| 单词 | cent |
| 例句 | The result of the moving picture was that the surgeons involved managed to reduce their ether time by fifteen per cent. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z I am in agreement one hundred per cent with those racists who say that no government laws ever can force brotherhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Which makes two dollars and ninety-three cents,” said Harry Cat, after doing some quick addition. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “If I die on you, you can sue me, Mrs. Trotter. You can take me for every cent I have.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z I think he waited for Vonetta to add her two cents, the way she normally would if Fern beat her to the first line. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Then I set down to look over my finances cause two things done happen: the bus gone up to fifteen cents a ride and my rent gone up to twenty-nine dollars a month. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z During the twentieth century, only 5 per cent of human deaths resulted from human violence—and this in a century that saw the bloodiest wars and most massive genocides in history. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “The British Purchasing Agency? They can’t take it back. They’re paying twelve and a half cents for beans all over the country.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z The only cotton left for us to harvest was la bola, the leftovers from the first picking, which paid one and a half cents a pound. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z For example six cents would put one penny on each of the six possible combinations of three digits. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “You still need two more dollars and eighty cents.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z It cost twenty-five cents and came in a little blue-and-white packet. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was at a soccer game in Ghazi Stadium in 1998. Kabul against Mazar-i-Sharif, I think, and by the way the players weren’t allowed to wear shorts. Indecent exposure, I guess.” The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes caught her pocketing fifty cents from the sale of two crullers, and threw her out. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Today, many incarcerated people work in prison, typically earning far less than the minimum wage—often less than $3 per hour, sometimes as little as 25 cents. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z One payday Dad owed the mine company eleven cents. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z He stopped and searched all of his pockets; in his vest pocket he found a lone copper cent. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Seventy-five cents!” the guy behind the counter said. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “I think we sold about twenty of ’em in a bag for fifty cents at that garage sale. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z The fare was a dollar, so I thought ten cents was exactly right and gave the driver my dime with a little flourish and a smile. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He slid the balls up the brass rods, pondered swiftly, clicked them all back into place and announced “dirty-nine cent.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But assumption was symptomatic of malevolent tendencies that transcended mere dollars and cents. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z “That dont begin it. How about the dime or fifteen cents you’ll spend for a dam two cent box of candy or something. How about the time you’re wasting right now, listening to that band.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Why is a cent the hundredth root of a semitone, and why is a semitone the twelfth root of an octave? Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z Dark and deep as the mud of the Nile, Set brooded lumpily through a mist of sandalwood incense—ninety-nine cents at Schmitt’s—over all kinds of mystic ceremonies, weird rites and wicked plots. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z He continued, “He is getting the money for 6 per cent and probably will be able to get—I would be afraid to guess how much—but somewhere from 10 to 50 per cent.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The cop on their corner stopped them, examined the tree, and solemnly offered to buy it for ten cents—fifteen cents if they’d delivered it to his home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Aureliano gave her fourteen little gold fishes because she was determined to leave with only what she had: one peso and twenty-five cents. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z If she could spend just fifty cents for lunch, they’d have a dollar fifty for dinner. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z For fifty cents you can escape Manhattan by boat, crossing the waters of the harbor and bay past all the famous islands, Governor’s, Liberty, Ellis. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He jingled the seventy-five cents in his hand and bit his lower lip until it was mottled and scarlet. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He had paid thirty dollars for the ad; he might as well pay another fifty cents to see it. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Someday, Francie resolved, when she had fifty cents, she would take all the picks and win everything on the board. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The boys would now examine some new article of clothing I had bought; none of us allowed a week to pass without buying something new, paying fifty cents down and fifty cents per week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Those were cheap, like 50 cents a pop. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z During the next 14 years the average annual loss of elms was only 2/io of 1 per cent a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Within a couple of centuries, the majority of the local megafauna was extinct, along with 60 per cent of all bird species. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z It had three dollars and eighty cents in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Jamie nuzzled himself further into the corner of the bus seat and sang, “Twenty-four dollars and forty-three cents.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z My mother did not have the one hundred cents to take them to the clinic, and no witch doctor, our last resort, was willing to treat them on credit. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z There's a pizzeria if you get hungry, seventy-five cents a slice. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z Bep has offered to get us some fruit, at so-called bargain prices: grapes 2.50 guilders a pound, gooseberries 70 cents a pound, one peach 50 cents, melons 75 cents a pound. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I wolfed down the yam and ran back to the old man and handed him twenty cents, "Give me two more," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact, out of every dollar spent on food in this country, ninety-two cents goes to these non-farmers. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But she was hired, and on the way out of the place she bought ten cents worth of chocolate and a little modeling clay set for George. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z That night, with 79 cents left over from Valentine’s Day and $1 from Monday’s allowance, I bought two Cokes and a rose with a ribbon. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z This program of “male annihilation” was begun in i960: a year later the Agriculture Department estimated that more than 99 per cent of the population had been eliminated. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He had seven cents between him and starvation and the law and the long days ahead. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Miss Leefolt don’t pay but ninety-five cents an hour, less than I been paid in years. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I put five dollars in, Ritchie had no money, Audrey handed over a few dollars, and Marv went through his pockets and put in a twenty- cent coin and a pen lid. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Then put those food stamps away and gimme three dollars and forty-three cents,” the storekeeper said. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And when Papi looks up from his food to add his two cents to the conversation, it’s like his words are a tambora adding deep wisdom to all that superficial gossip. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z ‘Wait a minute. I know how everything is. I could bring it to court and sue for every cent you own.’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She had a bundle of wood blocks which she had bought for two cents, a can of condensed milk and three bananas in a bag. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I had two dollars and eighty cents in my drawer at home to pay for the late fees for the remaining two weeks when we returned to Brooklyn. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Until the late modern era, more than 90 per cent of humans were peasants who rose each morning to till the land by the sweat of their brows. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z He gets paid about fifty-three cents a day, which he can use at the prison commissary to buy toothpaste, snacks, stamps, and other miscellaneous items. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z “Doc’s paying us five cents apiece for those frogs. We’re going to get seven or eight hundred. How about taking a pint of Old Tennis Shoes just ’til we can get back with the frogs?” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “The next month, they hiked the subway fare from twenty-five cents to thirty-five cents.” Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Bread sold here for five cents a loaf, but across the “line” where white folks lived, it sold for four. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “Language, Miss New Hampshire. You owe me twenty-five cents for that potty mouth.” Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z They had one dollar and fifty-six cents left now. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “See. This Florentine alone weighs forty-three cents. I can’t afford to throw that kind of money away.” Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then ninety-seven cents will buy you a lot of food,” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Without hesitating, Ron says, “I can do a seventy-five cent raise. And I’ll work with you on your schedule. We’ll figure it out.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z The first, at 1 per cent of the present level, shielded out enough ultraviolet radiation to permit cells to move into the surface layers of lakes, rivers, and oceans. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days, an extra eighty cents a week was a princely sum. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For this I get twenty-five cents, which is a lot of money. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She bought a secondhand fiddle for Paul Jones and negotiated lessons for him at fifty cents an hour from a man who called himself Professor Allegretto. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “A nickel if you drink it here. Seven cents if you don’t.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z One Monday at four in the morning, my father woke me up and said, in an embarrassed tone: “Can you lend me thirty cents for bus fare so I can go to work?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I'm in a beer parlor, drinking ten- cent draft beer, with the other students from Life Drawing. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “That will be a dollar for you, sir, and fifty cents for each of the children.” The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z “This is the same stuff that’s on the back of postage stamps. Mix a little of it in your powder and add water. Let it dry. I think it’ll burn. That’ll be fifteen cents.” October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Not ninety-nine cents or a dollar and one cent, but one dollar exactly. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z “Don’t you know that ninety-seven cents is almost a dollar?” she asked. