"Check over" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with the intention of inquiring where Saunders was when he heard Wright speaking to a man through the grating as he turned a check over in his hand. "I am sorry," he was saying, "but, while it is small, we could ...
— The Desired Woman • Will N. Harben
... to New York, so that he might undertake the investigation of the sugar underweighing frauds. I now called the attention of Secretary Cortelyou personally to the matter, so that he would be able to keep a check over any subordinates who might try to interfere with Parr, for the conspiracy was evidently widespread, the wealth of the offenders great, and the corruption in the service far-reaching—while moreover as always happens with "respectable" ...
— Theodore Roosevelt - An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt • Theodore Roosevelt
... day sending it up," he said. "I've got to go down anyway and check over some stuff for us at the freight-house so it ...
— El Diablo • Brayton Norton
... he answered, with the slight umbrage a man shows when the strange cashier turns his check over and questions him ...
— Henry James, Jr. • William Dean Howells
... suggestion for inquiring into its abuses. They entered into negotiation for alliances with foreign powers, and, by determining the amount of supplies for the maintenance of troops in time of war, preserved a salutary check over military operations. [37] The nomination of regencies was subject to their approbation, and they defined the nature of the authority to be entrusted to them. Their consent was esteemed indispensable to the validity of a title to the crown, and ...
— History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella V1 • William H. Prescott |
