After- ward Thomas Nixon and Captain Daniel Pelton visited him for the express purpose of ascertaining whether he had, in any manner, changed his relig- ious opinions.
He says that during the last illness of Mr. Paine he visited him almost daily, and that Paine died firmly convinced of the truth of the relig- ious opinions he had given to his fellow-men.
Impulsively he sat down beside the Jewess and thinking no more of the IOUs began to eat.
The lieutenant took out of his pocket a little roll of IOUs and laid them with a notebook on the table.
Of Susanna Moiseyevna and the IOUs they said nothing.
Watching her movements, the lieutenant saw five fingers crumple up his IOUs and caught a glimpse of the white rustling paper as it disappeared in her clenched fist.
These are the IOUs he gave to one or other of you.
I understand, then, that you will be quite content if you get these IOUs back again; those given to Emerson and Flash are, of course, worthless.
You will be able to tell your friends that you felt so indignant at the manner in which Mr. Cotter had been swindled by Emerson and Flash that you at once destroyed his IOUs for the sums that you had won of him.
These IOUs will be of no use to you--they are not worth the paper on which they are written.
Of course I impound them with the other IOUs as proof of a conspiracy between you.
You have said that, in addition to the IOUs that you have given to the two men caught cheating, they hold others to the amount of some five or six thousand pounds, given by you to three other frequenters of the club.
Here are the IOUs you gave to those two swindlers.
That being so, the IOUs are absolutely useless to you, and if you will agree to my tearing them up now, he has most kindly consented to let the matter drop in your cases.
Happily, you are free from debt, as those IOUs are worthless, for they were obtained from you by cheating, therefore you have no demand to make upon his purse.
Fortunately, as instead of paying in cash he gave IOUs for his losses, he will not be a loser to any large amount by these transactions.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ious" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
