Do you know, sister, he has not spent a pice out of those sovereigns he took from you?
Kalipada explained to her that it would not be necessary to spend a single pice on him; his scholarship would be sufficient, and he would try to get some work to supplement it.
A coolie from Sealdah Station took down from his head a steel trunk and other miscellaneous packages and laid them on the floor of the room; and a long wrangle ensued as to the proper amount of pice that were due.
Each applicant had to give 5 pice to the assistant as his fee.
Someone had given us two pice, and with this we bought a pice chapati and a pice of sugarcane, and dined off this.
Next day, in the forest road near Rishikes, I came across a string of hillmen bowed down under heavy loads of firewood, which they had been cutting in the hills near to sell for a few pice in the bazaar.
He ordered a great tank to be dug and promised the workers one pice for each basket of earth they removed.
There are sixty or more pice in a rupee, according to the exchange, which can always be found out by reference to the money-changers in the bazaars.
You pay two pice (a little less than a halfpenny) for a cake of bread a foot and a-half long, a foot wide, and an inch thick.
The caps are of all prices, from three or four pice to fifteen rupees.
Sonny Sahib always got more of the sticky brown balls of sugar and butter and cocoa-nut for his picethan any of the other boys.
On days of festival Abdul always gave him a pice to buy sweetmeats with, and he drove a hard bargain with either Wahid Khan or Sheik Luteef, who were rival dealers.
In Baihar of Balaghat buying and selling are conducted on perhaps the most minute scale known, and if a Baiga has one or two pice [97] to lay out he will spend no inconsiderable time over it.
Some rice, a pice coin, 21 cowries and 21 pieces of turmeric are placed in the hole in which the marriage post is erected.
A bride-price is paid which may vary from two pice (farthings) to a hundred rupees, but usually averages about twenty rupees.
He comes back in the evening after having eaten two or three pice worth of grain, and buys a fresh stock, which he takes out to another village in the morning.
The parents on each side give their consent, and in pledge of it six pice (farthings) are taken from both of them, mixed together and given to their family priests and barbers, four pice to the priests and two to the barbers.
At the marriage the couple are blindfolded and seated in the shed, while the Brahman priest repeats mantras or verses, and during this time the parents and the parties must continue placing nuts and pice all over the shed.
The women collect the leaves of sal [535] trees and sell them at the rate of about ten bundles for a pice (farthing) for use as chongis or leaf-pipes.
A little seed taken from each house is also soaked in the mud, and after the feast is over this is taken and returned to the householder with words of abuse, a small present of two or three pice being received from him.
Bidas are sold at from two to four for a pice (farthing).
Pice by pice they argued the question, and at last Shiraz produced a handful of small coin, which passed from him to the Chinaman.
He was eager to save all the pice he could, that when the season was o'er, And the sahibs all left and went down to the plains He would have of rupees a store.
They are most importunate beggars, and say that the privilege of levying a pice (farthing) was given to them by Aurangzeb.
About 6 o'clock of the evening of that day my mother gave me three pice and asked me to buy a cocoanut, and I gave the money to Yessoo, who went and fetched a cocoanut and some betel leaves.
I think it takes a double handful of pice to make an anna, and 16 annas to make a rupee; and even in those days the rupee was worth only half a dollar.
They received rent-free lands and pay of twopice (1/2d.
A gourd containing pulse and rice, a pice coin, and a small quantity of any drug to which the deceased may have been addicted in life are placed in the hands, and the grave is filled in with earth and salt.
In some places the corpse is buried stark naked, and in others with a piece of cloth wrapped round it, and two pice are usually placed in the grave to buy the site.
When building a new house a man plants as the first post a pole of the saj tree, and ties a bundle of thatching-grass round it, and buries a pice (1/4d.
In Mandla, at the Holi, the Gonds fetch a green branch of the semar or cotton tree and plant it in a little hole, in which they put also a pice (farthing) and an egg.
Next day the party again go to the burial-place and plant the munda in it, placing two pice in the hole beneath it.
He received the usual presents at seed-time and harvest, and two pice from each tenant on the Basant-Panchmi festival.
When the Sedoli is to be performed an unblemished teak or salai [606] tree is selected and wrapped round with a thread, while seven circuits of it are made and a bottle of liquor and two pice are offered as purchase money.
The dead are usually buried, two pice being first thrown into the grave to buy the site.
The frame of the comb is of bamboo and the teeth are fixed in either by thread or wire, the price being one pice (farthing) in the former case and two in the latter.