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe it was his treasure to have wound up in that strange land, met up with a thief, and doubled the size of his flock without spending a cent. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z This minuscule 2 per cent of the earth’s surface constituted the stage on which history unfolded. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Alex insisted on giving Gallien his watch, his comb, and what he said was all his money: eighty-five cents in loose change. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z You see the cruelty required to produce eggs that can be sold for seventy-nine cents a dozen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z She paid Delores the fifty cents a week she got for lunch money to give her lessons. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z She did not worry what could happen in three weeks when she was supposed to take her two dollars and ten cents back to True Belle. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I keep my allowance in it, five cents a week. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z When lice were collected and tested, it was found that 5 per cent DDT powder caused no increase in their natural mortality rate. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z She lingered by a package of chicken wings, which, at twenty-nine cents a pound, held some interest for her. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In those days, gas cost less than twenty cents a gallon, but that was a lot then. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z During the first few months, though, eight cents a week was deducted for food rations. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Positive. And listen, Brother Leon. The money—it’s amazing. Ninety-eight per cent has been turned in.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Species that live on the ground or frequent low vegetation suffered 100 per cent mortality. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was only a dollar and fifteen cents. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z I threatened to cut them off without a cent until I remembered they already controlled my money. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Maybe my twenty-five cents from the cornflakes came already. That would make fifty-nine.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They moved the sand around and uncovered obsidian arrowheads he could sell to old men in camp for fifty cents apiece. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z Using the copier in Walt and Billie’s office, he paid his parents a few cents a copy, charged customers two cents less than the comer store charged, and made a tidy profit. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He sold them nickel things for three cents. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He counted himself lucky when he landed a summer job with the Civilian Conservation Corps, laying asphalt for the new Olympic Highway for fifty cents an hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z That would leave the mouse with a half dollar, a quarter, a dime, a nickel, and three cents. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z A bullet only costs about two cents, and anybody can afford that. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z “Two dollars,” I said to my mother at the stove, “two dollars and forty-five cents.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “The other was two box tops from corn flakes. They send you twenty-five cents if you mail them two box tops with stars on the tops. For milk money, it said.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can find all the fresh butter we need in Sicily for twenty- five cents a pound,” Milo answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z What he said was, “Of course, I’d be delighted, fifty per cent down payment please, the rest before delivery, come back in a year, thank you very much.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z “I just love this dog,” she said, “and I’m going to buy her. I haven’t got a dollar. All I have is ninety-seven cents.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I give him my dollar and he counts put my change: “Seventy-five cents for the Starbursts!” he announces. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z The com was hot, dry, scorched, and delicious, and it cost five cents. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His students viewed Mr. Tuffett’s billboard more darkly: he had assessed them twenty-five cents apiece and had taken the credit for it himself. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “I have dreamy Thin Mints—twenty cents per box,” she replied, and smiled even more brightly. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z If one cup of lemonade sells for fifty cents and you sell fourteen cups of lemonade, how much money have you made? The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z So the Osage bought the territory for seventy cents per acre and, in the early 1870s, began their exodus. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The spray was a 25 per cent DDT concentrate suspended in a solvent containing methylated naphthalenes. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The only way you could tell it was a “date” was that Howard paid for both the tickets, fifty cents each. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z We might make as much as fifty cents on that one catch, ten times the price of a soft blue crab. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Buy nothing. Don’t bring one cent. Go and make them stop the curse.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She heard him muttering as he clicked the beads on his abacus, figuring out new ways to pocket a cent. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z “That will be seven dollars and eighty-eight cents,” the salesgirl named Griselda tells me. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z They bought soap from a machine for ten cents and deposited a quarter into the slot in the washer. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “There are others waiting in line. That will be fifty cents.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z So far, he'd earned forty-seven dollars and eleven cents, which was more money than he'd ever had in his whole life. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “You should have sent that in before. We could use twenty-five cents more.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have two dollars and thirty-six cents total to spend on my sisters and my parents.” The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z It was fifteen cents and as I felt for a nickel I took out another dime, thinking, Is it an insult when one of us tips one of them? Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z In 1733, Parliament ruled that an extra six cents must be added to the price of every gallon of molasses that did not come from an English source. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z McWatt was deeply impressed with Milo, who, to the amusement of Corporal Snark, his mess sergeant, was already buying eggs for seven cents apiece and selling them for five cents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I’d a saved money this year raising it at two cents a pound.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “It will cost you seventy-five cents plus a penny tax.” Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z He held the twenty cent one in his hands, drawing it through his fingers. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z And then I put my two cents in. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Why don’t they bypass you and buy the eggs directly from you in Malta at four and a quarter cents apiece ?” “Because I wouldn’t sell it to them.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z For example, for every dollar a consumer spends to buy eggs, forty cents finds its way back to the farmer. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Most of the class seemed confused, but then Matt Kapok, a kid in the front row, offered fifty cents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z There, he buys used clothes for 20 cents a pound. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z So on Friday, I went to Goldman’s Best Bakery and put two dollars and forty-five cents on the counter—all the money I had in the world. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Why, we paid them two cents a pound over the market. We didn’t rob them.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Historically the inmates were required to do backbreaking labor, including picking cotton, for about four cents an hour. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z We went over the denominations a few times—one cent, five cents, ten cents, twenty-five cents. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z I dropped the twenty-three cents in the can. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The laundry workers earned 40 cents an hour, ranking them among the lowest paid of all war workers, but with few job options available to them, it felt like a windfall. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z To one of the redheaded Jewish boys we sang: Red head Jewish bread Five cents A Jewish head. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z She already had four dollars and eighteen cents. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z They were both of them going to work for Mr. Nitta—he paid better than any berry farmer on the island—for thirty-five cents a flat. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Boys no older than I nailed together boxes out of wood scraps, painted them in bright colors, and set off for San Juan or Río Piedras, where men paid ten cents for a shoeshine. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z Surely it was more than happy coincidence that the price of admission—“fifty cents, straight up,” remembers one former bug boy—was precisely equal to the pay for galloping a horse. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He took eighty cents in change from his pocket and placed it on the table. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Someone else offered seventy-five cents, then a dollar, and before too long it was up to nine dollars and ninety-nine cents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Fifty cents in certain houses get you the woman, the floor, the walls and the bed. Two dollars get you a woman on a store-bought scooter if you want it.” Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In truth, he works hard, though he doesn’t spend a cent of what he earns. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z Once again Armpit was holding a shovel, only now he was getting paid for it, seven dollars and sixty-five cents an hour. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Pay the new immigrants twenty-five cents an hour and say we have no unemployment. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z When I asked Doreen about this she said the tipping percentage might well have risen from ten to fifteen per cent since she was last in New York. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z All these cost two dollars and thirty-five cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z About eighty per cent of the girls who came to him needed money to pay off a mortgage. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Then I found a wool scarf for Grandma for just ten cents, and socks for Conrad for three pennies. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Didn’t even have to put a cent on credit, which Papa used to forbid. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z My first job was carrying lunches to the men who worked in the roundhouse, for which I received twenty-five cents a week. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “I saw them at CVS on sale for fifty cents each the other day, so I bought a bunch to help Miss Pearson out.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z ‘Sixty per cent probability he’s lost, forty that he’s run away?’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z But Yossarian still didn’t understand either how Milo could buy eggs in Malta for seven cents apiece and sell them at a profit in Pianosa for five cents. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z The method gives 90 to 95 per cent control of the ants. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It turned out that 1–4 per cent of the unique human DNA of modern populations in the Middle East and Europe is Neanderthal DNA. