Use bills in a sentence
Sentences ending with bills
- But Mr. Polk vetoed some of these very bills. [7]
- At the proper time he will put you in a cab or an omnibus, and drive you to the train or the boat; he has packed your luggage and transferred it, he has paid all the bills. [5]
- They paid in their twelve dollars, and straightway began to draw out twenty-five dollars a month, and calculate their burial bills. [5]
- Howard just pays the bills. [9]
- And Howard smilingly paid the bills. [9]
- With a gasp of satisfaction, the old man fumbled in the inside of his coat and drew out layers of ten, fifty, and hundred-dollar bills. [11]
- Was this the Mr. Crewe who, at the beginning of the session, had told them roundly it was their duty to vote for his bills? [9]
- The ambassadors and ministers of foreign nations not only have generous salaries, but their Governments provide them with money wherewith to pay a considerable part of their hospitality bills. [5]
- He trusted his man, Mr. Paul, with the money to pay his bills. [6]
- That very morning, in response to inquiry as to the sinews of travel, the Friend had displayed, without counting, a roll of bills. [4]
Short sentences using bills
- Item, five one-hundred dollar bills. [5]
- See small bills. [5]
Sentences containing bills two or more times
- The last twenty-odd years' efforts to reduce the price of the lands, and to pass graduation bills and cession bills, prove the assertion to be true; and if there were no experience in support of it, the reason itself is plain. [7]
- He wrote a poem, said to be a plagiarism, which contains the quotation at the beginning of this chapter: "For bills may come, and bills may go, but I go on forever. [9]
- But I do know there's a sight of little bills on that desk that won't be passed if we don't set to-morrow night--little bills that are big bills for us farmers. [9]
- Men run up bills and pay them off, and run them up again and again and pay them off; but we, while we run up bills, our ways of paying them off are so few, and so uninteresting. [11]
- As my bills are of some considerable importance and deal with practical progressive measures, I have no hesitation in asking for the chairmanship of Public Improvements,--and of course a membership in the Agricultural is essential, as I have bills for them. [9]
More example sentences with the word bills in them
- Mr. Noble--"Senator Dilworthy, your bank account shows that up to that day, and even on that very day, you conducted all your financial business through the medium of checks instead of bills, and so kept careful record of every moneyed transaction. [5]
- When you plant, you think you cannot fertilize too much: when you get the bills for the manure, you think you cannot fertilize too little. [4]
- I think you will find the bills and my comments on them well worth your consideration from the point of view of advantage to your railroad. [9]
- By good luck, when I had paid into Mr. Dix's hand the thousand pounds I had received from Charles Fox, and cleared my outstanding bills, the sum I remained in Comyn's debt was not greatly above seven hundred pounds. [9]
- The theatre bills were in Hebrew or other unreadable type. [4]
- Yet with a wave of the hand he accepted the roll of bills, and signed the receipt with an air which said, "These forms must be observed, I suppose. [11]
- With such a universal provision, all know the bills could not have passed. [7]
- Now as I understand it, dear and magnanimous 1365, you are going to recreate Tom Sawyer dramatically, and then do me the compliment to put me in the bills as father of this shady offspring. [5]
- Senator Grady was tremendously impressed with his host's programme of bills, and went over them so painstakingly that Mr. Crewe became more and more struck with Senator Grady's intelligence. [9]
- The Young Doctor took the bills, looked at them as though they were curios, and then returned them with the remark that they were of a kind and denomination of no use to him. [11]
- Male snipe fight together, "tugging and pushing each other with their bills in the most curious manner imaginable. [1]
- Gentlemen," he added to the room at large, "I have typewritten manifolds of those bills which I shall be happy to leave here--at headquarters. [9]
- The bill proposes to repeal the existing legislation prohibiting the circulation of bank-notes of a less denomination than five dollars within the District of Columbia, without permitting the issuing of such bills by banks not now legally authorized to issue them. [7]
- I honestly tried to pay my share of hotel bills, fees, etc., but I was not allowed--and I knew the reason why, and respected the motive. [5]
- It is customary to hand a large sure in bank bills to a man you have just been introduced to (if he asks you to do it,) to be conveyed to a distant town and delivered to another party. [5]
- It is customary to carry large sums of money in bank bills about your person or in your trunk. [5]
- These clients paid their bills, but they were neither large nor influential, as a rule, with the notable exception of the Gaylord Lumber Company, where the matters for trial were not large. [9]
- The day before the election a friend said to me that my election expenses must be very large specially my hotel bills, and offered to lend me some money. [5]
- A table in the corner, where Lula Chandos had insisted on playing bridge, was covered with scattered cards and some bills, a decanter of whiskey, two soda bottles, and two glasses. [9]
- When I read the bills to-night, and saw the scope of your work, it came over me in a flash that Humphrey Crewe was the man they left out. [9]
- You've read over the bills I sent you by registered mail? [9]
- She wouldn't audit the bills and let Paine fill out the checks--she would continue to attend to that herself. [5]
