"Cheque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... I withstood the temptation, and kept the pass as a warning not to hurry in future. I started out of New York with twenty-two pounds in my pocket. For I had found a beautiful, trustful New Yorker, who cashed me a cheque for fifteen pounds with a child-like and simple faith which was not unrewarded in ...
— A Tramp's Notebook • Morley Roberts
... you did, and I insist on your telling me what it was. I will pay you. I will give you a cheque for a ...
— Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories • Oscar Wilde
... the fateful hammer sounds, And you have cashed in rhino A cheque for, haply, forty pounds, You'll bless your ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 100, April 25, 1891 • Various
... fortunate. I sent the first to the Family Herald, and some weeks afterwards received a letter from which dropped a cheque as I opened it. Dear me! I have earned a good deal of money since by my pen, but never any that gave me the intense delight of that first thirty shillings. It was the first money I had ever earned, and the pride of the earning was ...
— Annie Besant - An Autobiography • Annie Besant
... country in the world where it is more difficult to judge a person by his dress than Australia. You may sit beside a rough, vulgar-looking fellow, with an old cabbage-tree hat and a dirty pair of moles, with all the appearance of a tramp; yet he may be a squatter, who could write a cheque for twenty thousand. To a casual observer, the boys would easily pass as shearers or men on the look-out for work, and the girls would pass as easily for new chums. There were plenty of both classes scattered ...
— Australia Revenged • Boomerang
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