He had not a sou of money for his passage, as he had not even been able to pay for an emigrant's ticket.
A sou was so little and so easy to give, and there was also something so touching about the idea.
But the peasant is not lavish, and, for whole weeks, he did not bring back a sou.
She even slipped twenty sou pieces into his waistcoat pocket.
But if you've never saved a sou, you had to do what other folks did and do without.
For years past she had not returned the Goujets a sou of their money.
It should be mentioned that he had not asked for one sou of dowry.
But I can afford to laugh at his mayoralty; it doesn't bring him in a sou!
Besides, this proposal of Alfred's came just in time: I had not a sou to my name!
Let him go and find carrots at a sou the bunch elsewhere, tipsy scoundrel that he is!
small French coin, 1550s, back-formation from sous, plural of Old French soul, formerly a coin worth one-twentieth of a livre, from Latin solidus (see solidus).
