bill-brokers

The clubs, the legations, the avenues and the german knew him equally well; and though he talked about "the house," his only visible transaction with it was to make the name familiar to bill-brokers by frequent drafts.

Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death T. C. DeLeon

If you have influence over your friend, tell him to stick to his bill-brokers, and have nothing to do with Baron

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

Originally the only contracts negotiated by brokers were for the sale or purchase of commodities; but the word in its present use includes other classes of mercantile agents, such as stockbrokers, insurance-brokers, ship-brokers or bill-brokers.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

University, just as the merchant personally carried his goods from city to city in an age in which commercial correspondence, bill-brokers, and the varied forms of modern business were but in embryo.

German Culture Past and Present Ernest Belfort Bax 1890

Lord Adolphus Vanlorme was a customer of the house of Dunbar and Dunbar; the bill-brokers knew that _his_ acceptance was a forgery; but they knew also that the signature of the drawer, Henry Dunbar, was genuine.

Henry Dunbar A Novel 1875

Catherine de 'Medici to the Duke of Orleans, helping thus to strengthen the house of princes against whom he was plotting, by that splendid foreign alliance which placed a descendant of the Florentine bill-brokers on the throne of France.

Renaissance in Italy, Volume 1 (of 7) The Age of the Despots John Addington Symonds 1866

It is a description and analysis of the London money market and its component parts, -- the Bank of England, the joint-stock banks, the private banks, and the bill-brokers.

Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 3 Charles Dudley Warner 1864

I understand you to say that you did not withdraw your usual accommodation from your own customers, but that you ceased to have in deposit with the bill-brokers so large a sum of money as you had before?

Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851

A large amount of money is held there by bankers and by bill-brokers at interest: this they must employ, or they will be ruined.

Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851

The difficulty is aggravated by the terms upon which a great part of the money at the bill-brokers is deposited with them.

Lombard Street : a description of the money market Walter Bagehot 1851