Coffers
['kɔfəz]
Examples
- While it remained in the coffers of the bank, its superiority was known and ascertained. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Over and above all this, it could not be brought from those coffers, as will appear by and by, without previously paying for the keeping. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Those agents were not always able to replenish the coffers of their employers so fast as they were emptied. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Bishop said he was glad to think that this wealth flowed into the coffers of a gentleman who accepted it with meekness. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Little or no expense can ever be necessary for replenishing the coffers of such a bank. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Its coffers having been filled so very ill, it is said to have been driven to this resource within a very few months after it began to do business. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She is grateful to the artists that bring to her this high credit and fill her coffers with foreign money, and so she encourages them with pensions. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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