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Sentences ending with cent

Pleasant journey to you, ladies and gents--go it just as long as you please--it shan't cost you a cent! [5]
A little dinner wouldn't make a big talk, and what we want is the big talk, at present, if we don't lay up a cent. [8]
I asked him wouldn't he knock off twenty per cent. [5]
Mark Twain's contracts with Bliss for the publication of his books on the subscription plan had been made on a royalty basis, beginning with 5 per cent. [5]
The creditors were willing to accept fifty per cent. [5]
But before I will make a deed, the money must be had, or secured beyond all doubt, at ten per cent. [7]
A blue-faced man, who had nothing to offer except that he had been blown up in a mine, would be regarded as a rank impostor, and a mere damaged soldier on crutches would never make a cent. [5]
Something like tears were in his eyes as he shouted: "I don't want your cent. [4]
Of these, 90,290 went to the polls and voted--85.18 per cent. [5]
Then the sailors' wages were enough for comfortable support; but in 1797 through the rise in the cost of living, and with an advance of thirty per cent. [11]

Short sentences using cent

They'll pay ten per cent. [5]
He wouldn't bate a cent. [5]
Five per cent. [5]

Sentences containing cent two or more times

I've a mighty poor financial head, and I may be all wrong--but tell me if I am wrong in supposing that in lending my own firm money at 6 per cent I pay 4 of it myself and so really get only a per cent? [5]
It was a cent contribution, and we found it very difficult, under the contagious influence of the hum from the Amen corner, not to rise and go forward and deposit a cent. [4]
Suppose you haven't a dollar, not a cent, in the world, and suppose you'll never earn a dollar or a cent in the world, what difference does that make to me? [11]
The decrease since 1860 in the annual amount of transportation has been only about twenty-five per cent, but the annual expenditure on account of the same has been reduced thirty-five per cent. [7]

