A coin stepped on in the street perhaps a sou, a centime, centavo a petty return for rusting bells wedding the pavement, a centotaph alluding to sacrifice or toil in the fields to gain one circular disc.
"Sympathetic Magic"
Paul Cameron Brown
No tienes un centavo.
"Libro segundo de lectura"
Ellen M. Cyr
He was of the men who move from estancia to estancia while the harvest lasts, working from sunrise to dark, living upon mate tea and roasted sheep, and earning a pound a day, and thereafter lying soddened in some den until the last centavo has been squandered.
"The Turnstile"
A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason