"Payment" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... told of Rory Mcintosh that once when the Spaniards held East Florida, he carried to St Augustine a drove of cattle. He received payment in dollars, which he placed in a canvas bag behind him on his horse. When near his home, the bag gave way, and a part of the money fell out. He secured what was left and rode on, paying no attention to that which had fallen from the bag. When in need of money some years after, ...
— Stories Of Georgia - 1896 • Joel Chandler Harris
... colleagues:—For an ox, whether as burnt sacrifice, or expiatory offering, or thank offering, to the priests [shall be given] ten [shekels] of silver on account of each; and, if it be a burnt sacrifice, they shall have besides this payment three hundred weight of the flesh; and if the sacrifice be expiatory, [they shall have] the fat and the additions, and the offerer of the sacrifice shall have the skin, and the entrails, and the feet, and ...
— History of Phoenicia • George Rawlinson
... observed that Mozart's payment for teaching among the Austrian nobility, was, at the rate ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. • Various
... southern gentleman present at fifty cents per item. On making the purchase, he naturally wished to know how many articles the box contained. This information, on the plea that it would delay the sale, was withheld. The auctioneer, however, insisted on the payment of a deposit of fifty dollars, in compliance with the published conditions of the sale, which sum, after a demur on the part of the purchaser, was paid. I could see, however, that he was now sensible ...
— An Englishman's Travels in America - His Observations Of Life And Manners In The Free And Slave States • John Benwell
... affected word of that time); formally declare non-payment, etc., of bill of exchange; fig. failure of ...
— Every Man In His Humor - (The Anglicized Edition) • Ben Jonson
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