Zecchin
in example sentence
"They would swear the mother that bore them a sorceress for a
zecchin
," said the Preceptor.
More example sentences with word zecchin
It seemed as if his avarice were struggling with his better nature, and compelling him to pouch
zecchin
after
zecchin
while his generosity urged him to restore some part at least to his benefactor, or as a donation to his agent.
"Seventy-eight--thou art a good fellow--seventy-nine--and deservest something for thyself---"Here the Jew paused again, and looked at the last zecchin, intending, doubtless, to bestow it upon Gurth.
Had it rung too flat, or had it felt a hair's breadth too light, generosity had carried the day; but, unhappily for Gurth, the chime was full and true, the
zecchin
plump, newly coined, and a grain above weight.
"Holy Clerk," said the knight, when his hunger was appeased, "I would gage my good horse yonder against a zecchin, that that same honest keeper to whom we are obliged for the venison has left thee a stoup of wine, or a runlet of canary, or some such trifle, by way of ally to this noble pasty.
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