cash-book
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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“Now, Mr. Pip,” said Mr. Jaggers, “attend, if you please. You have been drawing pretty freely here; your name occurs pretty often in Wemmick’s cash-book; but you are in debt, of course?”
From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens
The entries in the cash-book show how frugally he lived and how every spare sum was devoted to the purchase of books.
From Sir James Young Simpson and Chloroform (1811-1870) Masters of Medicine by Gordon, Henry Laing
His coming was welcome, for the third teller had just dumped twenty-odd sterling draft requisitions into the cash-book dish.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.
He stood beside Watson, trying to get the multitudinous cash-book entries through his head, until he was played out.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.
A night or two after "Sam's souse," as the staff called it, four of the boys came back to the office and found Evan working, as usual, on the cash-book.
From A Canadian Bankclerk by Buschlen, J. P.
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