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    1. Down the long agora’s length, the only one remaining was a slave who tested coins, afraid to leave his master’s coffer


    2. Such payments, therefore, only put into one coffer what had the moment before been taken out of another


    3. Every man assesses himself, and, in the presence of the magiatrate, puts annually into the public coffer a certain sum of money, which he declares upon oath, to be one fourth per cent


    4. Cheever strode aft past the coffer dams, across to the starboard companionway and down toward the compartment at the end


    5. Something hard and heavy pinned his left leg—a money coffer


    6. A third time he struggled and tripped again, sprawling over the coffer


    7. Grista, gripping a coffer to avoid being forced over, spoke in an urgent whisper


    8. there wasn’t enough money in the coffer


    9. These are the believers in life and the bounty of life, and their coffer is never empty


    10. He was not an easy man to enlist the service of, but Adorno had a vast coffer of wealth and resources

    11. That, and a coffer full of gold, was enough for Duval


    12. use the racing coffer for better economical contributions


    13. Coffer: A small box alongside the Ark of the Covenant


    14. Comes to the privy coffer of the State


    15. On the few occasions when he had some spare change he had always made a point of dropping a few coppers into a temple coffer somewhere, on the principle that a man needed all the friends he could get


    16. In an instant a space three feet long by two feet broad was cleared, and Dantes could see an oaken coffer, bound with cut steel; in the middle of the lid he saw engraved on a silver plate, which was still untarnished, the arms of the Spada family—viz


    17. Dantes seized the handles, and strove to lift the coffer; it was impossible


    18. Dantes inserted the sharp end of the pickaxe between the coffer and the lid, and pressing with all his force on the handle, burst open the fastenings


    19. Three compartments divided the coffer


    20. For example, supposing it were the daughter of a banker, he might take an interest in the house of the father-in-law of his son; then again, if he disliked his choice, the major takes the key, double-locks his coffer, and Master Andrea would be obliged to live like the sons of a Parisian family, by shuffling cards or rattling the dice

    21. You have to build a special structure called a coffer dam to keep


    22. the coffer dams had been drained


    23. Godwyn said cautiously: “You have yet to empty the water out of the coffer dams


    24. If he was to begin laying stones as soon as they arrived from the quarry, he had to empty the coffer dams in two days instead of two weeks


    25. Megg’s coffer, the raft bumped the river bed


    26. The midstream piers that Merthin had constructed in such a rush last December were still surrounded by their coffer dams


    27. He had built the coffer dams, which no one else knew how to do


    28. Henry Coffer (USA), a barber in Charleston, Missouri, USA, began saving hair at a customer’s request


    29. The despatch box, an immense oblong coffer, was placed behind the vehicle and formed a part of it


    30. This coffer was painted black, and the cabriolet yellow

    31. " Two or three hours later, Boulatruelle had seen this person emerge from the brushwood, carrying no longer the coffer, but a shovel and pick


    32. From this he had drawn the inference that this person, once in the forest, had dug a hole with his pick, buried the coffer, and reclosed the hole with his shovel


    33. Now, the coffer was too small to contain a body; therefore it contained money


    34. "Would you like to have me carry your coffer for you?"


    35. When he had rejoined them, he gave the coffer to one of them to carry


    36. Enjolras brought the square coffer, and Courfeyrac opened it


    37. This coffer was filled with cartridges


    38. The sum, six hundred and thirty thousand francs, all in bank-bills, was not very bulky, and was contained in a box; only, in order to preserve the box from dampness, he had placed it in a coffer filled with chestnut shavings


    39. In the same coffer he had placed his other treasures, the Bishop's candlesticks


    40. Toward fall the shoemaker had saved some money: three roubles in paper lay in his wife's coffer, and five roubles and twenty kopeks were outstanding in the village

    41. As soon as he had buried his father-in-law, he took off his royal garments and gave them to his wife to put away in the coffer


    42. And who is this you have with you?” said he, thrusting the money into a coffer which stood beside him, and staring at Volodya


    1. My salvation is currently stretched on his back on the floor, staring up at the coffered ceiling, wearing black camouflage pants, tattooed and hard and silent


    2. Here under that high and insolent dome, under those coffered ceilings; here, as I passed through those arches and broken pediments to the pillared shade beyond and sat, hour by hour, before the fountain, daring and invention, I felt a whole new system of nerves alive within me, as though the probing its shadows, tracing its lingering echoes, rejoicing in all its clustered feats of water that spurted and bubbled among its stones, was indeed a life-giving spring


