It would be easy to pile up items on the debit side of our imaginary cash-book.

Everything went swimmingly at first; Jogesh calling daily to report progress; and a month later he burst into Amarendra Babu's parlour, with a cash-book and bundle of currency notes.

" Nagendra turned sharply on his brother with the question: "Then why did you not enter these receipts in your karcha (cash-book)?

From that day onward he was indefatigable in studying the copy of the siah (rent-roll) furnished him, the cash-book, and statement of arrears.

In love's cash-books the balance-sheet of years is kept with remorseless accuracy.

The love affair began like a novel and ended like a cash-book.

For I shan't be in the jug a minute before you'll have to show your papers and your cash-book to the Company.

To wile away the time, he took out his cash-book and private papers.

At last, after many difficulties, her cash-book of 1863 was honorably pigeon-holed.

It would have been fortunate for my brave friend, if cash-books 1868, 1869, and 1870 had never come down from their shelves; for they sing and sing, in notes of debts, till all unite in one vast chorus of far more than ten thousand dollars.

Those interested in Miss Anthony's personal appearance long ago ceased to trust her with the purchase-money for any ornament; for, however firm her resolution to comply with their wish, the check invariably found its way to the credit column of those little cash-books as "money received for the cause."

It deserves to be the library of every counting-house, manufactory, and workshop in the empire; it is, indeed, a delightful relief to mere figures, and we should think better of the man whom we caught dipping into its pages by turns with his book of accounts: for, with Addison, we have no noble opinion of a man who is ever poring over his cash-book, and deriving all his ideas of happiness from its balances.

There was nothing left now but to examine the cash-book, for form's sake.