Some were shipped at Stettin; mostly they marched, stage after stage,--four groschen a day.
Having not a groschen of money, how could he succeed?
At Gera, a commercial gentleman dined the whole party in his own premises, and his wife gave four groschen to each individual of them; other two persons, brothers in the place, doing the like.
And he went forward, and invested sixgroschen in one of the papers, the most religious action poor Christina had ever seen him perform.
They can scarce pay meal and poultry enough for our daily fare; and if we were to flay them alive, we should not get sixty groschen from the whole.
It was good coin, groschen and pfennige, but there were some bad red ones among it.
He gave me, on account of my fall, a beautiful new groschenwhich weighed about nine grains.
As Master Groschen says, "Nothing's to be done, Turpin, without provender.
By-and-bye, perhaps, a few groschen now and then; but first you must learn to shift for yourself.
His Frieda was a merry industrious girl who sewed muslin in a frilling factory, and hoarded up thegroschen she earned in order to save enough money to be married some day.
We could not maintain one, and besides no one dies here until his last groschen is spent.
Under a branching pine-tree thou must bury a groschen on thy wedding-night.
The Lord stretched forth to him His hand, within which he could see the sacred scar--'t was just the size a groschen piece would be.
The three beloved groschen inherited from my aunt and formerly my christening present, shall now go to the little Peter.
Persuasively enough the old man stretches out his empty hand and many a one lays a scar therein--a pfennig or a groschen piece.
On that account, my daughter, take careful note of the hour as well as of the tree, then the groschen will grow, and thou shalt have money enough all thy days.
This brings me in many a groschen and I accept it--I must, indeed, depend upon the work of my hands, like everyone here.
The people took him for a poor abandoned wretch, when he came back," continued the woman; "they threw groschen and pfennige into a hat and tried to present him with hat and all.
Buy them a groschen worth of oats, for charity's sake!
In the accompanying tables, therefore, the groschenis taken as most fairly averaging and widely current in the empire.
Two groschen for me and my wife, good friend, And two for a debt I owe; Two groschen to lend and two to spend For those who can’t labor, you know.
For I would bless with rich reward The man who can proudly say, That eight souls he doth keep and guard On eight poor groschen a day.
My sisters are old and lame; I give them two groschen for raiment and bread, All in the Father’s name.
Footnote 3: An old coin, worth a little more than the groschen now in general use; for a time both circulated together.
Two Guter Groschen were of about the value of 2-1/2d.
But here is all the food spoiled that was so hardly earned, and we have not a single groschen in the house, and shall not have, until my money is paid me to-morrow.
Herbert, counting out the money carefully by groschen and kreutzers.
She saved up every groschen that was given her to buy sweets, and bribed her brother Solomon, who was proud of his scholarship, to give her lessons in secret.
To resolve his perplexity, he made a pilgrimage to the Rebbe of Kopistch, who advised him to open a store in Polotzk, and gave him a blessed groschen to keep in the money drawer for good luck.
His parents had kept him so far, but they had two daughters to marry off, and not a groschen laid by for their dowries.
Even a lean rooster, to be killed, roasted, and garnished for the devotee's own table at the breaking of the fast, seemed to be considered a more respectable sacrifice than a groschen to increase the charity fund.
And did you not take eight groschen of the Frenchman's property?
I wouldn't give a groschen for the watchmaker's chance of life, for it is certain that the Miller and his Friedrich have murdered the French Chasseur.
Not a groschen less than half,' say I; 'Make ready!
Yes," cried my father, and laid down an eight groschen piece on the table; "and here is the money which he took from the Frenchman.
I only paid myself back eight groschen of my own," said Friedrich and he told them the story.
When he took the eight groschen out of the valise this morning, could he not have kept the whole?
He valued all these at twopence each, but as a matter of fact groschen varied so greatly that to give one away might be either extravagance or an insult.
In Saxony the same journeymen-craftsmen earned on the average, besides their maintenance, twogroschen four pfennige a day, or about one-third the value of a bushel of corn.
After he had satisfied his hunger, he thanked the shepherd, and offered him one of the groschenwhich the fish had given him, but the old man refused it.
George did as he was bid, and the fish poured forty shining groschen into his hand.
When we climbed over the low wall not far from the stone gallery, I saw, to my horror, a light emerging from the Groschen Hall.
Groschen now wound himself into everybody's good wishes, and the University degree was already conferred.
Groschen began to have doubts on Aulus Gellius, suggesting it was a sixteenth-century fabrication, the classical world 'morally and physically rose and denounced' him.
It was placed in the Groschen Hall of the FitzTaylor.
Groschen had detected the forgery long recognised by their special correspondent.
Groschen himself as quite the highest expert in the world.
Groschen had suddenly come to the conclusion that his find was after all only a forgery.
Groschen was already the talk of the University, the lion of the hour, before I met him.
But he was not always with us; he went to Greece or the East sometimes, for the purpose, it was said, of adding to the Groschen collection, now the glory of the FitzTaylor.
Groschen did not inspire me with any confidence, I cannot say that he excited any feeling of distrust.
The next story is about 'One Groschen and Two Pennies.
A man who is dying, and has a wife and four children," said Flora solemnly, "has no right to give his last six groschen away.
He told me that he had found this groschen fourteen days before on the way to church; that he had asked his father to publish the discovery, and he himself had announced it in school.
The boy answered, "No, the groschen is not mine, so I am not going to keep it.
When all is paid that will be needed for the funeral, it will leave just these six groschen over.
I don't know how much a groschen is, but that don't make any difference.
He had a groschen in his hand and a reading-book under his arm.
Those people must give theirgroschen or give nothing.
Small was the salary of even such a man as this; he sat, received and packed away in bags, till his hair became white, and his trembling hands could no longer lay hold of the two-groschen pieces.
Shaerer was as poor as I; but he got an augmentation of two groschen and a double portion of bread, for the Major thought a good bit more of him than of me.
No doubt he will coin it into light eight-groschen pieces, cheat the people with them, and make more than his expenses, as we have done.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "groschen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
