daybook

Historical Examples

• The nightingale annoyed the owl and was hushed, and the poet rimed sums in a daybook.

  The Best Short Stories of 1920

  Various

• Mr. Starr hung up his coat and hat and swooped like a hawk on the daybook, at the same time calling for the book of "petty cash."

  When Egypt Went Broke

  Holman Day

• He once showed me his daybook in which were noted down over five hundred dollars lent out in small sums to indigent Americans.

  Marse Henry (Vol. 1)

  Henry Watterson

• He was calculating even in his pleasures, and, they say, kept a regular ledger and daybook of the moneys disbursed in his vices.

  Guy Livingstone;

  George A. Lawrence

• As usual, Uncle Jabez was poring over his daybook and counting the cash in the japanned money box.

  Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island

  Alice Emerson