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Example sentences for "money matters"

  • Hunt, I hear, is going on very badly--I mean in money matters.

  • He was troubled in money matters, fearing lest he might be distressed to meet the current expenses of the house.

  • It was but one instance among many of a liberality in money matters, which kept him constantly embarrassed.

  • It was not allowed to him to be close in money matters.

  • It would have been very pleasant to have had this at once,--but Mr Longestaffe felt the absurdity of pressing such a man as Mr Melmotte, and was partly conscious of the gradual consummation of a new era in money matters.

  • No greater Medea than Mr Melmotte had ever been potent in money matters, and Mr Longestaffe had been taught to believe that if he could get the necromancer even to look at his affairs everything would be made right for him.

  • Why, doctor, you know the squire's position with regard to money matters?

  • I have come here simply with reference to money matters appertaining to Sir Roger.

  • Now the doctor undoubtedly did know the squire's position with regard to money matters,--knew it much better than did Lady Arabella; but he was by no means inclined to talk on that subject to her ladyship.

  • I began my part of the business; and in looking around, I saw an old gentleman that I thought might be well fixed in money matters; and if he was, I judged he would be a good subject; so I sat down and opened up conversation.

  • When it came to another case, they played it to win, and it lost; but they did not think anything was wrong, so they kept firing away till they were all pretty well crippled in money matters.

  • Sometimes among his boon companions he assumed a ludicrous swagger in money matters, which no one afterward was more ready than himself to laugh at.

  • The youth, before setting up for a gentleman, had been an attorney's apprentice, and was an arrant pettifogger in money matters.

  • Being at all times magnificent in money matters, he may have played with them in their own way, without considering that what was sport to them to him was ruin.

  • He admired himself for his University distinction, for the purity of his life (I said of him once that if he had only a better temper he would be as innocent as a new-laid egg) and for his unimpeachable integrity in money matters.

  • Pepa Frias began to talk of money matters; on this subject the widow was inexhaustible.

  • Although the Duchess's will was incontrovertible, Salabert never said a word on money matters.

  • Watt’s inexperience in money matters, conjoined with his extreme timidity and nervousness, made him apprehend ruin and bankruptcy from every fresh proposition made to him on the subject of raising money.

  • He thought his conduct ungenerous, taking all the circumstances into account, and considering that the firm were within a year of being tolerably easy in money matters.

  • But he thought Watt might be over delicate as to money matters.

  • Now, Miss Beth, for instance, will be as much a child at twenty-one in money matters as she is now.

  • He was careless in money matters, and had forgotten what he had had when he was taken ill.

  • Ethel Maud Mary stole the time to run up occasionally to show sympathy; but her own poor little hands were overfull, what with her mother ill in bed, both ends to be made to meet, and lodgers uncertain in money matters.

  • After this is done, and I hope and believe that while I am writing this letter it may have been already accomplished, you will be freed from the torment and perplexity of attending to money matters.

  • In like manner on each of these revenues should subscriptions be opened, proceeding by degrees so as to prevent any sudden revolutions in money matters, such revolutions being always more or less injurious.

  • Mr. Lavender, who was extremely nice in money matters; "what shall I do now?

  • You know with what rigid parsimony my son and I are treated in regard to money matters.

  • For the idea had taken such deep root in his mind that he could not teach himself to regard the future without it, and now that Elizabeth had full control of her riches, he did not contemplate any difficulty about money matters.

  • She will doubtless also remember me in money matters, and in a strange country money is always a good friend.

  • It was so blunt and business-like, so tight in regard to money matters, that John and Joan, and Denas also, were completely deceived.

  • The subject, it must be allowed, is not a fasci- nating one, but there are periods in the lives of most persons when some knowledge of money matters may be useful and even necessary.

  • The work has been prepared chiefly for the use of women, a vast proportion of whom are brought up in utter ignorance of money matters in the simplest form, though otherwise they may be highly accomplished.

  • In money matters, you will be moderately successful.

  • Usually you are a little too close in money matters, and should learn to give gracefully on occasion, and be a little more frank and open in your dealings with others.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    church membership; each stroke; especially important; great prosperity; honest face; mean what; money and; money bill; money bills; money enough; money from; money order; money paid; money payment; money price; money refunded; money rent; money should; money value; money were; money will; money would; present condition; real danger; regular system; that afternoon