Koenig, of course, took occasion to explain the whole matter, and to prove, by means of his ledgers and by oral testimony, how entirely unjust was the accusation against him.
They demanded an expert examination of his ledgers for the last three years, and this task required fully three months.
Lists of these gifts and of other jewels are preserved in the ledgers of this ancient firm of goldsmith-bankers, and have been published by Mr. F.
Hilton Price, who enabled me to photograph the oldledgers in Child's Bank; and to Mr. J.
Sam opened a note-book in which the first rough draughts of matter relating to this most important subject were entered, preparatory to being copied out into one of the ledgers in the outer office.
Yes, sooner than die I would live over again my miserable boyhood in my uncle Salomon's office, miscalculating in his ledgers like a Trinitarian, while I scribbled poems for the Hamburg Wächter.
The ledgers and other account books of Mr. Foster were then examined, but no mention of any Castro, either in 1854 or at any other time, could be found.
Under a press were some green ledgers capped with copper.
Mercer's ledgers make repeated references to the purchase of hinges, locks, latches, and other related iron equipment.
Several entries in the ledgers refer to the purchase of such hinges.
The ledgers point to a constant purchasing of nails which is reflected in the great quantity recovered from the excavations.
For one thing, Mercer's ledgers mention no purchases of gin.
Fifteen minutes later the flash of a bald head, glistening in the glare of the lower hall lantern, told him that the finest old gentleman in the world had arrived, and on the very minute.
Miss MacFarlane isn't at all my kind of a girl," Corinne had declared to Garry.
The greatest man I have met yet," he said in his quick, impulsive way.
You'd think he was a woman, he is so gentle and tender.
During the outbreak Peter stood leaning on his umbrella, a smile playing over his smooth-shaven face, his eyes snapping as if at some inwardly suppressed fun.
He had quite forgotten that part of the older man's counsel which referred to the dignity of work, even of that work which might be considered as menial.
I'm ashamed of myself making comparisons, but that was the kind of life I loved, because there was sincerity in it.
Up to this moment no word had been addressed to Jack, who stood outside the half circle waiting for some sign of recognition from the great man; and a little disappointed when none came.
The more usual adaptation of the slip system to ledgers is to be found in the employment of card ledgers or loose-leaf ledgers.
By the employment of adjustment accounts, which complete the double-entry record in each ledger, these various ledgers may readily be made self-balancing, thus enabling clerical errors to be localized and responsibility enforced.
He took down ledgers and flashed great rows of figures before the eyes of the good doctor, explaining, at the same time, how month after month their receipts increased and their capital grew.
The three unhappy clerks fixed their eyes upon their ledgers to avoid the sarcastic gaze of their employer.
I never catch the smell of an open Bible now but it conjures a picture of that arid office, angular, polished, and hard, where the ledgers before the disciplined men exude a dusty, leathery smell.
There were brass rails above each desk, where we rested ledgers and letter baskets.
The Bank of England, which in the first year of its existence wanted only one ledger, requires now at least three hundred ledgers to register its accounts; they are all lined, paged, and bound in the house.
We do not here propose to open the ledgers of the English newspaper offices, and to take down the number of copies sold.
At one end of the room was Mrs. Maitland's desk; at the other, filing cases, and two smaller desks where clerks worked at ledgers or drafting.
A sad-faced woman opened the door, and Farintosh himself, haggard and white, was seated among his ledgers in the little front room.
For two hours the swish and rustle of the great blue pages of the ledgers were the chief sound, with the scratching of Mr. Wingfield's pen as he totalled up long columns of figures.
When at last he reached that haven, he found the writing-table littered with the ledgers he had left upon it, and between the leaves of one of these ledgers was the completed rough balance-sheet he had made out.
A study of the entries of his day books and ledgers (see fig.
Sit down,' I ses, putting three or four ledgers on the floor behind one of the desks.
He sat on them ledgers like a little wooden image, looking up at me and shaking his 'ead, and when I told 'im of storms and shipwrecks he just smacked 'is lips and his blue eyes shone with joy.
Somebody told me the other day that nobody got any attention at Crosby Ledgers without a maid.
Let me advise you just to watch the thing a little, and then to apply to somebody in the Crosby Ledgers neighbourhood.
They fell to discussing a party of guests--landowners from a neighbouring estate--who seemed to have paid a visit to Crosby Ledgers the day before.
Meadows as the train next morning pulled out of the Crosby Ledgersstation for London.
But my father used to go over to Crosby Ledgers to coach him in the holidays, and he often told me that as a boy he was terrified of his mother.
Anyway, it appeared that the mistress of Crosby Ledgers could be charming, and could also be exactly the reverse.
The thought of her walking the lawns or the drawing-rooms of Crosby Ledgers as the betrothed of the heir stirred in Arthur Meadows's wife a silent, and--be it confessed!
Can I induce you both to come to Crosby Ledgers for a week-end, on July 16?
The ledgers in the safe are only old accounts which would be so much Chinese to you now.
And during the remainder of that miserable day, his ledgers were almost neglected.
They say I bribed some of their confidential men to give me transcripts and photographs of secret ledgers and reports.
Having drunk his trade into a decline, and being now superannuated, he nagged over his ledgers from morning to night and snatched a fearful joy in goading William to the last limit of forbearance.
Drawers had been emptied and dusted, loose papers and memoranda sorted and either burnt or arranged and docketed, ledgers entered up to the last item in his firm handwriting, and finally closed.
Meanwhile, Purslow and such as were in his case lay low, sweated in their shop-parlors, conned their ledgers with haggard faces, or snarled at their womenfolk.
The middle space displayed a row of old ledgers and farm books, and standing alone before them a small iron box.
When at last he heard the house door clang behind him, and breathed the confined air of the bank, redolent for him of ledgers and day-books, the fall was complete.
It is exactly that day week, towards the hour of five in the evening, Mr. Hartopp, alone in the parlour behind his warehouse, is locking up his books and ledgers preparatory to the return to his villa.
The Mayor, who had been locking up his ledgers and papers, replied, "I will but stay to give some orders; in a quarter of an hour I shall be at your hotel.
They had enormous ledgersin front of them, and at the lower corners of the immense pages was a transverse crease, like a mountain range on the left and like a valley on the right, caused by secretarial thumbs in turning over.
They wrote in the ledgers, and on the membership-cards, in a hand astoundingly regular and discreetly flourished; the pages of the ledgers had the mystic charm of ancient manuscripts, and the finality of decrees of fate.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "ledgers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