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “A thousand dollars? He will not get a cent. We shall have him prosecuted immediately. Contact our attorneys, Mother.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ten cents extra is a box—what it costs me wholesale.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Matney weighed it carefully—more than four hundred pounds!—and then counted out the twenty-two dollars and fifty cents he figured he owed us. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Then a drought year brought conditions especially favorable to the beetle and the mortality of elms went up 1000 per cent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Why do you do this, Raj, just to save a few stupid rupees. What are you saving us, fifty cents?” Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z And how I got twenty-two cream puffs for two dollars and eighty cents less than I should have—plus two more free, since they come cheaper by the dozen. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Frankly,” he said, after he had chewed and swallowed, “no matter what Bunny tells you to the contrary, he hasn’t a cent and neither does his father.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He ended up with seven dollars and fifty cents and bought us a tandem bicycle. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “For once I wanted us to feel like millionaires. And if twenty cents can make us feel rich, it’s a cheap price to pay.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t have dared to bother the man who could do what he did with “Daydream” by asking him for fifteen cents. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no job, for he regarded digging ditches for fifty cents a day as slavery. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Everything on the shelves cost much more than fifty-one cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z The article runs for a couple of inches, next to an ad for fur coats, thirty per cent off. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z And through this three-dollar list, I found a terrible job paying me seventy-five cents an hour. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z The cheapest cloth we could find cost seventy-nine cents a yard, and you needed more than two yards for a dress. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Goddammit, you are trying to pick a fight with me. For two stinking cents I’d jump over this big fat table and rip your stinking, cowardly body apart limb from limb.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “Seventy-five cents an hour,” he said, walking away. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z It was reported in i960 that only 2 per cent of all the economic entomologists in the country were then working in the field of biological controls. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He ostentatiously counted my eight cents change and held it out so that I was forced to hold up my hand to receive it. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z ‘In every human observation,’ I explained, ‘there is a margin of error. This is because our senses are not foolproof. In fact, some people believe that one hundred per cent certainty is impossible to achieve.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z But, as Shin found out, they are quite willing to ignore national directives when presented with an industrious North Korean who keeps his mouth shut and works hard for sixty cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z There was more than just one other world beyond ours; there were hundreds and hundreds of them, and at 99 cents apiece I could rent them all. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z Like a dollar for the first minute, and fifty cents every minute after. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Father said that was because it was two cents on the dollar, but they don’t even have regular dollars here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z A day came when Katie didn’t have the twenty cents for the insurance collector. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “He has a twenty. You owe him four dollars and twenty-six cents.” The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z At present, as we have seen, more than 99 per cent of the interstate food shipments slip by without inspection. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “Here is forty cents. Now don’t get lost! And be back at our regular meeting place by the pigpen very soon!” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z I earned seventy cents an hour and I went to bed each night now with a full stomach for the first ume in my life. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Even Dr. Corey had his two cents worth: "Never take your eye off the peanut bag, Alfred." The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It watches as she turns to the register and rings up fifty cents. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z I would take pennies from the store cash register so Frances and I could go to the Chadwick Movie Theater—it cost only ten cents. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z In turn, Onofre sold the crystals to Nick Rael and other commercial entrepreneurs for fifty cents, and the entrepreneurs unloaded them to tourists for a buck apiece, maybe even more. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Within a week the ship jumpers possessed mill jobs—stacking lumber, sweeping sawdust, hauling slab wood, oiling machines—worth eleven cents an hour. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He said, “Keep your seven dollars and sixty-eight cents.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z White workers got higher wages, but Fred didn’t complain: eighty cents an hour was more than most Lackses had ever seen. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z In this particular stream, game fish had been reduced by 80 per cent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z There was eight dollars and twenty cents in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “That fifteen cents will buy me a snack of dinner,” he says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Another penny bought a small reel of red embroidery cotton and two cents went for a pair of small hoops. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A black boy offers to shine my shoes, and while I’d like to let him, I don’t have a cent to my name. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Jamie ended up with two aces and twelve cards more than I; the game cost me thirty-four cents. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Jamie sighed, “I gave him seventeen cents. So it wasn’t such a great tip. Also, it would never be enough to get us back. We’re broke. How do you feel about that, Miss Taxi Rider?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Sliced tongue at seventy-five cents a pound was only for rich people. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They needed every cent they could get on account of her brother not being able to work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z If you double the size of the chips in chocolate chip ice cream and say on the package, “New! Bigger Chocolate Chips!” and charge five to ten cents more, that seems honest and fair. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Thousands of lapel tags were quickly printed up, and students on campus for summer session began to sell them for fifty cents apiece in the hallways. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Every once in a while Mr. Jimmy’s trumpet would come in and put his two cents’ worth in, then it would fade away. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z Although he had eaten four cents’ worth of candy that morning, he was very hungry and made Francie run all the way home. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He gave the woman two dollars and fifty cents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They used to tear the front cover off the hack issues of the romance magazines and sell them by the bundle for ten cents. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Goldman added up twenty-two cream puffs in his head “For that you need two more dollars and eighty cents.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z “Here’s sixty cents,” he said, reaching deep into his pocket. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I remembered Papa saying that we got paid three cents a pound, so I mixed dirt clods in with the cotton to make it weigh more. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z Joe had decided he would wait till next Saturday because not collecting the dollar and thirty-five cents wasn’t going to strap him. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “Right. His share was twenty-five dollars and seventy-five cents.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He laid fifty cents on the table in front of Adam. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He’d come home from jail at 11 P.M. in a taxi and the driver refused to take a cent from him. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z We didn’t even charge her ten cents a verse, as we used to back home. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “I only have thirty-five cents,” she said coldly. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z The total was sixty cents, a sum that limited and blocked escape routes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Since then her grandmother carried her from town to town, putting her to bed for twenty cents in order to make up the value of the burned house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “Basketball season is here, and it’s time to pick another cheer captain. Hannah put in her two cents, and I agree with her.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z “One year I actually sold it for ten dollars and ten cents,” Mr. Warren told the class. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z My mother pulled back the dollar bills and counted out exact change, thirteen cents, and put that on the tray instead, explaining firmly: “No tip!” The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here’s fifty cents, Francie. Go out and get a quarter pound of sweet butter, a box of soda crackers and two navel oranges. Tell the man you want navel. Say they’re for a sick lady.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He added and re-added columns of figures, always eighty cents too little or eighty cents too much. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z The paper cost fifteen cents, and I sold it myself, going from class to class and standing in the hallways, hawking it like a newsboy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z The next day Pilate was hired as a washerwoman at ten cents a day. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Have to have nurses anytime Aunt Hettie goes out, and every spare cent we got goes to pay for Grandma’s care. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “One dollar and six cents. One dollar and six cents. Two pennies left over,” Natalie says. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Rags brought two cents a pound and iron, four. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Because she felt strangely sorry for him, she asked whether he had rates better than fifty-seven cents a minute to Nigeria. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Happy birthday to a woman who always makes cents. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I search the box for more treasures and find the round pieces of white metal that Papa thought were musket balls and two British half cents from Concord. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z This means that in terms of the number of species, 70 to 80 per cent of the earth’s creatures are insects. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The bill came to seventeen dollars altogether, seventeen dollars and twenty-four cents to be exact. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Along with the quail went 90 per cent of the songbirds. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “What’s wrong with the name David? Perfectly good name! Seventy-five cents for the M&M’s.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z "Let's take a poll. I'll bet ten cents it's from the Bible." