Then he could borrow enough to pay for the sewing table--minus forty-seven cents.
His entire wealth at the moment was forty-seven cents, hardly enough to buy either a usual or unusual item.
At a meeting of the church trustees I told of this gift of fifty-seven cents--the first gift toward the proposed building-fund of the new church that was some time to exist.
And there, at the funeral, he handed me what she had saved--just fifty-seven cents in pennies.
III STORY OF THE FIFTY-SEVEN CENTS At every point in Conwell's life one sees that he wins through his wonderful personal influence on old and young.
I know that Carl is an honorable boy, incapable of theft, and at this moment has but thirty-seven cents in his possession.
He might, indeed, have traveled by rail, for he had ten dollars and thirty-seven cents; but it occurred to him that in walking he might meet with some one who would give him employment.
The SEVEN CENTS has the head of Stanton, the large "7" dividing the words "Seven Cents" upon a label following the oval and bordered by the white line between two colored lines and ending in a curve and ball as described.
But to think of him," he marveled in a wave of tenderness, "living in a corncrib on seven cents a day!
Once, during a period of rain, I lived in a corncrib for three days at an average of seven cents a day.
Carey, the passenger rate from Chicago to New York had fallen from about seventy-five dollars to seventeen dollars in 1850; while the freight rate per bushel on wheat had fallen to twenty-seven cents; and per barrel of flour to eighty cents.
Grain rates from Kansas to Chicago during the summer dropped from nineteen cents to seven cents.
That fifty-seven cents was a sacred treasure, and at the next church meeting prayers went up to God, asking direction how to invest the first gift toward the larger accommodations.
The church then purchased the lot and held another prayer meeting to determine the second time what to do with the Wyatt fifty-seven cents.
Mr. Baer (a devout man) said that he would cheerfully accept the terms and that he would also not only give back the fifty-seven cents, but would contribute one thousand dollars toward the first payment on the lot.
That was Friday, and the little brown purse contained two dollars and forty-seven cents, which seemed a tremendous sum to inexperienced Mabel.
Bennett said that night, "about that miserable two dollars and forty-seven cents.
To be sure she was risking her life, the life of the only little girl that her parents possessed; but that seemed a small affair beside two dollars and forty-seven cents.
Opening her porte-monnaie, she counted out nineteen dollars and thirty-seven cents.
But an unanswerable argument against this were the coarse shirts in her hands, for which she was to receive only seven cents a-piece!
Here are some unbleached cotton shirts, at seven cents.
With her half-dozen shirts at seven cents, Mrs. Gaston returned home, feeling as if she must give up the struggle.
The dinner will cost twenty-seven cents, and be very satisfactory.
STORY OF THE FIFTY-SEVEN CENTS AT every point in Conwell's life one sees that he wins through his wonderful personal influence on old and young.
And all had come so quickly and directly from that dear little girl's fifty-seven cents.
One morning about this time Ben carefully counted up his deposits, and found they amounted to fifty dollars and thirty-seven cents.
On counting up, Ben found that he had expended thirty-six dollars, leaving in his hands a balance of fourteen dollars and thirty-seven cents.
The old lady took out her purse, and drew therefrom forty-seven cents.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seven cents" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
