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  • noun Plural form of kreutzer.

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Examples

  • ‘Six kreutzers!’ she answered in the same whisper.

    The Torrents of Spring 2006

  • Italian game, and won a few kreutzers from him, and he was well content.

    The Torrents of Spring 2006

  • On reckoning up, it appeared that he had charged too little for the orangeade, and taken two kreutzers too much for the sweets.

    The Torrents of Spring 2006

  • The reason you assign for having hitherto met with none of my swarms of Germans in Italy, is a very solid one; and I can easily conceive, that the expense necessary for a traveler must amount to a number of thalers, groschen, and kreutzers, tremendous to

    Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005

  • And the friar stood close by the table, leaning idly against the bridge, with his eye wandering from the little plate with the kreutzers to the passers-by who might possibly contribute.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • And on the table there was a plate containing kreutzers, into which the faithful who passed and took a part in the evening psalm of praise, might put an offering for the honour of the Virgin, and for the benefit of the poor friar and his brethren in their poor cloisters at home.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • Her meal may have been worth perhaps a couple of kreutzers, or something less than a penny, whereas that of her father may have cost twice as much.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • A day or two ago ten kreutzers was an important portion of the little sum which she still had left in hand, but now ten kreutzers could do nothing for her.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • So the kreutzers were husbanded as only a woman can husband them, and new attempts were made to reduce the little expenses of the little household.

    Nina Balatka 2004

  • From England to Russia, Masonic/Rosicrucian groups flourished in the late 1700's, and the most well-known were the Gold - und Rosen-kreutzers in Germany.

    The Golden Dawn: Frequently-Asked Questions and Resource Lists Version 1.6 by Steven R. Cranmer 1994

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