"Piastre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... been at Damascus," said Mr. Floyd. "Did I tell you that after I fell through the trapdoor in Damascus and broke my ribs, they put a railing about the place and asked a piastre for a look at the spot where the American gentleman almost came to an ...
— Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 - of Popular Literature and Science • Various
... cried, "whoever hear of one man and fifty militia subduing the northern tribes without a piastre?" ...
— The Crossing • Winston Churchill
... the Rommany are sailed Tataren; and though the word means Tartars, and is simply a misapplied term, it indicates a common race. The woman seemed to be very much gratified at the interest I manifested in her people. I gave her a double piastre, and asked for its value in blue-glass armlets. She gave me two pair, and as I turned to depart called me back, and with a good-natured smile handed me four more as a present. This generosity was very Gipsy-like, and very unlike the usual behaviour ...
— The English Gipsies and Their Language • Charles G. Leland
... devil's name,' said the prince, 'harness your beasts, and do not lose a moment. There is a piastre ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 53, No. 331, May, 1843 • Various
... extreme wonderment, saying to himself, "By Allah, this Darwaysh cometh daily and layeth down an Ashrafi, but this day he hath given ten gold pieces; withal there accrueth not to me from my shop even half a piastre of daily wage. However, O Boy, when the man shall come hither, as is his wont, do thou spread for him a prayer-rug in the inner room of the shop, lest the people seeing his constant visits should ...
— Supplemental Nights, Volume 5 • Richard F. Burton
... landlord, "it would have been giving him twice as much as would pay him well. Don't you see, sir, that he is going back empty, and every piastre you pay him is great profit. Besides, I presume that you will take far more provisions than will ...
— Yussuf the Guide - The Mountain Bandits; Strange Adventure in Asia Minor • George Manville Fenn
... furnished with that article from her nearest provinces, Roumelia, Thessaly, and Bulgaria, which, containing about five million inhabitants, feed about eight million sheep, the value of which may be estimated at about two hundred million piastres, (the Turkish piastre, is worth about 2-1/4d.) It would have been impossible for such an important object to have failed exciting the cupidity of a government constituted like that of the Ottoman empire; in consequence, in 1829, they attempted to make a monopoly of the wool-trade. Fortunately, ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 380, June, 1847 • Various
... piastre is of two kinds, metallic (debased silver) and non-metallic. Government pays in the former, which is called Sgh ("coin"); and the same is the term throughout Egypt. The value fluctuates, but 97-1/2 may be assumed one sovereign (English), and one hundred to the Egyptian "lira." The second ...
— The Land of Midian, Vol. 1 • Richard Burton |
