If that Deekin, who trades at one of our grocery stores, and helps himself to ten cents worth of tobacker while buyin' one cents worth of pipes, will devide up his custom, it would be doing the square thing by the man who has kept him in tobacker for several years.

I'm goin' to wear my workin' dress, and tell her I hadn't nary minute nor nary cent to do other.

I find 'time' penalties are no use: it breaks the contractor's back; but the extra ten per cent.

In 1892 only 11.1 per cent of the children of school age were enrolled and the average attendance was a little over 7 per cent.

In a moment she was back again with the precious seventy-five cents and a small tin box.

That the Roman landlord made on an average 6 per cent from his capital, may be inferred from Columella, iii. 3, 9.

Though Ilchester is not now a borough, it was so once, and a very curious macehead (13th cent.)

In a general way, we may say, that the strong wines in common use, contain as much as a fourth per cent.

Si quelque chose justifie ceux qui croient une fatalité à laquelle rien ne peut se soustraire, c'est cette suite continuelle de malheurs qui a persécuté la maison de Stuart, pendant plus de trois cents années.

He translated and revised so carefully, he corrected so many errors and added so many footnotes, that his industry actually devoured its own wages; and his eight dollars gradually diminished to a diurnal fifty cents.

Enfin, des deux moitiés de la ville, l'une est totalement en ruines; l'autre a conservé ses murs et environ trois cents maisons qui sont remplies par des Turcomans.

[U.S.]; moss, nickel, pile [Slang], pin money, quarter [U.S.], red cent, roanoke^, rock [Slang]; seawan^, seawant^; thousand dollars, grand [Coll.].

In the resorts to which habitual tipplers have recourse for consolation of the spirituous kind, a cheap variety is usually on hand to meet exigencies,the exigency of a commercial crisis, for instance, when the last lonely dime of the drinker is painfully extracted from the pocket, to be replaced by seven inconsiderable cents.

You could sell your corn but they would only give you fifty cents for itfifty cents a bushel.

" Wil-lie trem-bling-ly took off his hat, and re-pli-ed in an hum-ble voice, "If you please, prin-cess, I wish-ed to know whe-ther you want-ed a ser-vant to as-sist in your mag-ni-fi-cent cas-tle.

After we had paid a newsboy five cents for the "Mercury," and five more for the "Courier," we were at the end of our possibilities in the way of extravagance.

" Wil-lie trem-bling-ly took off his hat, and re-pli-ed in an hum-ble voice, "If you please, prin-cess, I wish-ed to know whe-ther you want-ed a ser-vant to as-sist in your mag-ni-fi-cent cas-tle.

Je la nommai cent fois perfide et déloyale, Je comptai tous les maux qu'elle m'avait causés.

I left to the credit of my account twenty-seven thousand eight hundred and sixty-two dollars and some odd cents.

But," he continued, a sudden gleam of joy lighting up his eyes as something occurred to him that he thought suitable to "top up" with, "all the Mortimers talk with such a peowerful English ac-cent, that when I come de-own to this lo-cation, my own seems to melt off my tongue.

"have your tables on the lawn, and have everybody pay to see the performanceten cents to go inside or ten cents to see the same thing in the enclosure?

From Governor Fuller of Vermonta rare old copper cent, 1782, coined by Vermont before she was admitted to the Union; the governors' letters were sold to the highest bidders.

Noting that the lads were yet undecided what to do and correctly surmising that they had received an old-fashioned, Christian home training, he suavely added: "Our charges are most reasonable, only fifteen cents per night, and every Sunday morning we hold here in the office a most beautiful song and prayer service, and I am sure you lads will be glad to join us in singing grand hymns.

The cost of the carriers was thirty cents in silverfifteen cents in United States moneyand the men were as keen-eyed as they were sure-footed, and the strength of their tawny limbs called for admiration.

Boulevard des Italiens, in fair weather, is densely crowded with ladies and gentlemen seated on chairs hired for two to three sous (cents) each.