Our aim is high, but combined with a price that is unquestionably low; we strive to elevate and instruct the people, at twenty-five cents a head (or packages of five tickets for one dollar), and inspire a love for the pure and beautiful in art, with a liberal discount to Sunday and day schools.

Fifteen thousand dollars of horse notes were safely discounted in the bank, so he did not care, he said, whether spring came or not.

No account is taken, none can be taken, of this discount of the general force of the army; yet it is none the less a loss of strength, and an impediment to the execution of the purposes of the Government.

The barber talked soothingly of making a discount on the bill; and I, looking at it in a strictly diplomatic light, gradually permitted myself to grow calmer.

Few of us are in a position to cast stones on this score; still, recognizing the weakness more clearly in others than in ourselves, we are justified in reckoning with it, and in discounting for the unwillingness of men of science to listen to facts inconsistent with long-cherished theories, and for their tendency to accumulate and magnify evidence on the other side.

Such a play might make a great first-night success; but the more the author relied upon the mystery for his effect, the more fatally would that effect be discounted at each successive repetition.

Indeed, popular eloquence is at a discount among the cultivated classes in England.

in the shilling (no odd copies), and allow 5 per cent, discount within six months, and 10 per cent, for cash.

It was necessary not to divulge information that micht ha' been of value to the enemy, and there were always new bits of German propoganda that had tae be met and discounted without referring to them directly.

Bubb Dodington, with his wealth and profusion, contrived always to be in vogue as a host, while he was at a discount as a politician.

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.

"She'll git a discount off her gwarner.

It may at the same time indulge in mere local discounts under the name of bills of exchange.

Do they do such things in your country, Mrs. Tallboys, and expect the mammas and elder sisters to be gratified?" "Mammas and elder sisters are at a discount with you, are not they?" said Mrs. Duncombe.