Spanish-American coin

Usage examples of centavo.

He had learned to cry with his mother as they read the pamphlets by local poets that were sold in plazas and arcades for two centavos each.

She had an astonishing memory for the sentimental verses of her own time, which were sold in the street in pamphlet form for two centavos as soon as they were written, and she also pinned on the walls the poems she liked most, so that she could read them aloud whenever she wished.

One Tuesday he brought her a copy of the picture of her and Hildebranda taken by the Belgian photographer more than half a century before, which he had bought for fifteen centavos at a postcard sale in the Arcade of the Scribes.

The black market price for cartridges this week is fifty centavos each.

When Rawlins offered a man fifty centavos for the half pennysworth of water it would take to fill their canteens the man would have no part of it.

He gave old Mike, the hotel flunky, twenty-five centavos to chase her off, but afterward old Mike wanted more.

Lyons had checked his sources and learned that on the Guatemalan street market, one dollar bought one quetzal and forty eight centavos.

When Rawlins offered a man fifty centavos for the half pennysworth of water it would take to fill their canteens the man would have no part of it.

But he turned his pockets inside out: twenty-five centavos and an American coin that he'd kept as a good luck charm ever since his university days.

Al principio, no me favorecieron las cartas, pero después, a pesar de mis admoniciones paternas, Goliadkin perdió todo su dinero: trescientos quince pesos y cuarenta centavos, que los polizontes me han substraído arbitrariamente.

Renovales, que no tiene ni el rudimento, me retó desde la vereda porque Paja Brava carecía de quince centavos que había descuidado en el chaleco mientras pasaba al fondo, y todos calumniaban que yo los había invertido en Laponias.

One media for a banderilla, two reals for the bull-fight, five centavos for the sweet oranges, and nothing for dulces.

A purely nominal political privilege that pays not one centavo and that most of them aren't competent to use wisely anyhow.

Hollywood, I was at Screen Gems writing Circle of Fear and a segment of The Flying Nun and a little ghosting on Police Story, and William Castle had bought the rights to The Shadow, and I went to him and told him I'd write the damned screenplay for nothing, not a centavo, zip, nada, just gimme a chancel He had hired me for Circle of Fear, and he was high on my work, but he laughed and said he'd already assigned the script.

También recuerdo algún experimento, frustrado, con cinco y diez centavos chilenos, y con un vintén oriental.