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Kreutzer   Listen
noun
Kreutzer  n.  (Written also kreuzer)  A small copper coin formerly used in South Germany; also, a small Austrian copper coin.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Kreutzer" Quotes from Famous Books



... gold, he will pour out the countless treasures he possesses before you, he will proffer you diamonds and pearls and priceless gems, but—heed well what I say to you—take nothing more from him than you would from any other person. Take the exact sum you are wont to receive on earth, and take not a kreutzer more, or your life is not worth a moment's ...
— Folk-lore and Legends: German • Anonymous

... hoist by his own petard is Tolstoy's. The peasants of his country understand him as little as they understand Beethoven, that Beethoven he so bitterly, so unjustly assailed in The Kreutzer Sonata. (Poor Beethoven. Why did not Tolstoy select Tristan and Isolde if he wished some fleshly music, some sensualistic caterwauling, as Huxley phrased it? But a melodious violin and piano sonata!) Tolstoy may ...
— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker



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