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Usage examples of peso.

When her last amigo had dropped to the ground, sobbing that he could not get up, she left him, taking eight pesos from his pocket.

He knew that she dearly wanted the Pinata, but had little or no money beyond the eight pesos.

She had no more idea of what she would do in Vittoria than any other place, but she still had a pocketful of pesos.

The don says he is merely a go-between for several notables in the city to whom the pesos taken from illegal pulquerias, whorehouses, and control of the marketplace ultimately passes.

Then they are sold at three more different exchanges for Mexican pesos, CFA francs from Bangui, and Icelandic kronur.

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.

German explorer von Humboldt estimated that Potosi produced over one hundred and twenty-seven million pesos in its first eleven years.

That has been seen now for two years, during which they brought in this way more than one hundred and fifty thousand pesos on account of Sangley merchants of Canton.

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.