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Almost every cent he had in the world was tied up in it. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Lady was just in. Bought a quarter’s worth of round steak ground. Only I ground too much and here’s the rest on the plate. Just ten cents’ worth. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I would buy them for a few cents, read them, then resell them to the bookdealer. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure, I’ll give you sixty cents for it,” said the girl. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z They see a sign in the window of the mill: milk for sale, one cent a glass, and also fried eels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The outlay for insecticides in Nova Scotia apple orchards is only from 10 to 20 per cent of the amount spent in most other apple-growing areas. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z During the season, there had been a ceaseless cacophony in that room of songs and stories and pleas for fifty cents to buy a soda. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z In 90 per cent of a later series of 20 cases there was similar high estrogen activity. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “No. My mother said ten cents’ worth of round steak.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I was so happy I gave them fifty cents each. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “The syndicate is paying five cents apiece for plum tomatoes that cost you only half a cent apiece. How does the syndicate benefit?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z He had two cents left; that would buy a Times. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z One pond that had been treated with DDT to remove unwanted shiners remained so poisonous through repeated drainings and flushings that it killed 94 per cent of the sunfish with which it was later stocked. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I was hired by a florid-faced white man at the rate of fifty cents for nine holes. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z I had twenty- three cents—a dime I had earned running errands for my grandpa, and thirteen cents a fisherman had given me for a can of worms. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “A taxi is expensive. The bus is cheaper. It’s only twenty cents each. We’ll take the bus.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I also didn’t know how much dye we could get for fifty-seven dollars and sixteen cents. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z Then she forced me to work in her bakery every day after school for twenty-five cents an hour. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z In this way she gained seventy-eight cents in coins previously designated for the church collection plate. The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z He had an idea: Why not ask each rider to contribute 10 cents for every ride, plus $20 a year, to a community fund that could help injured riders? Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Two dollars and forty-five cents can buy a great deal,” said Mr. Goldman. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I passed a service station, and the sign said gasoline was only ninety-three cents a gallon. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Most kids wanted to avoid detention, so to them, fifty cents was an even trade for my silence. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z She saw him go into the candy store and buy four Sweet Caporal cigarettes with the two cents after mass. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Haggling over a twenty cent hame string to save fifteen cents, so they can give it to a bunch of Yankees that come in and pay maybe ten dollars for the privilege. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z They were printed on stiff, expensive paper, and each ticket pad cost the town two dollars and sixty cents. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We would each pay our thirty-five cents and then hurry back to the church. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z His voice said, “I trust you seventy per cent”—and then he hung up. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When Lill was eight, she submitted a bid of forty-seven cents to paint a long, high fence in the back yard. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z But Ashoke points out that even his chairman shops at yard sales, that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z But her common sense told her that Professor Allegretto should not charge fifty cents an hour and not attend to his work. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Thus, woodpeckers are the primary control of the Engelmann spruce beetle, reducing its populations from 45 to 98 per cent and are important in the control of the codling moth in apple orchards. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z True to her word, at the end of the first half-hour, when they had forty cents, Dicey went inside to buy milk. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “When I was a kid, if you brought a seal’s nose to the police station, the clerk paid you fifty cents. Fifty cents a seal,” Dad said. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z I asked how much I should have given and she said a quarter at least and thirtyfive cents if the suitcase was too heavy. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Cal said, “What are we going to do with five-cent beans in a three- cent market? Oh, yes! But how can we be sure?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Altogether, they had eleven dollars and fifty cents, more than any one of them had ever had at one time before, even Dicey, who contributed all of her baby-sitting money, seven dollars. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Hot Fudge, 27 cents, the sign in the window said. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I think if I was wearing my own clothes I would feel like two cents next to her. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z “He told me that he was only paying 6 per cent for this money, and he could make a great deal more out of it by loaning it back to the Indians.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Johnny grinned and gave him ten cents with instructions: “Buy a good cigar and smoke it on me.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z There he was in the empty marketplace, without a cent to his name, and with not a sheep to guard through the night. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z “Thirty-seven dollars and seventy-five cents for paperwork. After I’ve already paid twenty-two dollars to open the claim!” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “I rent the place. Split between us, it’ll only cost you thirty cents a week. Best part is, I can get you a job, too.” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Sometimes she didn’t even have ten cents, for she lost a nickel every time she broke one of the household rules like forgetting to make her bed in the morning. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The owner wanted a dollar and a half and didn’t come down to eighty cents for three days. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z On the far side of the room there was a small bar, a mere hole in the wall, where gin could be bought at ten cents the large nip. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He and Yummy picked through the wreckage for their most essential belongings, 27 cents and a half pint of a foul brandy they called “bow-wow wine.” Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He hurried on, “We bought futures at five cents and when the price jumped—It’s for you, fifteen thousand dollars. It’s for you.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z They had seventy- five cents between them when Hagar declared her needs, and six dollars owed to them from customers. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’ve lived here for nearly thirty years. My father put away every cent he ever made.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “For two cents I’d go back home and tell people not to bother with Mars. What a suspicious bunch of louts.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z The girl said a fifty cent one was the best, so I took one and lit it and went out to the street. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z The increase is by no means confined to the United States; in all countries the recorded deaths from leukemia at all ages are rising at a rate of 4 to 5 per cent a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It was a whole fifteen cents more than the Cokes cost. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z He only had two dollars and forty-six cents left over, but he put it all on the counter, promising himself to stop by tomorrow and settle up. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z His name is Ongah, and he is an exchange student from Kenya who is writing a dissertation at N.Y.U. on the French symbolists of the 19th cent. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That made a total of twenty-six cents, fourteen cents of which would have to be saved for carfare to Mr. Dalton’s; that is, if he decided to take the job. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The F.B.I. not long ago released a report of a shocking rise in crime each successive year since the end of World War II—ten to twelve per cent each year. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Rumor was the pay was ten cents for young women, a quarter for men. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z There were so many rows and rows of delicious candies to choose from that we’d spend an hour trying to decide how to spend the ten cents we’d each made. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z When Miss Love and Uncle Camp went out to load boxes in the buggy, Mrs. P. put in her two cents’ worth about a wife not using her husband’s name. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z According to the CIA, the bombing campaign was costing the United States nine dollars and sixty cents for every one dollar of damage inflicted on North Vietnam. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “Well I was. And now I’m not sure, not a hundred per cent sure I’ll be completely, you know, in shape by 1944. So I’m going to coach you for them instead.” A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z "Four dollars and forty-two cents. Fourteen quarters, five dimes, three nickels, and twenty-seven pennies." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “Five cents a day. It seems a little. But where is it to come from? We haven’t enough now and with another mouth to feed....” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Dollars or cents, it’s still not yours to spend,” the bird replied haughtily. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z They learned where the cheapest gas station was—at the corner of Lomond and Lee Roads, always one cent less than anywhere else; where the drugstores were and which gave double coupons. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Since we didn’t have a camera, I thought buying ten postcards for fifty cents would be the next best thing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Prices were cheap: fifteen cents for a large opossum hide, twenty-five for a good skunk hide. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Added to the two pennies Maybeth and James had picked up earlier, Dicey figured that they were only twenty-one cents out of pocket for food. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z It figured—he would be too cheap to pay Rocky five cents for a grocery sack. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “Don’t say that. I give them a penny’s worth of candy for each cent they spend here. The pick is just so’s it’s more interesting.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Most were leaning back and laughing, probably because they didn’t know two cents about the Babe, and they figured they weren’t going to win anyway. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z The fall in temperature would in turn have shut off much of living, and, in a long sigh, the level of oxygen may have dropped by 90 per cent. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “People in here don’t have any money. I don’t have two cents to rub together.” