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Usage examples of ruble.

I just bought this tie for him from Philip, the hairdresser, and he charged me a ruble for it.

I want ten rubles now so I can pay back one ruble to Dolgoruky and use the rest to buy a hat for Andreyev.

After Russian country dances and chorus dances, Pelageya Danilovna made the serfs and gentry join in one large circle: a ring, a string, and a silver ruble were fetched and they all played games together.

My brother Masons swear by the blood that they are ready to sacrifice everything for their neighbor, but they do not give a ruble each to the collections for the poor, and they intrigue, the Astraea Lodge against the Manna Seekers, and fuss about an authentic Scotch carpet and a charter that nobody needs, and the meaning of which the very man who wrote it does not understand.

Arbat and got a powder and some pills in a pretty box of a ruble and seventy kopeks, and if she took those powders in boiled water at intervals of precisely two hours, neither more nor less.

Gavrik shoved Petya aside, looked hard at the sailor, shook his head reproachfully, and said that one ruble would be far too much.

But the threat of war between Austria and Prussia, delays in obtaining a passport, and, most important of all, a fall in the value of the ruble ruled out such a trip.

The driver urged on his chestnut filly, earning his promised ruble honestly, and they reached their destination quickly.

Grandpa signed over the two stores to Moishe-Yekel Vakhtel for one ruble each.

Florian, working the complicated sums in his head, calculated that the ruble was worth about fifty-two cents American and, at one hundred to the ruble, the kopek was worth about half a cent, and he noted that down in his memorandum book.

Hordes of them poured into our country with fistfuls of ruble notes that no one would take, and with a growing hunger that they could not appease.

Separated from their trunks, ill and weak, and too confused to think clearly, they arrived in Berne with nothing but their piles of ruble notes, that no one would take, and the fear of death in their hearts.

Simply a kind and honorable person can sometimes do more good without spending a single ruble than a philanthropist who sits on the boards of many charities but is indifferent to real people.

She returned shortly with some money she had changed, and Father proceeded to give a silver ruble to the messenger, who bowed politely upon departing.

I said I owned it secretly because I had saved it in the course of two years from my allowance of five rubles a month.