The youth won a thousand piasters by curing the blind, and later a great sum, besides thirty ships, by healing a very rich man.
The man gave him a thousand piasters more, and told him to buy an ape in a town hard by.
The next day she asked her parents to let the two suitors go into the world with a thousand piasters apiece, and see which came back with the most money.
In Gypsy a youth gives his last twelve piasters for the release of a corpse, which is being maltreated by Jews.
The old woman thereupon enters the chapel, pays the priest or serving-monk therein, one hundred piasters for thirty masses, and goes away in tears.
This is the old man, Muksi Meekha, whom the chief of the police delivered over to the gensdarmes, with the charge to collect six thousand piasters from him.
In this way, in the space of a few hours, and that evening, nineteen thousand piasters were collected.
With great self-denial on his part, two hundred piasters a month (about eight dollars) enabled him to give all his time to street preaching, and the sale of the Scriptures.
Many people wished to buy the cow, but the young man outbid them all, and at length offered all his seventy piasters for her.
So they agreed to this, and the young man not only paid the seventy piasters the gipsy owed, but bought him besides a suit of good clothes as well as a carriage and a pair of fine horses.
Cordage made by steam power of the various dimensions, from half to one inch thick, sells at 25, and from one to five inches thick, at 10, piasters per picul.
What troubled him was, that after having carefully provided for all the expenses of this long journey there still remained a few hundred piasters over and above.
People thought the sign very clever, customers came, the young Hodja took in many piasters and he was correspondingly happy.
It is against the religion of the Jews for such a thing to happen, and the Chacham (rabbi) will offer you first ten, then twenty, and finally one hundred and ten thousand piasters to allow the funeral to proceed.
But they often had to lament the ever-increasing difficulties they encountered in procuring the few piasters they needed daily for bread and the tavern.
The Chacham protested, offering first small bribes, then larger and larger, till ultimately he promised to bring to the worthy captain one hundred and ten thousand piasters for allowing the funeral to proceed.
The Grand Vizier sent five gold pieces (twenty piasters each) to the supposed Imam, and Halid made off as fast as possible.
The half will be for you to compensate you for your trouble and the other fifty-five thousand piasters for me.
As it was desirable at all times to have plenty of small coins on hand, the tourists soon became acquainted with the value of shillings and pence, francs and centimes, drachmae and lepta, piasters and paras.
The cryer yesterday proclaimed that meat was to be sold for no more than two piasters an oke,[40] and that if any man took more he should be hanged on the spot to his own crooks.
The Turk sulkily throws him the money saying that thirty thousand piastersare an unheard of price for a horse.
The Rajah will probably buy jewelry for one hundred thousand piasters in preference to investing his money in a factory, a mill, or a farm.
The mutoi walked up and down in front of the hotel, but he would not bother her son as long as her son could get a few piasters now and then to hand to him.
The woman was rich, and would not miss a trifling sum, five or ten piasters a month for the mutoi.
As the report is made on the gold basis of 100 piasters to a lira, our friends may easily find the value in American money by multiplying the number of piasters by 4.
In Beyrout it is worth one piaster and five paras, with variations; a mejidieh is worth from nineteen piasters to almost anything.
Now the butchers saw a chance of applying the plan of putting up the price of meat from seven to fourteen piasters per oke (2¾ pounds).
Those included in the third category shall be sentenced to a fine of from twenty-five to one thousand piasters or to one year's imprisonment, according to the gravity of the offense.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piasters" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