- And look at the "Morning GooGoo" (this was his nickname for one of the older dailies), it couldn't pay its paper bills if it hadn't such a small circulation. [4]
- Laura was glad that she had the check for new clothing, for she felt very certain of being able to get the Colonel to borrow a little of the money to pay hotel bills with, here and there. [5]
- Mr. Bascom said that he would like to see all those bills grow into laws,--with certain slight changes,--but that he could not conscientiously vote to saddle the people with another Civil War debt. [9]
- I'd sleep in ten-dollar bills, I'd have my clothes made of them, if I could; I'd have my house papered with them; I'd eat 'em. [11]
- The pelicans and storks remained motionless, their long bills hidden beneath their wings, but the cranes were startled by the mere beat of an oar, stretching their necks, and peering anxiously into the distance, if they heard but the song of the boatmen. [10]
- Oh, my dear sir, printing bills are destruction itself. [5]
- I have only seen two or three bank bills since I have been in the State. [5]
- I happen to remember four twenty-dollar United States notes, and a roll of small bills, perhaps something over a hundred dollars. [4]
- It is well remarked, on the twenty-third page of this article, that "the comparison of bills of mortality among an equal number of sick, treated by divers methods, is a most poor and lame way to get at conclusions touching principles of the healing art. [3]
- The bill for raising additional military force for limited time, etc., was reported from Committee on judiciary; similar bills had been reported from Committee on, Public Lands and Military Committee. [7]
- She could not quite make up her mind to touch the feverish bills with the cankering coppers in them, and left them airing themselves on the table. [6]
- I understand you're pushing his bills along. [9]
- Mr. Ridout was politely interested, and promised to read the bills, and agreed that they ought to pass. [9]
- A man that pays his bills reg'lar, in good money, and knows how to handle a hoss is three quarters of a gentleman, if he is n't a whole one,--and most likely he is a whole one. [6]
- Some of these painted walls reminded me somewhat of the tall van, plastered with fanciful bills and posters, that follows the bandwagon of a circus about a country village. [5]
- He sent me out in the dead of winter to post bills for miles about, and gave me ten cents for it. [11]
- His eyes were open now, and he saw men and things political as they were; he knew that his bills for the emancipation of the State were prisoners in the maw of the dragon, and not likely to see the light of law. [9]
- They look like old receipted bills and memoranda of no particular use; but they came from the garret of the Withers place, and might possibly have something that would be of value. [6]
- In the recollections of this voyage, even in Jack's recollections of it after he had paid the bills, it seemed that it had been simply glorious, free from care, generally a physical setting-up performance, and a lark of enormous magnitude. [4]
- The Alexandrian bills of exchange were paid in gold by the lessee of the royal bank, who was a good friend of Hermon. [10]
- These bills had now disappeared, and when the Friend turned back to communicate his loss, in the character of needy nothing not trimm'd in jollity, he had a sympathetic listener to the tale of woe. [4]
- Her mother had not kept boarders for seven years without getting some useful knowledge of the world, or without imparting useful knowledge; and there were men who, having paid their bills on demand, turned from her wiser if not better men. [11]
- And I busied myself with bills of cargo until I heard the horses on the drive. [9]
- The bills of mortality are more obviously affected by drainage, than by this or that method of practice. [3]
- Four or five months ago I bought into the Express (I have ordered it sent to you as long as you live--and if the book keeper sends you any bills, you let me hear of it. [5]
- It was a mere coincidence, perhaps, that after Mr. Jane's investigation the intellectual concentration which one of the committees had bestowed on two of Mr. Crewe's bills came to an end. [9]
- And so he left me to see that the mate had signed all his lighter bills, shouting to the captain not to forget his cockets at Gravesend. [9]
- You wants to keep 'way fum de water as much as you kin, en don't run no resk, 'kase it's down in de bills dat you's gwyne to git hung. [5]
- These bills, it is true, carried no appropriation, and, were, respectively, the acts to incorporate the State Economic League and the Children's Charities Association. [9]
- For instance, it is customary in all countries for business men to loan large sums of money in bank bills instead of checks. [5]
- Then followed an intelligent abstract of the bills he was to introduce --the results of a progressive and statesmanlike brain. [9]
- Sometimes he paid in gold; sometimes in fresh bills, just out of the bank. [6]
- A splendid banquet in a great house is an admirable thing, provided always its getting up did not cost the entertainer an inward conflict, nor its recollection a twinge of economical regret, nor its bills a cramp of anxiety. [6]
- You gentlemen, as important factors in the Republican organization, are loyal to--er--that property, and perhaps for wholly desirable reasons cannot bring forward too many bills under your own names. [9]
- I know what I'm talkin' about, and I tell you that Ridout and Jake Botcher and Brush Bascom haven't any more notion of lettin' your bills out of committee than they have Gaylord's. [9]
- It's the devil if he loses, for the ground is worth the dollar bills to cover it. [9]