On arrival at the bride's village its progress is barred by a rope stretched across the road by the bride's relatives, who must be given two pice each before it is removed.
The Kacheras' bangles are very cheap, from two to fourteen being obtainable for a pice (farthing), according to quality.
After the performance each cultivator gives the woman one or two pice (farthings) and the headman gives her a rupee.
Next day the kham or marriage-post is placed in the mandwa, a little rice, turmeric and two pice being put in the hole in which it is fixed, and the shed is covered with leaves.
On the way the mourners change places so that each may assist in bearing the bier, and once they set the bier on the ground and leave two pice and some grain where it lay, before taking it up again.
He gives her husband a head-cloth and shoulder-cloth; he waves two or three pice round his wife's head and gives them to the barber's wife.
After each circle the bridegroom takes hold of the bride's toe and makes her kick away a small heap of rice on which a nut and a pice coin are placed.
A cake of flour containing two pice (farthings) is buried or burnt with the corpse.
If a woman is suspected of misconduct she is made to pick a pice coin out of boiling oil; or a pipal leaf is placed on her hand and a red-hot axe laid over it, and if her hand is burnt or she refuses to stand the test she is pronounced guilty.
The Mali keeps garlands for sale in the bazar, and when a well-to-do person passes he goes up and puts a garland round his neck and expects a present of a pice or two.
Two pice are thrown down by the grave or burning-ghat to buy the site, and these are taken by the sweeper.
His mother had no other children, so sold him for one pice (farthing) to a Gond woman.
In towns the barber's fee may vary from a pice to two annas for a shave, which is, as has been seen, a much more protracted operation with a Hindu than with a European.
Before the boy starts his mother places her breast in his mouth; the maid-servants stand before him with vessels of water, and he puts a pice in each.
On a certain morning in February Ramani Babu sprung a mine on his tenants by circulating a notice among them to the effect that they would have to pay up every pice of rent on or before the 10th prox.
He had just eleven rupees and two pice left, which he calculated would last him, with strict economy, for another fortnight.
On arriving there he joined a mess of waifs and strays like himself, who herded in a small room and clubbed their pice to provide meals.
You are plaguing me to death with notices, yet you must be aware that I can't pay you a pice at present.
He asked the bailiff to show him the ledger account, and after spelling through the items laboriously be found that not a pice stood to his credit, although he had paid nearly sixty rupees since the last hist (rent) day.
Zemindars (landed proprietors) generally have to wait for months and spend money like water before they gain a pice (a bronze coin worth a farthing) from a new market.
Each occupant of the room has been provided with a tiny glass of weak opium-water from the large China jar on the landlord's desk, paying a pice per glass for the beverage.
He charges his customer from two to four picefor this delightful mixture which has a flavour of hot-water and iron-rust rather than of tea.
The Syed then asks her to drop a pice upon a paper covered with magic squares; which being done, he consults a thumb-marked manuscript and decides that the child is a victim of the Evil Eye.
Not one picemore than three hundred and fifty rupees will I give.
At least pay the boy, then: I have no pice with me, and he brought auspicious news.
Many of the pilgrims when they leave Pooree have not a pice left, and literally lie down and die of starvation by the roadside.
I give the man a pice or two, and then he exclaims, "May Juggernat'h bless you, O great being!
The only coins in use at Midnapore are the pice and the rupee; the pice is worth a farthing and a half, and the rupee about two shillings.
The pice is a little more than a farthing, but enough to find a family for a day.
We found some men taking charge of a herd of buffaloes: for twopice each they agreed to assist our servants in beating the bushes, and we were not long before we started several hares.
Requiring temporary relief, I applied to a rich Banker of this city for a trifling loan; my request was promptly complied with, and I engaged to repay the sum by two pice each day upon again resuming my employment.
For a pice (farthing) they will write an address, and for two pice they will write a short letter or a postcard or fill up a money order, though slightly higher fees are charged if the letter is very long.
The maid-servant replied "Chotta ma gave him a few piceand told him to go to his school, though he could have eaten rice if he liked.
It is not an uncommon thing to find a boy steal pice from his mother's box in order to satisfy the demands of his master at the festival.
Indian by refuseing to let him have a pice of Tobacco.
I can plainly discover that a considerable exchange of property is Continually Carried on between the Tribes and villages of those people they all dress litely ware nothing below the waste, a pice of fur abt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pice" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