    1. Let us suppose, for example, that the whole circulating money of some particular country amounted, at a particular time, to one million sterling, that sum being then sufficient for circulating the whole annual produce of their land and labour; let us suppose, too, that some time thereafter, different banks and bankers issued promissory notes payable to the bearer, to the extent of one million, reserving in their different coffers two hundred thousand pounds for answering occasional demands ; there would remain, therefore, in circulation, eight hundred thousand pounds in gold and silver, and a million of bank notes, or eighteen hundred thousand pounds of paper and money together


    2. the expenses peculiar to a bank consist chiefly in two articles: first, in the expense of keeping at all times in its coffers, for answering the occasional demands of the holders of its notes, a large sum of money, of which it loses the interest; and, secondly, in the expense of replenishing those coffers as fast as they are emptied by answering such occasional demands


    3. A banking company which issues more paper than can be employed in the circulation of the country, and of which the excess is continually returning upon them for payment, ought to increase the quantity of gold and silver which they keep at all times in their coffers, not only in proportion to this excessive increase of their circulation, but in a much greater proportion; their notes returning upon them much faster than in proportion to the excess of their quantity


    4. The coffers of such a company, too, though they ought to be filled much fuller, yet must empty themselves much faster than if their business was confined within more reasonable bounds, and must require not only a more violent, but a more constant and uninterrupted exertion of expense, in order to replenish them, The coin, too, which is thus continually drawn in such large quantities from their coffers, cannot be employed in the circulation of the country


    5. But as that coin will not be allowed to lie idle, it must, in one shape or another, be sent abroad, in order to find that profitable employment which it cannot find at home; and this continual exportation of gold and silver, by enhancing the difficulty, must necessarily enhance still farther the expense of the bank, in finding new gold and silver in order to replenish those coffers, which empty themselves so very rapidly


    6. Let us suppose that all the paper of a particular bank, which the circulation of the country can easily absorb and employ, amounts exactly to forty thousand pounds, and that, for answering occasional demands, this bank is obliged to keep at all times in its coffers ten thousand pounds in gold and silver


    7. For answering occasional demands, therefore, this bank ought to keep at all times in its coffers, not eleven thousand pounds only, but fourteen thousand pounds


    8. It will thus gain nothing by the interest of the four thousand pounds excessive circulation ; and it will lose the whole expense of continually collecting four thousand pounds in gold and silver, which will be continually going out of its coffers as fast as they are brought into them


    9. Those agents were not always able to replenish the coffers of their employers so fast as they were emptied


    10. The Bank of England, it is to be observed, by supplying its own coffers with coin, is indirectly obliged to supply the whole kingdom, into which coin is continually flowing from those coffers in a great variety of ways

    11. The coffers of the bank, so far as its dealings are confined to such customers, resemble a water-pond, from which, though a stream is continually running out, yet another is continually running in, fully equal to that which runs out; so that, without any further care or attention, the pond keeps always equally, or very near equally full


    12. Little or no expense can ever be necessary for replenishing the coffers of such a bank


    13. Though the stream which is in this case continually running out from its coffers may be very large, that which is continually running into them must be at least equally large


    14. so that, without any further care or attention, those coffers are likely to be always equally or very near equally full, and scarce ever to require any extraordinary expense to replenish them


    15. The stream which is in this case continually running out from its coffers, is necessarily much larger than that which is continually running in ; so that, unless they are replenished by some great and continual effort of expense, those coffers must soon be exhausted altogether


    16. The stream which, by means of his dealings, was continually running into the coffers of the bank, could not have been equal to the stream which, by means of the same dealings was continually running out


    17. The stream which, by means of those circulating bills of exchange, had once been made to run out from the coffers of the banks, was never replaced by any stream which really ran into them


    18. Its coffers were never well filled


    19. But had the coffers of this bank been filled ever so well, its excessive circulation must have emptied them faster than they could have been replenished by any other expedient but the ruinous one of drawing upon London; and when the bill became due, paying it, together with interest and commission, by another draught upon the same place


    20. Its coffers having been filled so very ill, it is said to have been driven to this resource within a very few months after it began to do business

    21. At the first setting out of this bank, it was the opinion of some people, that how fast soever its coffers might be emptied, it might easily replenish them, by raising money upon the securities of those to whom it had advanced its paper


