copeck

She bent down, picked up a five-copeck piece from the window; the remains of a fumigating pastille still stood in a grey heap of ashes on the copper coin, as she flung it into the street; then she slammed the window to and jumped heavily down to the floor ....

The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories 2006

Our visitors were at once surrounded by beggars, but none of them gave them anything, except young Kalganov, who took a ten-copeck piece out of his purse, and, nervous and embarrassed — God knows why! — hurriedly gave it to an old woman, saying: “Divide it equally.”

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

A peasant, who had sold his charcoal, and had had some tea in the town, came up, and, after crossing himself, gave her a copeck.

Resurrection 2003

At last a copeck rolled upon the ground, and the miserable creature — his mutilated arms, with their sleeves wet through and through, held out before him — stopped perplexed in the roadway and vanished from my sight.

Boyhood 2003

Now, you see his price is a grosh, now a fifteen copeck silver piece, now a hundred roubles, and sometimes he is above any price.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

When Ptitsin was seventeen he slept in the street, he sold pen-knives, and began with a copeck; now he has sixty thousand roubles, but to get them, what has he not done?

The Idiot 2002

I will never accept one single copeck from you, but you have helped my mother, and I am bound to be grateful to you for that, however weak it may seem.

The Idiot 2002

-- A copeck, for the love of heaven -- half a copeck -- a quarter, only a little quarter!

The Black Cross Olive M. Briggs

The adjacent land will be worth countless millions of roubles to a Government which has not had to pay a single copeck for it.

Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers Various

"I'll bet my last copeck you had good discipline, too," he declared admiringly.

The Pride of Palomar 1918