strongboxes

Or: on the topic of California place names: Anglo names suggest the force of pioneer personalities - Irvine, Newman, King City - fading contracts in strongboxes.

Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez 2001

Or: on the topic of California place names: Anglo names suggest the force of pioneer personalities - Irvine, Newman, King City - fading contracts in strongboxes.

Days of Obligation: An Argument with my Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez 2001

It took me to the Horn of Africa, where humanitarian aid for Somali refugees shares a hold with Kalashnikovs and RPG launchers for al-Shabaab, US-backed mercenaries, and strongboxes full of ransom cash from Wall Street insurance firms, to be dropped onto the decks of hijacked ships for the pirates.

Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror Matt Potter 2011

It took me to the Horn of Africa, where humanitarian aid for Somali refugees shares a hold with Kalashnikovs and RPG launchers for al-Shabaab, US-backed mercenaries, and strongboxes full of ransom cash from Wall Street insurance firms, to be dropped onto the decks of hijacked ships for the pirates.

Matt Potter: My Adventures with Mercenary Aviators: A Secret History of Globalization, Organized Crime and Terror Matt Potter 2011

With Adam Smith, the Republican Party contends that the real wealth of a nation is not to be found in the banks and strongboxes, but it is in the prosperity of the people at large; in the amount and values of the homes, goods and chattels possessed by the laboring classes; in the sum total of their material comforts and enjoyments.

The Principles of the Republican Party: A Rare Unpublished Jack London Essay 2010

No strongboxes and no stockings crammed full of notes.

Portobello Ruth Rendell 2010

In time, the company began putting live rattlesnakes in its strongboxes and molding silver coins into immovably heavy seven-hundred-pound cannonballs to deter Harris and such fellow highwaymen as Rattlesnake Dick and Black Bart from lifting them.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

In time, the company began putting live rattlesnakes in its strongboxes and molding silver coins into immovably heavy seven-hundred-pound cannonballs to deter Harris and such fellow highwaymen as Rattlesnake Dick and Black Bart from lifting them.

LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010

Francis arrived at Boston in late September and fitted out fourteen customized freight wagons, reinforced to carry a ton apiece, laden with strongboxes packed with coin and welded shut.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010

Francis arrived at Boston in late September and fitted out fourteen customized freight wagons, reinforced to carry a ton apiece, laden with strongboxes packed with coin and welded shut.

Robert Morris Charles Rappleye 2010