    22. Experience, I believe, soon convinced them that this method of raising money was by much too slow to answer their purpose; and that coffers which originally were so ill filled, and which emptied themselves so very fast, could be replenished by no other expedient but the ruinous one of drawing bills upon London, and when they became due, paying them by other draughts on the same place, with accumulated interest and commission


    23. The project of replenishing their coffers in this manner may be compared to that of a man who had a water-pond from which a stream was continually running out, and into which no stream was continually running, but who proposed to keep it always equally full, by employing a number of people to go continually with buckets to a well at some miles distance, in order to bring water to replenish it


    24. When his goods are upon hand, too, he is more liable to such demands for money as he may not be able to answer, than when he has got their price in his coffers


    25. As a shilling fresh from the mint will buy no more goods in the market than one of our common worn shillings, so the good and true money which might be brought from the coffers of the bank into those of a private person, being mixed and confounded with the common currency of the country, would be of no more value than that currency, from which it could no longer be readily distinguished


    26. While it remained in the coffers of the bank, its superiority was known and ascertained


    27. By being brought from the coffers of the bank, besides, it lost all the other advantages of bank money; its security, its easy and safe transferability, its use in paying foreign bills of exchange


    28. Over and above all this, it could not be brought from those coffers, as will appear by and by, without previously paying for the keeping


    29. As a merchant, who has £110,000 worth of wine in his cellar, is a richer man than he who has only £100,000 worth of tobacco in his warehouse, so is he likewise a richer man than he who has only £100,000 worth of gold in his coffers


    30. The surplus is too valuable to be allowed to lie idle and locked up in coffers; and as it can find no advantageous market at home, it must, notwithstanding; any prohibition, be sent abroad, and exchanged for something for which there is a more advantageous market at home

    31. When the greater part of the coin, however, was in this degenerate condition, forty four guineas and a-half, fresh from the mint, would purchase no more goods in the market than any other ordinary guineas; because, when they came into the coffers of the merchant, being confounded with other money, they could not afterwards be distinguished without more trouble than the difference was worth


    32. The bank of England, in order to replenish their coffers with money, are frequently obliged to carry bullion to the mint ; and it was more for their interest, they probably imagined, that the coinage should be at the expense of the government than at their own


    33. He had seen lives interrupted by burned bridges and pillaged coffers


    34. How much longer is our nation expected to fill the coffers of rogue nations that routinely utilize its (oil) revenues to finance our destruction! One can only hope that once public concern supersedes its off-handed complacency by making its presence felt in Washington, that its (collective) impact will hopefully override the perennial lip service that oftentimes passes itself off as a genuine commitment to solving this dilemma


    35. Light filtered down from the clerestory windows above, and only then came the ceiling, divided into coffers which were painted in a variety of mythological and biblical themes and hung with sixteen vast and branching chandeliers


    36. Within, he hid fresh fruits, meats and vegetables, circumventing a US Department of Agriculture mandate that his coffers be emptied prior to arrival to avoid carrying potentially harmful pests into the country


    37. While a limited supply of that money must have trickled back into the coffers of the government, they exported little to the barbarians, or to the spice-lands of the East


    38. exorbitant profits pouring into the coffers of corporate America has


    39. From the highest treasures of its protective coffers


    40. We had oodles of money in our coffers by virtue of our Fall Quarter used book sales in Greene Lounge, undercutting UC bookstore by just enough to monopolize the business

    41. A lot of this increase in spending over the years ends up in the Union coffers thanks to the Democratic socialists who are always looking for ways to fill their own pockets with tax-payers money


    42. coffers were filled with millions of dollars


    43. Ballast would be their boxed equipment, including the coin coffers


    44. "An OD box slightly longer than the coffers, next to Edith


    45. Behind a waist-high barrier of money coffers, Swann motioned the newly-chosen spokesman near


    46. It seemed the money was flowing nicely, I guess royalties from a lifetime lost to Scratch’s little trick really had fattened the coffers


    47. Parents and ‘friends’ of the school were expected to fill and pay for empty seats, as all money received above our fee went into school coffers


    48. A second marriage, to Brenda, boosted his coffers by eight hundred thousand, seven hundred and eighty dollars


    49. If negative, is stabilized as I lead fear into Myself preventing it from entering the coffers of the Sesavah


    50. As long as he’s got women in his bed and money in his coffers he doesn’t give a whit what happens to the people














































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