I enclose a bank bill which I pray you to spend as quickly as possible in buying clothing and shoes for the little ragged wretches I met coming out of your school yesterday.
I give myself a useless trouble in looking at the bill of fare every morning," Mrs. Stobart said angrily, as the side dishes were removed untasted, breaking in upon a melancholy silence that had lasted from the soup to the game.
Never till now had she so concentrated her thoughts upon the futilities of pleasure, never so studied every bill of fare, or so carefully planned every entertainment.
She had seen the expensive French chef standing before her with pencil and bill of fare, racking his brains to devise something novel and costly.
But just then who should come along but little Bill Skinner, bound all so fast for up the gulch?
By "much wearying" she prevailed upon Lord Brougham to introduce a bill which became known as the "Legitimacy Declaration Act.
Bill had been prospectin' around all summer on his own hook, but hadn't struck nothin' yet, and was so much worse off than we was that Hooker and me concluded to stay by a while longer.
Of course me and Hooker we didn't take no stock in that yarn, and little Bill went off alone.
Bill had found this nugget, and bein' weak for want of grub, of course he couldn't carry it.
Our bill was 6 dollars each for a day and two nights; a shameful charge.
Congress, also, voted to subscribe for fifteen hundred shares; but the now famous Maysville Road Bill was vetoed by President Jackson.
In plain language, people were sold a billof goods--get rid of Congress and you'll have more food.
Maybe the car would be located sooner than Bill had promised; after all, he had nine assistants, and not everybody went to work on this first daylight shift.
Bill seemed to recognize him; at least he nodded, briefly.
He emerged on the ramp, gave his number to the attendant, and waved at Bill in his office.
And everyone lent Cath and Bill something--"for luck.
It wasn't so late but Billcould go into the town and knock up the folks at a hotel.
Fortunately Cath and Billwere both talking too fast at the same time to notice the expression of the bride's face, and Mothereen was looking at them.
We must talk more softly if we don't wish to keep Bill and Cath awake in the next room.
The walk was no brief matter, but at length I stood near the lonely public, where no name of guest is ever asked, and no bill ever paid.
After I had been a considerable time at the station [at sea], I drew for twenty more, but the bill came back protested.
I was mortified at this rebuke, and made a promise, which I have ever kept, that I would never draw another bill without a certainty of its being paid.
The parties appeared before the Lord Mayor accordingly, and it appeared from the proceedings that Strong's former master had already sold him to a new one, who produced the billof sale and claimed the negro as his property.
Although Bill Lenman preferred on such occasions as the present to be a non-combatant, he was not the one to stay idle when a friend risked his life for him.
Bill had said all he wished, and now gave his attention to his team.
Bill Lenman was skilled in tying knots, and in less time than it would be supposed the prisoner was so firmly bound that he resembled a mummy, so far as the use of his limbs was concerned.
A shuddering suspicion of the truth came over him, but before he could frame an explanation, Bill Lenman and the man who had just joined the party broke into uproarious mirth.
If you're afraid you can't shoot straight, I'll take one gun and Bill the other, and you can crawl under the seats.
Bill stooped over with the intention of twisting away the weapon, but at the moment of doing so it was discharged, apparently at the driver himself, for the bullet grazed his temple.
Despite this exciting incident, which threw Bill Lenman's nerves into a more turbulent state than for years, he could not help smiling as he listened to the efforts of the New Englander to open conversation with the prisoner.
Ten years ago hot meals were unthought of on a submarine; now the electric cooker provides for quite an elaborate bill of fare.
If the grand jury finds a true bill against you, the cause will probably be tried at the present term of court.
I said I had tried to fill the bill as well as I knew how, and he took me up promptly.
You want a bill of health so you can go back to that little hussy in Cripple Creek!
No such "government" bill could be referred to committee but must be discussed in open session, and until the bills so offered had been passed or refused, no private bill could be introduced.
I twisted my five-dollar bill in all senses, till a sharp took me for a flat, and he proposed kindly to pluck me out-and-out.
Having supped, slept, and breakfasted, he pays his bill and asks for his horse.
I satisfied my bill of twenty-two dollars, with one dollar and twelve cents in silver.
I refused to join them, when Bill Buckley seized me like a vice, and with murder in his eyes declared that I should not leave them till they had 'settled with Old Crabtree.
Bill Buckley and his comrade were placed in safe keeping previous to their transfer to the county gaol.
I felt that Bill Buckley had missed his aim by an inch, and that, for good or evil, my life was spared.
Seizing his gun, Bill Buckley made rapid strides along the borders of the stream, away from the stains of blood, away from the park, and speedily put many miles between him and the place which he had rendered horrible for evermore.
Then I heard the cracking of the brushwood, and I stood face to face with Bill Buckley!
Standing in his shirt, leaning over the balustrade, with peering eyes, unkempt hair, and extended hands, he caught the attention of Bill Buckley.
His name was Bill Buckley, commonly known as "Fighting Bill," and the terror of the country side.
Well," said Bill Buckley, whose acquaintance the reader has already made, "this crib is cracked as easily as a nut.
The stranger speedily bound Bill Buckley, whose heavy fall and guilty conscience had for a while almost stopped the beating of his heart.
There was a foot-path through the wood close by the borders of the beck, and here it was that Black Morris, gun in hand, and half resolved on suicide, found himself face to face with Bill Buckley.
This morning and noon I called upon the Lord in prayer for the means to pay a bill of $100.
The next morning, a lady called to settle a bill of two dollars, so long unpaid that it was, long before, set down among the losses.
A dear friend was in distress; his horse and carriage had been seized for failure to pay the livery bill of their keeping; he could not collect any money of the debts due him, to pay his bill, and had nothing.