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z On Sunday Lyddie went to see her, taking her botany text and a couple of novels that cost Lyddie twenty cents at the lending library. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Most of the jobs remaining at the dam site, he had been told, were for common laborers, paying fifty cents an hour. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z By 1959, in spite of six years’ spraying, the university campus had lost 86 per cent of its elms, half of them victims of Dutch elm disease. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z "Eight dollars and eighty-five cents. Sixty-five cents. I spent some." The Catcher in the Rye 1951-07-16T00:00:00Z “Of course the prices are wrong. It was ten cents for a coffee, then.” Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Arrowheads and spear points were found embedded in or lying near the bones of twenty-four skeletons, 40 per cent of the find. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day I took the band to Ali Baba’s and bought them veggie burgers for seventy-five cents each. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z A substantial number of the remaining 98 per cent were engaged in research on chemical insecticides. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Her January pay came to eleven dollars and twenty cents, exclusive of board. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z Fifty cents at Paper World, according to Twig. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z “Tell your friends to buy tickets. They’re now on sale in the student activities room. The price is seventy-five cents for students and one dollar for adults.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z And for pickers, ten cents a day for the women and a case quarter for the men. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then cotton started going down, down, down, until now in 1845 it was bringing only five cents a pound, and the slave traders gave less than five hundred dollars for young strong slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z That totaled eighty-six cents, for lunch and dinner. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In some test areas infection of grubs had reached as high as 94 per cent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Also raised his wages fifty cents a week. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z “Exxon comes out with its earnings and we need to get that as fast as possible up on screens around the world: ‘Exxon earned thirty-nine cents this quarter as opposed to thirty-six cents last quarter.’ The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z He had been able to bleed ten cents out of his mother for carfare home, although she had even begrudged him that. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Or maybe cheese was thirty-seven cents a pound and somebody came and asked for a dime’s worth. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z I needed to borrow one dollar and twenty cents in nickels, dimes, and quarters. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z During the month each paid twenty cents a week to practice on our piano. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z That would leave them with two dollars and forty-eight cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z In order to buy a magazine and go to the movies he would have to have at least twenty cents more. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z How could I spend thirty cents on a kilo of beef roast, when I could get twice as many potatoes for a fifth of that price? The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z But, as usual, Mrs. van Daan had to add her two cents. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z I said, “Because unfortunately I only have seven dollars and sixty-eight cents.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z He thought about handing over his sixty-two dollars and eleven cents to Jessie and how she'd smile and laugh and tell. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z When we wanted money, we walked along the roadside picking up beer cans and bottles that we redeemed for two cents each. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “Won’t cost you a red cent,” Grandpa called after him as he stalked out. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Anyone who has listened to me will have to agree that I believed in Elijah Muhammad and represented him one hundred per cent. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Those gang people don’t care two cents for your life!” the woman with her said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z When there were no futons and no duvets, the price of an ice cream cone was five cents. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z It was several weeks before Lyddie caught on that the novel was from the lending library and thus cost Betsy five cents a week to borrow. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z This didn’t mean that twenty per cent of the people were free to rob the other eighty per cent of the means to live. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Below Big Brother comes the Inner Party, its numbers limited to six millions, or something less than two per cent of the population of Oceania. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z He started with fifty cents and had built an empire. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z But sometimes he’ll only charge fifty cents if he really likes the person. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z “The money was invested in Ireland at eight per cent,” she told him. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z So fifty cents more a week was scraped up and folded into Blossom’s reluctant hand and she was sent off to take fiddle lessons, too. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z After that, Mama gave him fifteen cents a day for lunch. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z I remember one night, I nearly quit because I had hit the numbers for ten cents—the first time I had ever hit—on one of the sideline bets that I’d made in the drugstore. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s a basketball game tonight, costs ten cents. Can we go?” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He fished three cents out of his pocket; he went over to the boy with averted face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z The woman had wanted fifty cents, and the man had flashed a razor. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z “I’m not sure. I think about three to three and a half cents a pound.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He said at the last minute the cute one with the braids decided on ten cents’ worth of Chiclets, cinnamon, yellow, green. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z We had waited since April for the magic package containing the packets and packets of seeds we were to sell for five cents each, which would entitle us to a new bicycle. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he heard about a restaurant in the “Inland Empire,” sixty miles east of Los Angeles, that was selling high-quality hamburgers for 15 cents each — 20 cents less than what Carl charged. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “I wouldn’t take a cent of her money, you know.” Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, thanks to the magical economics of supersizing, it cost only thirty cents more than the sixteen- ounce “small.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z This is one reason why most musicians prefer to talk in terms of cents and intervals instead of frequencies. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z When he added in his earnings from Wednesday and Thursday, he had one hundred and three dollars and eleven cents. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “Jean Louise,” he said dryly, “not much more than five per cent of the South’s population ever saw a slave, much less owned one. Now, something must have irritated the other ninety-five per cent.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z For ten cents, a lonely fellow could dance one dance with a pretty woman. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Which, by the way, Mother’s group has never raised one red cent for me, to help put in upstairs plumbing at the Equatorial, for example. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z It was, in fact, inferior to the Brasserie in every respect but one, which was that really very sizable shots of off-brand whiskey could be got at the bar for fifty cents each. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He frowned and said, “You get three meals and fifty cents a day. It would be twice that if you had your own mule.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When the last canister was sold, the boys had taken in a grand total of fifty dollars and seventy-five cents. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “Here’s fifty cents that says you can’t,” Mary Anne said, tossing two quarters on the table. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He shook it so hard he might have broken it, but then a voice in his head reminded him that it wasn’t worth going to jail for fifty cents. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Well, you bring me a hundred and two dollars and sixty cents and I send a wire telling the Valdosta operator to pay Adam one hundred dollars. You owe me sixty cents too.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z There was eighteen dollars and sixty-two cents in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The rate of loss is now well below 1 per cent a year. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Just as she predicted, most people gave them stuff and refused to take any money, which was just as well, since they only had nineteen cents between them. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The twenty-five or fifty cents she had earned as a small girl rose to one or two dollars or more. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Brian and I also collected scrap metal that we sold to the junk dealer for a penny a pound—three cents a pound for copper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z On an afternoon in 1903, long before the big cars and the ranch and all the money, Howard began his adulthood with only that air of destiny and 21 cents in his pocket. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Because we got paid three cents a pound, most ranchers did not let us pick cotton when it was wet. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z I pay you twenty-five more cent a day than Mama did.’ The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The audience, who paid two cents apiece to share the difficulties of the actors, would not tolerate that outlandish fraud and they broke up the seats. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The other Low Cuts watched Bit the hustler, Bit who could turn ninety cents into nine bucks—into ice cream—turn into a son. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z “Would a real genius have given away every cent of our money like that?” said Enoch. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z The government considered his claim but refused to pay him a cent. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z He had given Frankie a visual frisk as he came in and he knew there wasn’t 75 cents on him. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You can get Chester out and still have ninety-three cents left,” said Harry Cat. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “The turkey”—Trotter was almost sobbing now— “Fifteen dollars and thirty-eight cents, and I let it go to rot.” The Great Gilly Hopkins 1978-03-28T00:00:00Z He worked from dawn until seven or eight at night for his sixty cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z On this side of the page, Percy & Gray, LP, is offering Jr. Stenographers fifty cents more an hour. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z “And we bought eighty shares of a coffin manufacturing firm for fifty cents a share.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The black workers at Sparrows Point made about eighty cents an hour at most, usually less. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z It took six years, but she paid her creditors every cent she owed. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z One way the permits had been reduced was simply by annually upping their cost by about two cents per head. