10289 examples of dollar in sentences

He would give the child a dollar for a kiss, but if he did not come running to him the very moment he called he would be angry.

We look very closely at every dollar of public money, to see if we couldn't make a better use of it ourselves, before we spend it.

We'll accept it for twenty-five cents on the dollar," returned Tom gaily.

"But it only costs a dime, which is little enoughthe hired enthusiast, indeed, stationed just outside the entrance, reminds us over and over again that it is only 'the tenth part of a dollar,' and he sometimes adds that 'it will neither make nor break nor set a man up in business.' He is a flagrant optimist in small money matters, ever looking on the bright side.

"The things you had to have!" says he; "I s'pose that we'd have died without that twenty dollar longeree.

"Diddid he really lose a five hundred dollar bill?" faltered Betty, as she resumed her bandaging, but her hands trembled in spite of herself.

"Fancy him seeing the man lose the five hundred dollar bill we found!"

Every dollar he could spare out of his earnings went into something for the eye to feast on; and, in spite of the old people's perpetual grumbling and perpetual antagonism, it came about that they grew to be, in a surly fashion, proud of Stephen's having made their home unlike the homes of their neighbors.

The essays on Town and Country Life, those on Education, Art, and Religion, the Forces of Free Labor, and the Gold Dollar, exhibit equal independence of thought and extent of information.

"I'll gie you a dollar on account.

It was a siller dollar I gie'd him, for it was awa' oot west this happened, where they dinna have the paper money so much as in the east.

By Nathan Sinai, Odin W. Anderson & Melvin L. Dollar.

Almena's working dollar.

The Diplomacy of the dollar: first era, 1919-1932.

He often used to boast that he would rather have a paper continental dollar, than a golden English guinea.

They advocate selecting a State, possibly Nebraska, where conditions seem uncommonly favorable, and concentrating the entire strength of the national organization, every dollar of money in the national treasury, all the speakers and organizers, all the literature, in a mighty effort to give the women of that one State the ballot.

Rogers and I know that we will soon meet people who are strangers to us; who speak a strange language of which we know nothing, and how we, without a dollar, are to proceed to get our food and things we need, are questions we cannot answer nor devise any easy way to overcome.

"I was told to give you a half dollar," said Bog, bethinking himself of a powerful expedient, "if you would find out whether Mr. Van Quintem was here, and hand him a letter.

The interrogatory, "Where's your half dollar?" could be plainly seen in his great eyes.

He said, "Nothing partickler," and hurried off, leaving the negro to puzzle over his half dollar.

Before making any inquiry of the servant who answered his triple rap, he thrust a half dollar at him, and then put his question.

Bog took a half dollar in his hand, advanced to the door, which was now closed, and boldly opened it.

The athletic guardian of the place, being confronted with this audacious youth in old clothes, put on a commanding look, and said: "Well, sir, and what the dl do you want here?" "Only to give you half a dollar, as I was told to," said Bog, "and to ask if Mr. Van Quintem was in.

" "A fifteen thousand dollar launch!

Give the nurse a silver dollar.

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