I paid him a half-piastre for it, which is half the proper price, and utterly ignored his expostulation. [Please select]
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"The price is a half-piastre in Damascus at the meaner shops." [Please select]
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The Temple of Karnak has cost the Egyptian government much money, yet not a piastre of this can be grudged. [Please select]
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For instance, one must be daring, and discreet, and nimble, and ready to give the law a presentable answer, and lacking that, a piastre. [Please select]
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