ready-money

'' Tower-of-Babel jargon, "and a miracle will ensue: You will find yourself, in Carlyle's words, '' working the mighty chaos into a creation-of ready-money."

Professor of religious studies: "Thank you, Dan Brown..." 2006

The ready-money transactions had not lasted long through the night.

The Way We Live Now 2004

Harrigate, Scarborough, and Newcastle races, that my stock in ready-money amounts to three hundred pounds, which I would willingly employ, in prosecuting some honest scheme of life; but my friend, justice Buzzard, has set so many springs for my life, that

The Expedition of Humphry Clinker 2004

And we determined that the payments for our literature should be made on a liberal and strictly ready-money system.

An Autobiography 2004

"_Keep your Aarons_," but would have recommended them, being in, to be out again in double-quick time, if there were any chance of an immediate though small ready-money profit to be made, before one could have said "Scissors!"

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, August 20, 1892 Various

_ -- A Bill to prohibit ready-money betting on football matches was introduced by Lord GAINFORD (who played for Cambridge forty years ago) and supported by Lord MEATH, "a most enthusiastic player" of a still earlier epoch.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 18th, 1920 Various

Nevertheless, albeit so gifted, and capable of winning applause wherever he played, Mozart was constantly looking for work that would bring in sufficient ready-money to maintain himself and his mother, until something of a permanent nature could be found for him.

Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

Marquise de Grigny, a lady aged eighty-two years, who not only gave him all her ready-money, but would have assigned her estates to him if the law had not interposed.

Celebrated Claimants from Perkin Warbeck to Arthur Orton Anonymous

It is a ready-money trade -- I may say it is the only money trade in which we are engaged ... ..

Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject E. N. [Editor] Elliott

Though, as it is a common custom for the natives to have a piece of bamboo in which to deposit their ready-money, and as there is so much bamboo work about the house, of course it is not very difficult for them to select one piece, which from its being out of the way, and rather unapproachable, renders it a secure deposit for their hoards.

Recollections of Manilla and the Philippines During 1848, 1849 and 1850 Robert MacMicking