He had just accepted a bill for three hundred thalers, to be paid for on the ensuing Saturday.
To-day a bill was paid of $31, which I had given up as good for nothing.
Well," said he, "when I came in from recitation a short time ago, I found this envelope on the floor and that five dollar bill in it.
How countless must be the host of his ministering servants, seen or unseen, since He can employ some hundreds of them, and send them to buy of Daniel Loest to-day, or pay him that bill which thou owest.
Once, soon after the death of my husband and the loss of all his large property, I had a bill of fifty dollars to pay, and was notified two weeks beforehand that not a day's grace would be given.
Had he read the bill carefully, he would have found, that, whatever its merits in other respects, everything is introduced in its proper place, and this provision is no exception.
I regret much that only thus tardily we are able to take up the bill for a Bureau of Freedmen.
Mr. Pomeroy, of Kansas, remarked, “We may as well pass the bill now.
I am not astonished at the opposition this bill has encountered from Senators over the way.
March 2d, in the Senate, this bill was referred to the Committee on Slavery and Freedmen, of which Mr. Sumner was Chairman.
I do not like to take time, especially when I consider that in opening this matter to the Senate I explained the character of the bill and its necessity.
At the next stage of the bill Mr. Sumner renewed his opposition.
Back to the alfalfa with your Buffalo Bill vocabulary!
The next day three burglars got into my room; I held them up in a corner, took away their masks, spanked them, and gave them each a hundred-dollar bill to help them to avoid temptation.
Sibylla," he gravely said, putting the open account into her hand, "I have received this bill this morning.
To go right up to the pond would take him a few yards out of his way to Bill Hook's.
West (or Jan for him) had to doctor his patients for a year, and send in his modest bill at the end of it, very often waiting for another year before the billwas paid.
When they had gone to town in the early spring, this billwas presented to Lionel.
The bill what's owing to me, sir, from Verner's Pride.
All thought ofBill Hook and the gray ferret was gone.
In spite of Sibylla's extensive purchases made in Paris at the time of their marriage, she had contrived by the end of the following winter to run up a tolerable bill at her London milliner's.
As he drove past Mrs. Duff's shop, the remembrance of the bill came over him.
It was of no use to reproach Sibylla; of no use even to speak, save to ask "Is such-and-such a bill a just claim?
Sibylla, I shall send, in your name, to pay this bill of Mrs. Duff's.
Bill and Humphrey appeared, even in the distance, all hopes were gone.
She could scarcely believe it was her own dear watch that Bill held out, and when she did believe it, she could not kiss and thank him and Humphrey enough.
The Legislature was occupied in electing a senator, and so continued during two weeks, paying no attention to the Relief bill before it.
A bill for a reprint by Congress of fifty thousand copies of this book was lost in the session of 1898 through lack of time.
No freight bill on shipments has ever been remitted, nor agent ever passed free over a road up to this time; and no bequest has ever been made to it.
Congress had been appealed to for ocean transportation, and the Senate had voted a liberal appropriation, but the bill was defeated in the House of Representatives.
My strength failed before I could get that bill presented, and I went home again in midwinter.
Accordingly, a fine was paid for one; a judgment for another; a tavern bill for a third, and almost all had to be bought off from some prior engagement, either real or pretended.
A fourteen-thousand-reis bill I put inside the lining of my hat, the balance in my pocket.
We watched our chance and stole it back from the house presided over by Bill and Amos; however, they stole it back again in course of time, and kept it.
I showed the receipt for money in the office, but that would not do, so I took the fourteen-thousand-reis bill out of my cap and handed it to him.
Bill sent for his family; Amos and I occupied a small room in the mill for a living apartment, where we were to keep bachelors' hall.
Bill had one cent as foreman, Amos and I each half a cent a board.
I was furnished with a seaman's outfit, which, with my board bill and expenses, amounted exactly to eighty dollars; that was the advance.
None of the natives was willing to work, so Bill induced Amos and me to go with him.
He was to deduct my boardbill and give me the balance of the money, but I never got a cent of it.
My friend would not go without me, so Tom, the carpenter, proposed that I should also go, as there was a blacksmith by the name of Bill who would be glad to have me as a helper.
A recent scheme to defraud with raised bills is to raise a two-dollar bill to a five.
A large ocean steamer was photographed, and on receipt of the proof the owners were surprised to see a hand bill posted on the side of the hull.
The figure "2" in the lower right-hand corner is erased with acids, and the bill is in all respects a first-class imitation of the genuine article.
This bill can be successfully worked off in a roll of other bills, owing to the workmanship, and sometimes a gang will visit a certain locality and flood it with doctored bills.
If the latter, the fraud will be revealed by holding the bill up to the light, when the portion pasted will look darker than the surrounding portions.
This is done either by erasing words and printing others in their place, or by pasting on the original bill a piece of counterfeit work or a piece taken from some genuine bill.
Examination of the ship disclosed no hand bill there, but another photograph exhibited the same result.
I have ridden withBill Updyke and Jake Hawks many a mile in these mountains.
Bill Vacant and Henry Hawk's-eye were schoolfellows of much about the same age.
The truth was, that poorBill Vacant was always wondering what would be the best for him, when, in fact, he had better have taken up any thing than have wondered any longer about it.
Bill Vacant was always wondering; he would wonder two or three times a-day what a clock it was?
Its flat bill was opening and shutting in hideous awkwardness, its hunger-emaciated frame rising and falling with a kind of lurching breath, and the film over its eyes drawing together and rolling back miserably.
People who had not paid a bill for months managed to dig up cash for tickets.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bill" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
