piastre

How To Use piastre In A Sentence

• His defense, that the street was nothing but an open sewer anyway, failed to sway the arresting policeman who marched him across town at gunpoint to pay a fine of one piastre four francs. The Path Between the Seas
• Although the market is full of unsubsidised baladi bread at various prices in addition to white bread, the subsidised baladi bread remains the most popular choice because it costs a mere five piastres a loaf.
• [Footnote 12: Most of the gipsies here profess Islamism.] [Footnote 13: I presume Messrs. Boue and party.] [Footnote 14: The Austrian zwanziger goes here for only three piastres; in Servia it goes for five.] Servia, Youngest Member of the European Family or, A Residence in Belgrade and Travels in the Highlands and Woodlands of the Interior, during the years 1843 and 1844.
• Fishermen no longer have to wait till the fish is sold to collect their money, he adds, and taxes have been reduced from 64 to 23 piastres per kilogramme: ‘The funds allocated to take care of the fishermen have also increased.’
• About thirty years ago, Mohammed Ali Pasha bought up all the Wakf (church property), agreeing to pay for its produce, which he rated at five piastres the ardeb, when it was worth three times as much. Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
• ‘The present price of water, at a mere 23 piastres per litre, is highly subsidised, since the real cost is 95 piastres,’ he said.
• Holland, the quarter-ruble of Russia, the 200-reis piece of Portugal, the 5-piastre piece of Turkey, the half-milreis of Brazil and the half-rupee of India, all interchangeable with the English shilling, and all of them about the value of the quarter-dollar of North and Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889
• In return for our great condescension in having accepted this rayah (the Voivode of Wallachia) amongst the other subjects of our empire, he will be bound to pay into our treasury, every year, the sum of 6,000 red piastres of the country. ' Roumania Past and Present
• 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
• The government will continue to subsidise 80 octane gasoline, sold for 90 piastres as it is the main fuel for taxis and minibuses.