| 单词 | piastre |
| 例句 | For generations, Egypt's government has fed the public by distributing subsidized flour to bakeries, which sell bread for as little as 5 piastres a loaf, less than one U.S. cent. Egypt's Sisi scores early success with smart cards for bread subsidies 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z My landlord invariably gives me too little change for a piastre, and when I tell him of it, he coolly fetches the remainder. Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland 2012-04-07T02:00:33.707Z Their pay is eighty piastres a month, with rations of bread for themselves and of barley for their animals, but the pay is often nine months in arrear, or they receive it in depreciated paper. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z De Lisle again plundered St. Jago, and obtained 2,500 piastres ransom, each of his adventurers secured 300 crowns, the Spaniards abandoning20 the defiles and carrying off their treasure to Conception. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z The divers eventually recovered 2000 pounds' worth of it, some "in plate" and others in piastres, that had melted into large lumps, together with many silver hilts of swords and other valuables. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume II (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:10.880Z That from the day on which my said term of eight years' service begins, my wages shall be paid at the rate of four Spanish piastres monthly. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume III (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-04T03:00:31.713Z "Here, let this dry your tears," I went on: and enjoying the suppressed rage of Abdullah my camel-man, I raised the weeping beggar from the ground and gave him a handful of piastres. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z As, however, a great number of these entails exceed 200 piastres, these oppressive restrictions still weigh upon four-fifths of the land, notwithstanding the above-mentioned laws. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z To him who took a prisoner who brought tidings, 100 piastres, besides his share. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z The piastre is the same as our five-cent piece or nickel. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z I have not the smallest idea what "yasdin me" means, but I pretend to write it down and then say: "How many piastres was it?" By Desert Ways to Baghdad 2011-12-18T03:00:22.240Z "I will give you a thousand piastres," I said. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Every adult male native is obliged to pay annually one Spanish piastre, or to give five days' labour for their repair. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z To him who lost one leg or one arm, 500 piastres, or six slaves. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z The 100 piastre bill is worth five dollars. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z It is the Catholic king's custom to pay one thousand piastres a cannon; so a vessel of eight cannon costs him eight thousand piastres. The History of Cuba, vol. 2 2011-10-11T02:01:01.423Z Not far off lay an Egyptian piastre, but it was the "dime" which thrilled me. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z Up to the year 1851, when the last good vintage occurred, the price of a pipe varied from 12 to 14 Spanish piastres. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z For both eyes, 200 piastres, or two slaves.117 For the loss of a finger, 100 piastres, or one slave. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z Inasmuch as many of the prices sound large and important when quoted in piastres, the dealers have learned to demand English pounds sterling or American dollars. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z "A captain of cavalry," said I, slipping him the twenty-five piastre note. Caught by the Turks 2011-09-09T02:01:01.073Z "Five hundred piastres," he replied, leaving generous room for the beating down process. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z In the following year, when it was unusually productive, the price declined to 80 piastres. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z To him who struck the enemy's flag, and planted the Buccaneers', fifty piastres, besides his share. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z That is, they name their first prices in sovereigns and dollars and then gradually work down to piastres. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z The merchandise in Lavelia was estimated in value at a million and a half of piastres. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z "Do not give him one piastre: he is lying," muttered the beggar. Lord John in New York 2012-01-04T03:00:30.077Z In 1848 the cost of producing a pipe of Madeira amounted to from 12 to 40 Spanish piastres. Narrative of the Circumnavigation of the Globe by the Austrian Frigate Novara, Volume I (Commodore B. Von Wullerstorf-Urbair,) Undertaken by Order of the Imperial Government in the Years 1857, 1858, & 1859, Under the Immediate Auspices of His I. and R. Highness the Archduke Ferdinand Maximilian, Commander-In-Chief of the Austrian Navy. 2012-01-02T03:00:25.873Z To him who lost two arms, 800 piastres, or eighteen slaves. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z Not knowing the ropes, we engaged a carriage at 100 piastres to take us from the city out to the plateau. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z The gold and silver found there amounted only to 15,000 piastres. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z To this end I gave Abdul ten piastres and sent him out to buy me some tobacco. Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 2011-08-09T02:00:23.527Z Your comrades have not left me a piastre. The Castle of Andalusia A Comic Opera, in Three Acts 2011-07-09T02:00:12.740Z To him who lost an eye, 100 piastres, or one slave. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z The silver five piastre piece resembles our quarter and has the same value. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z With the plunder, and what was obtained for ransom of the town, it is said the Flibustiers carried away a million of piastres, besides a number of slaves and prisoners. History of the Buccaneers of America 2011-08-19T02:00:13.187Z He arrived back in about an hour with two tins worth each eight piastres. Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 2011-08-09T02:00:23.527Z Let his fellows grumble and objurgate, said he; they would cringe to him when he became a dragoman, with his pockets stuffed with piastres. A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z A wound requiring an issue, was recompensed with 500 piastres, or five slaves. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z "When he got through with me he stung me for fifteen piastres." In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z For all this accommodation, I paid three hundred and fifty piastres—about three pounds sterling—and this was a higher rent than would be paid by any native. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, vol 1-98, 1850-1899 None 2011-06-27T02:01:02.870Z Then to crown the performance he produced two piastres change. Punch, or The London Charivari, Vol. 150, May 31, 1916 2011-08-09T02:00:23.527Z I suggested to the Turkish officer in charge that he should hire a peasant to be examined on our behalf, and offered to pay the man ten piastres for his courtesy. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z The surgeon received 200 piastres, besides his share. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z After a half-hour of haggling he had cut it to 7 piastres, or 35 cents, and the deal was consummated. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z So I took a large heap of piastres, and put them into the hands of Madame de Trafford that she might give them to the women. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Ibrahim Pasha listened to his story, and bestowing on him a few piastres, said, “After seven days come to me.” The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z The pay of a Turkish private is, or was, ten piastres a month, nominally about one shilling and eightpence. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z The Spaniards, already half-beggared, disagreed about the ransom; the bolder and the more avaricious refused to pay a piastre, the old, the timid, and the more generous preferred poverty to such a loss. The Monarchs of the Main, Volume I (of 3) Or, Adventures of the Buccaneers 2012-01-23T03:00:11.530Z The significance of the "six dollars" is that every traveller who wishes to visit the antiquities must pay a government tax of 120 piastres. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z I had shovelled piastres into my pockets by handfuls till I was quite weighed down. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z Thus for two piastres we have seen him provided with milk, butter, and bread—three staple commodities—and the additional luxury of fresh-laid eggs. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z Enter: Gorgeous official, Interpreter with a mean, shifty face, and other incompetent perverts who look as though they were “walking on” for five piastres a performance. A Prisoner in Turkey 2011-05-28T02:00:23.023Z The mint supplies coins in four denominations: five, 10 and 50 piastres and one Egyptian pound. Mubarak's downfall threatens Royal Mint's coinage contract in Egypt 2011-02-13T00:05:57Z If you want it for a toy, ten piastres is an outside price. Here and Hereafter 2011-02-07T03:00:23.580Z So I began to give a handful of piastres to one woman and another, all without counting; even to the children Madame de Trafford desired me to give also. Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 2011-03-20T02:00:26.607Z You are then ushered into a room splendidly furnished; mirrors and chandeliers, tables and chairs, pictures and divans, all in profusion, and the commonest article in the room worth at least one thousand piastres. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z "Listen to me," I said, as I gave her a piastre. Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z This is Regeb, and I wanted to ask of thee—but I feared—I wanted to ask of thee four piastres, to buy meat and bread and oil and radishes. The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments Sugars, coffees, cottons, rum, tobacco, and other articles of native produce, are exported every year to the value of several millions of piastres. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas The native piastre is nothing to him when American gold is in sight. