"Account book" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... slipped out and invested the greater part of her diminished hoard in the materials essential to her new undertaking. Not the least among them, as she regarded it, was an account book. When, therefore, Aun' Sheba bustled in between one and two o'clock, she found some bulky bundles on the kitchen table over which Mrs. Hunter ...
— The Earth Trembled • E.P. Roe
... If you are a leader of the people, why don't you educate them? My father says that bringing feeling into politics is like making rhymes in one's account book." ...
— Marcella • Mrs. Humphry Ward
... back the plates and tablecloth, and cleared his end of the table. Mother never budged to stack the plates, or straighten the cloth so it wouldn't be wrinkled. Then father brought his big account book from the black walnut chest in our room, some little books, and papers, sharpened a pencil and began going up and down the columns and picking out figures here and there that he set on a piece of paper. I never had seen him look ...
— Laddie • Gene Stratton Porter |
