receipt-book

• “He seated himself upon this and began to lay out inkhorn, ledgers, and receipt-book, as composed in his manner as though he were still behind his lace curtains in Edinburgh.”

  Fictionaut: Sick Cycle Carousel

• “She had a large manuscript receipt-book — every quality, in a word, which indicated a virtuous and well-bred English female mind.”

  The Book of Snobs

• “But Amy had no natural genius either for the loom, the needle, or the receipt-book.”

  Kenilworth

• “Miss Prissy was in her glory; every bow of her best cap was alive with excitement, and she presented to the eyes of the astonished Newport gentry an animated receipt-book.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859

• “For my part, I enjoy the old-fashioned diary, -- a sort of almanac, confessional, receipt-book, and daily paper rolled together; so I will just go on in my humdrum way.”

  Flint His Faults, His Friendships and His Fortunes

• “Committee, who have a receipt-book, where their earning and their expenditure may be seen at any time, by the day or week.”

  Elizabeth Fry

• “My daily occupation -- to inspect the dairy, superintend the poultry, make extracts from the family receipt-book, and comb my aunt Deborah's lap-dog.”

  The Ontario Readers: The High School Reader, 1886

• “A clergyman of the party had, indeed, a receipt-book, but this did not sufficiently explain the process.”

  A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide

• “He reached for the receipt-book as she finished counting the money.”

  El Diablo

• “My daily occupation to inspect the dairy, superintend the poultry, make extracts from the family receipt-book, and comb my aunt Deborah’s lapdog.”

  Act Second. Scene I

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