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It would postpone her running away only twenty-seven cents worth. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The first time I took a taxi in New York I tipped the driver ten cents. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z “Would you take seven cents and go out and get me a dicky and a paper collar?” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But it would take a millionaire to afford to shoot them at five cents a shot. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll pay two dollars and twenty-five cents an hour and put Concha in charge of her.” Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z If he dresses out two-thirds of that at thirty cents a pound? The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest, children of the island’s slightly more affluent, paid fifty cents a lesson. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Despite these precautions, and despite the fact that a sincere effort was apparently made, in at least four major streams almost too per cent of the salmon were killed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z When the woman asked how much she charged, Ann quoted her the going rate back home—thirty cents an hour or three dollars for a ten-hour day. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z In late March of 1862, coffee had reached the unheard of price of seventy cents a pound, and the papers predicted that it would rise even higher. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z This may result, according to laboratory tests, in destruction of 75 to 98 per cent of the cocoons present. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The populations of nesting birds in general have declined as much as 90 per cent in some of the sprayed towns. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z He came to their houses twice a month to collect one dollar and sixty-eight cents and write down on a little yellow card both the date and their eighty-four cents a week payment. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll sell it to the highest bidder. Do I hear fifty cents?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z She could squeeze two cents till they begged for mercy, let alone two dollars. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Claudia said, “You wouldn’t consider two and a quarter cents very much, would you?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Then here is ninety-seven cents,” she said, extending a handful of change to me, still holding on to Betsy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z If they’d put it in the annual library sale, it would have gone for ten cents at most. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Among modern foragers, forty-five-year-old women can expect to live another twenty years, and about 5–8 per cent of the population is over sixty. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z And we had to talk the seller down from a dollar to sixty cents. P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z “I have money. I have my savings. I brought fifty cents for our records and candy. Here, take half.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As late as AD 1400, the vast majority of farmers, along with their plants and animals, clustered together in an area of just 4.25 million square miles—2 per cent of the planet’s surface. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Our mother pays us a cent a cup. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Do you think your money or hers either paid for a cent of this?” she says. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’ll give you the other three cents when my mother comes home tonight,” she said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The Party claimed, for example, that today forty per cent of adult proles were literate; before the Revolution, it was said, the number had only been fifteen per cent. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z My mother tried her best to furnish me with four cents each day, and often I would bring my brother and sisters leftover pieces of peanut-buttered bread, and some skimmed milk. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I ate lunch there, from a can on the shelf, opening it with one of the can openers Mr. Klein had sold for forty-nine cents. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Based on the sixty cents a day he had earned at the pig farm, Shin’s expectation was that he’d be paid at least twice as much. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z The second burst occurred when oxygen rose to 10 per cent of the present level. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As he was leaving the mute handed him a pair of blue overalls, rolled into a tight bundle, and seventy-five cents. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body’s energy when the body is at rest. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s three dollars and twenty-five cents’ worth of brown water,” Tee reminded her. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z But for every dollar a consumer spends on HFCS, say in a soft drink, farmers get only four cents. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I thought the message was worth a good three cents. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Two of the cuts are scratched but I buy it anyway for fifty cents. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Chances were twenty-five cents apiece or five for a dollar. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It masquerades as a two-dollar word, but it’s really worth only about twenty cents. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z He had saved every cent he could from his allowance and had even sneaked a folded and greasy dollar bill from his father’s pocket last night when he arrived home, half-drunk and wobbly. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He declared that every patient had to pay eighty cents, except for women, children, the truly poor, and anyone seriously ill. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Under that was an envelope labeled "Pre-War Earnings" with four dollars and forty-two cents inside it. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z A plastic shower cap— ten cents apiece at Woolworth’s. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z And all for twenty-five cents, the quarter part of a dollar . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z When they had them previews I coulda went to them, an’ spoke in the radio, an’ it wouldn’ta cost me a cent because I was in the pitcher. Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Now he was forcing himself back into the saddle at the risk of his leg because he hadn’t a cent to his name to support a coming baby. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z But if you put your ice cream in a round as opposed to a rectangular container and charge five to ten cents more, that seems like you’re pulling the wool over people’s eyes. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z One victim who accidentally spilled a 25 per cent industrial solution on the skin developed symptoms of poisoning within 40 minutes and died before medical help could be obtained. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z So she had bought the crystals for ten cents. Hello, Universe 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z In the arithmetic test, children were given math questions like “When sugar costs 10 cents a pound, how much will five pounds cost” and asked to write their answers in the margin. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Grabbing the front of the girl’s uniform, she said, “Gimme that fifteen cents, or I’ll turn you every way but loose.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z The amount spent for research was therefore a small fraction of 1 per cent of the outlay for the chemical program. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The delivery boy from the bakery has supplied us with darning thread—90 cents for one measly skein—the milkman can get hold of ration books, an undertaker delivers cheese. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z The broken shoes of two thousand Galveston longshoremen that Mr. Mallory would never pay fifty cents an hour like the white ones. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “You know it’s no cheap thing, indulging yourself with water. I’d have to charge you fifty cents or more a foot, depending on what we find down there. It can run into money.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Cautiously, he held out two cents in his cold fingers. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Girls were admitted to the Chicken Coop free of charge, boys for twenty-five cents, but Joe and his bandmates paid no admission when they performed. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “Three dollars and twenty cents split four—excuse me.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Or my grandfather will cut me off without a cent.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Every dollar — or, in your case, fifty cents — counts. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z “Well, that ain’t too old. My poor old Tante Marguerite, the one I told you them kids beat up on to get fifty cents out her coin purse, she going on eighty.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sure. I make over fifty cents a week and have stuff to read,” he explained. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Professor Joseph Hickey and his students at the University of Wisconsin, after careful comparative studies of sprayed and unsprayed areas, reported the robin mortality to be at least 86 to 88 per cent. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The black leather shoes I had bought for fifty cents at the Dollar General Store were held together with safety pins, which I’d tried to blacken with a Magic Marker so you wouldn’t notice them. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Now she was out not only her wage, which her family needed, but also the twenty cents for round-trip bus fare. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z The cashier punches some buttons and says, “After the food stamps, you owe ten dollars and thirty-eight cents.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Some seizures were as small as eight cents. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z But that cost seven cents, and Grandma made her own. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z He handed her twenty cents, and she sprinted away. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z An article that cost thirty cents in 1912 still was thirty cents although mice and moths might seem to some to have reduced its value. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Senator Whitworth leans over to Daddy and says, “I came from nothing, you know. Jefferson County, Mississippi. My daddy dried peanuts for eleven cents a pound.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He can remember prices, to the cents, of cans of coffee he bought ten years ago. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “One dollar six cents, two cents left over.” Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I’m through; they can kiss my foot for every other red cent of mine they get. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Once a week she makes thirty samosas to sell at the international coffeehouse, for twenty-five cents each, next to the linzer squares baked by Mrs. Etzold, and baklava by Mrs. Cassolis. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “Sure as I’m standing here. And I happen to know you’ve got forty cents at home.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Three dollars and sixteen cents — more than he thought he had. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z So that everyone went to the tent and by paying one cent they saw a youthful Melquíades, recovered, unwrinkled, with a new and flashing set of teeth. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z "They ten cents and they sweet," he said, his voice quavering with age. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Mama asked as she browsed through the piles of videos that cost only ninety-nine cents each. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z In the Bible, and in Shakespeare's vocabulary, they are in the proportion of ninety per cent. New Word-Analysis 1871-01-01T00:00:00Z Hagar stuffed two hundred dollars and seventy-five cents into her purse and headed downtown, still whispering to herself every now and then, “No wonder.