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Zecchin in sentence

6 examples of Zecchin in a sentence

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.
my lord," said Isaac, "your law permits you not to know how the child of our bosom is entwined with the strings of our heart--O Rebecca! laughter of my beloved Rachel! were each leaf on that tree a zecchin, and each zecchin mine own, all that mass of wealth would I give to know whether thou art alive, and escaped the hands of the Nazarene!"
"They would swear the mother that bore them a sorceress for a zecchin," said the Preceptor.