If I am the cause," said I, "of your not seeing farther than the length of your nose, here is a rupee to repair the great injury I have done you.
I gave him a rupee to comfort him for the accident.
There is apparently no evidence that serious distrust of the rupee arose, even when the Government was hesitating as to just what steps should be taken to meet the demand for exchange.
Before 1873 the fluctuations in the value of silver as compared with gold had been comparatively small, and the exchange value of the rupee was rarely less than two shillings.
This advantage, however, was outweighed by the uncertainty as to what the exchange value of the rupee might be at any particular date, which imported a gambling element into commerce.
He did not mean her to starve, and, if she could not manage, it would be easy to give a rupee or two on the sly.
Was it for this that base-born brat of a base-born mother had taken one rupee a month out of Hoshiar's own pocket?
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 therupee was worth only half a dollar.
If the man with the beard had given me a rupee I should have kept it as a memento of a rather curious affair.
Probably not, for friend Hugh was ever apter in squeezing the nimble rupee than in chanting sonnets to his mistress's eyebrow.
The adventurer drew a silver rupee from his pocket, and then gayly tossed it into the waves, crying, "Here's for luck!
Let every one of you give one rupee after the manner of a wedding, and go purchase the slithering lies of a pleader.
If only he could devise some plan by which he could retain the plunder, especially that thousand-rupee note the white-faced shaitan had given him in exchange!
A piece of wood a little larger than a tent-peg is driven into the ground, and a notch having been made in the top, a rupee is therein placed so as to be half hidden from view.
Yes, sir or madam, you are quite right in the opinion which you have held all along regarding that Bundelcund Banking Company, in which our Colonel has invested every rupee he possesses, Solvuntur rupees, etc.
Clive's good father having paid the first instalments of the lad's shares up in Calcutta, and invested every rupee he could himself command in this enterprise.
Here we got six seers of ottah for the rupee yesterday, but to-day none is procurable.
At that time Mackeson had not sent them any money; of which they were in great want, not having a rupee to give to the troops, and three months' pay nearly due.
Futteh Jung pays the Hindostanees in the Bala Hissar a rupee a day to keep watch at the gates; being afraid to trust the Affghans.
Here an old woman cooked chupatties for us, three for a rupee; but, finding the demand great, she soon raised the price to a rupee each.
It has been intimated to the Envoy that the enemy's troops, who lately got one rupee daily for each horseman, and eight anas for each foot soldier, have not had any pay for four days, and that they are grumbling at it.
Which proves that His Excellency, though dreamy, had experience of the ways of six-thousand-rupee men.
No man can toil eighteen annas in the rupee in June without suffering.
They filled eight thousand-rupee lotteries on the Broken Link Handicap, and the account in the Pioneer said that "favoritism was divided.
The seven hundred rupee passage, and enough to have saved the wife, and the little son, and to have allowed of assured and open marriage, came then.
He was a six-thousand-rupee man, so great that his daughters never "married.
He pounded on, the seven-hundred-rupee passage as far away as ever, and his style of living unchanged, except when he launched into a new filter.
The only practical solution of the difficulty was the adoption of a gold standard for India, and in order to do so at a workable rate for the rupeeit would be necessary to anticipate such further fall.
Tripe produced the thousand-rupee note in less than half a minute and, whether or not he believed it stolen, saw through the plan and laughed.
She knew to a rupee how much Gungadhura had been obliged to pay out for the digging.
He gave him the letter, and received a rupee because Tom's dog frightened him nearly out of his wits.
They charge rupees for shillings, and a rupee is about two shillings and a penny.
In 1872, the rupee became the sole standard of value, with decimal subdivisions.
The rupee was divided into 100 cents, the cent of Ceylon being nearly equal to one-half cent of our money.
He was obliged to confess that Miss Howe wasn't game for risks, especially after doing her Rosalind the night the circus opened to a twenty-five rupee house.
With her undamaged hand she produced a rupee from her pocket, where a few coins chinked casually, looked at it, and groped for another.
The stalls gradually filled, although it was a second production, in the middle of the week, and although the gallery and the rupee seats under it were nearly empty.
The rupeecontains 16 annas, and an anna is of the same value as a penny.
Each man gave him not less than a rupee and sometimes as much as fifty rupees.
The chief guru formerly obtained a large income by the contributions of the Chamars on his tours, as he received a rupee from each household in the villages which he visited on tour.
For one rupee they dig a patch 8 dangris long by one broad and a cubit in depth, or 675 cubic feet.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rupee" 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
