It was the pfennigs of the poorest classes that constituted these millions, made the dividends rise higher and higher, increased the army of clerks, and filled the pockets of the agents.
The books he borrowed from the library at the King’s Gate, and paid six pfennigs a volume.
Finally she took to giving him ten pfennigs when he came.
The Methodist conquered his pious scruples, and placed his pfennigs on the table; the town-traveller turned up his sleeves as though he were about to wring a hen’s neck.
There are people here who are glad to get fifty pfennigs an hour, for piano lessons.
Think of plodding up and down stairs, all day long, for fifty pfennigsan hour!
And remember that whenever a prisoner does any municipal work, labor on the roads, for instance, he is paid for it, thirty or fifty pfennigs a day, and he can use the money to buy tobacco.
And so was celebrated the battle of Augustowo Wald, one of the greatest victories of modern history, with a dinner that cost one mark eighty pfennigs a cover, or about forty cents.
The very house servants who subscribed their pfennigs and marks in the early days to help conduct his experiments now no longer speak of him with respect.
Just before noon and at noon the people come in thousands for the stew, which costs forty pfennigs (about 5 pence) a quart, and a quart is supposed to be enough for a meal and a half.
The calculation of the actual rate must be carried to the second decimal place in pfennigs, and a rounding up of broken pfennigs is permitted only at the final settlement for the regular subscription period.
Moreover, the Reichstag forbade rounding up of the weight, which would be essential if a rate in even pfennigs were to be ascertained.
The morning papers cost ten pfennigs and the evening papers cost five pfennigs.
They have automatic book stands in all railway stations where you put twenty pfennigs in the slot and get a novel.
The relaying of letters is very expensive, and where before the war it cost ten pfennigs to send a letter to America on a German boat, by the relaying it costs fifty pfennigs.
Their men have been taken from them, they are paid only a few pfennigs a day by the government, and now they must work, work like a man, work like a horse.
Some of the people rather grumbled and said: "It now costs fifteen pfennigs to send a letter from Potsdam to Berlin and only twenty pfennigs to send a letter from Germany to America.
They have their bag for tips, and they expect their fivepfennigs extra the same as a man.
Compote or stewed fruit can be bought for ten pfennigs a dish, and salad can be bought for the same price.
At first they received 45 pfennigs an hour wages, but this was increased to fifty-five pfennigs an hour.
The father is a Landsturm man in the war, and he makes thirty-eight pfennigs a day.
The police got after Kranzler, the famous cake house, and it had to reduce all its cakes to twenty pfennigs each.
At one corner a boy of about thirteen years stopped me by raising his hat and asking if he dared beg a few pfennigs for the U-Boot-Spende.
A German woman told me the other day that in her house it was the custom to fine everybody in the family ten pfennigs if they came down to breakfast without saying: "Gott strafe die Englander!
They were drawn from the infantry regiments and received thirty pfennigs (7-1/2c) a night.
The only complaint is as to the food, the quantity of which, of course, is not under the control of the Commandant, as he is limited to an expenditure of only 60 pfennigs (about 7d.
These men have a guard over them, are housed and fed by their employer and receive five pfennigs a day in pay.
Four pfennigs daily for drink” we read in his household accounts in a Gotha MS.
According to another entry Katey required 56 pfennigs weekly for making the beer; the date of this is equally uncertain.
The piccolo who lights your cigar and accepts your five pfennigs at the Odéon is an Ethiopian dwarf.
For a side order of sauerkraut, forty pfennigs extra.
The floor waiter gets thirty pfennigs a day straight, but if you stay only one day he gets half a mark, and if you stay more than a week he gets two marks flat a week after the first week.
Behind the rail the zahlmeister takes your twenty-eight pfennigs and pushes your mass along the counter.
In Mannheim they charged me ten pfennigs extra for a cake of soap.
So all you have to do is to keep account of the number of times you go up and down in the elevator, and then give the elevator boy five pfennigs for each trip.
Then there came a man who wanted three kroner more because my trunk was heavy, and another who wanted a few pfennigs for having helped the first one lift it.
I will give you this fifty pfennigs for yourself, and not another pfennig do you get!
The Hamburger Fremdenblatt has published many of these, at 10 pfennigs for 10 copies.
Then the letters of indulgence were again promised me, but yet in such a way that I should buy them for six pfennigs which were to be given to me, as far as I was concerned, for nothing.
After they had held their deliberation, they came again to me and one gave me six pfennigs that I should give them to the commissioner.
Officers and gentlemen there are, living on two thousand five hundred dollars a year, and most of them on much less, and their wives, as well born as themselves, darning their socks and counting the pfennigs with scrupulous care.
These men receive 40 pfennigs a day, 27 pfennigs being deducted for their food.
After all this red tape I fancied I should have to pay at least six marks, but when my turn came I found that only forty-five pfennigs were required before I could make my escape.
I always give ten pfennigsand have never missed a word.
Don't you know that ten pfennigs (two cents and a half) for each person is considered quite sufficient?
Let me see, how many of these horrid pfennigs make an English penny?
Oh, those silly little nickel things are ten pfennigs each, are they?
During the day nearly every one had begged from ninety pfennigs to one mark twenty, while Carl returned about five o'clock with three marks in hand.
We received seventeen marks and fifty pfennigs apiece for the trip, four dollars and a fraction in American currency.
Five pfennigs remained his limit in the tipping line to the end, and I doubt whether his entire bill on this score came to over three marks.
Our pay was three pfennigs a day more, and we were allowed to arrange for articles of food and other wares to be bought for us in the village.
The soldier would receive, not five English pennies or 50 German pfennigs as his change but a French half-franc.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pfennigs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
