How To Use Piaster In A Sentence
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The old lady pointed out the machine-gunner on top of the personnel carrier as the thief, and when the lieutenant ordered the man to empty his pockets, piaster notes tumbled out.
The Village
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French group, but in South America twenty-five years ago a piaster was a piaster.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas.
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The judge immediately ruled against him and ordered him to pay one hundred piasters to his wife.
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Foul could be bought for 1.5 piasters; tamaya in Israel it was called falafel sandwiches were just two piasters—roughly a nickel.
Crossing Mandelbaum Gate
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A piaster is a silver coin of various countries, here representing about a dollar.
Southern Prose and Poetry for Schools
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Each dead SOG member has a $10,000 piaster price on his head.
Barry Toll
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The judge immediately ruled against him and ordered him to pay one hundred piasters to his wife.
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A piaster was a lowdenomination Egyptian coin vaguely equivalent in value to an American penny.
From This Beloved Hour
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Obsessed with discovering the tomb, Komotsos would save every piaster he earned and, when not waiting tables, go off and dig holes everywhere he could in the city.
The Elusive Tomb of Alexander
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Then very modestly he held out his hand for buckshish, and I thought him entitled to two or three piasters ....
Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 459 Volume 18, New Series, October 16, 1852
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Esne every one receives one piaster from the mosque, at parting.
Travels in Nubia
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He promoted Ismail as “a thrifty saving landlord who looked after every piaster.”
Three Empires on the Nile