coffers

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Appeared in the May 7, 2018, print edition as 'Revenue Surge Boosts State Coffers.'

From The Wall Street Journal • May 6, 2018

Coffers are desperately short since Arab Spring unrest drove away tourists and investors.

From Reuters • Jul. 10, 2013

I prythee, good Iago, Go to the Bay, and disimbarke my Coffers: Bring thou the Master to the Cittadell, He is a good one, and his worthynesse Do's challenge much respect.

From Othello by Shakespeare, William

Hanno announcing to the Mercenaries the emptiness of the Public Coffers.

From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?

When he came into the Ministry, he found the King’s Coffers exhausted, and the Kingdom in a Condition, which requir’d Rest rather than a War, the Event of which is always uncertain.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume II Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels From Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von