Scrooge is set free from his own heavy chain of cash-boxes at the end of the book, when, instead of sitting on his pile of money, he begins to spend it. ❋ Margaret Atwood (2008)
Marley totes a long chain made of "cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel." ❋ Margaret Atwood (2008)
Publishers should no sooner read the opening pages of An Archer of Charles IX. than they should open their cash-boxes with “How much do you want?” ❋ Unknown (2007)
It was long, and wound about him like a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. ❋ Unknown (2004)
Large numbers of articles of the above description, such as tea-trays, tea-canisters, cash-boxes, coal-boxes, and similar goods, are japanned at Birmingham, and it is to such that the preceding instructions apply. ❋ William N. Brown (N/A)
[Page 162] waitress doing her hair and the cashier unlocking the cash-boxes. ❋ Unknown (1920)
He retired, and in half an hour returned with two clerks who bore books, himself a carpet-bag containing in cash-boxes £ 850,000, paper and gold, which he deposited on the Admiral's _bureau_, and, after again protesting before the clerks, went away. ❋ Unknown (1906)
Hats and garments, cash-boxes and account-books, littered the hallways, and were piled in little heaps at the entrances to the elevators -- impedimenta that must inevitably be abandoned at the last if life itself were to be saved. ❋ Van Tassel Sutphen (1903)
Perhaps steel cash-boxes with a chased design, on the covers; or perhaps a black and brass box with a handle on the top, and full of goodness knows what. ❋ Joseph Conrad (1890)
Thurston House, and the contents of the cash-boxes were counted over by half a dozen eager workers. ❋ George De Horne Vaizey (1887)
(for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. ❋ Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing (1892)
_ than they should open their cash-boxes with "How much do you want?" ❋ Honor�� De Balzac (1824)
a tail; and it was made (for Scrooge observed it closely) of cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel. ❋ Charles Dickens (1841)
-- "Massena, on entering Milan at eleven o'clock in the evening, had carried off in four hours, without giving any inventory or receipt, all the cash-boxes of the convents, hospitals and monts-de-piété, which were enormously rich, taking also, among others, the casket of diamonds belonging to Prince Belgiojoso. ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)
there is a [traffic jam] at the cash box,so [slow down]. ❋ Kenny Browne (2006)