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Missionary establishments are supported by voluntary contributions, and the annual revenue or income of these institutions, consisting of millions of piastres, is expended in supporting missionaries and schools at home and abroad. The Thistle and the Cedar of Lebanon 2011-02-20T03:00:13.767Z The cheapest rate we obtained for eggs was eight for a piastre, or four a penny, whereas when the gendarmes had their own way we had to pay a penny for each. A Kut Prisoner The price of a coat of mail fluctuates from two hundred to fifteen hundred piastres.... The Thousand and One Nights, Vol. I. Commonly Called the Arabian Nights' Entertainments This was considerably cheaper than the rents of many previous years, when shops were let at 100, 200, and sometimes 600 piastres per month. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas Rare pieces are sold around the hotel for a few piastres. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise "I shall confess dat is dear; two hundred piastres is de preis—Rusca would have said four hundred to begin mit." Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 368, June 1846 When we first arrived, there was a small amount of silver money in circulation, the smallest notes which were just being introduced being 20 and 5 piastres—3s. 4d. and 10d. in ordinary times. A Kut Prisoner Yesterday there was recovered by means of divers and pincers, 13 silver coins, being Spanish piastres, 1 gold Louis d'or, 5 brass hoops and casks, and a quantity of cannon and shot. The Book of Buried Treasure Being a True History of the Gold, Jewels, and Plate of Pirates, Galleons, etc., which are sought for to this day Milk, having at first cost one piastre the bottle, had fallen to two shillings, one shilling, and, finally, sixpence. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas Meantime, his wife is earning money for the trip by knitting the coarse socks which he sells around the station at Reyak at a few piastres a pair. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Pieces of five and ten piastres value were also coined, as well as a few single piastre pieces, on one side of which was stamped the Toghra, and on the other the word "Omdurman." Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 Not long afterwards, these were followed by 2½ and 1 piastre notes, which carried pictures of the Dardanelles and Kut on the back, Kut being quite unrecognizable. A Kut Prisoner One, �, 1⁄5 and 1⁄10 piastre pieces are coined in nickel and 1⁄20 and 1⁄40 piastre pieces in bronze. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The washing of a dozen articles of linen cost five piastres; a bottle of champagne, five piastres; and the cleaning of a pair of boots, two shillings. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas Here the traveller's pocket is a medley of francs, lire, crowns, piastres, drachmas, marks, and American coins of various denominations. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Thieves and smugglers purchased the bad dollars at 10 piastres apiece, and then, of course, every description of bribery and corruption was practised. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 Notes had been issued down to 1 piastre and below this postage stamps were used. A Kut Prisoner The one piastre piece is worth a fraction over 2�d. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" The "Lady Mary Wood" then took them on board, and a reward of 400 piastres was instantly paid over to the master of the junk, in acknowledgment of his humanity. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas I scraped together all I had left—a few piastres—and handed them to him and turned quickly away. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise Egyptian piastres and half-piastres, introduced by the Hicks Expedition, are occasionally seen. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 If it would have been a daughter, the smaller price is charged, the father receiving the full price for the child and his eight hundred piastres for the murdered wife. Oriental Women The 1⁄40 of a piastre is popularly called a para and the native population generally reckon in paras. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" A pound of potatoes was not purchaseable at less than one shilling, and eggs cost from three to six piastres the dozen. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas Here and there we stooped to inspect, and we bought a water-jar for a piastre—an Egyptian piastre, which is really money and worth exactly five cents. The Ship Dwellers A Story of a Happy Cruise But gradually silver became dear, and the Mint began coining bad dollars, made of two parts silver to three parts copper; consequently the value of the old dollar has now gone up to 25 piastres. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 Three thousand piastres, or about one hundred and twenty dollars, is regarded as a good price to pay for a wife. Oriental Women Their place has been taken by foreign gold, principally the English sovereign, which circulates at a value of 97� piastres. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" In the early days of San Francisco, one piastre would scarcely pay for the most simple repast without wine. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas A man in Upper Egypt stole a cow from a widow, and having killed it, he cut it into twenty pieces, which he sold for a piastre each in the bazaar. Visits To Monasteries in the Levant Hundreds of oaths are taken every day in the market court on the smallest trifle, perhaps not exceeding a piastre. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 If the woman be married, the husband's damage is measured at eight hundred piastres and a silk dress. Oriental Women Currency �1 = 20 shillings or 180 copper piastres. Notes on Agriculture in Cyprus and Its Products Some gain five piastres per diem, others ten, twelve, and upwards. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas You know I cannot pay you a single piastre! Graham's Magazine, Vol XXXIII, No. 6, December 1848 Although they have scarcely ever owned a piastre in their lives, the shining dollar has excited the most inordinate cupidity amongst them. Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892 "It is so," said Ali; "within an hour the hundred thousand piastres shall be in thy hands." The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries "Six thousand piastres!" echoed the Jew, whose astonishment stopped short at the sum, without any regard for the great names I had hurled at him. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas It was possible to hire a furnished room for forty piastres per month, the value of a piastre being about four and twopence. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas The formalities of registration were completed, then the Americans went to the cashier and exchanged dollars for Egyptian pounds and coins in units called piastres. The Egyptian Cat Mystery An artful builder, patent king Of all the local building ring, Who was there like him in the quarter For mortifying brick and mortar, Or pocketing the odd piastre By substituting lath and plaster? The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. XXII (of 25) Juvenilia and Other Papers On that ship I have deposited five millions of piastres in gold—not less than five millions. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Without pretending to minute accuracy, I should guess the sum at something like seven hundred thousand piastres,—this, exclusive of certain claims for compensation usual in cases of inquiry. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas Mutton was sold at one piastre per pound, and veal at half a piastre. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas He paid his piastres at the entrance and walked into the huge entrance hall, very conscious of the kitten in his pocket. The Egyptian Cat Mystery "Antelope of the western horizon," she said, to a surly onlooker, "I will give you three piastres and a French halfpenny if you have ze goodness to tell me if this is ze Ryde steamer." Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 98, January 25th, 1890 With the five millions of piastres they must get ships, and these ships they must fully equip in secret. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Here are some eight or ten thousand piastres,—and here, fully as much more for you. Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas On the other hand, salmon was plentiful, and sold in all the markets at one piastre per pound. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas Rick produced some piastres and paid their entrance fee. The Egyptian Cat Mystery At times some former soldier or officer of the Egyptian Khedive gave him a few piastres or a few dried figs, and promised to aid him on the following day. In Desert and Wilderness He, however, is Tepelenti's grandson, who has recognized him and ransomed him from me for a hundred thousand piastres, which he has engaged to pay me within an hour. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries Nay, I will even take her without a single piastre, to prove it.' The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 25, January 1893 An Illustrated Monthly This fire cost us more than four thousand piastres, since we rescued nothing from our stock. A Lady's Captivity among Chinese Pirates in the Chinese Seas After we had exchanged our pure Spanish piastres, which is the coin they most prefer, for such things as we needed, the traffic with the sailors commenced. Hair Breadth Escapes Perilous incidents in the lives of sailors and travelers in Japan, Cuba, East Indies, etc., etc. And Gebhr began to dream of whole herds of camels, horned cattle, and bags full of piastres. In Desert and Wilderness But there was one thing they could not deny—the five million piastres on the English ship; this was the most damaging piece of evidence against them, and proved to be their ruin. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries I have just had a quantity of rice cleaned, for doing which, previously to the plague I gave a piastre and a half, and now I have given six piastres. Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 “My master will demand the execution of capital punishment upon all the leaders, and an indemnity of ten million piastres.” The Traitors Nonsense it may be, but these fellows do know something—— Give him that five piastre piece that looks like a large shilling and listen to his quaint expressive English. Round the Wonderful World The last two are illegal, but still scrupulously collected to the piastre. General Gordon A Christian Hero His treasures were piled up in the red tower—more than thirty millions of piastres. The Lion of Janina The Last Days of the Janissaries The man who sold cotton for burying the dead, the price of which he raised from 45 to 95 piastres, and who lived only two doors from us, died yesterday. Journal of a Residence at Bagdad During the Years 1830 and 1831 The price the extortionate tailor charges, is some thirty piastres. The Strange Adventures of Mr. Middleton The danger was great, he knew; but then, if he came back alive, he would be the possessor of eighty thousand piastres. The Olive Fairy Book No matter how they make a few piastres, the dragoman of some Bey or Pasha will steal it for his master. General Gordon A Christian Hero Gustavus of Sweden was eager to invade France with a Swedish army to be conveyed in Russian ships, and paid for in Mexican piastres, and with Bouillé by his side. Lectures on the French Revolution Thursday, 16th.—The clothes' bazar attracted our curiosity to-day, where, in a few minutes, a person may be rigged out, either à la Turque, or as an Armenian, the whole dress costing about 270 piastres. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 "Only about two hundred piastres," was the somewhat startling answer, for, at the then current rate of exchange a piastre was worth about $1.50 gold. Where the Strange Trails Go Down Sulu, Borneo, Celebes, Bali, Java, Sumatra, Straits Settlements, Malay States, Siam, Cambodia, Annam, Cochin-China Three or four hundred persons had met their deaths in this convulsion of nature, and the damage done was estimated at several millions of piastres. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century The Gyppies come to light with some booze—filth it was, I bet—an' we both has some, an' you pays 'em about twenty piastres fer it. The Tale of a Trooper The price of wool was more than quadrupled, and in 1833 there was sold for above 170 piastres the hundredweight what in 1816 cost but forty piastres. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 From 30 to 100 piastres is the usual price demanded, but it differs according to the length, size, and fineness of the bark; and dark-coloured sticks are preferred to those which are lighter. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 He spoke to the man who had purchased the youth, and he said he had paid 600 piastres. Diaries of Sir Moses and Lady Montefiore, Volume I Comprising Their Life and Work as Recorded in Their Diaries From 1812 to 1883 "Give him a piastre, my boy; we shall meet with others in want, and you must reserve something for them." Adventures of a Young Naturalist They duly noted his salient pronouncements, rewarded him with a few piastres and "imshi yallah'ed" in duet when he demanded more. The Tale of a Trooper But, noble as he was, he wanted too many piastres—twopence-halfpenny a head too much for each donkey, with its rider. The Bertrams The price varies between four and ten piastres the oke, of two pounds and three quarters English; it is also sold in bales of ten okes each, at the same rate. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 A Spanish silver coin: one-fifth of a piastre. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. As a glass of water, with a handful of millet, was but a poor dinner for famished people, my father bought two kids, which they would not give him under twenty piastres. Thrilling Narratives of Mutiny, Murder and Piracy A weird series of tales of shipwreck and disaster, from the earliest part of the century to the present time, with accounts of providential escapes and heart-rending fatalities. Mac refrained from this indulgence, not that he was a conscientious objector, but, alas, he had no piastres wherewith to beguile the hours. The Tale of a Trooper No sooner was the vessel pushed off into the stream, than the noble reis declared that necessity compelled him to demand the number of piastres originally named by him. The Bertrams Her proprietor was a rich man, and could afford to wait until some one consented to put down the 2500 piastres at which he valued her. Journal of a Visit to Constantinople and Some of the Greek Islands in the Spring and Summer of 1833 The furs which had been collected upon the American coasts were sold at Macao for ten thousand piastres. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century It costs an immense sum of money to effect the whole, in some cases as much as 100,000 piastres. The Greville Memoirs A Journal of the Reigns of King George IV and King William IV, Vol. I About twenty thousand negroes are annually brought to Brazil; the average price of a female is three hundred, and of a man six hundred piastres. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 The poor reis picked himself up, and picked up also his turban, which had been knocked off, and said not a word more about the piastres. The Bertrams Payments were made in the local currency—the Egyptian pound of 100 piastres being equal to £1 0s. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Upon this occasion the Spaniards estimated their loss at one and a half million piastres. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century Basili took his with an awkward show of regret at my intended departure, and marched away to his quarters with his bag of piastres. The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 While the Royal Family remained below in the cabin, their attendants were engaged on deck in purchasing from our sailors all sorts of old clothes for a hundred times their value, in Spanish piastres. A New Voyage Round the World in the Years 1823, 24, 25, and 26. Vol. 1 She had not allowed Mr. M'Gabbery so much as to lay out on her behalf a single piastre for oranges on the road. The Bertrams There was a smaller coin—a millieme—equal to one-tenth of a piastre. The 28th: A Record of War Service in the Australian Imperial Force, 1915-19, Vol. I Egypt, Gallipoli, Lemnos Island, Sinai Peninsula Two servants and an intendant came to the carriage, and the postillion received eight piastres for his human freight. The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851 We have our pride as you have, even if we do work for the rich English for the piastres they pay. In the Mahdi's Grasp The Greek was profuse in his thanks, especially when the lieutenant, to exhibit the magnanimity of his captors, presented him with a bottle of rum and a few piastres. The Three Midshipmen But the hubbub about the missionary's piastres rose higher than all the other hubbubs. The Bertrams The Roman court of justice has set a price of 10,000 piastres on his head. The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas I could not get a piastre for my trouble and expense. The Boy Slaves He does not treat the sick and wounded to be paid in piastres, or to receive gifts, but because he loves to cure the suffering.” In the Mahdi's Grasp There’s a price of ten thousand piastres on his head. Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek "I want a thousand piastres," said the pirate. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 19 — Travel and Adventure The Muscat ships brought piastres and gum-arabic; those from the Isle of France, wine, olive-oil, vinegar, hams, cheese, soap, common trinkets, and ebony. Old Jack Having made two hundred piastres by that transaction, he was anxious to trade you out of these others, and make a few hundred more. The Boy Slaves I have been much with the wise men from Europe, and it has been pleasant to my soul to take their piastres to make my tribe richer every year. In the Mahdi's Grasp I bet you’ve got a snug little pile of piastres stowed away somewhere.” Picked up at Sea The Gold Miners of Minturne Creek I paid a hundred and nineteen pounds and eighty-five piastres for it. Paul Patoff The Americans brought kerseymeres, cloths, hats, gold-wire, silver-galloon, stationery, wine, beer, Seltzer water, provisions, and piastres; in exchange for spices, sugar, arrack, tea, coffee, rice, rushes, and Chinese silk and porcelain. Old Jack But even in Circassia an Englishman has been known to pay for a wife "three hundred and twenty-five pieces of cotton cloth," valued there at upwards of six thousand piastres. Life of Schamyl And Narrative of the Circassian War of Independence Against Russia We must go as merchants, and you will need your piastres to buy enough for a little caravan of such things as will be welcome in the enemy’s camp. In the Mahdi's Grasp He was questioning me as to Turkish methods of taxation: population of a province so many—piastres per head of population so many—what was the precise value of the piastre? Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile No path among the rocks, and all of us angry at Shaikh Yusuf for saving himself the few piastres by conducting us among such difficulties. Byeways in Palestine Well, here it is; you can take it to him; and you will receive the piastres, and the horse, and the arms that he has promised to whosoever shall slay me. Wisdom, Wit, and Pathos of Ouida Selected from the Works of Ouida In 1795 the Americans concluded peace with the Algerians by the payment of half a million piastres, and an annual tribute of 24,000 piastres. The Pirate City An Algerine Tale “A piastre, and a drink of the fire water,” replied the vizier. The Pacha of Many Tales You have to be somewhat of an arithmetician to think one week in piastres and the next in dinars, and the next in crowns, and the next in marks. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 It may, therefore, be acceptable to learn what was our contract, and that it was honourably acted upon—namely, three of the party to pay 1000 piastres each, and 200 each for all the rest. Byeways in Palestine Know you not, girl, that I have there lost property to the value of many thousand piastres? The Pirate of the Mediterranean A Tale of the Sea If he undertakes to be your guide, he will lose his life sooner than see you robbed of a single piastre.” Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor She moreover offered fifty piastres in silver coin for minor expenses; and a chain for the neck, from which there should be suspended one gold tomaun of Persia. The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan "How much do you expect to get for this?" said a Hungarian banker surveying a bulky packet of Turkish piastres. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 A hundred piastres came to rather less than a pound sterling. Byeways in Palestine One hundred thousand piastres will be about five thousand pounds—I don’t know whether my credit will be good for that amount?” Tom Finch's Monkey and How he Dined with the Admiral Don’t you see, sir, that he is going back empty, and every piastre you pay him is great profit. Yussuf the Guide The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor "Indeed, they are, your eminence; famous beauties of pure Circassian descent; each originally cost five thousand piastres, and they surpass the remainder even as the mighty sun doth the twinkling stars." Jack Harkaway's Boy Tinker Among The Turks Book Number Fifteen in the Jack Harkaway Series So the piastres remained together with provincial French notes and small denominations of dinars and what-not, nominally worth something somewhere, but in fact unsaleable. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 But then I only add my ten thousand piastres to the amount of my debt. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Their learned books are waste paper, used to wrap up cheese or dates, and I was told that one high official had bought thirty volumes of French literature for 50 piastres. Martyred Armenia Oh! oh!" said the prudent Vanderdendur to himself, "this stranger gives ten thousand piastres unhesitatingly! Candide Within a week of our arrival you could buy both commodities in the shops at about twenty piastres and five piastres per lb. respectively. With Our Army in Palestine You change some money to piastres at a small booth, and your pocket is at once picked—a common experience. Europe—Whither Bound? Being Letters of Travel from the Capitals of Europe in the Year 1921 I am not over fond of paying two millions of piastres, or even half, for one whose shadow never fell upon my threshold. Tancred Or, The New Crusade You take the water and you pay them five piastres.' Oriental Encounters Palestine and Syria, 1894-6 "Ay!" said the skipper to himself, "this man agrees to pay twenty thousand piastres with as much ease as ten." Candide And as soon as she sees that Ali Higg's pretensions don't amount to a row of shucks I wouldn't give ten piastres for that gentleman's lease of life! The Lion of Petra Upon all these counts he was called upon to pay the price of the young man's life; and this, being eighty piastres, was accordingly exacted.' Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 439 Volume 17, New Series, May 29, 1852 Ten thousand piastres in coin are a very different affair. Tancred Or, The New Crusade The moment you come to articles de luxe from England or France, then, indeed, you must reckon in dollars, or even piastres, for it sounds too overwhelming in rupees. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 22. October, 1878. Returning a little while after, he let him know that upon second consideration, he could not undertake the voyage for less than twenty thousand piastres. Candide To him the Pasha said, "I shall exact from you thirty thousand piastres, and retain you a prisoner three years." History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. There was no regular traffic in them, 'both purchases and sales being conducted in private, and the usual price for one of either sex was from five to six hundred piastres.' Roumania Past and Present If I could screw up a few thousand piastres for backsheesh,' and he looked Eva in the face, 'or could put anything in his way! Tancred Or, The New Crusade Congress, anxious to please the new ruler, whose power of domination had already become so evident, had allotted to His Excellency the Dictator an annual allowance of 9,000 piastres. South America "I do not believe it at all," said Martin; "you will, perhaps, with these piastres only render them the more unhappy." Candide Wheat is now 400 piastres the ardeb up here; the little loaf, not quite so big as our penny roll, costs a piastre—about three-half-pence—and all in proportion. Letters from Egypt The annual tribute was, however, raised and consisted of 11,000 piastres, forty falcons, and forty mares in foal, 'all by way of present.' Roumania Past and Present It will be as good as ten thousand piastres. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Let him have a kick and no piastre. Bella Donna A Novel The criers promised a gratuity of thirty piastres to every soldier who hastened to range himself beneath the banner, and two piastres a day over and above the usual pay. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul Mustapha agrees and gives above 300 purses—about £1,000 in current piastres on the understanding that he is to get the money from Government in tariff—and to keep the difference as his profit. Letters from Egypt The amounts arc stated in piastres, which he says were then worth 2 fr. Roumania Past and Present And I see little prospect of my success; nor do I think ten thousand piastres, however honestly gained, will be more tempting than the inclination to oblige our house.' Tancred Or, The New Crusade Any man with a steady nerve And a ready hand, who knew how to obey, In those stern times might well deserve His fifty piastres daily pay. Successful Recitations It contains five thousand piastres, so that if ever I visit you again I may find you in better circumstances. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul “Take from me then five hundred piastres and bring the person that gave thee the veil to receive the money.” Letters from Egypt Pavlovitch explained that somehow four groschen worked out to more than four piastres; but we left her to calculate what fractions of a centime she had gained. The Luck of Thirteen Wanderings and Flight through Montenegro and Serbia I was obliged to agree to meet him at Gaza on the new moon, pay him his two hundred thousand piastres, and receive the cargo. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Revenue.—The taxes of the province produce annually about 9,135,000 piastres, taking the piastre at 2d. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels Consequently when he now found himself the possessor of five thousand piastres, he was very much puzzled as to what he should do with such a large amount. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul I expended 160 piastres on bread, butter and vinegar, etc. and the sheep was worth two napoleons; three napoleons in all, or less—for I ate for two days of the mutton. Letters from Egypt The Protestant women agree either to attend this Sewing Society, or pay a piastre a week in case of their absence. The Women of the Arabs What could the great Sheikh want five hundred thousand piastres for? Tancred Or, The New Crusade Ten piastres a day, or twenty pence, is what is usually paid them by those who make use of their services. Herzegovina Or, Omer Pacha and the Christian Rebels But a beggarly five thousand piastres would not go very far in that direction. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul Omar got £10 by the sale of old wood and nails, and also gave me 2000 piastres, nearly £12, which the workmen had given him as a sort of backsheesh. Letters from Egypt We look over the side of the steamer and see that his boat is large and clean and agree to take it for twelve piastres or fifty cents for all of us and our baggage. The Women of the Arabs The magic signature of Lord Montacute settled the long-vexed question of the five thousand muskets, and secured also ten thousand piastres for the commander of the escort to deliver to his chief. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Turning the conversation, he said I must change all his Tunisian piastres into dollars; which I shall certainly not do. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government Meanwhile Gül-Bejáze had made the two piastres go as far as they could, and had supper all ready for him. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul The sailors who got forty to fifty piastres five years ago now get three to five hundred piastres a month. Letters from Egypt The great thing with the sheiks who keep them is the piastres they make from the visitors. The Women of the Arabs Daughter of my blood, let there not be strife between us; give me a million piastres, and a hundred camels to the widow of Sheikh Salem, and take the brother of the Queen.' Tancred Or, The New Crusade My informant made me pay three Tunisian piastres and two common handkerchiefs for a vocabulary of the language of the Tibboos of Tibesty. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government I searched for you everywhere for two whole days after you left me, for I wanted to give you back the five thousand piastres which you were fool enough to make me a present of. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul If you want to pay a substitute for a beloved or delicate son, it costs 1,000 piastres—600 at the lowest; and about 300 to 400 for his food. Letters from Egypt When a man lies or steals or does anything else that is wicked, he pays a few piastres to the priest, who gives him what they call absolution or forgiveness. The Women of the Arabs The foreign consuls have stopped my civil war, which cost me a hundred thousand piastres. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Then he quarrelled with us all, because he picked up a blanket for somebody and was refused his modest demand of three piastres as a reward. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government Those five thousand piastres of yours are the cause of it; they have ruined me out and out. Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul Big stout Hazazin owes me 200 piastres which he is to work out, so I have still five men and a boy to get. Letters from Egypt And if he be convicted of the crime, he is released on paying to the relatives of the victim the price of blood, which is fixed at 13,000 piastres, or $520! The Women of the Arabs I dreamt last night that there would many piastres pass between us this visit.' Tancred Or, The New Crusade A man who had gone to fetch the blacksmith, and found him not, demanded payment of two Tunisian piastres. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government "Who else, I should like to know, would have given me five thousand piastres for three red onions?" Halil the Pedlar A Tale of Old Stambul I gave her a double piastre, and asked for its value in blue-glass armlets. The English Gipsies and Their Language A rich Effendi had divorced his wife the third time, and wishing to re-marry her, hired a poor man to marry her for a consideration of seven hundred piastres. The Women of the Arabs Truly, I would give a thousand piastres if I could save my head by taking the capitani to your mountains.' Tancred Or, The New Crusade I gave him two loaves of bread and a Tunisian piastre, and also made him a profound bow, politely requesting him to go about his business. Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 1 Under the Orders and at the Expense of Her Majesty's Government I have seen some that, would weigh from 150 lbs. to 200 lbs. or more offered for sale at 300 Turkish piastres the dozen; in the neighbourhood of the Danube they fetch a little more. