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Is there a bill of exchange sent to your brother? or may not I pay him without? it is fifty pounds and three zechins, is it not?

From The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 1 by Cunningham, Peter

If it is granted, his relations will make a gift to the state of a thousand zechins.

From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman

"That Scots chieftain, our mortal fae,85 Sae aft frae the field has made us flee, Ten thousand zechins this day I'll give That I his face could only see."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Dearest O——— , with an aching heart I write it, in four days he had lost above twelve thousand zechins.

From The Ghost-Seer; or the Apparitionist; and Sport of Destiny by Schiller, Friedrich

I would not have the honour of our country sold for a thousand zechins.'

From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by Hill, George Birkbeck Norman