The profit of the traders in oil amounts to seventy or eighty per cent; for the Indians sell it them at the price of a piastre a jar or botija, and the expense of carriage is not more than two-fifths of a piastre per jar.
The same indifference is evinced in the chase of the jaguar, a skin of which fetches only one piastre in the steppes of Varinas, while at Cadiz it costs four or five.
In the early days of San Francisco, one piastre would scarcely pay for the most simple repast without wine.
On the other hand, salmon was plentiful, and sold in all the markets at one piastre per pound.
It was possible to hire a furnished room for forty piastres per month, the value of a piastre being about four and twopence.
Mutton was sold at one piastre per pound, and veal at half a piastre.
Since the province of Cumana has become dependent on the intendancia of Caracas, the sale of salt is under the control of the excise; and the fanega, which the Guayquerias sold at half a piastre, costs a piastre and a half.
When at Matariya on Lake Menzaleh I heard that the regular price was a half piastre (or a penny farthing) per skin, and that at that price hundreds were obtained.
One hardly knows how to cure this cruelty, for the humane nearly always rebuke the boy, give him a piastre or two, and liberate the bird, and pass on thinking they have done a good deed.
Sixteen years ago the hire of a boat from the harbour to the roadstead was a piastre and a half: now it is at least five.
On the last day of Ramazan all gave alms to the poor, at the rate of a piastre and a half for each member of the household-slave, servant, and master.
And finally, he has not more than a piastre or two in his pocket, for he has squandered the large presents given to him at Cairo and Constantinople by noble ladies, to whom he acted as master of the ceremonies at the tomb of the Apostle.
He had already used very positive language in his endeavour to assure his tormentors that they would not get a piastre from him.
But at last it was settled and away they started, the sheikh declaring that the bargain had been made at so low a rate as to leave him not one piastre for himself.
That fellow is always striving to save half a piastre for me.
It was only when the waiter carried off his piastre that he suddenly woke to fact and knew himself once more a man with a wife and child starving in Alexandria, an alien city for all its wealthy colony of Greeks.
The piastre he played with became gold, and he felt the cafe contained no luxuries that he might not command to be brought before him.
It's no good," Gregorio growled; "Amos refuses to advance a piastre and says I must pay all I owe in three days.
I offered her food and she took some, but so little, scarcely enough to cover a ten-piastre piece.
The Spook got to work with five-piastre notes, and my Turkish being already good enough to enable me to tell each recipient to run like smoke, the Pimple had a desperate ten minutes.
We found them here and there, with from two to seven miscreants battling over each as to which should have the piastre or two of baksheesh collectible for handing our things from the carriage to the train.
The native piastre is nothing to him when American gold is in sight.
I got the oranges and paid a piastre apiece for them--about ten times what they were worth in Jaffa, and I had the usual difficulty making change--a detachment of interested Arabs looking on meanwhile.
He found a grinning negro belonging to Abou-Hamedi already employed on this service, whose goodwill he further stimulated by a smile of encouragement and a five-piastre piece slipped into his palm.
He used to do so,” said the fellow sulkily; “but for eighteen months we have not had a piastre of pay.
There are in Peking several daily papers, amongst others the Official Gazette, a government print, the subscription for which is a piastre quarterly.
A palanquin carried by six coolies costs about a piastre per day; with four coolies half a piastre; with only two, a hundred sapecas.
For every olive-tree the owner must pay a piastre, or a piastre and a half; and the same sum for an orange or lemon tree.
In changing a collonato, a coin very much used in this country, and worth about two guilders, the applicant must lose from half a piastre to two piastres, according to the description of coin he requires.
Tax on the sale of mules, horses, donkeys, oxen, and camels in the town, 1 para per piastre of the price.
There's my last piastrefor you," said Salvé, throwing it over to him.
When Salvé absolutely refused to take more than his one piastre back again, there came actually a look of humble admiration into the señorita's eyes.
Pieces of five and ten piastres value were also coined, as well as a few single piastre pieces, on one side of which was stamped the Toghra, and on the other the word "Omdurman.
Although they have scarcely ever owned a piastre in their lives, the shining dollar has excited the most inordinate cupidity amongst them.
He pulled out a purse and unfolded a ten-piastre note.
The price is a half-piastre in Damascus at the meaner shops.
He crossed the room, seized the ten-piastre note, and brought it back to me.
I gave Suliman a two-piastre piece to pay the man who had charge of my slippers at the door, and the young rascal was so far recovered from his fright that he demanded change out of it, and stood there arguing until he got it.
I paid him a half-piastre for it, which is half the proper price, and utterly ignored his expostulation.
How, then, could there be the slightest risk of the German paper money depreciating a single piastre in value?
Only the next time give five piastres to the master, and a piastre and a half to the driver; you will save five piastres and a half, and arrive eighteen hours sooner.
Oranges cost us about two cents apiece, though later on with Egyptian money we bought them three for a half piastre (three cents).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piastre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
