It has even been considered to be a blank cheque for the Government of India to re-establish the reign of terror if they chose.

A hundred pounds; or fiftyor an occasional cheque for two hundred and fifty, when Sir George had been lucky at Newmarket and Doncaster.

You will find a little cheque within: I wish I had fifty times as much to give.

He shrank and shivered and groaned; but on he went, for in his hand he held a crossed cheque, which he was bidden to get changed, and no one would change it.

Delkin, it appears, keeps a very big banking account here in Londonso big, that his bankers think nothing of his drawing what we should call enormous cash cheques.

I hope you'll see my signature at the bottom of a good many fat cheques before you've finished writing plays.

Sawbridge and Wilson were old friends and messmates, and the captain put it to the first lieutenant that Mr. Easy, senior, having come to his assistance and released him from heavy difficulties with a most generous cheque, what could he do but be a father to his son?

There are plenty of people who would give you a handsome cheque to hear Mr. Wingate's answer to that question.

The muscular effort required to draw a cheque for a thousand pounds might as reasonably be thought greater than that required for a cheque of five pounds; and much as the one cheque seems to surpass the other in value, the result of presenting both to the bankers may show that the more modest cheque is worth its full five pounds, whereas the other is only so much waste paper.

As my monthly cheques had reached the sum of ten pounds, and were slowly increasing, the inroad on my income arising from my crusade against publishing abuses was a serious item in my outlook.

His rent was paid punctually, and always with country bank-notesnone of your clean, newfangled cheques, or Bank of England crisp paper, but soiled, greasy country notes of small denomination.

Two thousand pounds were placed, in secret, every year to his credit from her ladyship's private account at Coutts's, besides which he received odd cheques from her whenever his needs required.

"Surely," he said, "he has notWill you read it outthe cheque, the counterfoil I mean, that I am unable to see?" "It's blank," said Lewisham with an irresistible grin.

The memo said: (1) His Majesty's Government had no love or use for unendorsed cheques drawn in favour of other people.

" Unexpected | Totally unexpected | Remarkable | Artistic | | Examples.(1) To a rich and miserly uncle, who has come down with an astonishingly handsome sumstrike out everything except "Very generousmore than usefultotally unexpected cheque.

I paid my weekly cheque without being asked; without a murmur I parted daily with my swill; in fact I comported myself as though the unholy plot maturing in my breast was nonexistent.

Slang (still in common use) 'stumer', a generic term for anything worthless, especially a worthless cheque.

A worthy cheque I always earned, And spent it like a lord.

She had begun by sending back the first half-yearly cheque; but she had finally accepted it!

waste paper bonds; dishonored bills, protested bills; bogus check, bogus cheque, rubber check.

His rent was paid punctually, and always with country bank-notesnone of your clean, newfangled cheques, or Bank of England crisp paper, but soiled, greasy country notes of small denomination.