copeck
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Several poorly dressed peasants gave her each a copeck or two, and both giver and receiver made the sign of the cross.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace
Now, you see his price is a grosh, now a fifteen copeck silver piece, now a hundred roubles, and sometimes he is above any price.
From The Man Who Was Afraid by Bernstein, Herman
And so Marko the Rich never paid the copeck after all.
From Russian Fairy Tales A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore by Ralston, William Ralston Shedden
When Ptitsin was seventeen he slept in the street, he sold pen-knives, and began with a copeck; now he has sixty thousand roubles, but to get them, what has he not done?
From The Idiot by Martin, Eva M.
See, there is nothing!—A copeck, for the love of heaven—half a copeck—a quarter, only a little quarter!
From The Black Cross by Briggs, Olive M.
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