* Discounting a Bill.

She had obtained a power of attorney from her husband in the management of their common patrimony, fell in with a usurer who discounted the notes which, not being paid at the expiration of the time, were renewed under the name of a boon companion.

Reacting from this irrational panic he tried to discount the whole thing.

We had begun to discount German stories of Belgian atrocities and Belgian stories of German atrocities.

We manage to discount all their interest beforehand; and are amazed to find that the day to which we have looked forward so longthe day, it may be, of our marriage, or ordination, or election to be Lord Mayorfinds us curiously unconscious of any sudden transformation and as strongly inclined to prosaic eating and drinking as usual.

At Question-time Mr. BONAR LAW indignantly denied a newspaper rumour from Paris that the British delegates had decided not to demand any money-indemnity from Germany, but took occasion later on to discount somewhat freely the election-promises made on this subject by himself and other Ministers.

I am apt to discount the claims of scouts, as they will occasionally exaggerate; and when I found one who said nothing about himself, I did not think much of him, till I had proved him.

Reassured by the magnificent attitude of America's womanhood, business discounted the collapse of the go-cart trust and began to recover from the check very quickly.

We know all that, at this point, we require to know of the relation between them; to have told us more would have been to anticipate and discount the course of events.

Do it a little longer and I'll put you in the way of touching off a set-piece of pyrotechnics that will double discount this mild little snap-cracker of the Belmount business.

It does not, therefore, discount the supreme crisis of the play, in which a cold, clear-headed business man, who has been deputed by the banks to look into the merchant's affairs, proves to him, point by point, that it would be dishonest of him to flounder any longer in the swamp of insolvency, into which he can only sink deeper and drag more people down with him.

But his tendency to discount danger, not to live like other people, made him find a deep enchantment in this novel-like existence.

She had not known he was acquainted with her plan to leave France; he had discounted a hundred devices to keep it from his knowledge.

Close one's eyes to the difference in uniform, discount the difference in accent, and one imagined that he might be with our North Atlantic fleet.

He does not, however, entirely discount the moral effect of example.

Don't discount the efficiency of our navy either.

When the moment came for the midway pause in the rotation of foods, that we might tamp down and make secure what we had already eaten by the aid of Roman punch, the gentlemen very nearly discounted the effort, as far as I was concerned at least, by smoking cigarettes, leaning easily back in their chairs, and with no more than a vague "by your leave," to the ladies.

The evidence in the notorious Thaw trial, after one has discounted its theatrical elements, was still a very convincing demonstration of a rotten and extravagant, because aimless and functionless, class of rich people.

You will surely die, and perhaps many others with you; but I would not be Number One if I had turned my hand to this scheme without discounting failure first of all.

It took the last cent of her allowance to buy the material, and she was obliged, by a secret arrangement with her father, to discount the future, in order to have some spending-money in the city.

In the beginning of the new campaign of investigation David Kent wisely discounted the help of paid professional spiesor rather he deferred, it to a later stageby taking counsel with Jeffrey Hildreth, night editor of the Argus.

It would be discounting ordinary intelligence to say that I sought with unwearying assiduity to figure my way into the stern father's good-will; that never did dullard apply himself to mathematics more patiently than I; that never did faithfulness achieve such meagre reward.

He began to discount his joy lest she do it instead.

At the first visit, your banker is tolerably glad to see you,he discounts your modest letter of credit, and pockets his two and a half per cent.

"I knew there was a fortune in Almaquo, so I went to New York and mortgaged all I possessed, discounting a lot of notes given me by farmers in payment for machinery, and finally borrowing at a high rate of interest the rest of the money I needed.