What is "taels"

Usage examples of "taels".

I saw Her Majesty, I remember she gave me five thousand taels of gold and twenty thousand taels of silver.

So saying, Trinket reached into his inside pocket and extracted a wad of notes, some for five hundred, some for a thousand taels, some for as much as two thousand.

All I ever wanted was for you to appreciate my loyalty, and reward me with a few taels now and then.

Trinket ten thousand taels, which Trinket made a great show of refusing.

The few remaining taels went towards hiring the services of a coroner to officiate at the funeral ceremony, and a carpenter.

Then, producing another fifty taels of silver, he enquired of the Abbot if he could possibly hire the services of a companion.

It was Brother Tsereng-bLo-do, the Great Lama of the Manjusri Monastery, who presented me with two hundred taels to accompany his fellow lama Bayen here.

He begged to be left behind, and Trinket gave him a hundred taels, and sent him back happily on his way to Shanxi.

After taking his farewell of the officers, Trinket led Zhang Kangnian to one side and handed him three hundred taels with which to arrange board and lodging for Doublet somewhere in the vicinity of the mountain.

Trinket took out another twenty taels and held it out to one of the young whores.

He turned to Songgotu and gave orders for two thousand taels to be donated to the monastery immediately for the rebuilding of the temple.

He thought amusedly of the gratuities he regularly dispensed himselftwo hundred or more taels at a time and never less than a hundred.

When they had quietened down, he got out two silver ingots each weighing five taels from his litde store of treasure and handed mem to the serving-man.