per mensem
Americanadverb
adverb
Example Sentences
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Usual rate of interest The rate of interest charged as a penalty for non-payment or late payment was twenty-five per cent. per mensem, three hundred per cent. per annum.
From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter) Johns
There current money is rarely lent, but only its value in goods is advanced at the rate of a real per dollar per mensem.
From The Former Philippines thru Foreign Eyes by Austin Craig
Labourers are hired at the rate of two to three dollars per mensem, and gangs would easily be collected if one of the chiefs were placed in command.
From Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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
My son, sir, is at this minute chief magistrate of Ramgunge in the Presidency of Bengal, and touching his four thousand rupees per mensem.
From Vanity Fair by William Makepeace Thackeray
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