What is "pesos"

Usage examples of "pesos".

The tenant, from his pile, shall then pay the landlord one cavan of rice, actually worth from four to five pesos, for every peso he owes.

I made him return 440 pesos to a poor Igorot whom he had grossly defrauded.

Villa Castellammare, habiendo rescatado cinco mil pesos de los veinte mil que me robaron los uruguayos.

And how big six pesos can look may be gleaned from a narrative related by Major-General E.

I had six pesos--if there were any way of getting six pesos --I might be able to arrange it--to buy the Americans off.

Filipino Legislature has ever been willing to favour a parent agricultural bank, or to allow to Rural Credit uses the few thousand extra pesos needed to scatter about where they would do great good.

Pedro Abad, of Victoria, in payment of the thirty pesos that she had borrowed of him a fortnight before.

Then he bought an automobile for three thousand pesos, borrowing the difference from the company of whom he made the purchase.

Twelve thousand pesos were recently spent to have a beauty sit in a seat of momentary duration.

They are paid hundreds of pesos a day and are feted and banqueted and honoured.

A man might be ordered to pay two pesos or fifty pesos for the same matter.

On the morrow, it is said, he issued an order imposing a fine of nine pesos upon any Moro who should again sing the song.

Those who own real property to the value of 500 pesos, or who annually pay 30 pesos or more of the established taxes.

On the other hand, the Filipinos with the Legislative machinery at their disposal, and with a fund of a million pesos at their disposition, make themselves heard, and through control of the Government, endeavour by force or otherwise to stifle our national consciousness.

Halperin would have paid ten thousand pesos for it, but Guzman was not interested in selling.