Here was an obstacle, indeed, which all his master's banknotes could not remove.
There are neither guards nor gratings to protect its treasures; gold, silver, banknotes are freely exposed, at the mercy of the first comer.
No doubt, for he is carrying an enormous sum in brand-new banknotes with him.
Chapter 15 In Which the Bag ofBanknotes Disgorges Some Thousands of Pounds More The train entered the station.
Phileas Fogg paid the Indian with some banknotes which he extracted from the famous carpetbag, a proceeding that seemed to deprive poor Passepartout of his vitals.
If he had escaped unscathed, the package of banknotes had not--it was his coat that shielded them from view, not the wrappers, for the wrappers had been torn almost entirely away in his hasty exit over the fence.
He took thebanknotes from his pocket, and laid them on the desk.
It was full to the top with banknotes and securities.
His eyes behind the mask travelled from the diamond pendant to the pile of banknotes, and from the banknotes to the two men, whose faces had gone suddenly white, and who now sat rigidly in their chairs, as though turned to stone.
Laroque began to remove what were evidently packages of banknotes from the safe--but Jimmie Dale was no longer watching the scene.
She had indeed refused banknotes diffidently offered to her by him, telling him to keep them by him till need of them arose.
Yes, the young woman had sold her the bag with the clothing and advised her to put the banknotes in it.
Roger squared his shoulders, took the banknotes from her unresisting hand and gravely folded them into her bag before he spoke again.
Chekalinsky drew from his pocket a number of banknotes and paid at once.
He had no fears while turning white paper into banknotes in the seclusion of his own workshop, but he was full of apprehensions concerning his present guest, because several people had to be let into the secret.
Rapidly sorting out the more valuable of these, Lanyard disposed them about his person, then confiscated the banknotes as indemnity for his stolen money-belt, replaced the rejections, and reclosed and locked the safe.
And she laid a package of crisp banknotes on the table.
He eagerly picked up the package, which was fastened in the middle by a band of paper, flipped the ends of the banknotes back and forth with his finger, then proceeded to count the money.
Letty Lane ruffled the pile of banknotes and without looking drew out two or three bills, putting them into the child's hands.
It is also my desire to be able to recommend you,” said he curtly, carelessly taking up a package of the banknotes and playing with ten thousand florins as if they were so many valueless scraps of paper.
When the straw-hat manufacturer entered, the banker was sitting before the banknotes apparently absorbed in intricate calculations.
A sudden thought caused him to smile, and he shoved the banknoteswhere they came more prominently into view.
Half the population was engaged in salt-burning; 1/2d and 1d banknotes were current, and very little coin was to be seen.
In his mind's eye, he saw the banknotes in a heap before him.
He took a roll of banknotes from the belt pocket of his leather chaps and counted them for the third time.
Tinhorn Frank's dark eyes gleamed with an avaricious light at sight of the roll of yellow banknotes which Smith flung carelessly upon the bar, but he had earned his living by his wits too long to betray eagerness.
He secured his dress-suit case from the parcel-room, deposited the package of banknotes in the dress-suit case, and sought a taxi.
Dave Henderson jerked his hand toward the package of banknotes that lay on the table before him.
Tydeman's library, still gaped apart, disclosing the edges of the banknotes within.
Dave Henderson jerked his hand toward the package ofbanknotes again.
He, too, was interested in that package ofbanknotes in the safe!
He was running now, the package of banknotes in his hand, for the door.
He picked up the package of banknotes from the floor, examined it, dropped it again, and ran to Bookie Skar-van's side.
Later the letter would be handed to Theodore, in the middle of the banknotes with which one paid the bill.
The chief rogue glared his indignation as White handed a handful of banknotes to Josef, and voiced it when he received the balance sheet.
He went on to relate how, not wishing to trust the Greek waiter with a large sum, he had sent a clerk to pay the banknotes into the hands of Titoff, at the Maritza.
Believing, as she did, that the banknotesfound in the album were all good, the oldest Corner House girl considered that the bonds might be of great value, too.
The bonds and banknotes pasted into the big volume she had found in the garret gave Agnes not the least anxiety.
Ruth replaced the banknotes in her purse and walked home with a face still troubled.
Emma Harpe walked briskly into her office and, taking ten silver dollars and some worn banknotesfrom the pocket of her square-cut coat, piled them upon her office desk.
Augusta Symes regarded the pile of crisp banknotes with pleased eyes.
Then he laughed aloud when he discovered it was only a roll of banknotes he had placed there before his friend the bartender had blown out the light.
The vault door was closed and locked, the outer door shut, the portieres drawn back into place, and David Ellsworth, coming back across the room, dropped the package of banknotes on the desk.
He picked up his discarded vest, transferred the package of banknotesand his watch to the pockets of the one he now wore, and as he did so, he looked at the time.
A package of banknotes tumbled out on the floor, another, and yet another.
The banknotes issued by the district were called in and canceled by this means, keeping the money of the people in circulation.
She put the banknotes inside the sheets of paper, then hastily placed both in the envelope and sealed the envelope again.
Although these banknotes were subject to constant depreciation, the worker had to accept them as though they were full value.
These banknotes were nothing more or less than irresponsible promises to pay.
On his approach Mr. Schalk Burger and his Government, in hot haste, bolted to Leydsdorp, leaving papers of the South African Republic and many banknotes behind.
General Blood discovered documents and banknotes of Transvaal Government at Roosenekal, from which place Mr. Schalk Burger fled.
Inside, there lay a little pile of banknotes, banknotes of very large denomination--the one on top was a thousand-dollar bill.
The Adventurer was a thief, and she could not let him get away with those packages of banknotes up there behind the trap-door in the ceiling, if she could help it.
He was close beside her now, and now he snatched from her hand the banknotes that, all unconsciously, she had still been clutching tightly.
He placed the sheaf of banknotes on the table, and shuffled back again to the wall.
He suddenly jerked it almost off, displaying what Rhoda Gray now knew to be the remainder of the large package of banknotes he had taken from the garret earlier in the evening.
There was a cashbox, but the cashbox was apparently wholly inadequate--there must have been thousands of dollars in those piles of banknotes that were stacked beside it!
And then Danglar closed the trap-door again, and came back with the candle in one hand, and one of the bulky packages of banknotes from the hiding place in the other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "banknotes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
