20 Verbs to Use for the Word piastre

The captain of the Osiris mustered the passengers together, and informed them that each one would be obliged to pay six piastres for the transportation of himself and his baggage.

I gave him ten piastres to fee the engineer, and five for the fireman, so you might say that was high-priced fuel.

The soldier is a generous fellow, and if a child asked a piastre (2-1/2d.) for an egg he got it.

"Deaf and dumb poor devil, earning a few piastres by working for the Intelligence.

The cost must not exceed 10 piastres (about 2s.) daily, including tea, coffee, sugar, preserves, etc.

Here we have an almost inexcusable instance of the disinclination of the Moors to repairs, for had the stream been swollen, the camp would have been obliged to make a round-about march by the way of Hamman-el-Enf, of some thirty miles; and all for the want of an arch which would scarcely cost a thousand piastres!

Consequently they demanded twelve piastres instead of ten, and the prince, instead of offering five, conceded the twelve piastres, but stipulated that this should include every thing, especially the buona-mano, which the master should settle with the driver.

How, then, could there be the slightest risk of the German paper money depreciating a single piastre in value?

A tin cup filled with sea-water is placed before us, and we each drop six piastres into itfor money, strange as it may seem, is infectious.

Onceso said the traditionhe knocked a man down in the street, was brought before the delegato, as the police magistrate was called, and promptly fined one piastre, value about four and sixpence; whereupon he threw a sequin (two piastres) down upon the table and said that it was unnecessary to give him any change, inasmuch as he purposed knocking the man down again as soon as he left the court.

He repelled every advance, and, when I offered him a piastre, he refused it with a savage dignity, saying that he had money of his own and did not want mine.

At nearly two he made a collection and received many piastres and copecks, and the crowd who had listened to him began to disperse.

Only the next time give five piastres to the master, and a piastre and a half to the driver; you will save five piastres and a half, and arrive eighteen hours sooner.'"P.

But we must advance the 150 piastres, and so, in mid-journey, we have already paid them to the end, with the risk of their horses breaking down, or they, horses and all, absconding from us.

Here is where Byron swam the sea from Europe to Asia; and over there is where King Midas lived, whose touch turned piastres to napoleons, and flounders to goldfish.

"On what?" "I'll bet you a hundred piastres Scharnhoff has tried to make his get-away, and they've either killed him or tied him hand and foot.

Accordingly, I had asked my coffee-house keeper to buy a hundred or so piastres.

Consequently they demanded twelve piastres instead of ten, and the prince, instead of offering five, conceded the twelve piastres, but stipulated that this should include every thing, especially the buona-mano, which the master should settle with the driver.

Mr. Shafrass counted out fifty thousand piastres for the lot; and the chief folded up his robes and silently departed.

Zese citoyens goin' to wickwest Jean Poquelin to give to the Ursuline' two hondred fifty dolla'" " quoi!" cried a listener, "Cinq cent piastres, oui!" "Oui!" said Bienvenu, "and if he wiffuse we make him some lit' musique; ta-ra ta!"

20 Verbs to Use for the Word  piastre