Figures are, however, more eloquent than words, and here is the official statement of the
sums which were paid in to the credit of the Gun Club at the close of the subscription.
Failing to raise these
sums, at these times, he was a ruined man.
If it should turn out that these suspicions are correct, and he has embezzled large
sums, he must lie on his bed as he has made it.' And then looking up at Macewen with a nod, and one of his strange smiles: 'Good- bye,' said he, and Macewen, perceiving the case to be too grave for consolation, took himself off, and blessed God on his way home that he was childless.
I do not remember how I got the money to buy them; to be sure it was no great
sum; but it must have been given me out of the
sums we were all working so hard to make up for the debt, and the interest on the debt (that is always the wicked pinch for the debtor!), we had incurred in the purchase of the newspaper which we lived by, and the house which we lived in.
Fouquet not only pays what he does not owe, but that he does not even take care of vouchers for the
sums that he has paid."
"He pretended to know of an immense treasure, and offered vast
sums to the government if they would liberate him."
The betting-books were covered with entries of immense
sums, as though the Epsom races were at stake.
The consequence is that he permits the bashaws or governors of provinces to pillage the people without mercy; and, in turn, squeezes out of them the
sums of which he stands in need, to satisfy his own exigencies and those of the state.
"My poor client's fate now depends on you votes." Here the speaker sat down in his place, And directed the Judge to refer to his notes And briefly to
sum up the case.
"At what
sum do you estimate this bank's proportion of the country's loss by me?"
He had fixed on that number because forty-three was the
sum of his and Sonya's joint ages.
AN OLD WOMAN having lost the use of her eyes, called in a Physician to heal them, and made this bargain with him in the presence of witnesses: that if he should cure her blindness, he should receive from her a
sum of money; but if her infirmity remained, she should give him nothing.