More example sentences with the word cent in them

By eleven o'clock you think you're all in, that the morning'll never end, but at noon you get a twenty five cent feed that lasts you until about five in the afternoon,--and then you don't know which way the machine's headed. [9]
Do exactly as you please with the land--always remember this--that so trivial a percentage as ten per cent will never sell it. [5]
Eef you say you not care a dam to go to jail, so you can put him there, too, becos' you have not'ing, an' so dam seeck of everyt'ing, he will t'ink ten t'ousan' dollar same as one cent to Nic Dupont--ben sur! [11]
She'd probably give you all she's saved to go to Europe with and study, saved from her pictures sold at twenty per cent of their value; and she'd mortgage the little income she's got to keep her brother out of jail. [11]
This store ain't worth a cent now. [11]
They have a way of mixing the oxygen which issues in small jets from certain natural springs with their atmospheric nitrogen in the proportion of about twenty per cent, which makes very nearly the same thing as the air of your planet. [6]
Carnac replied he was standing firm, that he would not yield a cent increase in wages, and that, so far, all was quiet. [11]
She instituted a vegetable garden there, got it farmed on shares by the nearest neighbor, and made it pay her a hundred per cent. [5]
For consider the varied ability that the grocery requires-the foresight about the markets, to take advantage of an eighth per cent. [4]
No Bishops appointed unless they agree to hand in 90 per cent. [5]
He did not understand the motion, until he saw a cent drop in the road at his feet. [4]
That accounts for two per cent. [5]
Small shippers paid two per cent. [5]
The result seems trustworthy, and shows that during the fourteen years, previous to 1858, the decrease was 19.42 per cent. [1]
Two months salary to you two officers amounts altogether to $2,400--about one-eighth of your ten per cent. [5]
She went out to see for herself; and she would have been content to find twenty per cent. [5]
We shan't have to pay them a cent. [5]
For she resorts to metaphor this time, and it makes trouble, for she seems to reverse the percentages and claim only the eight per cent. [5]
Now it seems to me unfair, Dowley, and a deadly peril to all of us, that because you thoughtlessly confessed, a while ago, that within a week you have paid a cent and fifteen mil--" Oh, I tell _you_ it was a smasher! [5]
It reduces her to eight per cent. [5]
Suppose a blister to diminish a man's pain, effusion or dyspnoea to the saving of twenty per cent. [3]
During all this time I had but one piece of money--a silver ten cent piece--and I held to it and would not spend it on any account, lest the consciousness coming strong upon me that I was entirely penniless, might suggest suicide. [5]
By and by there was a sound of music, and soon the Emperor of the French and the Emperor of Austria, escorted by the famous Cent Gardes, entered the enclosure. [5]
I proved to them that in a quarter of a century their wages had advanced but 30 per cent., while the cost of living had gone up 100; and that with us, in a shorter time, wages had advanced 40 per cent. [5]
Carry it through the year; he would save nearly a week's wages every two months, _your_ man nothing; thus saving five or six weeks' wages in a year, your man not a cent. [5]
I count out the tailor, but not the others--they are all allowed a cent a day, and in driving times they get more--yes, up to a hundred and ten and even fifteen milrays a day. [5]
A few of the richest of them were the most hopeless politically--ever ready to sacrifice principle for an extra dividend of a quarter per cent. [11]
So Congress denied the petition of the heirs of George Fisher in 1832, and did not pay them a cent. [5]
At length, at the end of one week, when his hotel bill was presented, Harry found not a cent in his pocket to meet it. [5]
It has turned the corner after cleaning $50,000 a year for three consecutive years, and piling every cent of it into one book--Library of American Literature--and from next January onward it will resume dividends. [5]
Everybody joked about the by-law requiring members to pay ten per cent. [5]
How beauteous is the bond In the manifold array Of its promises to pay, While the eight per cent it gives And the rate at which one lives Correspond! [6]
He was smoking the "humbliest" pipe I ever saw--a dingy, funnel-shaped, red-clay thing, streaked and grimed with oil and tears of tobacco, and with all the different kinds of dirt there are, and thirty per cent. [5]
And I know that we haven't a cent in the world, and we've sent ten thousand dollars a-begging. [5]
I only mean that those influences levied a tax of a considerable per cent. [7]
You know, dear, that poor Mrs. Fletcher had nearly every dollar of her little fortune invested in the A. and B. bonds, and for ten months she has not had a cent of income, and no prospect of any. [4]
We levied a ten per cent. [5]
The good old swivel saw here a rare opportunity: his niece, whom he so much loved, would absorb knowledge from this man, and it would not cost him a cent. [5]
I feel quite sure that the average profit to her on these books, above cost of manufacture, is all of seven hundred per cent. [5]
If Mr. Crewe's suggestions had been carried out, seventy-five per cent of the railroad accidents might have been eliminated. [9]
It is plenty strong enough as concerns Austria, for ten years ago 5,000,000 was nine per cent of the empire's population. [5]
She had really stopped because a pebble had got into her shoe, and as she took it out she looked at her bare heel and remarked ruefully:--"Those twenty-five cent stockings aren't worth buying! [9]
And Jim did spend an hour poking about in the dirt, but he did not find the cent. [4]
Tom So-and-So had sold out of the "Amanda Smith" for $40,000--hadn't a cent when he "took up" the ledge six months ago. [5]
But if he sold it at seven hundred per cent. [5]
Bret Harte has sold his novel (same size as mine, I should say) to Scribner's Monthly for $6,500 (publication to begin in September, I think,) and he gets a royalty of 7 1/2 per cent from Bliss in book form afterwards. [5]
In short, modern society is going to the dogs, notwithstanding money is only three and a half per cent. [4]
They walked in silence for some time, and at last Billy said, 'a propos' of nothing: "Fairing hasn't a red cent. [11]
He knows what she's worth to a cent. [9]
One I suspect she was in love with --a fellow without a cent. [9]
