The king had them rebuilt in a much better style than before, gave him ample means to start again, and redeemed the due-bill he had given to the Mennonites. ❋ F. [Translator] Jordan (N/A)
_Monsieur le Mongo_ must know, he continued, that there was not much law on the coast of Africa; and that, as he had Monsieur le Mongo's promissory note, or due-bill, for the negroes, he thought this charming little _ruse_ would be the most amiable and practical mode of enforcing it! ❋ Theodore Canot (N/A)
[That is done] perhaps, in order to make them sell their claims; for of the two-thirds or more remaining from the face value of the due-bill for their service of wealth, a great share of profit falls to the governor, as is openly muttered. ❋ James Alexander Robertson (1906)
He spoke so firmly that I was persuaded to make him a little loan, taking his due-bill for it, which he always insisted on giving. ❋ Thomas Nelson Page (1887)
I wrote and asked whether I had better send him my note, or a due-bill, or how he would prefer to have the indebtedness made of record and he answered every other topic in the letter pleasantly but never replied to that at all. ❋ Mark Twain (1872)
Mr. Bollman thereupon repaid two hundred and fifty dollars of the amount loaned, and Bucholz executed another due-bill for the sum of one hundred dollars, payable to Edward Sommers. ❋ Allan Pinkerton (1856)
Rendered, now, desperate by his losses and the brandy which inflamed his brain, he borrowed, once more, on his due-bill -- this time to the amount of several hundred dollars. ❋ Unknown (1847)
Searching carefully among these, he found a receipt for the money, mentioning the identical items, date, and circumstances of the transaction; stating that a due-bill had been given and lost, and was to be restored by the creditor when found. ❋ Lydia Maria Francis Child (1841)
It was a sort of due-bill, promising to pay a small sum for beer, which had been supplied to his Majesty, so soon as God should enable him, or the distracted circumstances of his kingdom make it possible, -- or some touching and helpless expression of that kind. ❋ Nathaniel Hawthorne (1834)
The young Mohican bent over the track, and removing the scattered leaves from around the place, he examined it with much of that sort of scrutiny, that a money-dealer, in these days of pecuniary doubts, would bestow on a suspected due-bill. ❋ Unknown (1826)
The young Mohican bent over the track, and removing the scattered leaves from around the place, he examined it with much of that sort of scrutiny that a money dealer, in these days of pecuniary doubts, would bestow on a suspected due-bill. ❋ Unknown (1826)
I'm reasonable in these matters, and don't crave your blood, though there's them about that would look upon you more as a due-bill for the bounty than a human mortal. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
The crime -- if crime _you_ would call it, is this: he came to our store to trade out a due-bill, as I said, and after he had gone, we missed a pocket-handkerchief. " ❋ Day Kellogg Lee (N/A)
"He came the other day to trade out a due-bill, and -- I believe Fairbanks is well enough satisfied about him now. ❋ Day Kellogg Lee (N/A)
