What is "rubles"

Usage examples of "rubles".

The slender hoard of the old music-master, with a few thousand rubles from Prince Boris, sufficed for his modest maintenance.

It was always hard to find enough rubles to pay a woman of the streets to lie with him.

Between the two they had pressed some twenty or thirty thousand rubles out of the old Prince, for the winter diversions of the young one.

He was awarded fifty rubles and a new caftan, which he was not in a condition to accept until several days afterward.

Go, now: you shall have ten rubles and an embroidered caftan for your singing.

Boris had boldly demanded twenty thousand rubles, in the desperate hope of receiving half that amount,--and he had calculated correctly.

The experienced card master Gromov, a man known to the whole of gambling Moscow, even threw the boy some bait by losing a hundred rubles to him, but the money was simply wasted.

However, Dobele must give Shmuel twenty-five rubles for making him suffer indignities.

How will it be if I give you ten silver rubles, a pound of yellow cheese and half a pound of butter?

Last September, for example, Tehran covertly supported a peaceful uprising against a communist power grab in Tajikistan, allegedly paying demonstrators 100 rubles a day to lead Moslem prayers and demand the resignation of the Tajik communist leadership.

The other, from Minsk, cost ten rubles but could be expected to bear only one calf.