Cents

Examples

• After getting our lunch and upon reaching the sidewalk, Borst opened his mouth, and said: 'That's a great place; a plate of cakes, a cup of coffee, and a Russian bath, for ten cents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I decided that if I found a corresponding crowd there, the only thing to do to correct my lack of judgment in not getting more papers was to raise the price from five cents to ten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Get a quarter or half a pound of dark green ink, which is put up in collapsible tubes costing from fifty cents to $2 per pound, according to quality. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• A man to-day buys a ready-made shirt for fifty cents, which fifty years ago would have cost him $2. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• He sold a couple of hundred at five cents each. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• After trying for a week I gave it up and returned to New York with but a few cents in my pocket. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Dewar produced the first ounce of liquid air at a cost of $3,000, but that now Mr. Tripler claims that he can produce it by his apparatus for five cents a gallon. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Another crowd met him at the next stop, and he raised his price to ten cents a copy. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• There was an average cost per lamp for meter operation of twenty-two cents a year, and each meter took care of an average of seventeen lamps. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The price was three cents a copy, or eight cents a month for regular subscribers, and the circulation ran up to over four hundred copies an issue. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The commission charged for buying or selling is twelve and a half cents a share, so that on the usual order of one hundred shares, the broker receives twelve dollars and a half. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Presently the other store put up a sign stating they had received three hundred pairs, price three cents per pair, and stated that they had no connection with the store next door. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Every Sunday there was a bull fight for the amusement of those who would pay their fifty cents. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Sixteen years ago the lamps were $1 each; to-day they can be bought for 18 cents. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Messages now go across the Atlantic and are received on the siphon recorder at the rate of fifty words a minute, and at a cost of twenty-five cents a word. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I still sold them for forty cents, and lost more money that year than any other, because the sales were increasing rapidly. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I finally got it down to twenty-two cents, and sold them for forty cents; and they were made by the million. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• One store put up a paper sign in the display window which said: 'Three-hundred pairs of stockings received this day, five cents a pair--no connection with the store next door. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I then yelled: 'Twenty-five cents apiece, gentlemen! Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The town being situated in the coal region of Pennsylvania, good coal could then be obtained there at seventy-five cents a ton. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sometimes this breaking and grinding is done in Mexico, but the duty on ground dried chicle is five cents per pound more than upon cube chicle. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Nickel, 23,707 pounds; worth (33 cents pound) $7,823. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Lieutenants in the army get about a dollar a day, and common soldiers a couple of cents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• According to the claims of some it may be produced at a cost of a few cents a gallon. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is all the influence of a long course of Three Per Cents, Becky said to herself, and was right very likely. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• One can not buy and pay for two cents' worth of clams without trouble and a quarrel. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• A roller three inches long, costing forty cents, will answer for all small leaves and branches of plants. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The wages of a laborer are twenty to twenty-four cents a day, and those of a good mechanic about twice as much. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The present low price of _aluminum_, reduced from $12 per pound in 1878 to 33 cents now, is due to its production by electrical methods. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The whole placer would not give more than one and one-quarter cents per cubic yard. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

Editor: Pierre