half-rupee

Updated: May 5, 2025

"In advance? I will give a half-rupee!" Once more Yasmini resumed her way down-hill. Again Mukhum Dass rode after her. "At any rate name the price." "It is silence firstly; second, a security for silence." "The first part is easy." "Nay, difficult. A woman can keep silence, but men chatter like the apes, in every coffee shop."

Talbot Mundy - Guns of the Gods

The poison more or less loses its efficiency, however, after the sticky, tarlike substance has dried out. I offered a half-rupee as a prize for an archery competition, for I was curious to get a view of their marksmanship. The bull's-eye was a piece of typewriter paper at thirty paces. This they managed to puncture only once out of fifteen tries, though they never missed it very widely.

Stewart Edward White - African Camp Fires