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 422 Volume 17, New Series, January 31, 1852 "You mean you don't give a piastre what I think?" The Palace of Darkened Windows The needles were briskly plied, and in due time, two hundred and fifty piastres were collected and forwarded to Aintab. The Women of the Arabs He has come from a far land merely to visit his race, a man who is a prince among the people, to whom piastres are as water. Tancred Or, The New Crusade They meet bearded and turbaned Arabs, who stalk majestically along, proud as Lucifer, even without a piastre in their purses—even women vailed as usual, wearing anklets, and with their nails stained with henna. Miss Caprice Unsuccessful in love!" she broke out, gleefully; "and the last piastre! The Pilot and his Wife "Not half a piastre," she confirmed, in flat defiance. The Palace of Darkened Windows A class of eight graduated, and the pupils contributed to benevolent objects of the fruits of their industry, over 1200 piastres, or about fifty dollars. The Women of the Arabs The thing is ridiculous, I never contemplated, for a moment, that the great Sheikh should take any hard piastres out of circulation, to lock them up in the wilderness. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Camels, a male and female, shall be sent in payment for that for which thou hast not paid one piastre. Desert Love "Nearly three hundred piastres!" he cried, clearing the garden in a succession of bounds. The Pilot and his Wife "You told me you didn't give a piastre for what I thought!" The Palace of Darkened Windows The safe was opened, and the money found to be almost to a piastre the amount needed for obligations of the School. The Women of the Arabs They would accept less, perhaps much less, than two millions of piastres.' Tancred Or, The New Crusade He is a bright, capable mozo, who would walk twenty miles on his hands to gain a piastre. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 He pronounced, in a word, for the right of the strongest, and for piastres, women, and freedom as the great objects of existence. The Pilot and his Wife "I said I didn't give half a piastre!" murmured Arlee irrepressibly, with a wicked dimple. The Palace of Darkened Windows Her dress is of brown satin, and on her arms are solid gold bracelets which cost 1400 piastres or fifty-six dollars. The Women of the Arabs If you want a million of piastres, shall it be said that Besso would not lend, perhaps give, them to the great Sheikh he loves? Tancred Or, The New Crusade The silver unit is the piastre, worth 4 cents of our currency, and silver coins of 1, 2, 5, 10 and 20 piastres are current. Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 "There's my last piastre for you," said Salvé, throwing it over to him. The Pilot and his Wife There were enough active little Arabs greedy for piastres to do that well and send back constant word to him. The Palace of Darkened Windows It costs a few piastres more to hire a baggage animal, but it is cheaper in the end. The Women of the Arabs But, you see, my father of fathers, piastres and this Frank stranger are not of the same leaven. Tancred Or, The New Crusade "The sequins of Lepanto and piastres of his holiness were not yet quite exhausted," replied Nignio. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 56, No. 345, July, 1844 She carried out her intention, and came home beaming, with a whole bagful of piastres. The Pilot and his Wife You do give a piastre for what I——" "I'm afraid I do. The Palace of Darkened Windows "A piastre, and a drink of the fire-water," replied the vizier. The Pacha of Many Tales Ask for four millions of piastres I He can raise them. Tancred Or, The New Crusade Mexico gent the widow's mite, 86 piastres; but empires in course of formation are always in rather embarrassed circumstances. The Moon-Voyage When Salvé absolutely refused to take more than his one piastre back again, there came actually a look of humble admiration into the señorita's eyes. The Pilot and his Wife Each negro that the Company could procure was let to it for 33-1/3 piastres, in pieces of India. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 65, March, 1863 The government value of a collonato is twenty piastres; in general exchange it is reckoned at twenty-two, and at the consulate’s at twenty-one piastres. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Name then at once, my daughter, the piastres that you will give; for the prince, the brother of queens, may to-morrow be dust.' Tancred Or, The New Crusade She could do no less than give 1,372,640 piastres, and she gave them with an ardour that betrayed, however, a certain pressure from the Government of the Porte. The Moon-Voyage After a moment's consideration she held out her hand and said— "Señor, give me the piastre you have in your hand, and I will give you another in return for it." The Pilot and his Wife Eight of the latter were equal to a paul, ten of which were equivalent to a piastre. What I Remember, Volume 2 The chief compartment of the cabin had been engaged for me, at an expense of 100 piastres. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy The father of this young noble is a great prince, and could doubtless pay, without serious injury to himself, two millions of piastres for the ransom of his son; but that's not it. Tancred Or, The New Crusade In three minutes one of them will climb in at the window, and engage with you for the five piastres. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 When her brother, who was balancing the piastre on his forefinger, laughingly translated what she had said, Salvé replied snappishly, with an impatient glance at the señorita— "I am not engaged, and never shall be." The Pilot and his Wife He can get through any law ever made if there's five piastres on the other side of it.' Letters of Travel (1892-1913) An innkeeper generally demands between thirty and forty piastres per diem for dinner and supper. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy I directed Mohammed to reward his services with a piastre, a small silver coin of the value of 2-1/2d.; and never, perhaps, did so trifling a sum of money produce so great an effect. Notes of an Overland Journey Through France and Egypt to Bombay They will ask ten piastres for a carriage—you will offer five. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 53, No. 331, May, 1843 When the steamer arrived there I was able to leave it without being seen; but not a piastre, not a dollar in my pocket! Dick Sand A Captain at Fifteen Accordingly, I had asked my coffee-house keeper to buy a hundred or so piastres. A Tramp's Sketches The Counts paid the two chiefs three hundred piastres, with the travelling expenses for themselves and their twelve men. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy She accosted him; and the offer of a few piastres at once procured a conveyance to Genoa, for thither was her companion bound. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 573, October 27, 1832 He repelled every advance, and, when I offered him a piastre, he refused it with a savage dignity, saying that he had money of his own and did not want mine. The Autobiography of a Journalist, Volume II A servant therefore was sent out to bring a boy by the offer of a piastre, and one was soon produced. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 19, No. 543, Saturday, April 21, 1832. At nearly two he made a collection and received many piastres and copecks, and the crowd who had listened to him began to disperse. A Tramp's Sketches The wine is very cheap; I bought a bottle containing about three pints for a piastre. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Here is where Byron swam the sea from Europe to Asia; and over there is where King Midas lived, whose touch turned piastres to napoleons, and flounders to goldfish. McClure's Magazine December, 1895 He then placed upon the table a large bag of piastres, which one of his slaves had brought. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 07 — Fiction Among others, he recapitulated a certain affair in which he and his friend Stradling had captured a Spanish galleon, laden with piastres. The Solitary of Juan Fernandez, or the Real Robinson Crusoe I have here ten thousand piastres—one thousand for each of you, or divide it how you like. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace My room, with attendance, only cost me three piastres per diem. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Mr. Shafrass counted out fifty thousand piastres for the lot; and the chief folded up his robes and silently departed. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 41, March, 1861 She could not do less than give 1,372,640 piastres; and she gave them with an eagerness which denoted, however, some pressure on the part of the government. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon She is in a gorgeous oriental costume; the black braided locks are twined with innumerable jewels; her dress is covered over with gold piastres. Vanity Fair "Deaf and dumb poor devil, earning a few piastres by working for the Intelligence." Jimgrim and Allah's Peace In the inn a bottle of water costs two piastres. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Indeed, we have never expected a piastre—no, not even a tlaco. Remember the Alamo It was the widow's mite— eighty-six piastres; but self-constituted empires are always rather short of money. From the Earth to the Moon; and, Round the Moon From these cases and from these barrels escaped ingots of gold and silver, cascades of piastres and jewels. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea He had not the eyes or the general air of a man who will part with ten piastres for nothing. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace So he returned me my piastre, and demanded four. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy The Government, seeing the advantages to be derived from this single article, offered to lend five hundred gold piastres to every colonist who would fit up a sugar-plantation. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 58, August, 1862 Give the bearer two hundred piastres and let him go. It Happened in Egypt In consequence of a series of dilapidations it now produces a nominal rent of fifteen piastres a year, which with certain other legacies is appropriated to the maintenance of cats. Concerning Cats My Own and Some Others If ever a man got ten piastres' worth of unexpected side-show it was that old Syrian with the alligator eyes. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace For this trifling service I gave him a piastre; but observing that I was alone, he probably thought he could soon intimidate me into giving whatever he demanded. