"Compounding" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... could pay from her income, and she had trembled before the wicket as she asked the banker if she had funds to pay it, and wondered why he laughed when he assured her she had. For Mrs. Comstock had spent no time on compounding interest, and never added the sums she had been depositing through nearly twenty years. Now she thought her funds were almost gone, and every day she worried over expenses. She could see no reason in going through the forms of graduation when pupils had all in their heads that was ...
— A Girl Of The Limberlost • Gene Stratton Porter
... sects of Pharisees, viz, these:—(1.) The shoulder Pharisee, i.e., he who, as it were, shoulders his good works to be seen of men. (2.) The time-gaining Pharisee, he who says, "Wait a while; let me first perform this or that good work." (3.) The compounding Pharisee, i.e., he who says, "May my few sins be deducted from my many virtues, and thus atoned for" (or the blood-letting Pharisee, i.e., he who for fear lest he should look by chance on a woman shuts his eyes and wounds his face). (4.) The Pharisee who ...
— Hebraic Literature; Translations from the Talmud, Midrashim and - Kabbala • Various
... darkly; "I daresay that that feeling will soon wear off. But, of course, if you won't, you won't; and, under those circumstances, you had better say nothing about the will—though," she added learnedly, "of course that would be compounding a felony." ...
— Mr. Meeson's Will • H. Rider Haggard
... kneeling she went back to her couch, slept a little, and then wondered to see Sister Avice still compounding her simples. ...
— Grisly Grisell • Charlotte M. Yonge
... terms with a thief, by which you agree not to prosecute him, is a legal offence called 'compounding ...
— Dr. Jolliffe's Boys • Lewis Hough
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