Rubles are not used in foreign trade and translation into dollar values may be misleading, but at the official (although artificial) rate, 1 billion rubles would be 250 million dollars.
She thought in astonishment how she had spent the two hundred rubles which she had brought with her from Bukowiec.
She had only a few rublesleft of her entire capital.
If I give you thirty rubles now, I will have nothing left with which to pay the rent of the theater!
The average man will not, for instance, pay a thousand rubles for a pear, for he knows that would be an insane absurdity, and moreover, he knows the relative value of a thousand rubles and of a pear.
Janina inherited a few thousand rubles from her mother, and her father told her plainly that the interest on that sum would have to suffice her, for he did not intend to give her a single kopeck.
The counselor willingly reached for his pocket book and, handing Wladek ten rubles said: "I am glad I can help you.
Let me have fifty rubles immediately, or else you can finish the play yourself or return the public its money," calmly said Topolski, pulling off his other legging.
But one day the theater was closed, for there were only twenty rubles in the treasury; on the following day the performance was postponed because of a heavy downpour.
Give me fifty rubles and we shall continue to play; if you don't then .
I think that for three rubles you can give him a decent treat.
Millions of rubles for the organization of the pogroms were appropriated from a secret ten-million ruble fund, the disposition of which lay entirely in the hands of the Tzar.
Thus an officer of reserve, who did not report his change of residence, and justified this on the ground that he would not serve in the army any longer, was fined thirty rubles for non-compliance with the orders of the superior authority.
The central bank went as far as printing rubles to fuel this lucrative arbitrage.
To these the peasant speculators would bring home-made bread in sacks and sell it to the shop speculators, who in turn demanded as much as eighty rubles a pound.
The speculators charged seventy-five rubles a pound for black bread that could be bought in the Government shops for ten rubles.
THE RED ARMY The ordinary Red soldier gets 400 rubles a month, with rations and clothes.
Every year I would have to give three rubles and sixty kopecks to the mosquitoes!
No sooner do I manage to scrape together ten rubles or so, when along comes some heathen, and makes away with all my money.
He earns seventy-five rubles a month, and gives us fifty!
Poland which had cost him thousands of rubles and lives; and now nowhere else was such sympathetic welcome given to the Polish refugees, thousands of whom were in the French army.
Two hundred thousand rubleswere quickly collected--Catherine throwing in her jewels as an added lure.
I gave the young man twenty rubles and the Count gave him at least as much.
Having so much money, I could pay Nikita the four rubles fifty kopecks which I owe him, and yet have some left to buy shoes for the children.
But I am willing to take two hundred rubles a pound.
Kallash came about ten o'clock in the evening, and received from Bodlevski the sum of fifty thousand rubles in notes.
After a short interval the cashier of the bank paid over to the well-dressed lady a hundred and fifty thousand rubles in bills, and to the elegantly dressed young man seventy thousand rubles.
Twenty-four thousand rubles in bills, which she herself with her own hands had yesterday laid on the top of the other securities, were no longer in the strong box.
I can't take a kopeck less, and even so I am making a reduction of nearly a hundred rubles the pound.
The young woman carried, in a little bag hung round her neck, two hundred and forty-four thousand rubles in bills, and she and her companion carried pistols in their pockets for use in case of need.
She is as rich as a Jew, and can advance five thousand rubles at a moment's notice; yet she will take in pledge objects worth as little as a ruble.
For a paltry reward of a hundred rubles to go on such a mission!
Then, as you ask me to wait another month for the repayment of the two rubles I have already lent you, you owe me twenty kopecks more, which makes a total of five and thirty.
Bodlevski took out his gold watch, his only inheritance from his father, and laid it down on the table before Kovroff with the five rubles that remained.
We scraped six hundred rublestogether and sent it to him.
One peasant brought Yudushka three silver rubles and said: "Here's a little debt I owe Pavel Vladimirych.
Five hundred rubles a month, and divided by two it makes two hundred and fifty rubles a month each.
I know how it is--you'll have to give some here and put a couple of rubles there.
Sold for eight thousand when I myself two years ago paid twelve thousand rubles for it, not a penny less.
Porfiry Vladimirych produced an account book, from which it appeared that when Arina Petrovna died the orphans had twenty thousand rubles or a trifle less in five per cent securities.
I myself found a house for him and paid out twelve thousand silver rubles for it with my own hands.
When I was cleaning your uniform a few minutes ago, I saw three rubles in your side pocket.
With my own hands, I paid out twelve thousand rubles for the house, and it was sold at auction for eight thousand rubles!
Now, see here, if I were to sell all this timber, do you think I can get ten rubles a tree?
One hundred and twenty rubles plus twelve rubles and ten kopeks," whispered Porfiry Vladimirych, endeavoring to stifle the unpleasant sensation produced by the groan.
I once learned a secret, such a secret that the man who knew it was offered a thousand rubles to tell.
She pulls herself together, however, and taking three rubles out of her pocket, offers them to the trembling doctor, who refuses them.
They give you wine at 'six and a half rubles a bottle.
They would not do the mowing for you for twenty rubles, but they would do it for six liters of brandy, notwithstanding the fact that with twenty rubles they can buy eight times as much.
It is better that I spend two thousand rubles on buying you a bag that you want than to gamble them away.
Five hundred rubles he had spent riotously and without satisfaction; and he still rejoiced in the money he had spent on the bag and was even anxious to give Sylvia the thousand rubles that were left, but she begged him to keep them.
Soon after war was declared, his father had died, and, having no brothers or sisters or mother, he had sold all he had and quitted his village with thirty-five hundred rubles in his pocket.
The nuns charged her very little for their care; but when she walked out of the door she had only about eightyrubles in the world.
And Itch said, "Here are the rublessent by Ivan Ivanovitch.
Other farm laborers had board and clothing in addition to their wage of 25 rubles a year.
Those few rubles which you sent me a few times are only enough to pay the rent for some months.
Thus in 1899 she writes: I received your letter, with twenty rubles and three photographs, for which I send you a hearty "God reward!
Women received 3 rubles a year for farm labor, in addition to board and all ordinary clothing.
In Ustrytsi it was said that he had been there, had not found Pan Ustrytski; that he had inquired where he was, then borrowed four rubles from the lackey and gone, it was unknown whither.
A man with education has always more outgoes than one who is ignorant; if we should enroll Repa in place of your son, it would be a sparing for you; you cannot find eight hundred rubles on the road.
And lest such thoughts should come to his head in future, it was decided also that he should pay two rubles and a half to the chancery.
Every one will receive profit even, for there will be fifty rubles to each man.
All kinds of devices were resorted to by individuals in order to get rum, and one author says that a pair of boots for which the makers would demand ten rublesmight be secured in barter for a bottle of rum worth three rubles.
In the beginning of this century, the khan introduced the use of copper money made from Persian cannons; and much later yet, there were scarcely a million rubles in money to a million men.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rubles" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