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy I have seen a piastre and a half paid to a man for carrying a load the distance of five hundred yards from the shore to a house. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred I am sure your instructions must have said piastres.' Lord Kilgobbin They buy them for ready money at twenty to thirty piastres a head, and sell them two months afterwards at thirty to forty. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land "If you can tell me that I'll give you ten piastres," I answered. Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Thus, for instance, a bed for one night costs a hundred piastres, a little chicken twenty, and a bottle of water two piastres. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy Before the Turkish conquest, the usual currency at this market was dhourra; at present, piastres and paras are taken. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred And so, twirling his mustachios, and flinging down his piastre, the young Janissary strutted out of the coffee-house. The Rise of Iskander I found a good natured fellow, who for three piastres undertook to lead me to the spot. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land He died owing forty-five million piastres, which his dutiful son refused to pay. Castilian Days The distance was a thirty-six hours’ journey, the danger was said to be nil, and the expense they estimated at about 250 piastres. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy I bought from them a lamb for a few piastres and some tobacco, and divided it among our guides and those who accompanied us on foot. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred Here, boy, here is a piastre for you. The Rise of Iskander My landlord, however, removed this objection by making the guide take a solemn oath that he would never confess to having received more than six piastres for his trouble. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Yes, he was a count, with a pedigree as long as the Rialto, and he had not two silver piastres to rub against each other. The Yeoman Adventurer After receiving this answer, Count Zichy communicated with some Bedouin chiefs, who could not guarantee a safe journey, but nevertheless required 6000 piastres for accompanying him. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy One piastre equal to forty paras or diwanys, as they are called in the Hedjaz. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred The value of their largest freight amounts to about 2000 piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 I rose to eight piastres, but on his smiling, and shrugging up his shoulders at this, I rose, and declared that we would try our luck alone. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land The wealthy are supplied by the inland fort, which we shall presently visit: the distance going and coming would be about four slow hours, and the skinful costs five Khurdah, or copper piastres = three halfpence. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 But these worthies threw down the money, and demanded thirty piastres; whereas, if we had bargained with them at first, they would certainly not have asked ten. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy On these occasions, as much as one hundred piastres are sometimes given for the hire of a dress, worth altogether, perhaps, fifteen hundred or two thousand piastres. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred The latter has been known to vary from 4 to 30 piastres; it even fell, in 1808, below 24 reals. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Being satisfied that my cash was reduced to a few piastres, he began his plans for stripping me of every other part of my property which had excited his wishes. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land He shows his zeal by inventing obstacles; for instance, he suggests that the Bedawin should leave, during our journey, hostages at the fort: this is wholly unnecessary, and means only piastres. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 For every olive-tree the owner must pay a piastre, or a piastre and a half; and the same sum for an orange or lemon tree. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy The whole visit cost me about fifteen piastres, and I gave ten piastres to my cicerone; but I might, perhaps, have got through for half that sum. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred It results from this calculation that a slave now produces the value of 130 piastres of coffee, and 160 piastres of sugar. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Mine was worth nearly forty piastres, his was not worth more than ten. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land From El-Wijh, too, escape is hopeless: the richest would not give a piastre to levant; because, if a solitary traveller left the caravan, a Bedawi bullet would soon prevail on him to stop. The Land of Midian — Volume 2 It is said that the poorest seldom escape for less than four hundred piastres. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy After the departure of the fleet, when there is no immediate demand for dollars, the price falls; in January, 1815, it was at nine piastres. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred Two millions of piastres were employed to pay the land and sea forces which poured back from the American continent, by the Havannah, on their way to the Peninsula. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Had I been known to be an European, I certainly should not have been able to move without promising at least a thousand piastres to my guide. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Many years ago, an old widow body had been dunned into buying, for a few piastres, a ragged little manuscript from a pauper Maghrabi. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 Then he came down to three piastres, then to two, and finally said he would be content with one, which I threw to him. A Visit to the Holy Land, Egypt, and Italy The poorer delyls are contented with the fourth of a piastre. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred The land forces require nearly one million and a half of piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 August 20th.I remained in the tent of my new guide, who delayed his departure, in order to obtain from his friends some commissions for Cairo, upon which he might gain a few piastres. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Men must live; if not paid, they perforce pay themselves; and thus, of every hundred piastres, hardly thirty find their way into the treasury. The Land of Midian — Volume 1 If the emissary succeeded, it meant the Bedouin's life and five hundred piastres to the messenger. The Companions of Jehu The Bedouins, however, refuse to take the Egyptian piastres, even at a depreciation, and will receive nothing but dollars; a determination to which the Pasha himself has been frequently obliged to yield. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred The maintenance of 120 slaves and the expense of the manufacture amounted only to 12,000 piastres annually; the persons employed in the factoria cost 54,100 piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The four daughters were estimated at about three thousand piastres, and both parties seemed to be content. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Silence and desertion reign supreme, where of yore Bigot's heartless wassailers used to meet and gamble away King Louis's card money and piastres. Picturesque Quebec : a sequel to Quebec past and present She entrusted me with five piastres, "the whole fruit of her savings." Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 They gave proofs of great dexterity, often hitting a piastre, which I placed at about forty yards’ distance. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred The price varies from sixteen to twenty piastres the arroba. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 We settled the price of his hire to Cairo, at eighty piastres; and he was to provide me with a camel for myself and baggage. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land A tin cup filled with sea-water is placed before us, and we each drop six piastres into it--for money, strange as it may seem, is infectious. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain The mules, which are not fit for labour before the fifth year, are purchased on the spot at the price of fourteen or eighteen piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 In time of scarcity, or at the approach of the Hadj, from sixty to seventy piastres are paid. Travels in Arabia; comprehending an account of those territories in Hedjaz which the Mohammedans regard as sacred At present any of the inhabitants can seize the maroons and the proprietor of the slave pays four piastres per head, besides the food. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 They pay him an annual tribute of six thousand two hundred and fifteen piastres, in horses, cattle, &c. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land The last scene of our strange, eventful history with the katurgees had just transpired, by their deserting us, being two hundred piastres in our debt. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain The same indifference is evinced in the chase of the jaguar, a skin of which fetches only one piastre in the steppes of Varinas, while at Cadiz it costs four or five. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 How, then, could there be the slightest risk of the German paper money depreciating a single piastre in value? Crescent and Iron Cross Now, from 1797 to 1800, the price of a case of sugar was sometimes, mean value, forty piastres instead of twenty-four, which I was obliged to suppose in the calculation for the year 1825. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 I have heard of some who are possessed of property in cattle and cash to the amount of one hundred and fifty thousand piastres. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land The lame horse they palmed upon us was unable to go further, so we obliged them to buy another animal, which they succeeded in getting for 350 piastres. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain A camel, bought for thirty piastres, costs between eight and nine hundred before it reaches the coast of Caracas. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Gold is declared to be the standard currency, and no creditor is obliged to accept in payment of a debt more than 300 piastres in silver or fifty in nickel. Crescent and Iron Cross Some families are so opulent that Don Matheo de Pedroso, who died lately, left in landed property above two millions of piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The price of an Arabian camel is about two hundred and fifty piastres, that of an Armenian at Aleppo is twice as much. