per mensem
Americanadverb
adverb
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A pipe-bearer will engage himself for about £1 per mensem: he is always a veteran smoker, and, in these regions, it is an axiom that the flavour of your pipe mainly depends upon the filler.
From Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah — Volume 2 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
An allowance for each man per mensem, assigned formerly to the chaplain for pay.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Sir Edward Belcher
If they should go low among the nineties, we felt that our eleven dollars per mensem would be imperilled.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 by Various
May their ways be smooth before them, and after honest service of the Government, may Pyramus retire on 250 rupees per mensem, into a nice little house somewhere in Monghyr or Chunar!
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
A compact was accordingly concluded, by which Bombay became my servant for the time being, at five dollars per mensem, with board and lodging on the journey found him.
From What Led to the Discovery of the Source of the Nile by John Hanning Speke
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