384 examples of discount in sentences

Every failure to meet the natural necessities or wants of the animal body, in respect to food, air, cleanliness, and protection, has, in its own way, and in its due proportion, diminished the power that might otherwise have been created; and every misapplication has again reduced that vital capital which was already at a discount.

| | | | Orders supplied at a very liberal discount.

| | | | Orders supplied at a very liberal discount.

| | | | Orders supplied at a very liberal discount.

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

" "Rather puts otter at a discount and women at a premium," laughed Mr. Strong.

The only discount from the Union's winnings is that it gave mendacious M.P.'s, anxious to back out of woman suffrage, a soft bed to lie on.

This gentleman, owing nothing to the Emperor, preferred to pay duty on shipping his merchandize, on which by payment of ready money, he gets 25 per cent discount.

allowance, grains of allowance, consideration, extenuating circumstances; mitigation. condition, proviso, prerequisite, contingency, stipulation, provision, specification, sine qua non [Lat.]; catch, string, strings attached; exemption; exception, escape clause, salvo, saving clause; discount &c 813; restriction; fine print.

This seems to be a manoeuvre like that of Lafitte when he refused to discount bills.

Was it accounts, with all their thrilling details, with totals, 'less discount,' and facsimiles of the receipt stamps?

| | | | Orders supplied at a very liberal discount.

"She'll git a discount off her gwarner.

I think you should be entitled to a member discount.

"You have your discount coupons," she said.

True, indeed, the white element of the population was at a discount at Peach Grove.

When she came to him with a grievance he always heard her out with the same mild patience; but the long habit of "managing" him had made her, in his own language, "discount" this tolerance, and when she ceased to speak her heart throbbed with suspense as he leaned back, twirling an invisible toothpick under his sallow moustache.

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.

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

The public securities had been at such a heavy discount that now, if they were to be met at face value, speculators would reap large profits.

A liberal discount to booksellers, news agents, and canvassers.

All the resources were exhausted, disgraceful tricks had despoiled the hospitals and the poor; credit was used up, the payments of the State were backward; the discount-bank (caisse d'escompte) was authorized to refuse to give coin.

He's young, and he don't understand that a New York merchant is entirely too conscientious to find a man guilty on testimony that he would discount heavily in his own business.

The flow of money out of a country causes the loan market of a country to tighten (interest and discount rates to rise) in proportion as the reserves of the banks are reduced.

A liberal discount to booksellers, news agents, and canvassers.

384 examples of  discount  in sentences