The pleasing finale was the utter amazement and almost speechless gratitude of Vassili at getting an extra half-ruble as an early Christmas gift.
Although high oil prices and a relatively cheap ruble are important drivers of this economic rebound, since 2000 investment and consumer-driven demand have played a noticeably increasing role.
I had brought an Elizabeth ruble with me, which was all my savings.
I informed him that he should receive his clothing at once, that a cart should be harnessed for him; and taking from a casket a twenty-ruble bank-note, I laid it on the table.
Remarks on Ruble Building, and Houses with double walls.
A ruble is equal to 5 livres, or 1 dollar Spanish.
It was not a negative of a drawing of yours, but of a Russian twenty-ruble note!
The ruble note-forger Mirsky might never have been handed over to the Russian authorities had he confined his genius to forgery alone.
I saw that it was a case for a tip and handed him a ruble note, on which he promptly parted with his trust.
By dint of curses, threats, blows and an occasional ruble note, I got my way.
As soon as I had finished my preparations I handed a thick bundle of ruble notes to the superintendent.
She often took out theruble to, gaze fondly upon it, and set to work to make a little purse, which, having fastened to a ribbon, she hung round her neck.
Separated from their trunks, ill and weak, and too confused to think clearly, they arrived in Berne with nothing but their piles of ruble notes, that no one would take, and the fear of death in their hearts.
Hordes of them poured into our country with fistfuls of ruble notes that no one would take, and with a growing hunger that they could not appease.
In the first place, no interest-bearing ten-ruble certificates with a large number of winners will be issued.
But of this presently She handed me a three-ruble bill and set about filling up the gaps in my eating calendar and substituting fat "days" for lean ones.
The group around me made way for the rich woman "Here," she said, handing me a ten-ruble bill and a package.
A minute later she drew her purse from her skirt pocket, produced a five-ruble bill, and put it into my hand.
Within two years of the date of this agreement, the Soviet ruble will be declared a free-market currency, convertible to yen and other Western currencies at rates governed solely by the established world currency exchanges.
When we start cooperatives, they are immediately taken over by our new mafia, Russia's ruble millionaires.
There, it has beaten them all, the thousand-ruble as well as the one-ruble borzois.
He took out an assignation rublenote and gave it to Karataev.
While still a few steps from the officer she unfolded the kerchief and took out of it a white twenty-five-ruble assignat and hastily handed it to him.
I need five hundred rubles, and have only one twenty-five-ruble note.
After Russian country dances and chorus dances, Pelageya Danilovna made the serfs and gentry join in one large circle: a ring, a string, and a silver ruble were fetched and they all played games together.
Whether they were playing the ring and string game or the ruble game or talking as now, Nicholas did not leave Sonya's side, and gazed at her with quite new eyes.
Petya shook himself, jumped up, took a ruble from his pocket and gave it to Likhachev; then he flourished the saber, tested it, and sheathed it.
At the last post station before Otradnoe he gave the driver a three-ruble tip, and on arriving he ran breathlessly, like a boy, up the steps of his home.
Trade with the other former Soviet republics continued to decline, and support for the ruble as a common currency eroded in the face of Moscow's loose monetary policies and rapidly rising prices throughout the region.
The overvalued ruble has especially hurt Belarusian exporters, most of which now operate at a loss.
However varied his freaks might be in detail, in spirit they were ever essentially the same; they ever consisted in making some worthless piece of lumber an excuse for lightening his purse of a ruble or two.
Last time I lent you two small notes on your ring, when I could have bought a new one at the jeweler's for a ruble and a half.
He was sitting at a table, bending toward the one dusty window, and attentively examining a white twenty-five ruble note.
What, therefore, I have to advance upon your watch is one ruble fifteen kopecks.
See here, batuchka: if I take a ten- kopeck piece a month on each ruble, I ought to receive fifteen kopecks on a ruble and a half, the interest being payable in advance.
Is one ruble fifteen kopecks all you mean to give me now?
Inflation had been brought under control, the rublewas stabilized, and an ambitious privatization program had transferred thousands of enterprises to private ownership.
He walked swiftly away, but he dropped a ruble into Anna's hand as he passed her by.
From a knotted cloth about her neck she took a ruble and dropped the coin into the jar.
And how will you get over the five or six hundred leagues you will still have to travel when your last ruble is spent?
However, to facilitate the comparison, the silver ruble values of 1841 are multiplied into corresponding ruble assignation values: Exportations.
In order to avoid as far as possible the multiplication of figures by the accompanying reduction of the moneys and weights of Russia into English quantities, it may be convenient to state, that the silver ruble is equal to 37-1/2d.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ruble" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cent; dollar; franc; pie; pound; ruble; shilling; sou
