Daler

40 Well Walk, Hampstead (former home of John Constable) pencil and coloured pencils in Daler Rowney sketchbook copyright Katherine Tyrrell

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The thieves, bad characters, rascals, villains, rouges, ruffians and gangsters are headmen of communities (Chor Uchakke Te Chaudhary Gunde Ne Pardhan) rightly said by Daler Mehandi, the prominent singer who faced police brutality for refusing to pay a heavy sum of bribe to the police in bargain for not involving him in criminal case (s).

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Two hundred Daler cash down, and later, a nice high percentage of receipts from working, or ultimate disposal by further sale, of the copper tract.

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Daler was at any rate another miracle, and an unreasonable sum.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

As a man of business, he used the terms of the near coinage, whereas, out in the wild., men still counted money by the ancient Daler.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

“Fifty Daler is the most they can fairly ask of any buyer,” answered the expert.

The Growth of the Soil 2003

That was what he said, but — well, five thousand Daler was five thousand Daler, and no little sum; if his brother were anything but a lousy Indian savage, he ought to give back half.

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Only a thousand Daler, according to the old reckoning.

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The price of horseflesh had gone up beyond all bounds: when Isak was a boy the best horse could be bought for fifty Daler.

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Some of the accounts, too, were difficult to make out at all; they were a muddle, a bare jumble of figures, especially from the date when the coinage was changed; the district treasurer had frequently reckoned the small Kroner as if they were full Daler.

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