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"Piastre" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Jeremy, still juggling. "I am a dervaish. I was born, not taught. I can ride through the air on cannon-balls, and whatever I wish for is mine the next minute. Look, I have one piastre. I wish for twenty. What do I do? I spin it in the air—catch it—d'you hear them? There you are—twenty! Count 'em ...
— Affair in Araby • Talbot Mundy
... broke in contemptuously, "it's a piastre to a sou that you stood gawping in through a window while gentlemen and ladies did the dancing. I can imagine how you looked—I can!" and with this she took her prodigious bulk at a waddling gait out of the room. "I remember how you danced even when you were not clumsy ...
— Alice of Old Vincennes • Maurice Thompson
... months I vegetated in Auckland. When the steamer arrived there I was able to leave it without being seen; but not a piastre, not a dollar in my pocket! In order to live I had to follow ...
— Dick Sand - A Captain at Fifteen • Jules Verne |
Words linked to "Piastre" : Sudanese pound, Lebanese pound, piaster, Turkish lira, Egyptian pound, Syrian pound, subunit, asper, pound, Turkish monetary unit, kurus, fractional monetary unit, lira |
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