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  • noun Plural form of zechin.

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Examples

  • I have enquired, and heard of some handsomely furnished rooms, five I think, near the Porta Pinti, and with a bath, — looking on a beautiful garden and all that, — but the terms, I understand, are 8 zechins per month, about half a crown per diem.

    New Letters from Charles Brown to Joseph Severn 2007

  • Westphalia, and he brought with him a ship-load of arms and ammunition, a thousand zechins of Tunis, and letters from half a dozen of the Great Powers promising assistance.

    Sir John Constantine Memoirs of His Adventures At Home and Abroad and Particularly in the Island of Corsica: Beginning with the Year 1756 Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

  • His legerdemain can transform zechins and bezants into doits and maravedies; but can his art convert a Christian knight, ever esteemed among the bravest of the Holy Crusade, into the dust-kissing slave of a heathen

    The Talisman 1894

  • Donna Sophonisba gave me a hundred zechins for you; they are lying in yonder chest, and thank Heaven, haven't grown impatient by waiting.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Oh! thou Rialto, where gold is stored, as wheat and rye are elsewhere; -- ye proud nobles, ye fair dames with luxuriant tresses, whose raven hue pleases ye not, and which ye dye as bright golden as the glittering zechins ye squander with such small, yet lavish hands!

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Moor's zechins were not yet exhausted, and he was sure of the assistance of the "word" upon the sacred soil of Italy.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • She made royal crowns of wreaths, transformed the little hut, the lad had built of boughs, behind the doctor's house, into a glittering imperial palace, converted round pebbles into ducats and golden zechins -- bread and apples into princely banquets; and when she had placed two stools before the wooden bench on which she sat with Ulrich her fancy instantly transformed them into a silver coronation coach with milk-white steeds.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • In an adjoining room golden zechins fell rattling and ringing on the gaming-table.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • His purse overflowed with zechins; but with the red gold, Art withdrew from him her powerful ally, necessity, the pressing need of gaining a livelihood by the exertion of his own strength.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

  • Ulrich needed no comrades, and his zechins were sacred to him; he was keeping them for Italy.

    Complete Project Gutenberg Georg Ebers Works Georg Ebers 1867

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