If you'd then subscribed ten thousand roubles or so to the choir, you might have had her honourably.
Then their uncle sends 2,000 roubles to pay the interest on their mortgaged estates, and he takes the money and disappears.
Did you send him 1,200 roubles in July of last year?
And one day he made it known to the Jews that if a million roubles were not raised for him in a month's time they should be driven from their homes.
The few roubles I used to send her did not always reach her.
Some sent cheques for as much as five hundred roubles for their tickets, and a hundred may be taken as the average.
As a rule, those present are simply the invited guests of members; but to-night the tickets are sold at twenty roubles each, and the proceeds go to the funds for the benefit of the wounded.
No matter, come to me tomorrow, and you shall have your thousand roubles and your liberty.
Having had a bursa of 1600 roubles a year granted him for two years by the Russian Ministry of Public Instruction, he was able to undertake a journey to the shores of the Mediterranean in order to pursue his researches.
At last the cousin had a happy idea; he declared he would go back to his aunt's house in the neighbourhood and borrow the thousand roubles from her.
Morosoffs of Moscow and 250 roubles from the Society of Dermatology and Syphilography of the same city, completed the capital required to execute the projected plan.
I have already sold the greater part of my furniture, and am living in furnished apartments which cost me seventy roubles per month; I shall soon be tired of that.
In 1871 I received four hundred roubles from the Sarya, and in June I went to stay with my people in Poltava.
Do you think it is anything to me that you have lost a few thousand roubles at play?
Woe to the son or grandson of his who should presume to “deface the image of God” by shaving his beard, to exchange his caftan for a French paletôt, or to lose his roubles and peril his soul at the fashionable game of loto!
I have still got twenty thousand roubles in actual cash.
I earn almost enough (3,000 roubles a year), but I know so little about the management of money that I am always in debt and dilemma.
You will probably clear at least a hundred roubles over this, do you understand?
And when Vaviloff had received the hundred roubles and signed the paper, he threw the pen down on the table and said bitterly: "Now I will have a nice time!
Why, in years gone by, for the mere sight of a Russian they paid three roubles out that way.
But then he would think twice before turning him out, because of the five roubles a month.
As a rule the consideration of the "condition of affairs" lasted some two or three days, and only when the Captain had not a farthing left of the three roubles or five roubles given him by his grateful customer did he say: "You came!
Give him a hundred roubles a month and he would go!
Gavrilo, with greedy eyes, watching the five hundred and forty roubles as they were put back again in his pocket.
We will make an estimate of it all, counting the time it will take too, and we will make honest Judas pay two thousandroubles besides.
I thought a bit about that, and when I got back to Otwiski I tried the same thing, and found I could get three Triadropoldir roubles there for one Otwiski.
He gave me five Otwiski roubles for one of his own town.
The mother, understanding the need, drew fifty roublesfrom her purse, and gave them to her daughter.
The lord drew two hundred roubles from his pocket, the peasant took the money, and withdrew the ring from the lord’s finger, whereat the yard vanished as if by magic, and there was left to the lord but his former little instrument.
Forthwith he drew the fifty roubles from his pocket and gave them to her; the aged woman handed to him a ring.
On the morrow she went to seek her father, asked of him three hundred roubles for her husband, and bought for herself a good yard.
We must give him three hundred roubles or he will not yield us the yard.
The pay of the soldiers or Cossacs is fifteen roubles a year.
And the victor spent the thirty thousand roubles on green wine for the applauding crowds, which made them applaud him still more loudly.
I have no roubles with me," said the courteous Prince, "nor can I refresh you as you deserve and as I desire.
The Russian gave him great rolls ofroubles of various sorts for his greenbacks.
He could also use the roubles in buying furs and skins of the Russians who still had the same saved from the looting Bolsheviki.
At forty to the pound the old roubles were called in.
But to quiet the feeling of the starosta he advanced him the 92 roubles, giving the headman his address so that he could return the 92 roubles to the American officer when the British due bill came cash.
On one day a person could not obtain two hundred and fifty roubles for one hundred North Russian roubles and a day or two later he might be importuned to take three hundred old for one hundred new.
He had spent the greater part of the evening in our headquarters, checking over accounts involving some three or four thousand roubles for the pay roll the following day.
Under a shawl in a tiny box, an old peasant woman on Easter Day was offering covertly a few eggs at two hundred roubles apiece.
They had not thought it worth while to take the Russian roubles away from us.
Thus the skeptical peasant and the suspicious soldier saw his old roubles steadily decline in exchange value for the new roubles.
Y" canteens and at a fixed rate of exchange--a rate fixed by the bankers in London--to use his roubles in buying things.
Here they could find literature and lectures and lounging room and for a few roubles often gained a hot plate of good soup or a delicacy in the shape of a horse steak.
The old church was for the moment without a priest, but to-day they had clubbed together and offered the priest of the new church two roubles to hold a service in the old one too.
Even then the suspicious host made him count out the roubles at a hundred paces from the house, and at once ordered him out of sight; but then went up to the roof, and asked the Major's pardon for all this rough usage.
For instance, a man had commissioned his neighbour to pay fiveroubles to a person in another valley, but the messenger's horse having died by the way, a claim was set up to the roubles to make up for it.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "roubles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
