Accounts

Examples

• The same theory accounts for the esteem and regard we pay to men of extraordinary parts and abilities. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• This bank was more liberal than any other had ever been, both in granting cash-accounts, and in discounting bills of exchange. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Legree had been casting up accounts and reading newspapers for some hours, while Cassy sat in the corner; sullenly looking into the fire. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• We have been made quite uneasy by the poor accounts we have had of her state, lately, I do assure you. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• This accounts for the phenomenon of the weaker of the two usually having a bundle of firewood thrust between its jaws in hot weather. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• On all accounts, I am sure. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As regards its quantity and quality, the accounts are most encouraging. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I never saw it on you before, which accounts for the mistake, you see. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• We fought behind breastworks, which accounts in some degree for the disparity. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• The London press has not had very full accounts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• True, said I, which, I suppose, accounts for her preference of Horace Beckford. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The Jesuit accounts describe a country greatly devastated by perpetual feudal war. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She's not dead--or wasn't by last accounts. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Under existing circumstances, it is as well on all accounts that they should not. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• All the partnership books and papers must remain in our possession; all your books and papers; all money accounts and securities, of both kinds. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Chinese history is still very imperfectly known to European students, and our accounts of the early records are particularly unsatisfactory. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• She has a reputation for giving smart accounts of things, and she must be at these people's early, my dear, to lose nothing of the fun. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This accounts for the matter by means of accession; which is taking a needless circuit. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• The earliest accounts of the social life of Rome give us a picture of a very primitive Aryan community. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then, to be sure, that accounts for your hands. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• So far as I can make out, it is nothing more exciting than an Abbey's accounts dating from the second half of the fifteenth century. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• But this accounts not sufficiently for the satisfaction, which attends riches. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• I will see that the buttons of the recruits are properly bright and that the sergeants make no mistakes in their accounts. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Other accounts make Charles wear a shroud and lie in the coffin, remaining there alone until the last mourner had left the chapel. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And you, said he, when in England, have only to exhibit your accounts to the treasury, and you will be paid immediately. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Great rejoicing on both sides of the ocean followed, and the public print was filled with accounts of the enterprise. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I'm fifty-five years of age, and that little fact of itself accounts for any loss of strength. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The four people of whom I inquired gave me four different accounts of his plans and projects when he left Knowlesbury. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Margaret was weary and impatient of the accounts which Dixon perpetually brought to Mrs. Hale of the behaviour of these would-be servants. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Miss Sharp's accounts of his employment at Queen's Crawley were not caricatures. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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