marc
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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
The qualification for voting was placed at the paying of taxes equal to 3 days' labour, and for being a deputy paying in taxes one marc of silver, about 54 francs.
From The French Revolution A Short History by R. M. (Robert Matteson) Johnston
This marc, after further fermentation, becomes intensely acid, and on one occasion I used it successfully in cleaning and brightening a massive steel and iron gate which I had constructed.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
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
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
Mamma, having five to pay for, owed fifteen marcs.
From From Plotzk to Boston by Israel Zangwill
Also to the daughters of Mr. Codyngton, and 10 marcs to poor scholars.
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
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
