A kilogram of rice, which used to cost 70 centimes, can be found now only at 80 crowns.

On Good Friday evening in the lovely dying April light I paid thirty centimes to be taken by tram to Grassina to see the famous procession of the Gesù Morto.

The mountains seem to be accomplices of the people who charge fifty centimes for an echo.

And some gave her ten centimes, others a real, one or two even a peseta.

Between the extremes of Italy and England stands France, the wife receiving one franc twenty-five centimes a day, each child under sixteen years of age twenty-five centimes, and a dependent parent seventy-five centimes.

A water-cart is a large and expensive item, and as far as he could see it would end in his having to make good the loss out of his own pocket, which at that moment contained ten centimes and a corkscrew.

He was an amusing cross between a tricky little Paris gamin and a real child, and he hit off the characteristics of the various writers with as keen a touch of actuality as he could put into his stories of how many centimes he had won that morning at 'craps' from his friend Pierre.

Martine was to have entire control of this last purse; and they might trust to her economy, they were sure that she would save the centimes.

By that time Joyce had decided how to spend every centime in the whole twenty francs, and Marie had not returned.

Dames, 1 franc 50 centimes.'

If Denis retained him as chief accountant, this was, firstly, from a feeling of gratitude for his long services; but, apart from that matter, the extraordinary thing was that Morange had never discharged his duties more ably, obstinately tracing every doubtful centime in his books, and displaying the greatest accuracy over the longest additions.