"Sequin" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... goods to Italy. I must however confess to something, which brought me not a little money: I also employed my knowledge of physic. On reaching a town, I had it published that a Greek physician had arrived, who had already healed many; and in fact my balsam and medicine gained me many a sequin. Thus I had at length reached the ...
— The Severed Hand - From "German Tales" Published by the American Publishers' Corporation • Wilhelm Hauff
... he was the last speaker) a change came over Sequin's manner, quick as a flash of lightning. Suddenly rousing himself from his attitude of indifference, he stepped forward in ...
— The Scalp Hunters • Mayne Reid
... Venetian sequin, worth about 50 sols, which was silver money and circulated at Goa. See ut ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 • Emma Helen Blair
... disdained to partake. He thought proper, however, to claim a part of those of the secretaryship, which is called the chancery. It was in time of war, and there were many passports issued. For each of these passports a sequin was paid to the secretary who made it out and countersigned it. All my predecessors had been paid this sequin by Frenchmen and others without distinction. I thought this unjust, and although I was not a Frenchman, I abolished ...
— The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Complete • Jean Jacques Rousseau |