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land The man who sold them the horse offered them another for the lame one and 150 piastres, and there was no other alternative but to accept it. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain The proprietor of a plantation of fifty thousand trees often loses the value of more than four or five thousand piastres in cacao in one hour. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 To counteract that, as we have seen, a law was passed making it criminal to hoard gold, and, to complete the ruin, the silver piastre was called in, and a nickel token was substituted.... Crescent and Iron Cross The forts and new colonies, which figured only on the maps sent to Madrid, augmented the debt of the treasury of Santa Fe de Bogota, in 1789, to the sum of 1,200,000 piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The wool of their carpets, is of the ordinary kind; the carpets are about seven feet long and three broad, and sell from fifteen to one hundred piastres a piece. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land But we must advance the 150 piastres, and so, in mid-journey, we have already paid them to the end, with the risk of their horses breaking down, or they, horses and all, absconding from us. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain This much is certain, that the attempt at working the mine cost more than twelve thousand piastres in two years. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 He then placed a great bag of piastres, which had been brought hither by one of his slaves, upon the table. Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre The exportation of wax, according to the present price, amounts to about 500,000 of piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 One of the Turkmans was wounded, the loads were thrown down, and fifty camels driven away, worth about five hundred piastres apiece. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land The captain of the Osiris mustered the passengers together, and informed them that each one would be obliged to pay six piastres for the transportation of himself and his baggage. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain A torta weighs three quarters of a pound, and three tortas cost generally in the province of Caracas one silver rial, or one-eighth of a piastre. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 In short, the bag of piastres was emptied before she had considered her own wants; and she was obliged to receive a share of the presents which she had distributed to the family circle. Paul and Virginia from the French of J.B.H. de Saint Pierre The wants of the island, in European tissues, registered as exported to the port of the Havannah only, consequently exceeded, in these latter years, from four millions to four and a half millions of piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 In years when a very numerous caravan passes, pomgranates are sold at one piastre each, and every thing in the same proportion. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Abou-Anteeka asked five hundred piastres, and I, who had taken a particular fancy to possess it, offered him two hundred in an indifferent way, and then laid it aside to examine other articles. The Lands of the Saracen Pictures of Palestine, Asia Minor, Sicily, and Spain This work has cost more than thirty thousand piastres; but its waters gush out in every street. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 "Every drop of his blood is worth ten thousand piastres." The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction The exportation of tobacco, coffee, sugar and wax, by lawful and illicit means, amounts to fourteen millions of piastres, according to the actual price of those articles. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 Cairo to the Oasis of Jupiter Ammon, a journey of twelve days, undertaken in the summer of 1812, cost for guides only, four thousand piastres. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Basili took his with an awkward show of regret at my intended departure, and marched away to his quarters with his bag of piastres. The Life of Lord Byron The price of each jar at Angostura varies from two piastres to two and a half. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 They knew from Besso that the young English prince was fabulously rich, and, as they wanted arms, they meant to hold him to the extraordinary ransom of two million piastres. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 03 — Fiction An adult and acclimated slave is worth from four hundred and fifty to five hundred piastres; a bozal negro, adult, not acclimated, three hundred and seventy to four hundred piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 The two days excursion to the holy places cost me about forty piastres, or five dollars. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land The price of a camel varies from 60 to 200 piastres. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. He had acquired a fortune of more than 100,000 piastres, and yet he mounted on horseback with his feet bare, and wearing large silver spurs. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 If one is weak enough to give a piastre he is done for; the crowd increases, and the roars of the beggars with it. Round the World It is probable that a negro costs annually, in nourishment, clothing and medicine, forty-five to fifty piastres; consequently, with the interest of the capital, and deducting the holidays, more than twenty-two sous per day. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 June 1st.We rose before daylight, when the Djebalye made coffee, and then told me, that he could not think of accompanying me for less than sixty piastres. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Many good ones were sold at the camp for eighty piastres each, or about two pounds ten shillings, English money. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. A torta weighs three quarters of a pound, and three tortas cost generally in the province of Caracas one silver rial, or one-eighth of a piastre. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 I meanwhile continued to push my demand for the six million piastres claimed by British subjects in Syria. The Romance of Isabel Lady Burton Volume II In the year 1804, for instance, if the capital employed had been only 100,000 piastres, the raw produce, according to the value of sugar and rum, would have amounted to 94,000 piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 After a tedious bargain for the price of their pardon, they succeeded at last in obtaining it, on condition of paying one hundred thousand piastres into the Sultans treasury. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land A good sheep was disposed of for four or five piastres, or about three shillings. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. If the administrator find the tobacco well prepared, he pays the cultivator three piastres for the aroba of twenty-five pounds weight. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 There are no copper coins in Turkey proper, the smaller coins being what is called "metallic money," a composition of copper and silver, varying in value from a five-para piece to five piastres. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran "He will give him a thousand piastres," said one. The Duke's Prize; a Story of Art and Heart in Florence It varies from twenty to two thousand piastres a year, besides which, whenever the protector terminates an important business to the clients wishes, he expects some extraordinary reward. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land A horse in the extremities of nature, or near to the articulo mortis, was sold for a piastre, eight pence; a camel, in a like situation, was sold for a piastre and a half. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. It appears that till 1530 the value of the pearls sent to Europe amounted yearly on an average to more than eight hundred thousand piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 "Five piastres, Effendi," says the ticket-collector, as, after waiting till the crowd has passed the gang-plank, I follow with the bicycle and hand him my ticket. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume 1 From San Francisco to Teheran The youth returned soon with two bags filled at an expense of nine piastres. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 The vineyards are estimated at the exact number of vines they contain, and each vine, if of good quality, is worth one piastre. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land A tolerably good horse in Tunis sells at from 800 to 1000 piastres. Travels in Morocco, Volume 2. This land, if it be capable of artificial irrigation, costs five hundred piastres in the northern part of the province. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The best Jabali at Cairo costs about seven piastres the pound; after which a small sum must be paid to the Farram or chopper, who prepares it for use. 2nd. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 A little black boy, perfect in all his points, and tolerably intelligent, costs about a thousand piastres; girls are dearer, and eunuchs fetch double that sum. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 This dictionary may be worth in Syria eight hundred or a thousand piastres; but the convent would certainly not sell it for less than two thousand, besides a present to the bishop. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Even the Grand Turk sent us his piastres. Ulysses The same quantity is resold for the king's profit at twelve piastres and a half. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Properly speaking, the fee for a visit to a respectable man is 20 piastres, but with the rich patient you begin by making a bargain. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 Eggs, in summer 8, in winter 4, for the piastre. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 Every olive tree here is worth from fifteen to twenty piastres. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Arthur was prepared to offer his own piastres at once in case of need of immediate payment. A Modern Telemachus Before that period they were in the hands of Indian fishermen, who manufactured salt at their pleasure, and sold it, paying the government the moderate sum of three hundred piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 So I made him produce five piastres, a shilling, which he threw upon the carpet, cursing Indian avarice. