What is "pfennigs"

Usage examples of "pfennigs".

When the knitting needle, retail price ten pfennigs, is put in motion, when the instrument of vengeance rests on the ornate grille of the confessional and is aimed knittingneedle-sharp at the priest's ear, nothing quivers in alarm for the eardrum.

I took five pfennigs from the cash drawer, contributed them to the Winter Aid, and returned the collection box thus enriched to the piano, so that Matzerath might find it and kill the rest of his Sunday shaking it for the cold and hungry.

Only when we couldn't wait to get home were we obliged to stop at a grocery store or refreshment stand and pay three pfennigs or even six, because we could never get enough of it and often asked for two packages.

For ten found pfennigs Matern buys a beautiful long smooth chaste knitting needle -- for what?

These miracle glasses, which are now known as knowledge glasses, cost fifty pfennigs a pair and enabled the purchaser, provided he was not under seven or over twenty-one years of age, to know all adults over thirty.

I had to pay five pfennigs to enter town, I paid ten at Herr Oehlschlegel's shop and I'll have to pay your village for stabling my horse.

The five-figure groups into which the marks and pfennigs were divided disappeared.

So then I threw away the can opener and rowed back, returned old man Kreft's boat, had to pay an extra thirty pfennigs, and said: "Maybe I'll be back again this evening.

An SS man then took me to the commandant's office, where I was paid 1 mark 21 pfennigs for seven months' work, from six in the morning till eight at night.

They took no special notice of him, but he would have bet Reichsmarks against pfennigs they hadn't come to Peenemunde on any other business.