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Francie ordered a nice bone with some meat on it for Sunday soup for five cents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A thirty-five cent piece was big enough for a man with an ice shaver to buy and sell “icies,” shaved ice with flavored syrup, and make a day’s wage. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Have you got a five cent loaf, please, ma’am?” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “How can you do that? Your allowance is only twenty-five cents. Twenty-four forty-three plus twenty-five cents makes only twenty-four dollars and sixty-eight cents.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “He gave me sixteen cents and a pinching penny.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z But the rule was that he had to put ten cents back out of his tip money. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Bunny’s never had a cent of pocket money the entire time I’ve known him,” said Henry tartly. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z IV Ignatius ignored his mother’s pounding on his door and crying in the hall about the fifty cents in wages that he had brought home for the day’s work. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re sure it’s not just a bunch of junk somebody picked up for like fifty cents at a yard sale?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z “I don’t understand why you buy eggs for seven cents apiece in Malta and sell them for five cents.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z “I sent the money back with ten per cent interest,” Adam said. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z It was put into the big wooden icebox in the back of the store and sold by the chunk or into smaller pieces that sold for fifteen cents each. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Do you know what I’d do if I thought your money or hers either bought one cent of this?” she says, putting her hand on her dress. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z “You still need two more dollars and eighty cents.” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Drying cost ten cents for ten minutes, but it took twenty cents worth of minutes to dry everything. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z The movie was something Luke hadn’t seen yet, animated and fifty cents from the same store. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “Twelve and a half million—that’s what the new Conditioning Centre cost. Not a cent less.” Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z She had found a stack of sticky notes and priced items anywhere from one cent to three hundred thousand dollars. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Big Ma would have thought that was grand, but Papa wouldn’t have liked it one cent. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z A pleasant young Negro woman took my order and fixed my breakfast: eggs, grits, bread and coffee—forty-nine cents—no butter and no napkin. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I know he’s going to tell you this but I gotta add my two cents. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z She paid with her twenty-dollar bill and got one dollar and seventy-five cents back in change. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z She put two dollars and eighty cents back in it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z With the twenty-five cents apiece that Dad gave Mary Alice and me, we could each buy five Nehis during our week, if we could slip off from Grandma long enough to get our allowances spent. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z “Please deposit another fifty cents for the next three minutes.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Cathy, they said, had started the whole thing, and they had each given her five cents. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Negro Digest costs twenty-five cents, and Ollie Mae says there are twenty-five other things she could spend that money on, so we don’t get any magazines. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z For the ten months he had tended cattle, it amounted to less than twenty-five cents a day. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Three dollars and twenty-nine cents, plus fourteen pennies for the governor, equals three-forty-three altogether,” Nick said bemusedly. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The jackhammer job paid seventy-five cents an hour, so Joe had put a check next to that box and stepped into the examination room for his physical. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z I need ten cents for the bus, ten cents for the subway, a quarter for a sandwich,’ and he would give her the rest. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Let’s see. The cough syrup is eighteen cents, and the medicine is thirty-two cents. That comes to fifty cents.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z He had paid seventy-six cents for a genuine Indian birchbark canoe, only to find that it leaked. Stuart Little 1945-10-17T00:00:00Z My problem was that I didn’t have a cent, although I felt capable, through my love, of becoming a rich man. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z “Because we don’t have enough money. Each ticket is two forty-five. That makes nine dollars and eighty cents all together and we’ve only got seven dollars.” Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z “There’s not a cent of your money on me. I’d starve first.” The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s proportions were ninety per cent of Mrs. Hubbard’s to a soothing ten percent of the conductor’s. Murder on the Orient Express 1934-01-01T00:00:00Z I only had fifty cents in my pocket. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She had no qualms about telling a saleslady that a dress marked at twenty-five cents was worth only a dime, and she usually got it at that price. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “I try to pick two pounds a night. That’s thirty cents’ worth. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “This is some real strange stuff but I lost fifty cents over on Kennelworth yesterday and I bet my fifty cents got hooked up with someone else’s fifty cents and made this here buck.” The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Henrietta and her cousins would hire themselves out to those white folks, pulling their tobacco for ten cents so they’d have money to see their favorite Buck Jones cowboy movies. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z "We got ninety cents and we need as much candy as you can give us," John John explained. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z That left her with three dollars and fifty-nine cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z He chose to study it at a time when cotton was one cent a pound and the Finches had everything but money. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Hence, every time Bernabe wrote out a parking violation on that meter it cost him twenty cents in citation paper, ink, and his own valuable time to do so. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They left everything they knew to take hard jobs in factories and farms for ten cents an hour, ten hours a day, even though signs around town greeted them with three words: No Filipinos Allowed. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z Since we didn’t have a camera, I thought buying ten postcards for fifty cents would be the next best thing. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z The old mother filled it halfway up for two cents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Perhaps you could give us fifty cents for this? Look, it’s pure leather; almost brand new,” he said, handing it to Papa. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z “I ain’t going to pay you one cent more,” he says. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z I asked once, suddenly suspecting that he had lost our joint seventy-five cents during the night. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z My grandfather paid me ten cents a bucket for my berries. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z And each cup of lemonade cost fifty cents. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Cost us fifty cents an acre and we could pay on time. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Which means we share fifty per cent of our gene pool.’ The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z It took two hours so I made eight dollars and fifty cents an hour. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z I couldn’t run very far on twenty-seven cents. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z "You made a hundred and three dollars and eleven cents selling lemonade in just five days." The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z I handed him my two dollars and counted out fifty cents. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z She handed the driver her pink coupon, which allowed a student to ride for five cents—half fare. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z All because of a stupid thirty-five cents in coins. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Math was my specialty—you spend enough time at the cash register and you learn to love numbers, because each and every one means dollars and cents, and enough of those mean business is booming. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z “Fifty cents to save our butts from detention?” Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z People expect it’s going to taste better and they are willing to pay five, ten cents more—just on the strength of that package.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z Trout in both eastern and western parts of the United States were affected; in some areas practically 100 per cent of the trout over three years of age developed cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z One day she bought a small plant, an African violet in a plastic pot on sale for ninety- nine cents at a drugstore. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z She found a loaf of bread on sale for fifteen cents and a jar of peanut butter for seventy-one cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Before her decision to run away, deciding what to do with the ten cents left over from her allowance had been the biggest adventure she had had each week. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z And so she say she pay me fifty cent more and I say, ‘No ma’am. No thank you.’ The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z I live in a city where twenty-five per cent of the population is Negro and I doubt that the percentage is much higher, except in spots, in the eleven Civil War States. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “So I scrubbed steps,” Marian recalled, “and I would get five or ten cents, or whatever. I did steps for four or five dif-ferent people.” The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z I walk in the kitchen where Sugar’s counting out her nine dollars and fifty cents, the money she earned at the Benefit last night. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z He had not a cent in his pocket, but he had faith. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z It was all there—ten rands and forty cents. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have to. The money’s half mine, and if I don’t get it we won’t have a cent to our names.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z I looked in my pocketbook and counted out a dollar bill and seventy-nine cents in dimes and nickels and pennies. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z And because he had no insurance, he hadn’t a cent left to his name. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘You know that’s not what I mean. You do things as if you were still single. As if my two cents means nothing. As if you —” She stopped and took a deep breath. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z When my mother didn’t have the four cents, I would cling to my “affluent” friends like a parasite—they didn’t seem to mind. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “But how can you make a profit ? You lose two cents an egg.