The Spaniards who are the bravest men in the world, have been defeated, there is not a peseta anywhere, and all those gentlemen who harangue in Madrid vote fresh taxes and we are always involved in difficulties.
At last Blas was begging: "Well, at least give me a peseta to get a drink with.
This was "Elias," where we could dine excellently for the sum of one peseta fifty centimos apiece.
They were quite peremptory with the rest of our luggage; so Jan dropped the two warm five-peseta pieces back into his pocket.
So in despair we made our way to it, wondering whether the congestion had spread from the eight peseta boarding-houses to the seventeen-peseta hotels, and whether our first night in Madrid was to be spent in the bus.
So, fingering two unpleasantly warm five-peseta pieces in his pocket, he prayed fervently to kind Opportunity to step in.
We had been told that the Spaniard calculates his cash in pesetas and centimos, the peseta being worth normally tenpence in English money and the ten-centimo piece about one penny.
This neat plan was worth an extra twenty-five peseta note, and I gave it.
Teresa, a sweet round purse of blue leather, of the size to hold a five peseta piece; Micaela, a handkerchief with lace on the edge, and me an embroidered veil like a gossamer.
Hearing this, one of the rustics drew near, and seeing that Manuel and El Bizco were winning, he wagered a peseta and won.
Louis and doblon (25 franc and 25 peseta gold pieces of equal weight and fineness), which values they held till the last of Spanish money circulation in the Island.
For leaden five-peseta pieces there is a local name, "Sevillan dollars," which ascribes their coinage to the crafty artisans of the capital of Andalucia.
In view of this and as a prophylactic against a course of bad luck, I made so bold as to ask if I might venture to repair the loss of the peseta which he would otherwise have earned.
He had no belief that the peseta could possibly be for the charity, and the poverty of the poor neighborhood was so much relieved by the mere presence of the hospital that it begged of us very little as we passed through.
The boy was back wonderfully soon to say the cab would come for us in ten minutes, and to receive with self-respectful appreciation the peseta which rewarded his promptness.
He had but sevenpence in his pockets, together with a bad peseta with a hole in it.
Ah-ah, most excellent Tia, you will not refuse me a peseta as my share next time you go out a-caudle-ing!
All I possessed was one peseta and a few cuartos, which I handed over to her, very much ashamed of not having more.
He has now not the least doubt that Doña Choncha has made application to the brujas for a spell, and he recommends me to pay the peseta asked of me by my anonymous correspondent.
That intelligent-looking black who craves of me a peseta in order to buy a small bundle of tickets for the raffle, is a well-known beggar.
My wife quotes as a fair range of price half a peseta to a peseta and a half.
The peseta ought to be equivalent to the franc but is much depreciated.
I left my waistcoat upon the bed, and in the pocket there was a peseta and a half.
It is the house of the miser Candiola, who would not give one peseta to save the whole human race from a new deluge.
I cried, and flinging down a peseta on the table, unloosed the halter, and attempted to introduce the bit into the mouth of the animal.
He fed the hungry wanderer, and dispatched him singing on his way, with meat in his wallet and a peseta in his purse, and his parishioners, when in need of money, had only to repair to his study and were sure of an immediate supply.
A pretty life is this of ours, out in the campo, among the carascales, suffering heat and cold for a peseta a day.
The neophyte allows himself to be convinced on the promise of a peseta a day, which is generally paid by the godfathers for the first year, but seldom for a longer period.
I will not deceive you, however, I have a pesetaand a few cuartos," and thereupon I took out what I had and offered it to them.
I should like a peseta's |Quisiera una peseta worth of coppers.
There is also the silver half peso, the peseta or one-fifth peso, and the half peseta.
He usually furnishes all material, and receives a peseta for each pipe, but the pueblo furnishes the food.
The islands under the sovereignty of Spain had their own distinct silver coinage in peso, media peso, peseta and media peseta pieces.
If I was as good as my word, why not change her media-peseta for gold?
Theoretically a peso was a hundred cents, as a peseta was twenty cents, but there was no cent with which to make change.
When the reformer became aware of Basilia's predilection for the weed, she wanted her media-peseta back, but Basilia was too keen a financier for that.
I told her that the media-peseta was worth ten dacolds, but she wanted the bright new money.
Woman number two had nothing to sell, but, after a minute, she pulled out a jagged old media-peseta and said that she had heard that I said that a media-peseta was worth ten of the new gold pieces.
I changed one peseta into coppers for him, and had difficulty in getting him to leave the house.
He prepared the by-laws of the association, and fixed the monthly subscription at one peso per man and one peseta (one-fifth of a peso) per woman.
You had better confess that you cannot bear to spend a peseta in making yourself decent.
The idea of depriving himself of a pesetafor any other form of outlay than buying to sell was beyond his ken.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peseta" 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
