Payment

Examples

• Payment stopped at the Bank? Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• It's some time since I was articled, but the payment of that hundred pounds was a great pull. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• It was really a letter insisting on the payment of a bill for furniture. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Regarded from this point of view Mr Pancks's puffings expressed injury and impatience, and each of his louder snorts became a demand for payment. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The farmers of the public revenue never find the laws too severe, which punish any attempt to evade the payment of a tax. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In the payment of such a note, gold would appear to be more invariable in its value than silver. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Shirley flashed him back full payment for his spying gaze. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The price of the goods rises, and the final payment of the tax falls upon the consumer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Why should I slink away without having carried out my commission, and without the payment which was my due? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The first two modes of payment are intelligible enough, but what the penalty is I do not understand, or how a penalty can be a payment. Plato. The Republic.
• But the payment of duties laid by an act of Parliament as regulations of commerce was never disputed. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The advertisement promised payment according to the valuation, in case any wagons or horses should be lost. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Apart from this imperial right-of-way and the payment of tribute, the local governments possessed a very considerable amount of local freedom. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The term of payment was due at the Passover. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• We both recommended a small sum in money, and the payment, without stipulation to Mr. Micawber, of the Uriah claims as they came in. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Royalty payments must be paid within 60 days following each date on which you prepare (or are legally required to prepare) your periodic tax returns. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I sat there for another hour or more, finishing my books and payments and getting through plenty of business. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Donations are accepted in a number of other ways including including checks, online payments and credit card donations. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Such payments, therefore, only put into one coffer what had the moment before been taken out of another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is not because they are poor that their payments are irregular and uncertain, but because they are too eager to become excessively rich. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But imagine his dismay when the South Carolina Legislature suddenly annulled its contract with him, refused to make any further payments, and began suit to recover what had already been paid him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• He had this year received twenty-six admission payments of twenty-five guineas each, which he did not bring to account. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• They seem to have been called customs, as denoting customary payments, which had been in use for time immemorial. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Cornelius might be a broker, but we have found no scrip to correspond with these large payments. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.

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