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"Bank of england" Quotes from Famous Books

... a penny, sweet violets," cried a soft little voice, just outside the Bank of England, one morning in early spring; "only ...

— Little Pollie - A Bunch of Violets • Gertrude P. Dyer

... conveyed to England by trusted allies and placed in her hands. There were coffers of gold pieces, jewels of fabulous value—sufficient, when converted into English money, as they were within the week, and deposited to her credit in the Bank of England, to make her the sole possessor of ...

— Cleek: the Man of the Forty Faces • Thomas W. Hanshew

... the exhibitor. "Bank of England note for five hundred of the best! And—a good 'un, ...

— The Orange-Yellow Diamond • J. S. Fletcher

... thousand dollars; and bills receivable, about six hundred thousand dollars. Of these, at least one hundred thousand dollars were on demand, with stock collaterals. Therefore, for the extent of our business, we were stronger than the Bank of England, or any bank in New ...

— The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman, Complete • William T. Sherman

... tones, he explained his misfortunes. For the last four months he had been forced to send down a weekly cheque of not less than five-and-twenty pounds; sometimes, indeed, the amount had run up to forty pounds. This, of course, could not go on for ever, he had not the Bank of England behind him. But talking of banks, although there was no reason why he should inflict on them an account of his bad luck, he could not refrain from saying that had it not been for a certain bank he should be forced to ask them to accept half salaries. ...

— A Mummer's Wife • George Moore

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