sum of money

• “It may here be remembered, that I related a few pages back, that I hired out a sum of money to Mr. Robert Stanton, and took his note for it.”

  Life and Adventures of Venture

• “People began to say that it was not his first piece of folly — that Dorf had received a large sum of money to hold his tongue and go away; other people said that she had received it.”

  Pillars of Society

• “This charter to contain the five great points which the Resultat of December offered on the part of the King, the abolition of pecuniary privileges offered by the privileged orders, & the adoption of the National debt and a grant of the sum of money asked from the nation.”

  Letters

• “One Panis, * who is in the Comite de Surveillance, had, a few days previous to these dreadful events, become, I know not on what occasion, the depositary of a large sum of money belonging to a gentleman of his section.”

  A Residence in France During the Years 1792 1793 1794 and 1795

• “For a long time he found himself stuck close by the side of Miss Fitzgibbon, — Miss Aspasia Fitzgibbon, — who had once relieved him from terrible pecuniary anxiety by paying for him a sum of money which was due by him on her brother's account.”

  Phineas Finn

• “According to Stuey, King borrowed a large sum of money from Johnny Chan and promptly lost it.”

  Simon & Schuster: One of a Kind

• “The Baschkirs rely upon their ` ` devil-seer '' who discovers the presence of the evil spirit and drives him away if rewarded by the present of a sum of money or a fat sheep.”

  Labor Among Primitive Peoples

• “Such a large sum of money would go a long way toward helping to pay off Uncle Owens ten-thousand-dollar debt.”

  Simon & Schuster: Sluggers: Water, Water Everywhere

• “The first Trewhella, Alfred John, had died two years ago, leaving his wife with a neat sum of money and this house, “St. Columb”, and also with a little girl named Gladys, who came running in shaking her long brown hair just after the Somers appeared.”

  Kangaroo

• “When these things came to the ears of the Sultan, he was greatly pleased with the prompt obedience of Ashimullah, and sent him a large sum of money and his own miniature, magnificently set in diamonds.”

  Frivolous Cupid

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