book of account

Example Sentences

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If ye had perfectly cheered me, Your book of account full ready now had be.

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

Yea, sir, I may thank you of all; If ye had perfectly cheered me, Your book of account full ready now had be.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Yea, sir, I may thank you of all; If ye had perfectly cheered me, Your book of account now full ready had be.

From "Everyman," with other interludes, including eight miracle plays by Rhys, Ernest

At a small desk within a few feet of him a middle-aged woman with a cold, hard face sat with a book of account before her and a pile of bills.

From A Maker of History by Oppenheim, E. Phillips (Edward Phillips)