cent

• I have to explain that a cent is an English farthing. —  My Memories of Eighty Years
• That's ten per - cent, and I began to chuckle as my red-headed father might have, to recall the charges that he had to combat in the Massachusetts fight for ratification: that the framers were all rich, all slave-holders, all protectors of privilege. —  Legacy
• On the wall of a wine-shop a barmaid has thus advertised her wares: [74] "Here for a cent is a drink, —  The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
• A traveller on his way to the capital has scribbled these lines on the wall, perhaps of a wine-shop where he stopped for refreshment:[72 Hither have we come in safety Now I hasten on my way That once more it may be mine To behold our Lares, Rome At one point in a Pompeian street, the eye of a straggler would catch this notice in doggerel verse:[73 Here's no place for loafers Lounger, move along On the wall of a wine-shop a barmaid has thus advertised her wares:[74 Here for a cent is a drink Two cents brings something still better Four cents in all, if you pay Wine of Falernum is yours It must have been a lineal descendant of one of the parasites of Plautus who wrote:[75 A barbarian he is to me At whose house I'm not asked to dine Here is a sentiment which sounds very modern The common opinion is this That property should be divided. —  The Common People of Ancient Rome Studies of Roman Life and Literature
• In those days the cent was as large as our present silver half dollar, and the copper two-cent piece was a monster in the way of coinage. —  Business Hints for Men and Women

Allen's Synonyms and Antonyms

Used in the Same Context