46 Verbs to Use for the Word rupees

The train arrived in Mangalore at 9 p.m. From the station I took a rickshaw to my grand aunt's house for which I paid thirty rupees.

If the man with the beard had given me a rupee I should have kept it as a memento of a rather curious affair.

"It costs a thousand rupees at the least to fill one of those caldrons," said the Pathan.

A good bara roopee is well worth seeing, and amply earns the two or three rupees he gets as his reward.

We would offer two rupees, and, after a few minutes' bargaining, they took it quite cheerfully, the thing probably not being worth eight annas.

Each man is supposed to receive three rupees a month and a lump sum of forty-eight rupees at the end of each year, but pay is uncertain and mutiny frequent.

On guest-nights in the Annual Camp of Exercise (when the Officers' Mess did itself as well as any Mess in Indiaand only took a few hundred rupees of the Government Grant for the purpose)

So at last the Raja lent him ten rupees more, and he gave the funeral feast.

His entire stock-in-trade, including the ground coffee in his kettle, does not as a rule exceed five rupees in value.

His aim was to save money for the youngster, but he was of a nature so generous that he spent five rupees where another would save them.

The planters advance about four rupees a beegah to the ryot, who cuts his seed-plant, and brings it into the factory threshing ground, where it is beaten out, cleaned, weighed, and packed in bags.

A fine wether cost four rupees (8s.); eighteen fowls, a rupee (2s.); a fish, weighing several pounds, an anna (1.5d.); eight eggs, an anna; twenty oranges, two annas (3d.); a pound of fine bread, three beis (ld.); and yet, in spite of these ludicrously cheap prices, the captain charged each passenger three rupees (6s.)

I was also to visit the commissariat quarters, disarm the native guard, using force if necessary, and secure the treasure chest, which contained some 20,000 rupees.

They found no rupees in the dung of their horses, and consulted Lelsing as to the reason why.

And they admitted that they were wrong and awarded the calf to Sona and fined the oilman five rupees for having deceived them.

When the seed has been threshed out and cleaned, it is weighed, and the ryot or cultivator gets four rupees for every maunda maund being eighty pounds avoirdupois.

There was once a cowherd named Sona who saved a few rupees and he decided to buy a calf so as to have something to show for his labours; and he went to a distant village and bought a bull calf and on the way home he was benighted.

A sepoy of the Bengal native infantry was accused by one of his comrades of having stolen a rupee and a pair of trousers.

" Then they offered him a jar full of money to pacify him, but he threw the rupees away one by one and continued his lament.

As I travelled alone, Dr. Sprenger very kindly made all the necessary preparations; he drew up a written contract with the tschandrie (waggoner) in Hindostanee to the effect that I was to pay him the half of the fare, fifteen rupees (1 pounds 10s.), immediately, and the other half when we arrived at Kottah, to which place he was to bring me in fourteen days; for every day over that time I had the right to deduct three rupees (6s.)

The youngest table-servant demands twelve rupees a month, no one will engage as a butler under twenty, and the remainder are in proportion.

He sent his mother to borrow a measure from his brothers with which to measure the rupees; and when he returned it, he sent it to them full of rupees.

Another trick that Lelsing played his brothers was this: he used to mix rupees in the food he gave his donkey, and these passed out in the droppings; and Lelsing took care that his brothers should know of it.

As I travelled alone, Dr. Sprenger very kindly made all the necessary preparations; he drew up a written contract with the tschandrie (waggoner) in Hindostanee to the effect that I was to pay him the half of the fare, fifteen rupees (1 pounds 10s.), immediately, and the other half when we arrived at Kottah, to which place he was to bring me in fourteen days; for every day over that time I had the right to deduct three rupees (6s.)

That gentleman having "lost by neglect" certain articles of my kitto wit sundry shirts and other garmentsand having rendered others completely hors de combat by reason of his sinful method of washing, I decided to "cut" three rupees off his remuneration.

46 Verbs to Use for the Word  rupees