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Examples
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Betweenwhiles he scowled over the plantation account-books, made rough estimates, added and balanced, and scowled the harder.
Chapter 10 2010
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No mention of running up an additional £110 billiom of government debt (i.e. tax-payer debt) hidden from the account-books by being disguised under the mushrooming PFIs!
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008
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When the watchman came back, he found him seated in the shop, account-books inhand, and reckoning with his fingers; nor did he cease to do thus till point of day, when he said to the man, “Fetch me a camel-driver and his camel, to carry some goods for me.”
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The Banian, the Armenian, who pass their lives in wandering through all the east, in the capacity of money-brokers, can they exclaim, “My dear country, my dear country” — who have no other country than their purses and their account-books?
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“This seems to be all there is, father, except one or two old account-books.”
Nina Balatka 2004
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But now, just as if they would reduce their philosophy to their account-books, they lessen the expenses of their suppers in certain unnecessary and needless matters, but the untamed and murderous part of their expense they nothing boggle at.
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He found her sitting with her account-books before her nibbling the end of her pencil, evidently immersed in pecuniary difficulties, and harassed in mind by the multiplicity of palatial expenses and the heavy cost of episcopal grandeur.
Barchester Towers 2004
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It was late when the plunderers appeared before the Consulates, where, without any ceremony, by hundreds, they fell to work, breaking open bales of goods, ransacking places for money and other treasures; and, thus unsatisfied in their rapacity, they tore and burnt all the account-books and Consular documents.
Travels in Morocco 2003
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Drawers were left open; coats and hats, account-books and papers, pipes and fishing-rods were all scattered about together.
No Name 2003
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He must forsake his gains and his account-books, and sit by the wayside three nights to overcome the malignity of his enemies.
Kim 2003
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