"Rouble" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... harvest and their losses thereby; to the class who, drooping their heads despondently, are all the while stuffing money into striped purses, which they keep hoarded in the drawers of cupboards. Into one purse they will stuff rouble pieces, into another half roubles, and into a third tchetvertachki [13], although from their mien you would suppose that the cupboard contained only linen and nightshirts and skeins of wool and the piece of shabby material which is destined—should the old gown become ...
— Dead Souls • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol
... Oh, when she stood in the choir and sang—she had only one long tooth left—then she was supposed to sing: "Trouble yourselves not, my people!"—and it always sounded like: "'Rouble, 'rouble yourselves not, my people!" It was too funny. And we always had to laugh so ... when it sounded through the chapel: "'Rouble, 'rouble!" [She laughs more and more heartily. LOTH becomes infected ...
— The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann - Volume I • Gerhart Hauptmann
... the rouble in Perm at that time was about one penny. My officers and men were paid at the rate of 40 roubles to the L1. The prisoners' camp was about three and a half versts distant, and the duration of the meeting was one hour and five minutes; the droshky ...
— With the "Die-Hards" in Siberia • John Ward
... remained in service a second year, and received a second copeck. Again he flung it into the well, and again it sank to the bottom. He remained a third year; worked and worked, till the time came for payment. Then his master gave him a rouble. "No," says the orphan, "I don't want your money; give me my copeck." He got his copeck and flung it into the well. Lo and behold! there were all three copecks floating on the surface of the water. So he took them and ...
— Russian Fairy Tales - A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore • W. R. S. Ralston
... the two-rouble establishments—Sophie Vassilievna's, The Old Kiev, and Anna Markovna's—are somewhat worse, somewhat poorer. The remaining houses on Great Yamskaya are rouble ones; they are furnished still worse. While on Little Yamskaya, which is frequented by soldiers, petty thieves, artisans, and ...
— Yama (The Pit) • Alexandra Kuprin
... 7 25. roubles. A rouble is the Russian unit of value, worth seventy-seven cents. The word is etymologically connected ...
— De Quincey's Revolt of the Tartars • Thomas De Quincey
... know to whom the bottle of champagne belonged (it was explained to me later that it was common property), I considered that, in return, I ought to treat my friends out of the money which I had never ceased to finger in my pocket. Accordingly, I stealthily extracted a ten-rouble note, and, beckoning the waiter to my side, handed him the money, and told him in a whisper (yet not so softly but that every one could hear me, seeing that every one was staring at me in dead silence) to "bring, if you please, a half-bottle of ...
— Youth • Leo Tolstoy
... returning the fifty-thousand rouble mortgage—has the General got it? If so, possess yourself of it, and send it to ...
— The Gambler • Fyodor Dostoyevsky |
