Additional weight abroad requires three quarters of a piaster for each additional twenty grams, while for internal use every additional fifteen grams requires a full piaster.
He rose, and taking a piaster from his girdle, put it into the hand of the Banian, who laid it before the judge.
The Turkish piaster was formerly worth twenty-five cents: it is now worth only about eight cents.
The young men never make their appearance till the piaster has been accepted, because in that case they look upon it as being the first and most essential step towards their marriage.
This piaster, which Morgan had given to Arthur, was of such sovereign virtue that no wound, whether on nerve or joint, provided it were treated with the piaster once a day, could fail to be completely cured and healed within a week.
Then the two knights had to be removed to a sick-room and infirmary, for they needed a doctor and piaster to cure their wounds.
They brought to the King the piaster which gave Erec great relief.
The piaster a woman earned for a day's work gave food for herself and for her own family, and gave the sick family the services necessary to save their lives.
In Beyrout it is worth one piaster and five paras, with variations; a mejidieh is worth from nineteen piasters to almost anything.
Hundreds of accounts and bills have been received, audited and paid, and scarcely any two correspond in piaster equivalents.
After thirty-three years of residence, I am still trying to get some idea of what a piaster is.
First one piaster (about twopence-halfpenny) was given to the skipper, then the boat was advanced about a hundred yards, when the oars were laid down once more.
But I dropped a fifty-piaster piece to-day; I know not where or how.
I warn you, if he gets hold of the treasure of Nauplia, not a piaster will you see.
With great difficulty we procured a miserable apartment in a private house, for which nevertheless we were obliged to pay half a piaster per diem.
The price of admission was one Piaster (nearly a Laubthaler).
I gave him only two francs-not a fraction of a Turkish piaster more: "Here!
With every piaster that I spend, I think about how she would do the same or otherwise.
He wouldn't accept a piastermore than the price agreed on.
Let's hope they ride back to the consul and swear they haven't received one piaster of their pay.
On the whole we found them good-natured and companionable fellows, notwithstanding their interest in baksheesh which we were compelled at last, in self-defense, to fix at onepiaster an hour.
The very recently coined liang, or tael, the Mexican piaster specially minted for the Chinese market, and the other foreign coins, have not yet penetrated from the coast.
More pretentious establishments charge twenty paras, while a giddy few rise to a piaster--not quite five cents--or a piaster and a half.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piaster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
