a large silver coin worth four and a half francs; the cherik might be called a quarter dollar; while piastres and paras are tokens, the former about five cents and the latter requiring about nine to make one cent.
I gave his little son 20 paras to buy camel's flesh.
Twenty paras he condescended to take from me, which added to his holiday happiness; sometimes he won't accept of money.
Tax on grain measured, 2 paras per kilo paid by the buyer, and 2 paras per kilo paid by the seller.
This pays a tax of eight paras the oke, which, added to the 10 per cent.
If measured for the sole convenience of the owner, 2 parasper kilo.
Three paras of paddy are set apart for the local village deity.
The landlord gives the parents of the girl three paras of paddy, and this, together with what the guests bring, goes to defray the expenses of the ceremony.
The landlords give a few paras of paddy to defray a portion of the wedding expenses.
Thus they get one para for every ten paras of corn.
The landlords partly defray their marriage and funeral expenses by a grant of a few paras of paddy, some salt and chillies.
Because the paras did not need such systems and their needs were the only ones that mattered!
When it does we're going to have enormous hordes of paras milling around, helplessly waiting to learn how to think for themselves again.
It was now at thirty-three paras the Rotola, or about two-pence-halfpenny the pound.
In the evening paras were collected by one of the bridegroom's friends, who sung verses in praise of all his acquaintance, every one of whom, when named, was expected to make a present.
A peasant can travel for a whole month without expending a para; but people of any distinction give a few paras on the morning of their departure to the waiter or watchman [Arabic].
Visitors generally throw a couple of paras upon the tomb.
II'-32] No mileage for the 17th; but Paras is a notable place, easily discovered on ordinary maps.
Paras have appeared," said the Minister for Health, "at every place on Tallien Three where there are men.
Because despite a broadcast by the planetary president, terror of paras was too well-established to be cured by an official statement.
I repeat: a vaccine has been found which absolutely prevents anyone from becoming a para, and which cures those who are paras now.
The firstparas were examined six months ago," said the Health Minister.
There's a mob of paras forming in the streets in the Mooreton quarter!
It is the delusion that this scavenger, this eater of unclean things, this unspeakable bit of slimy, squirming flesh--paras have the delusion that it is the most delectable of foodstuffs!
There was talk of infection, and talk of unseen creatures come out of the jungle, making men paras and then controlling them as if by demoniac possession.
Lett and the President and the Cabinet members who were paras acted convincingly as if they were not.
Even such marked respect as this fell short of the homage which Tsze-kung, his most faithful disciple, felt was due to him, and for three additional years that loving follower testified by his grief his reverence for his master.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "paras" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
