She brings out her little book and I shall not know how the piastres have gone, and she will think I have taken her piastres," and he laid his head on his knees and groaned aloud.
I suppose it's some sort of food, only he won't tell me how many piastres it costs.
I have not the smallest idea what "yasdin me" means, but I pretend to write it down and then say: "How many piastres was it?
Ten piastres a day, or twenty pence, is what is usually paid them by those who make use of their services.
The Bedouins were in full swing of decapitating their prisoners, and had already accomplished a third of their work before they learned that the reward of a hundred piastres was offered for each prisoner brought back alive.
A hundred Turkish piastres is only equivalent to about twenty-five francs; but Bonaparte did not wish to spoil the Bedouins.
Bonaparte issued very strict orders concerning stragglers, and promised a reward of a hundred piastres to every Arab who should bring back a prisoner.
This money enabled us in the first place to clothe ourselves, then to give a hundred piastres to the Neapolitan captain who had transported us, and who was not ashamed to come and demand this sum from us for his buona mano.
These were seized, and the Turk asked us to pay five piastres (10d.
Men are much better off in that respect, they can hire a nice little horse, which may be found everywhere, and at a moderate price, while even a short drive always costs from fifty to seventy piastres (10s.
Ten thousand piastres did not find him; the kourbash did not reveal him.
Tell them they shall be clothed and fed, and to every man or his family three hundred piastres at the end.
He has offered me ten thousandpiastres to poison Ali Higg" "Show me the money!
And as soon as she sees that Ali Higg's pretensions don't amount to a row of shucks I wouldn't give ten piastres for that gentleman's lease of life!
The thing is ridiculous, I never contemplated, for a moment, that the great Sheikh should take any hard piastres out of circulation, to lock them up in the wilderness.
Ask for four millions of piastres I He can raise them.
Truly, I would give a thousand piastres if I could save my head by taking the capitani to your mountains.
Ten thousand piastresis not much,' said Fakredeen.
Now, tell me, Rose of Sharon, how many piastreshave you brought me?
Hardly that,' said Eva; 'two millions of piastres can scarcely be called a bagatelle.
He has come from a far land merely to visit his race, a man who is a prince among the people, to whom piastres are as water.
I dreamt last night that there would many piastres pass between us this visit.
The father of this young noble is a great prince, and could doubtless pay, without serious injury to himself, two millions of piastres for the ransom of his son; but that's not it.
As long as I stayed at Rome the nine piastres a month came in regularly, but after my departure he returned to Rome, went to another convent, and died there suddenly thirteen or fourteen years ago.
I will take two hundred piastres to your confessor to-morrow, and you must manage the rest yourself.
Nineteen piastres per head, which, I assure you, will give me a very handsome profit.
That would be awkward; so that, as far as I can see you will want about eighty or one hundred thousand piastres to be perfectly clear?
I mean that cattle are sold, one with the other, at eighteen piastres in San Francisco, and I cannot sell them for twenty-five here.
So saying, he quietly placed the six piastres on the table, and advanced toward the door.
These men say we must pay five piastres each to them for strolling about their ground, and Buttons has told this big fellow that he will give them five kicks each.
You told me," said Buttons, with admirable calmness, "that it would be two piastres a week.
Treaty never ratified, but the Piastres duly paid;--Treaty rendering Peace impossible, so long as Kaunitz had to do with mediating it.
So that Kaunitz had to quit his Turk courses (never paid the Piastres back), and go into what really was the one way out.
Some Buccaneers, Esquemeling says, would spend 3,000 piastres in a night, not leaving themselves even a shirt in the morning.
Total 330 “Three hundred and thirty piastres for a few hours’ entertainment!
Thus for two piastreswe have seen him provided with milk, butter, and bread—three staple commodities—and the additional luxury of fresh-laid eggs.
This man having been sent with two hundred piastres to the servants of the chief of Maraga, kept back twenty.
He then seated himself on his coarse mat, and repeated all his adventures, every part of which was heard with temper till his last act, that of giving his piastres to the mendicant.
The commandant had given reluctant permission for each prisoner to buy one small loaf of bread a day at the military rate of two and a half piastres a loaf.
Fortunately we possessed a cooking pot, given by the Tommies at Bosanti; and a ruffian who lived below us sold charcoal at the rate of ten piastres for a quantity just sufficient to burn for half an hour.
Next day, when it became known in the village that the prisoners were buying eggs, the rate was four piastres each.
On the first morning a bearded peasant visited the hut with a basket of hard-boiled eggs, which he sold at the current rate of two and a half piastres each.
As an intermediary for correspondence he was reliable but expensive, his charge being twenty piastres for each letter delivered.
By giving him ten thousand piastres beforehand, I am certain that he will accept my proposition, which has the additional advantage of being very honourable.
I am quite agreeable: now fifty thousand piastres form a considerable sum; I have only your word as security.
These two men must be unmasked by seizing their papers, on the delivery of which fifteen thousand piastres will be immediately paid, in addition to the ten thousand advanced.
Now, if you think proper to mention the affair to him, he will shut your mouth and send you and your twenty-five thousand piastres to the deuce.
The whole speculation costs about one hundred and fifty piastres a month; the divers getting ten piastres; and the rest of the crew in proportion.
We agreed at last to give twenty-five piastres for the hire of twenty horses.
Our mutton was excellent, and very cheap; for a sheep costs two piastres only.
Average exchange between Persia and India, one hundred and thirty piastres for one hundred rupees.
The man was offered one hundred piastres for bringing them, which he rejected as an inadequate reward; former Missions indeed had taught him to expect more profusion.
Let your excellency be reassured," said the voice which had just before addressed Altavilla; "Pascal Bruno only took three thousand ounces from the two hundred and fifty thousand piastres belonging to King Ferdinand IV.
The prince wrote to his steward to inform him of the situation in which he found himself placed, and desired him to send, as quickly as possible, the two hundred and fifty thousand piastres in exchange for which he was to be liberated.
A few piastres are willingly expended in the purchase of such talismans, which are carefully and very neatly sewn into small envelopes of leather, and are worn by all people, being handed down from father to son.
I accordingly succeeded in purchasing a remarkably neat house for tenpiastres (two shillings).
The average price of dhurra is fifteen piastres per "rachel," or about 3s.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "piastres" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