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 We left five piastres for this respectable maiden, and gratified the officious crone with another shilling. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 I offered to any person, or company of men, who would undertake to guide me to the spot, thirty piastres, a large sum in these parts, but nobody was to be found. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land "Give him a few piastres when you part with him at Jaffa." A Ride Across Palestine This enterprise had cost the proprietor seven thousand piastres for the expense of labour, and four thousand piastres for the costs of lawsuits in which he had become engaged with his neighbours. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 And a middle-aged lady proffered me the sum of one hundred piastres, nearly one pound sterling, if I would stay at Alexandria, and superintend the restoration of her blind left eye. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 In Burckhardt’s time the colonnato was worth from 9 to 12 piastres; the value of the latter coin is now greatly decreased, for 28 go to the Spanish dollar all over Al-Hijaz. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 Youssef Pasha of Damascus, however, made them pay forty thousand piastres, on the pretence that they had built a Khan for poor passengers without his permission. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land I was in the act of squabbling with the Pole over the last demand for piastres, when we heard a noise in the gateway of the inn, and I saw Smith's countenance become pale. A Ride Across Palestine The rent is ten piastres for a fanega of ground, and is paid in money or in cotton. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 Sixteen years ago the hire of a boat from the harbour to the roadstead was a piastre and a half: now it is at least five. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 The affair was compromised by the amiable young commander-in-chief, who paid the blood money amounting to some thousand piastres. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 The taxes paid by the village amounted to a thousand piastres, or fifty pounds sterling, besides the tribute extorted by the Bedouins. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land But at last it was settled and away they started, the sheikh declaring that the bargain had been made at so low a rate as to leave him not one piastre for himself. An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids More than thirty persons perished, and the damage was computed at half a million of piastres. Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 The latter is more expensive than the former, and costs from 5 to 7 piastres the bottle. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 He returned in a depressed state, having been bled by the soldiery at the well to the extent of forty piastres, or about eight shillings. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 The Bishop's revenue arises from a yearly personal tax of half a piastre upon all the male adults in his diocese. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land He had already used very positive language in his endeavour to assure his tormentors that they would not get a piastre from him. An Unprotected Female at the Pyramids Property Tax—4 piastres per 1000 upon the value of immovable property, such as buildings, land, trees; this is classed as 1st class Verghi. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 The boy Mohammed had, in a fit of economy, sold its head to a Badawi for three piastres, and the others, disappointed in their anticipations of "haggis," lost temper. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 Formerly these brigands nominally received fifty and fifty-five piastres, in addition to one third of all cattle that might be captured in razzias. Ismailia When I was in the Haouran, the price of an ox or cow was about seventy piastres, that of a camel about one hundred and fifty piastres. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land Besides all this, before he could realise a profit and be reimbursed for the advances he had made to the Treasury of Paris, be had to get the piastres conveyed from America to Europe. Memoirs of Napoleon — Volume 09 Upon an examination of the accounts, the whole affair represents apparently large figures in piastres, which when reduced to pounds sterling presents a miserable total that proves the failure of the enterprise. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Each of these officers receives as pay about two hundred and fifty piastres a month. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 Then the Grand Wazir walked forward and did as the King had done and all the Notables who were present threw cash into the crucibles, bar-silver and piastres and dollars. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 15 Daughters are paid for according to the respectability of their father, sometimes as high as fifteen hundred piastres, and this custom prevails amongst Druses, Turks, and Christians. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land It is the fortieth of the piastre and may be assumed at the value of a quarter-farthing. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 14 Tax on the sale of mules, horses, donkeys, oxen, and camels in the town, 1 para per piastre of the price. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 They are divided into parties of thirty each, and are changed every week, those on duty receiving a Ghazi or twenty-two piastres for their services. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 In 1853 I paid at Cairo 3 piastres and twenty paras, something more than sixpence, but now five shillings would be asked. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 09 The master pays to the government the tax called Miri, and the labourer pays ten piastres annually. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land But a Fellah's back is thoroughly broken to the treatment and he would take ten times as much punishment for a few piastres. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 08 Tax in lieu of military service, 5000 copper piastres for 180 Christian males. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 The doorkeepers stopped them with curses as they were about to enter, and all claimed from each the sum of five piastres, whilst other Moslems were allowed to enter the Mosque free. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 It is the smallest Egyptian coin, made of very base metal and, there being forty to the piastre, it is worth nearly a quarter of a farthing. The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 02 The town of Szalt takes one piastre for every load, the produce of which duty is divided among the public taverns of the town. Travels in Syria and the Holy Land A few piastres, properly distributed, help to keep one's memory green. Howards End Duty upon Sale of Horses, Mules, Donkeys, Camels, and Cattle—1 piastre in every 40 upon price; also tax on goods weighed by public measurer. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Arrived at Cairo, Mohammed Shafi'a applied himself stoutly to the task of bribing all who could be useful to him, distributing shawls and piastres with great generosity. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 A few piastres, properly distributed, help to keep one's memory green.� Howards End The family was one of the richest in the town of Tepelen, whose name it bore, it enjoyed an income of six thousand piastres, equal to twenty thousand francs. Celebrated Crimes (Complete) The Suliots received five hundred thousand piastres and a hundred and fifty charges of ammunition; Hussien Pacha was given up to them, and they left the Ottoman camp at dead of night. Ali Pacha Celebrated Crimes This maid's name was "Christina," and she received the munificent sum of one hundred piastres per annum as wages, which in English money would be fifteen shillings and sixpence every year. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Mohammed Shafi'a had offered 5,000 piastres to the Persian Consul's interpreter; this of course was refused, but still somehow or other all the Haji's affairs seemed to go wrong. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 Then the Englishman stood up, gave me a piastre, and offered his arm to Carmen, as if she couldn't have walked alone. Carmen The Suliots received five hundred thousand piastres and a hundred and fifty charges of ammunition, Hussien Pacha was given up to them, and they left the Ottoman camp at dead of night. Celebrated Crimes (Complete) The family was one of the richest in the town of Tepelen, whose name it bore; it enjoyed an income of six thousand piastres, equal to twenty thousand francs. Ali Pacha Celebrated Crimes This arbitrary call upon the resources of the impoverished farmers was an eccentric financial operation in the ostensible cause of assistance, but it produced a capital of 169,028 piastres. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 Tumbak is cheap, costing about four piastres a pound, but large quantities of it are used. 4th. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 The roll also contained a gold piece of two piastres. Carmen He then took a large bag of piastres from one of his slaves, and placed it upon the table. Paul and Virginia These are made in Abyssinia, and can be purchased at from ten piastres to a dollar each. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs The average yield of these taxes in the last five years was 767,005 piastres, with an increasing tendency in the later years. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 An Egyptian of the middle class would pay his Berberi about 40 piastres a month, besides board, lodging, some small perquisites, and presents on certain occasions. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 1 He chucked Poll a diamond worth about a million piastres, and, remarking that he would not trouble him for the change, he walked out. Old Friends, Epistolary Parody "These English, what beasts they are!" he growled, "and I—I have not a piastre for a single glass of wine." Stories by English Authors: Africa (Selected by Scribners) This he had already done, and he had exchanged a river horse, worth twenty dollars, for a terrestrial horse, worth twenty piastres. The Nile tributaries of Abyssinia, and the sword hunters of the Hamran arabs During the earlier months of the current year, before the British occupation, the sum of 1,306,321 piastres was recovered on account of silk tithes and tithes of prior years. Cyprus, as I Saw It in 1879 |
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