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n. (plural of cent English)

Usage examples of "cents".

There, too, the custom is adopted of reporting the gold and silver contents of an ore as so many dollars and cents to the ton.

Heaven Cent in the past has cent folk to whomever it makes cents for them to meet, anywhere under the heavens.

The fare is usually five cents below Sixty-fifth street, and from six to eight cents to points above that street.

I could take that or nothing, so, I gave him change for a dollar bill, and kept forty-nine dollars and ten cents for his fare.

An explanation being solicited, the fact was revealed that there was a man inside who made a practice of buying twelve tickets for a dollar, then seating himself near the bell, he would take the fares of every one and give the driver a ticket for each, that is, receive ten cents and give the driver the equivalent of eight and one-third cents, thereby making ten cents on every six passengers.

His friends say that his turnips cost him about ten dollars apiece to produce, and bring about fifty cents per bushel in the market, and that all his farming operations are conducted on the same principle.

The fare to the Jersey shore is three cents, to Brooklyn two, and to Harlem and Staten Island ten cents.

They pay from ten to twenty-five cents for their lodgings, and if they desire a supper or breakfast, are given a cup of coffee and a piece of bread, or a bowl of soup for a similar sum.

The price varies from ten to twenty-five cents, according to the accommodations furnished.

Each of these houses is provided with a bar, at which the vilest liquors are sold at ten cents a drink.

One of them accommodates nearly two hundred lodgers per night, which at ten cents per head, would be a net receipt of twenty dollars.

On coats, vests, pants, dresses, cloaks, skirts, basques, from twenty cents to one dollar is charged for hanging up.

Here one pays fifty cents for the privilege of entering the grounds and building.

Now, I charge twenty cents for drinks that a regular gin-mill would sell for ten.

Then there are a lot of drinks that the girls takes themselves, which we charges fifty cents for.