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There’s even a cocktail that uses marc, the little-loved French answer to grappa.

From New York Times ● May 8, 2015

I told him to take the flowers of the Pyrenees away and bring me a vieux marc.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

I had a second marc after the coffee.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

Hence to the west-north is that land which is called Angleland, Sealand, and some part of Den- marc; to the north is Apdrede, and to the east-north the wolds, which are called the Heath-wolds.

From Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt

To sum up the question of manures:— Poonac, the marc or cake, after the coco-nut oil is expressed, is represented to be a stimulating manure; but is not durable.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by P. L. Simmonds

We stayed with them forty-seven days, and obtained from them 119 marcs of pearls for very little merchandise in exchange.

From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Bartolom? de las Casas

This pope, for some marcs of silver, acknowledged, as king of Sicily, Frederick II. a child of three years, son of the emperor Henry VI.

From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou

He gave King Richard mdccc marcs that he might reside in England with the King's good will.

From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Jocelin de Brakelond

Berkeley receives 200 marcs and Chaucer 100; the sums are to be paid out of the war subsidy voted by Parliament the year before.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand

Mamma, having five to pay for, owed fifteen marcs.

From From Plotzk to Boston by Israel Zangwill