cheque-books

It's the sinners the tabloids pursue with their cheque-books. '

They didn’t read Pitchfork or Stereogum or Gorilla vs. Bear or Hipster Runoff Josh Spilker 2010

If they knew what happiness lurked in embryo within their foolish cheque-books!

New Grub Street 2003

It's the sinners the tabloids pursue with their cheque-books. '

To The Hilt Francis, Dick, 1920- 1996

They didn't have the experience to deal in hard facts and harsh realities, and couldn't help letting their hearts rule their cheque-books.

Quite Ugly One Morning Brookmyre, Christopher, 1968- 1996

Sit-in's and demonstrations have already marked the struggle for control as disgruntled elected branch members battle to wrest control of assets and cheque-books from the old regional executive.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1996

He flipped through those quickly then stopped and stared at the front few pages of one of the cheque-books where all the payments were recorded together.

The Way to Dusty Death MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1973

The interior held a kind of small travelling office, containing as it did a mass of papers, including invoices, receipts, cheque-books and contracts: the owner of the Coronado team obviously served as his own accountant.

The Way to Dusty Death MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1973

Harlow ignored everything except an elastic-bound bunch of expired cheque-books.

The Way to Dusty Death MacLean, Alistair, 1922- 1973

The top one contained some cheque-books, all unused, except for one in which every cheque stub had been made out to ‘The Bearer’.

Maigret and Monsieur Charles Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1972

Before the invention of cheque-books, the practice of issuing notes was considered so essentially the main feature of banking, that a prohibition of issue was considered an effectual bar against banking.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Various