copecks

Foma hears tumult, howls, laughter, drunken shouts, irritable disputes about copecks — songs and sobs hover over this enormous restless heap of living human bodies crowded into a pit.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

You have stolen the roubles and now you are stealing gratitude for your few copecks!

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

Then, still within the entrance to the Law Courts, she gave them 50 copecks, asking them to get her two rolls and some cigarettes.

Resurrection 2003

A rouble is a sticky thing; the longer it turns about in your hand, the more copecks will stick to it.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003

Having got permission, she removed the three-buttoned Swedish kid glove from her plump, white hand, and from an elegant purse brought from the back folds of her silk skirt took a pile of coupons, [in Russia coupons cut off interest-bearing papers are often used as money] just cut off from the interest-bearing papers which she had earned in her establishment, chose one worth 2 roubles and 50 copecks, added two

Resurrection 2003

Korableva accepted it, though she could not read, trusting to Khoroshavka, who knew everything, and who said that the slip of paper was worth 2 roubles 50 copecks, then climbed up to the ventilator, where she had hidden a small flask of vodka.

Resurrection 2003

When an inventory of the property of the deceased was made, only 312 roubles and 16 copecks were found.

Resurrection 2003

“To the Dvoryanskaya 30 copecks; I never give more.”

Resurrection 2003

This boy was accused of having, together with a companion, broken the lock of a shed and stolen several old mats valued at 3 roubles [the rouble is worth a little over two shillings, and contains 100 copecks] and 67 copecks.

Resurrection 2003

Man is capital — like a rouble, he is made up of trashy copper groshes and copecks.

The Man Who Was Afraid 2003