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Example sentences for "treasury"

Lexicographically close words:
treasurership; treasures; treasuries; treasuring; treasuror; treat; treate; treated; treateth; treatie
  1. Think you they would furnish money if your treasury was exhausted?

  2. Millions of money at once began to pour into the treasury of the new nation, while armies and fleets were sent to help fight her battles and to guard her coasts.

  3. I rejoice not to sit on the Treasury Bench with him.

  4. Mr. Herbert pointed with his finger to Mr. Disraeli sitting on the Treasury Bench.

  5. He would have no child forced to do so, but he protested against paying money from the treasury of the State to men whose business it was to inculcate erroneous doctrines.

  6. Aldo,' writes Erasmus, 'had nothing in his treasury but what he readily communicated.

  7. An appointment of twenty sequins per month was assigned to him, together with a general order on the treasury of Mantua.

  8. In that gorgeous chamber of the Kremlin known as the treasury of Moscow, stands an armed and mounted figure, richly dight, and called a boyar of the times of Ivan the Fourth.

  9. Mr. President, I will never vote 1 cent from the Public Treasury to place the Pacific Coast 1 inch nearer to Boston than it now is.

  10. Chase was Secretary of the Treasury in the administration of President Lincoln and General Spinner was the Treasurer of the United States.

  11. Many of the clerks of the Treasury had joined the army, and General Spinner suggested to the Secretary the employment of women in their stead.

  12. After examination and approval by the Postmaster General, these estimates are sent to the Secretary of the Treasury where the estimates for all Departments of the Government are assembled for transmission to Congress.

  13. The King himself came down here in disguise to watch her, and soon her treasury in Winchester was seized, and she was compelled to retire to the convent of Wherwell.

  14. At last the black day came when the treasury could not meet the smallest bills.

  15. Heretofore the treasury had been replenished through the activities of Mudge, but it was now disturbingly low and payday was close, while instead of the expected check from the promoter came his disquieting letter.

  16. I'm handicapped here because there's no money in the treasury to work with.

  17. After hearing it, the King bade him retire, saying that the overseer of the treasury would bring him an answer; but Nicolas replied that he could receive no answer but from the King himself.

  18. He also informed the overseer of the treasury that the Portuguese, when they came back, would be his sincere friends.

  19. The overseer of the treasury soon made his appearance, and sending for a money-changer, weighed all the money, and proved it with his touchstones, setting a value on each coin which the clerk wrote down.

  20. The factor said he would rather wait, but the overseer of the treasury declared that as it was ready it must be received.

  21. These jewels, according to the information received from the Castilian, belonged to the ancient treasury of the Kings of Calecut.

  22. The overseer of the treasury then inquired whether they wished to begin weighing at once, and on their replying "Yes," he ordered a large number of sacks of pepper to be brought.

  23. I do not mean, either, to assert that they have in every instance borrowed from our treasury their facts and arguments.

  24. And in order that that of Manila may do the same, an excellent cattle-farm costing eight thousand pesos has been bought at the advice of the treasury council with the money contributed for it.

  25. From this and many other entries in these tables, it appears that much of the money reported as paid from the royal treasury never really left it, but that accounts were simply canceled.

  26. The assayer and weigher of the royal treasury of this city shall serve for two hundred and fifty pesos per annum, without any ration.

  27. The King had offered him permission to go to the Royal Treasury to bestow what favours he chose upon the persons of his own Court; and at the Treasury orders were given that he should have whatever he asked for.

  28. What the Treasury finan-local taxations are only the be-lical taxations are only the beginning of the demand upon the citizen's pocket.

  29. Is it likely that Bacon, breathing the perfumed air of the capitol and chucking the treasury girls under the chin ever and anon, hungered for the false joys of the under-paid and underscored dramatist?

  30. Why are we to-day a free people, with a surplus in the treasury that nobody can get at?

  31. The Senators and Representatives shall receive a Compensation for their Services, to be ascertained by Law, and paid out of the Treasury of the United States.

  32. Chief Justice Taney, the head of the judiciary, wrote the Secretary of the Treasury a letter[3] protesting against the tax as a virtual diminution of judicial compensation in violation of the constitutional provision.

  33. The share that belongs to the treasury shall be intrusted to the governor for safe-keeping and future payment to the treasury.

  34. The guilty man shall pay a fine of fifty pesos, out of which the treasury shall receive twenty pesos.

  35. This code greatly increases the fines exacted from the people, creates a treasury under the control of Hajji Butu, and entitles the sultan to a share of the fines collected by the various datus and chiefs.

  36. The manner in which the fine shall be divided between the person robbed and the treasury differs.

  37. He had no nation back of him to reenforce his battalions nor a royal treasury to support his enterprise.

  38. The Secretary of the Treasury has my directions to communicate such further particulars as may be requisite for more precise information.

  39. The frequent destruction of innocent women and children, who are chiefly the victims of retaliation, must continue to shock humanity, and an enormous expense to drain the Treasury of the Union.

  40. The Federal Treasury is being controlled by a Jew, Morgenthau, and a Jew, Eugene Meyer.

  41. He forged a United States Treasury check and when the federal men got after him he fled to Chicago.

  42. This friendship continued under Crosus, for after the fall of the monarchy, when the special treasuries of Lydia were suppressed, the ex-voto offerings of the Lydian kings were deposited in the treasury of Corinth.

  43. We are ignorant as to which of the Lydian kings first made use of the new invention, and so threw into circulation the gold and electrum which filled his treasury to overflowing.

  44. The Virgin on the high altar, with the jewels that are locked up in the Treasury all the rest of the year, and I with the keys in my power.

  45. Let us see," he continued, "would it suit you to come down with me every afternoon into the Cathedral, to show the Treasury and the other curiosities?

  46. They brought out her mantle kept in the Treasury and all her jewels, that scintillated kissed by the innumerable lights, glittering and flashing with endless brilliancy.

  47. The wires were extended to the Treasury in London by means of the ordinary underground system.

  48. In nut culture there is a treasury of wealth and health and national prosperity and safety that is at present little appreciated.

  49. Here is a veritable treasury of wealth, a potential food supply which may save the world from any suggestion of hunger for centuries to come if properly utilized.


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