The neighbour laughed at the old man; but a rouble is a rouble everywhere, and no one turns it from the door, and so he sold the old man a little fur hat, and a pair of little red boots with fur round the tops.
A hundred and fifty years later were introduced the rouble and copek,[D] the coins most in use of the modern currency.
Better five kopecks in the present than a rouble in the future.
In these scurvy little towns even the government officials drink brick tea, and even the best shops don't keep tea at more than one rouble fifty kopecks a pound.
Our one resource now is the middle-class man who subscribes by the rouble and the half-rouble.
Well, we drove on and on, and reached Sryetensk this morning just an hour before the steamer left, giving the drivers from the last two stations a roubleeach for themselves.
Well, I'm going to offer a rouble taper to Prophet Elijah; he's been ever so good to me!
Twice, at Minsk and at Smolensk, I stopped and worked for a week, till I had gained an extra rouble or two for food or beds along the way.
She gives the cook a rouble] There is a rouble for all three of you.
To JACOB] I gave the cook a rouble for all three of you.
For this reason he hoarded up his earnings; he did not trust his money to the bank, and did not like to lend it to his fellow-workmen: rather would he give away a rouble or two now and then.
For every rouble you earn at the mill, two are lost at home.
In spite of this most of the hands left the mill, and Adler posted up a notice that every workman who had absented himself would have his daily pay halved and would be fined a rouble in addition.
This was my own, and in this way I got nearly a rouble a day.
A hundred kopecks go to the rouble; the silver rouble being worth from two and tenpence to three shillings and twopence, the paper rouble about two shillings.
That is difficult," Mikail said; "however, a rouble or two will go a long way.
He inclosed a five-hundred-rouble note from his father as a present in return for the kindness he had shown him, and he also inclosed a directed envelope, so that he could acknowledge the receipt of the letter.
The man at the spirit-shop at the end of the village will buy them," the policeman said; "he gives a rouble a dozen for them.
The policeman tells us you buy skins at a roublefor a dozen.
Godfrey placed a ten-rouble note and two one-rouble notes on the table; they gathered up their goods and made them into a bundle, carefully loaded their guns, and put the powder and shot into their haversacks.
Godfrey nodded, and putting his hand in his pocket pulled out the ten-rouble note he had set aside, and two or three smaller notes, and slipped them into the man's hand.
For one rouble I shall buy me a new pair of shoes, for I scarcely know whether my old ones will take me to the office tomorrow morning.
On the first occasion I went home walking as in a mist, with a single rouble left in my pocket, and an interval of ten clear days confronting me before next pay-day.
Generally speaking, the exchanges are made for relatively large sums; several ten-rouble notes sometimes change hands.
One of the convicts bought the carcase, paying a rouble and fifty kopecks.
To have a separate table it was not necessary to be very rich; it cost me only onerouble a month apart from the bread, which was given to us.
That is how Suchiloff, for a silver rouble and a red shirt, came to be sent to the special section.
Anna asked no less than a rouble for a cup of tea, and made the huge officer drink three cups.
Petrified, muttering something incoherent in his horror, Ivan Markovitch took a hundred-rouble note out of his pocket-book and gave it to Sasha.
The man asked him for a rouble and a quarter to drive to Povarsky Street, but he did not haggle, and without protest got submissively into the sledge.
I was seldom lucky enough to earn more than a rouble or a rouble and a-half a week, and I need not say that was not nearly sufficient to feed us both.
You must pay a rouble a van and six roubles and twenty kopecks for stamps.
Yasha takes a three-rouble note from the old man and jumps out of the van.
Whether it is a rouble or whether it is five kopecks does not matter to him now so long as he has a fare.
Then he thought of the rich, of their big houses and their carriages, of their hundred-rouble notes.
She felt quickly for her purse, intending to throw the rouble into the water, but as quickly thrust it back again, for she could not bear to part with the treasure.
But I suppose you are right, or you would not have treasured up this unfortunate roubleas if it were a holy relic.
I handed him, however, by way of encouragement, a three-rouble note.
You insisted on paying thirty-five paper roubles and a silver rouble when Grochowski was letting the cow go for thirty-three roubles.
Give me thirty-five paper roubles and a silverrouble and the cow will be yours.
Here is a rouble for you; ask your master if he will see me, and I will double it.
Slimak slowly pulled a rouble out of a little packet.
He has brought a cow and wants to sell her to Gryb for thirty-five paper roubles and a silver rouble for the halter.
He fancied that the earth and the wind were laughing at him again: 'You'll pay the thirty-five paper roubles and the silver rouble for the halter!
At this rate of exchange a thousand rouble bond bearing interest at 5½ per cent would only cost $320.
Based on the normal value of the rouble this bond would be worth $514.
Newsky Prospect, where a good, cheap German repast can be procured for 1 rouble and drink therewith, Russian pilsener or Munich beer.
He little knew that, before the year was out, he would be shovelling snow in the Morskaia for a rouble an hour.
The remaining houses on Great Yamskaya are rouble ones; they are furnished still worse.
Two bottles at fifty is a rouble and the lemonade thirty--a rouble thirty.
From Treppel girls were transferred to Anna Markovna, from Anna Markovna into a rouble establishment, and from the roubleestablishment into a half-rouble one.
And for your damned rouble you want me to go all to pieces before you like a pancake, and that from your nasty love my eyes should pop out onto my forehead?
In the second-rate, two-rouble establishment of Anna Markovna everything is plunged in sleep.
For every dance ordered by the guests, they received thirty kopecks for an easy dance, and a half rouble for a quadrille.
During this time he regularly drank down four bottles of beer, and, going away, infallibly gave the girl half a rouble for candy and Simeon twenty kopecks for drink-money.
She did not contrive to make more than a rouble's worth of flowers in a week; but this money was her pride, and for the very first half-rouble that she made she bought Lichonin a mouthpiece for smoking.
And the half rouble was a false one"--Crutch went on, and he meant to speak in a whisper, but he spoke in a smothered husky voice which was audible to everyone.
When they were taking her away to the chief town of our province, I walked by the escort as far as the station and slipped a rouble into her bundle for my soul's salvation.
But an unfortunate thing happened: Sashka the blacksmith bought some tobacco and gave the shopman half a rouble to be sure.
He gave her a crumpled rouble note and walked quickly away.
Wrangel's officers use hundred-rouble notes for shaving-papers, and Americans in Vienna behave as unceremoniously with crowns.
The lower denominations of the rouble are much cheaper than the price of paper, and the Austrian crown is going that way.
There was a hole in his pocket--the penknife and rouble slipped down into his boot.
Moshkin spent his last three-rouble note on this dinner, and now a few coppers jingled in his pocket, while his purse contained a smooth fifteen-copeck piece.
Moving his shoulders nervously he addressed Kurkov with sudden resolution: "Nikolai Sergeyevich, do you happen to have a rouble on you?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rouble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
