Then a little steel ring shifted suddenly, flinging aside the coined ducat, and a fresh gold piece took its place.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Poor Plutocrats] Reference

A ducat was a gold piece of the size of an old French louis, though less thick.    From Wordnik.com.  [Catherine De Medici] Reference

Of the North, should be sold for a ducat a bottle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Dínár-zád (ducat-born) .137 Such also is the Tale of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

As if such things could be ordered up a ducat the dozen!.    From Wordnik.com.  [September 29th, 2009] Reference

I have coined money, and am not now worth a single ducat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Candide] Reference

I gave thee a golden ducat: why, then dost thou belittle me?.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Then said Castruccio to him: “A ducat is much less to me.”.    From Wordnik.com.  [The life of Castruccio Castracani of Lucca] Reference

Every man who held my horse or cleaned my boots got a ducat for his pains.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memoires of Barry Lyndon] Reference

I was alone -- friendless; with nor sword at my side, nor ducat in my purse.    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference

Sometimes it turns out that his persuasion may be valued at a ducat, but not at ten.    From Wordnik.com.  [The LHC Will Discover the Higgs. Wanna Bet? | Universe Today] Reference

She was aided by her father-in-law who was reluctant to give her 200,000 ducat dowry.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference

Find in the Glossary the meaning of: hoodwinked; vault; maze; cathedral; pest; ducat.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Elson Readers, Book 5] Reference

For every ducat that you have lost see, in the coming year, if you do not gain ten; the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference

If the leaves were the size of a ducat in the morning, they would be the size of a bowl by evening.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles]

Tunis a hunted fugitive, broken and penniless, with never a galley left, without one ducat in his pocket?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sea-Wolves of the Mediterranean] Reference

But what was his astonishment, upon pulling the heads to pieces, to find that each contained a Danish ducat!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Story-Lives of Great Musicians] Reference

(Latin for “advantage”) of the ducat a gambler gains is smaller than the emolumentum of the ducat he loses.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dictionary of the History of Ideas] Reference

This woman buyeth of me a ducat-worth of meat every morning, paying ready money, and never misseth a single day.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night] Reference

Who, not the duke? yes, your beggar of fifty; and his use was to put a ducat in her clack-dish: the duke had crotchets in him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Measure for Measure] Reference

They frequently climb up the masts to see whether they can see a whale, for the first discoverer has a ducat for his pains.    From Wordnik.com.  [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference

The address of the servant, assisted by a single ducat, easily procured it, and at an early hour he set forward on his enquiry.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Italian] Reference

In his flight he had forgotten the most valuable things he had, the blue light and the gold, and had only one ducat in his pocket.    From Wordnik.com.  [Household Tales] Reference

As much land as could be covered by a man's foot was worth a ducat in gold.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

I shall be entitled to the girl's fortune, without settling a ducat on her.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Duenna] Reference

The provinces were laid waste, and the city had already been drained of its last ducat.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thaddeus of Warsaw] Reference

Even a parricide could buy forgiveness at God's tribunal at one ducat; four livres, eight carlines.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

So close were they under the fire of the town; that a life was almost laid down for every ducat, but the.    From Wordnik.com.  [PG Edition of Netherlands series — Complete] Reference

So, without a ducat in my pocket, or a crust for my teeth, I set out to seek my fortune on board of a Spanish merchantman.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zicci — Complete] Reference