A confessed rogue, the captain imagined he saw in this handbill an opportunity of re-stocking his exhausted exchequer.

France consumes about forty-one million pounds, and the imperial exchequer is thereby enriched eighty-six million francs per annum.

That the debts were comparatively small in amount, was no amelioration where the purse was all but empty; and he had exhausted the limited exchequers of his chums, which with college youths was, and is, not difficult to do.

Economy of time, which is also economy of money or cost, has been the ruling principle of our little literary exchequer; while our ways and means for the future are equally abundant.

Economy of time, which is also economy of money or cost, has been the ruling principle of our little literary exchequer; while our ways and means for the future are equally abundant.

In that year the central and provincial exchequers already owed about seven millions and a quarter between them.

I hope therefore, that April will not prove so unnatural a month, as not to afford some kind showers on my parched exchequer, which gapes for want of them.

With an impoverished exchequer, a force weakened and disorganized by the Carwar adventure, and no ammunition in his magazine, Boone found himself in no condition to take active measures for the present.