mazuma

Example Sentences

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Gather up this mazuma, Watson, and give His Nibs a receipt for it, as we are both after the coin, only you haven't got the nerve to admit it.

From The Adventures of the Eleven Cuff-Buttons Being one of the exciting episodes in the career of the famous detective Hemlock Holmes, as recorded by his friend Dr. Watson by Thierry, James Francis

They need some mazuma to start in with.

From Roy Blakely, Pathfinder by Fitzhugh, Percy Keese

That fellow was a pen-pusher in a mazuma emporium—I mean a bank clerk.

From The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance by Service, Robert W. (Robert William)

You'll have to raise scads of mazuma, son.

From Gunsight Pass How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a New West by Raine, William MacLeod

"If you're after the mazuma you've struck a poor bank."

From A Texas Ranger by Raine, William MacLeod