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Then he gave the kid fifty cents to go down to the corner store for Coca-Colas to be drunk after supper. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z Ten cents a stale round, and I couldn’t even keep mine down. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Some days there was no food to eat, and Allen and his best friend, Louis Taylor, would roam the streets looking for old cans and bottles to turn in for a few cents. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z She began to take her niece to local benefits and community events, where Marian would be asked to sing a song or two and would earn twenty-five or even fifty cents. The Voice That Challenged a Nation: Marian Anderson and the Struggle for Equal Rights 2004-05-25T00:00:00Z Happy that the meat business was over, Francie bought two cents’ worth of soup greens from the green grocer’s. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Nine dollars and twenty cents,” said the girl behind the counter. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Already cleared it with Mr. Crane. Twenty cents an hour like usual.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z The number of broods produced on treated lands fell off by some 50 per cent, and the number of young in a brood declined. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z I got fifty-three cents for the cans I collected so far that Dad turned in for me, and I show Mr. Wallace how much I got. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He said cotton brought thirteen cents a pound in 1837, and when it was high, the slave traders paid as much as a thousand dollars for prime field hands. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He offered Shin food, lodging, and five yuan a day— about sixty cents—if he was willing to tend pigs. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z “Extra two cents goes to me,” Piper says as Natalie counts out each share. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everything is fifty cents or a dollar, but you can’t bring food or drinks in the gym.” Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In order that Tucker could keep at least one of each kind of coin, Harry Cat figured out that they should bring over one half dollar, four quarters, one dime, five nickels, and fifteen cents. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z So eventually Fred took his last three dollars and twenty-five cents and bought a bus ticket north for a new life. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z As much as she hated to spend the money, on her first payday, Lyddie insisted on giving Betsy a full ten cents to help with Oliver’s rent. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It can be the tiny tip of the iceberg or the whole hundred per cent. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z He worked hard and saved every cent he could until he was able to bring Aunt Hinda, her husband, and the daughter since born to them to Kansas City. Surviving Hitler: A Boy in the Nazi Death Camps 2001-03-01T00:00:00Z Every can and bottle from there to Charlotte was claimed and redeemed, five cents that neither of them had before. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “And four cents for you and four cents for me.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z “Ten dollars and seventy-four cents is your total.” Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z “Comes to two hundred and eighty-seven dollars and fifty-nine cents,” he said. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Mama sometimes hit for two or three cents and sometimes for a nickel, but rarely did she make a larger hit. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z “Well, John Wayne, do you have thirty cents?” The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z Before Papa could answer, the man quickly pulled out from the bag a white embroidered handkerchief saying, “How about ten cents for this handkerchief? Please. My wife did the needlework on it.” The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z She meant to eat heartily for every cent Jamie gave her. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z I’d rather die than put a solitary cent into that Falcon. I Am the Messenger 2002-01-10T00:00:00Z “Can I have seventy-five cents to get my blue dress out of the cleaners?” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z One day he needed twenty-five cents to buy his lunch. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z In the winter when there were no crops and no pay, fifty cents for a possum and two dollars for a coonhide bought flour and overall jackets with blanket linings. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z “What kind of lady he gonna get for seventy- five cents?” the tall guy asked. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z Demand was so great that the price skyrocketed from ten cents to two dollars and fifty cents per copy in New York City. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Enough chickens to lay fresh eggs for every officer in the squadron at five cents apiece from the mess fund,” Milo answered. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Nhamo, who had recently been granted an allowance of fifty cents a week, could only stare at him. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z We figure out it happened a long time ago, because it costs the girl fifty cents for a hot dog, fries, and a soda. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z And farmers wished they hadn’t contracted their beans for a lousy two cents a pound above the going price six months ago. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “What gets me is that the state paid them a lot of money to take care of us, but they wouldn’t give my mother a cent,” I added. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “Here, let’s call it fifty cents, and let it go at that.” Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z Twelve per cent of all deaths in children between the ages of one and fourteen are caused by cancer. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z The operator told us that we were almost out of time and we should deposit thirty-five cents for another three minutes. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z I named him Vincent, which sounds like “win cent,” the sound of making money, because I was beginning to think we did not have enough. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “The zero becomes a ten...minus three, equals seven...and the other zero becomes a nine, minus seven...so it’s one dollar and twenty-seven cents!” P.S. Be Eleven 2013-05-21T00:00:00Z After eating these he still felt hungry and told Claudia she could have twenty-five cents more for pie if she wished. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z We had to assume that the letter a was worth one cent, b two cents, c three cents—and so on, making the letter z worth twenty-six cents. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z Thirty-eight dollars and fourteen cents is nice, but it’s not enough. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z Such instances are certainly rare, for placing your fate in the hands of thirty prepubes- cent witnesses doesn’t seem like a risk that even the worst teacher would take. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I told Mr. Muhammad, “Sir, I agree with you, and I submit, one hundred per cent.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z So he bought a bag of chips for a dollar and nineteen cents, then used part of the change to buy another paper. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z I had a start toward making my dreams come true—twenty-three cents. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Full fare one way costs one dollar and sixty cents. From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was only sixteen francs apiece for Bill and me, with ten per cent added for the service, and we had the bags sent down and waited for Robert Cohn. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “Now I really don’t understand. Why don’t you sell your mess halls the eggs for seven cents apiece instead of for five cents apiece?” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Dasch splurged on a new wristwatch, and even bought a new handkerchief for twenty-five cents despite already having one. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z There was no one hundred per cent sure way not to have a baby, it said in an article my mother cut out of the Reader's Digest and mailed to me at college. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z After my ham sandwich, pie, and coffee, I put fifty-five cents on the table and stepped back outside. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The boys closed at eighty cents and gave him an I.O.U. which he probably still has. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But not eighty-three dollars and sixty-two cents better. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z I was a virgin; I wasn't one hundred per cent sure how sex worked. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z With no gas stations, owners had to lug five-gallon fuel cans to local drugstores, filling them for 60 cents a gallon and hoping the pharmacist wouldn’t substitute benzene for gasoline. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Which meant there was a 98 per cent chance that Salim had emerged from the pod in disguise. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z They could eat something today, if they had seventy-five cents now. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Twenty cents weekly insurance premium had to come out of that. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In contrast, a chemical that would produce 90 per cent sterility would leave only 12 5 insects alive. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Instead, tuning itself is now defined in terms of equal-temperament, with tunings and intervals measured in cents. Understanding Basic Music Theory 2018-01-28T00:00:00Z We went to the store to get change and Larry Dunn got back the fifty cents he lost and I got to keep the other fifty that got hooked up with Larry’s. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z He passed a bakery and wanted to go in and buy some rolls with the seven cents he had. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “I give her her fifteen cents already today,” Mrs. Cripe said. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z She figured that would be a good business deal: skates, mitt, doll and all the other things for fifty cents. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z More money was required to continue their treatment, and Granny gave my mother three hundred cents. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z After I had gone through the sheet music twice, I moved to the glassware and then the records; Henry bought a garden hoe for twenty-five cents. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Beans were twelve and a half cents a pound and hard to find. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Not a cent. I have no job. I just applied for a permit to look for a job yesterday.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Frieda bought potato chips, and we got three Powerhouse bars for ten cents, and had a dime left. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z They’re just starting up and the stock is going for fifty cents a share.” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The Greek behind the counter said the price was sixty cents, so that when he had paid he was left with only a nickel. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z If all eighteen indeed died violently, it means that about 4.5 per cent of deaths in the ancient Danube Valley were caused by human violence. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z “Please, Bryson, can I borrow”—he looked at the price—“four dollars and seventy-nine cents? I’m broke.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The Indians’ contracts called for seven hours’ work for about twenty-four cents a day. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z She took long bus rides to faraway department stores and supermarkets where she’d window-shop for hours and spend fifty cents. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Her family desperately needed that seventy-five cents that she earned each day. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z |
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