earnest money

And taking five francs from her pocket she placed them in Madame Vantrasson's hand, adding: "Here is your earnest money."

Tom had paid the "earnest money," when the old dame came back and said she would have the sow.

A contract was held to be good when God's Penny, or earnest money, had been given and received by the principals.

I paid the arrhes, or earnest money, and was at the river-stairs punctually at four the next morning.

I thought the least I could do was to make good to them on the earnest money they had forfeited, and they accepted it.

Meet me here on to-morrow evening to receive the earnest money.

I ordered a choice dinner for twelve, paid the earnest money, and made the host promise that everything should be of the best.

You can trust me, and if the job be well done I shall take no count of the earnest money.

Well, good Monsieur Peyrolles, let us have that three hundred pistoles as earnest money for the larger sum.

Here is your earnest money, said the voice, nine and twenty silver pennies.