- The first thing I knew was that the city auditor was holding back my bills for supplies, and paying Weill's. [9]
- What a confessional I have been sitting at, with the inward ear of my soul open, as the multitudinous whisper of my involuntary confidants came back to me like the reduplicated echo of a cry among the craggy bills! [6]
- That's the way I do, and most folks don't guess they're your bills. [9]
- It hurried up house rent, bills payable, and such things, in such a ruinous way that I could not abide it. [5]
- Mr. Bascom laid his watch on the clerk's desk and began to read the list of bills Mr. Crewe had introduced, and as this reading proceeded some of the light-minded showed a tendency to become slightly hysterical. [9]
- During many of his mature years he had pondered as to how the welfare of community and State could be improved, and the result of that thought was embodied in the bills of which they had doubtless received copies. [9]
- As Rawley laid his hand on the bills, the thought rushed through his mind, "You have it--keep it! [11]
- No sooner had his bills been assigned to the careful and just consideration of the committees in charge of the Honourable Brush Bascom, Mr. Botcher, and others than Mr. Crewe desired of each a day for a hearing. [9]
- The duke he hired the courthouse, and we went around and stuck up our bills. [5]
- Suddenly Ingolby stopped him, and thrust a little bundle of bills into his hand. [11]
- Then I saw him in the distance paying out money and giving bills to the bookmakers. [11]
- She had taken him in because, in years gone by, he had nursed her only son through an attack of smallpox on the Siwash River, and somehow Osterhaut had always paid his bills to her. [11]
- Then he remembered he had no money-- he who all his life had been able to take a roll of bills from his pocket as another man took a packet of letters. [11]
- Wetting his thumb, he began to push aside the top bills. [9]
- The pistols proved harmless, and then the battle-axes came in play, whose piercing bills made sometime the one, sometime the other, to have scarce sense to keep their saddles. [4]
- I believe our Government pays no hospitality bills except those incurred by the navy. [5]
- You'll get a good man to write your life, and what you done for the town and State, and all them societies and bills, won't you? [9]
- It's fine weather for coal bills. [9]
- Nor did I feel that I possessed this house, though I had the deeds of it in my safe and the receipted bills in my files. [9]
- We must try 'em with a parcel of new bills, and you shall take it, my dear, and see what effect that has upon 'em. [12]
- When I went down town, or collecting bills for Breck and Company, I took a text-book along with me in the street-cars. [9]
- The duke went down into his carpet-bag, and fetched up a lot of little printed bills and read them out loud. [5]
- Item, near fifty dollars in small bills and silver. [5]
- He found no difficulty in getting recruits for his little dinners at Champolion's--dinners that were not always given in his name, and where he appeared as a guest, though he footed the bills. [4]
- When I say difficulty about the heart, I do not mean any of those sentimental maladies of that organ which figure more largely in romances than on the returns which furnish our Bills of Mortality. [6]
- The first two did not interest me; tradesmen's bills seldom do. [11]
- Why did you deal in bank bills on this particular occasion? [5]
- His letter of credit is burned; he will borrow the small bills and the silver in these pockets, apply part of it to advertising for the owner, and use the rest for sustenance while he seeks work. [5]
- He began to count the bills, and, as if by common consent, the Four followed suit. [9]
- Mr. Crewe has come down here with the finest lot of bills you ever saw, and we're all going to take hold and put 'em through. [9]
- I observe he charges for visits as well as for medicines, which is not the case in most of his bills. [3]
- On the whole Carmen fared pretty well, for he would sometimes give her a handful of bills from his pocket, bidding her take ten dollars, and she would coolly take twenty, while he shrugged his shoulders and declared she would be his ruin. [11]
- Now he had carefully drawn up a bill embracing these three separate propositions, which he intended to propose as a substitute for all these bills in the House, or in Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union, at some suitable time. [7]
- He waited patiently by the barred windows until the clerk, who was counting bills, chose to look up at him. [9]
- You read those bills, and what I have written about them. [9]
- He would have bills printed advertising for Louise as he had done for stray cattle; he would have notices put in the newspapers proclaiming that his wife was strayed or stolen and must be put in pound when discovered. [11]
- Before putting the bills in their final shape I've taken the trouble to go over them with my friend, Mr. Flint--our mutual friend, let us say. [9]
- I have some bills here which I'll request you to read over, and you will see that I have ideas which are of real value to the State. [9]
- That there have been bills which never had the provision in, I do not question; but when was that provision taken out of one that it was in? [7]
- And so 'twill be when I'm aground These yearly duns will still go round, While other bards, with frantic quills, Shall damn and damn these annual bills! [5]
- It is true, as Judge Douglas states, that many Territorial bills have passed without having such a provision in them. [7]
- Young Yates graduated as a pilot, got a berth, and when the month was ended and he stepped up to the clerk's office and received his two hundred and fifty dollars in crisp new bills, Stephen was there! [5]
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