On the occasion of my arresting one of the Russian rouble note forgers, a ruffian who would not hesitate to stick at anything, I had provided myself with several sized pairs of handcuffs, and it was not until I had obtained the very much needed assistance that I was able to find the suitable "darbies" for his wrists.

The most ruinous of all is the situation of Poland, whose finance is certainly not better regulated than that of the Bolsheviks of Moscow, to judge from the course of the Polish mark and the Russian rouble if anyone gets the idea of buying them on an international market.

Some took me for a Russian and some little boys ran after me and asked for a rouble.

The rouble has gone into the Abyss.

The value of the rouble in Perm at that time was about one penny.

For instance, common cigarettes were 1 rouble each.

I have no remedy to offer, but it is not very satisfactory to receive your rouble at 6d.

I thought as much when the news came to me that two peasants had entered a village shop to buy goods, but had been unable to ask for them except by pointing to them, and had given a rouble note and allowed the woman who served them to take her own change.

Among the contributions, he received a one-hundred-rouble noteabout $75.

All the proper names, no matter how unpronounceable, must be rigidly adhered to; you must never transpose versts into kilometres, or roubles into francs;I don't know what a verst is or what a rouble is, but when I see the words I am in Russia.

It is a strange thing that a man about to throw away his life should grudge a rouble for the case.

"The head man and the village priest rejoiced, and the woman took the dead body home and washed it, and clothed it in white linen, and she ordered a three-rouble coffin covered with purple cloth.

The spare little peasant had a rouble given him, asked leave to see the new mistress, whose gossip[B] he was, kissed her hand, and returned home.

Here is a rouble for you.

All the proper names, no matter how unpronounceable, must be rigidly adhered to; you must never transpose versts into kilometres, or roubles into francs;I don't know what a verst is or what a rouble is, but when I see the words I am in Russia.

ROUBLE, a silver coin of the value of 3s.

; the unit of the Russian monetary system; a much depreciated paper rouble is also in circulation; the rouble is divided into 100 copecks.

; the unit of the Russian monetary system; a much depreciated paper rouble is also in circulation; the rouble is divided into 100 copecks.

I sighed as I remembered the days not so long before, when that same coachman would have thought it an honour to drive me for half a rouble.

" "A mere rouble or so?" "Nothing.

"I don't know what you're talking about, BarinI suppose you haven't a rouble or two on you?" "No, I haven't," I answered.

He little knew that, before the year was out, he would be shovelling snow in the Morskaia for a rouble an hour.)

He has only one rouble, twenty kopecks.

A bride to an engineer: a dynamite cartridge filled with one-hundred-rouble notes.

* A Councillor of State; it came out after his death that, in order to earn a rouble, he was employed at the theatre to bark like a dog; he was poor.