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Example sentences for "ready money"

  • I find a considerable Sum of ready Money, which I am laying out among my Dependants at the common Interest, but with a Design to lend it according to their Merit, rather than according to their Ability.

  • I mean, convincing a Man by ready Money, or as it is ordinarily called, bribing a Man to an Opinion.

  • But this exchange would of course bring in no ready money.

  • He gied Bell Fatherlans a ten pound note, and was as dour as a smith's vice in the grip, when I wantit him to refund me a pour o' ready money that I was obligated to lay out for the house.

  • Lady Scott will not exceed with ready money in her hand; but calculating on the produce of a farm is different, and neither she nor I are capable of that minute economy.

  • Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction; cash.

  • If indeed the spendthrift adapts himself to the splendour of housekeeping, he may, provided his knowledge of his business be complete, and his courage adequate, house himself gloriously for a year or two with very small payment in ready money.

  • This latter line of conduct would be practicable, and had this beautiful attraction,--that it would save for his own present use that charming balance of ready money which he still possessed.

  • He was a young gentleman with good prospects, and with some command of ready money; but he liked to live, and would sometimes want Mr. Hart's assistance.

  • He was fortunate in his purchases at this time, for, as the market was extremely dull and ready money scarce, he, by paying cash, bought his goods at very low prices.

  • Longworth hesitated, for although he had an almost prophetic belief in the future value of the land, he was sorely in need of ready money; but at length he accepted the offer.

  • Other merchants were reduced to every possible expedient, and were compelled to send their goods to auction to be sold for what they would bring, so great was their need of ready money.

  • T is all the ready money fate can give.

  • I'll clear the estate now with the ready money," he thought and rapidly calculated its incumbrances and the improvements which he would make.

  • They had credit in plenty, but they had bills also in abundance, and laboured under a scarcity of ready money.

  • To let slip such an opportunity for want of ready money would be unpardonable, and yet that was taking out of a fund before deficient.

  • Sir Felix could not resist the touch of ready money, and consented to take the sum offered.

  • And if he were true to Melmotte, Melmotte would probably supply him with ready money.

  • He had been fool enough to intrust his ready money to Melmotte, and now he was told that when Melmotte got hold of ready money he was not apt to release it.

  • Ready money was on the table,--and there was none of the peculiar Beargarden paper flying about.

  • I know that you have double the sum we want in ready money--so I make no ceremony.

  • The coachmaker, insolent animal, would not let it out of his yard without two hundred guineas in ready money.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    applied also; chief good; common sense; confine myself; division headquarters; each scale; general rule; greatest pleasure; highly variable; landscape painting; little purpose; miles wide; often known; par les; poached eggs; poetic justice; ready enough; ready for; ready money; ready sale; sandy soil; sugar and; translation from; unimproved earth; went with