Now the Postmaster-General says he cannot give to this company more than two hundred and thirty-seven dollars and fifty cents per railroad mile of transportation, and twelve and a half per cent. [7]
Duffer kept a sausage-shop and never saved a cent in his life because he used to give all his spare meat to the poor, in a quiet way. [5]
You know that sailors don't fly around worth a cent unless you swear at them--so the mate that can do the best job of swearing is the most valuable man. [5]
He gets a royalty of ten per cent on it in England (issued in serial numbers) and the same royalty on it in book form afterwards, and is to receive an advance payment of five hundred pounds the day the first No. [5]
I will stay right here and risk money on you as long as Dan has got a cent. [5]
You're welcome to ride here as long as you please, but this shebang's chartered, and we can't let you pay a cent. [5]
He prays the reader to help him, in a lawful manner, to hang up all those that take cent. [4]
The honest miner raked from a hundred to a thousand dollars out of his claim a day, and what with the gambling dens and the other entertainments, he hadn't a cent the next morning, if he had any sort of luck. [5]
I redeemed the property at former rates, after deducting ten per cent. [5]
The stories were pretty sizable, merely pretty sizable; yet Mr. H. was continually interrupting with a cold, inexorable 'Wait--knock off twenty-five per cent. [5]
I want to pay it; I intend to pay it every last cent of it. [5]
She grieved to part with a cent, poor creature, for twice in her hard-working life she had known what it was to be hungry, cold, friendless, sick, and without a dollar in the world, and she had a haunting dread of suffering so again. [5]
If the drug or the blister takes five per cent. [3]
It cost him one per cent. [11]
All other men on the river seemed satisfied and he doubted these ought to have a cent more a day. [11]
The General spoke of the gallant work of many of the people in their attempts to save their stock, but thought that fully twenty-five per cent. [5]
A sliding scale of reduction of 10 per cent a year has a sort of plausible look, and I am willing to try that if three other powers will join. [5]
I found plenty of people who had invested, but not an individual that had ever had an accident or made a cent. [5]
In a fit of anger, the old man offered him what was at least ten per cent more than the value of Fabian's share. [11]
Besides, a concert of amateurs had been smuggled into the program (to precede me,) and their families and friends (say ten per cent of the audience) kept encoring them and they always responded. [5]
An' he jus' mussiless down to a cent. [9]
When, therefore, Dr. Mublenbein, as stated in the "Homoeopathic Examiner," and quoted in yesterday's "Daily Advertiser," asserts that the mortality among his patients is only one per cent. [3]
After a three months' absence, I found myself in San Francisco again, without a cent. [5]
If he lent money, he never demanded more than eight per cent. [11]
She spends no money but her usual year's allowance, and she spends nearly every cent of that on other people. [5]
Will you let me have the ten per cent. [5]
The increase of letters over the corresponding six months of last year was fifty per cent. [5]
Prof. Wyman has lately shewn (Fourth Annual Report, Peabody Museum, 1871, p. 20), that this perforation is present in thirty-one per cent. [1]
I used to know one who came round every morning to sell molasses candy, offering two sticks for a cent apiece; it was worth fifty cents a day to see his cheery face. [4]
Some of them kinds of loafers never has a cent in the world, nor a chaw of tobacco of their own. [5]
Then this New Jersey phantom rose up and bowed and begged pardon, then with the officer beside him, the file of men marching behind him, and with every mark of respect, he was escorted to his carriage by the imperial Cent Gardes! [5]
A passenger says it often pays 40 per cent. [5]
That's the way it is with the young ladies that comes to board with me, ever since the gentleman that wrote the first book that advertised my establishment (and never charged me a cent for it neither) merried the Schoolma'am. [6]
The suffering combatant is liable to want all his stamina, and five per cent. [3]
For instance, the initiation fee had been raised to fifty dollars; that sum must be tendered, and also ten per cent. [5]
He could not in honor ask a cent from the Captain now. [9]
The total number in 1858 was believed to be 53,700, and in 1872, after a second interval of fourteen years, another census was taken, and the number is given as only 36,359, shewing a decrease of 32.29 per cent! [1]
I owe and I will pay what I can; and what I can't pay now I will try to pay in the future, by the cent, by the dollar, till all is paid to the last copper. [11]
The day before I last stood here, ten happy years ago, I wasn't a rich man bless your soul, I hadn't a cent. [5]
Besides my house, I have, I believe, $22,000, whose income in ordinary years is six per cent. [6]
My dear sir, I am obliged to knock some of your expenses in the head--for never a cent was paid a Congressman or Senator on the part of this Navigation Company. [5]
But fool as I am I told him he could have half the iron property for thirty thousand--and if I only had him back here he couldn't touch it for a cent less than a quarter of a million! [5]
I had the honor of saluting it that day, though I did not know at the time that gold had risen two or three per cent. [4]
If they make his sureties pay, then I will make the sureties whole, but I won't pay a cent of an unjust claim. [5]
I don't count his bluster worth a cent. [9]
I have known him to take out three thousand dollars in two hours, and go and pay up every cent of his indebtedness, then enter on a dazzling spree that finished the last of his treasure before the night was gone. [5]
I can see her now, picking out the biggest piece of candy in the dish that she could afford to give for a little fellow's cent. [4]
Orion and I have confidence enough in this country to think that if the war will let us alone we can make Mr. Moffett rich without its ever costing him a cent of money or particle of trouble. [5]
But she didn't have any money--she's given Mr. Bentley every cent of it. [9]
You see he had been in a trance once before, when he was young, and he took the chances on another, cal'lating that if he made the trip it was money in his pocket, and if he missed fire he couldn't lose a cent. [5]

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