greenbacks
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Many a time have I seen these thrifty housewives pocket the sugar and the zwiebacks and Brödchen left over.
From Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View by Collier, Price
Directly we left Köln a waiter set forth trays in front of them laden with coffee, zwiebacks, hörnchens, and eggs.
From A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes by Jephson, Harriet Julia Campbell, Lady
Coffee and zwiebacks, I suppose also from Germany.
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
An idiotic-looking man-servant and a peasant girl fresh from the country kept up a supply of tea, zwiebacks and preserves.
From The White Terror and The Red A novel of revolutionary Russia by Cahan, Abraham
The ladies of Altheim go to the station as the trains pass through, and give the soldiers coffee, chocolate, cigars, and zwiebacks.
From A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes by Jephson, Harriet Julia Campbell, Lady
