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• Her blouse was pink silk, caught with a gold brooch the size of a hundred-centime piece. —  The Sailors’ Rendezvous: A Maigret Mystery - Georges Simenon - **
• For a copper centime, Hyacinthe would carry a message; for more, he would keep his eyes and ears open, and report back. —  Carey, Jaqueline - Kushiel's Dart orig
• He brought back the potatoes and a handful of change that included a French franc, a French copper, a Dutch small coin, a Belgian ten-centime bit, and a German two-mark piece with its imperial eagle. —  Golden Lads
• She had none, not even a centime, and she was well aware that her fortune could in no wise be procured without some small invested capital: and besides, how was she to get to Spa at all without money? —  My Little Lady
• "I can't resist throwing the little humpback a fifty-centime piece now and then, from Jim's automobile, though Jim scolds me for it in a superior way--the way people have who take a firm moral stand against beggars. —  The Guests Of Hercules

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