They might kill him in his sleep, thinking there was money in the house.

It was payday for Highlands, and he was packing a lot of money back into the oil fields.

He himself had heard that there was gangster money in the company, but that had nothing to do with him.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

So if all these beers was to get me in bed, man, you just spent a lot of money ''.

nor was she moved by a letter from Wright pointing out that if he was not `` compelled to spend money on useless lawyer's bills, useless hotel bills, and useless doctor's bills '', he could more quickly provide Miriam with a suitable home either in Los Angeles or Paris, as she preferred.

Although his tender nights were not the ones I dreamed of, nor was it for yachts, sports cars, tall drinks, and swimming pools, nor yet for money or what money buys that I burned, I too was burning and watching myself burn.

Hearst had spent more than $60,000 of his own money in the probe, but still Attorney General Knox was quiescent.

Platoons of Hearst agents were traveling from state to state in a surprisingly successful search for delegates at the coming convention, and there were charges that money was doing a large part of the persuading.

Another Indiana observer later commented, `` Perhaps we shall never know how much was spent ( by Hearst ), but if as much money was expended elsewhere as in Indiana a liberal fortune was squandered ''.

So what Fred and Ralph did was to attempt to prorate the money fairly by taking into account what each of the five had received, if anything, from the estate before Papa's death.

It is doubtful if Morgan was able to take home much money to his wife and children, for his pay, as shown by the War Department Abstracts of early 1778 was $75 a month as a colonel, and that apt to be delayed.

It was not merely a hunger for `` money, gold and precious objects '' that delayed the papal pronouncement that could have brought the war to an end ; ;

When the negotiations began, his quarrel with the king of France was temporarily in abeyance, and he had no intention of reviving it so long as there was hope that French money would come to pay the troops who, under Charles of Valois, the papal vicar of Tuscany, were so valuable in the crusade against the Colonna cardinals and their Sicilian allies.

He was a captain, he said, in the army, and on the train to New York his purse and all his money had been stolen, and would I lend him twenty-five dollars to be given him at the General Delivery window??

Every man who dabbles in the market to make a little easy money on the side and suffers losses could at the time hardly face his wife who was wondering how her husband could be so dumb.

Between 718 and 723, Charles secured his power through a series of victories: he won the loyalty of several important bishops and abbots ( by donating lands and money for the foundation of abbeys such as Echternach ), he subjugated Bavaria and Alemannia, and he defeated the pagan Saxons.

It was based on Claude Rozier's buying half of Jean Audubon ’ s share of a plantation in Haiti, and lending money to the partnership as secured by half interest in lead mining at Audubon's property of Mill Grove.

Purchasing securities with borrowed money secured by other securities or cash itself is called " buying on margin ".

The two tours of Russia ( the second in 1867 ) proved so financially successful that they secured Berlioz's finances despite the large amounts of money he was losing in writing unsuccessful compositions.

Once lodging was secured and money changed, the pilgrim would purchase a sacrificial animal, usually a pigeon or a lamb, in preparation for the following day's events.

In 1902 the city of Port Huron secured money from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie to erect a municipal library.

Merrick was becoming a greater financial burden on his family and eventually, his father secured him a hawker's licence which enabled him to earn money selling items from the haberdashery shop, door to door.

Pork barrel is the appropriation of government spending for localized projects secured solely or primarily to bring money to a representative's district.

Wallis was perceived to be pursuing Edward for his money ; his equerry wrote that she would eventually leave him after " having secured the cash ".

Even before becoming chairman of the Appropriations Committee, Stevens secured large sums of federal money for the state of Alaska.

Morgan organized a team of bank and trust executives which redirected money between banks, secured further international lines of credit, and bought plummeting stocks of healthy corporations.

Soon later, John Pridie secured the right to admit pupils from paying parents, allowing him to increase the amount of money spent on the boys ' education, although this right did not last for very long.

With his success secured, Corot gave generously of his money and time.

An unsecured lender must sue the borrower, obtain a money judgment for breach of contract, and then pursue execution of the judgment against the borrower's unencumbered assets ( that is, the ones not already pledged to secured lenders ).

The baron obtained money and the lady obtained, as a guaranteed ambassadress of a foreign power of consideration, a much higher position at court and in society than she could have secured by marrying almost any Frenchman, without the inconveniences which might have been expected had she married a Frenchman superior to herself in rank.

He secured some successes in the west, and in January 1645 advanced through Hampshire and occupied Farnham ; but want of money compelled him to retreat to Salisbury and thence to Exeter.

In a few months time, enough money had been secured to build the basement of the church, the cornerstone of which was laid on Sunday, June 4, 1871.

Devonshire's administration secured increased money for the war, troops were sent to America and a Militia Act was passed.

Although this was at a reduced fee of just under £ 1, 000, the money was secured on specific sources of Crown income, not on the frequently uncollectable tallies.

A mortgage lender is an investor that lends money secured by a mortgage on real estate.

In particular, the army ’ s support was split between three main candidates: Maximianus, the former domesticus (" bodyguard ") of Aëtius, who was the son of an Egyptian merchant named Domninus who had become rich in Italy ; the future emperor Majorian, who commanded the army after the death of Aetius and who had the backing of the Empress Licinia Eudoxia ; and Maximus himself, who had the support of the Roman Senate and who in the end, on 17 March, defeated his rivals and secured the throne by distributing money to officials of the imperial palace.

An IRA may incur debt or borrow money secured by its assets but the IRA owner may not guarantee or secure the loan personally.

* Investigations into the allegations that Gibbons secured defense contracts for his friend Warren Trepp in exchange for gifts and money during his time in Congress, 1997 – 2006.

Examples of corruption ranged from nursing sisters demanding money to provide extra blankets and / or food or to allow visitors outside normal hours, firemen lived by the saying, ' Mo chin mo sui ' ( no money no water ) and in fact sometimes asked for money to turn off the water, preventing water damage, once a fire had been put out ; officials in Lands and Public Works departments secured huge sums of money for ' advice ' and ' signatures ' that procured the award of tenders and enabled developments and projects to proceed ; the Royal Hong Kong Police was also in on the act and entire stations were organised to ' make money ' from hawkers, licences and in many other illicit schemes.

The first thing to do is get her some money by a temporary but definite adjustment pending a final disposition of the case.

A lady, you made clear to me both by precept and example, never raised her voice or slumped in her chair, never failed in social tact ( in heaven, for instance, would not mention St. John the Baptist's head ), never pouted or withdrew or scandalized in company, never reminded others of her physical presence by unseemly sound or gesture, never indulged in public scenes or private confidences, never spoke of money save in terms of alleviating suffering, never gossiped or maligned, never stressed but always minimized the hopelessness of anything from sin to death itself.

Accompanied by `` Master Greene our solicitor '' ( Thomas Greene of the Middle Temple, Shakespeare's `` cousin '' ), Quiney tried to consult Sir Edward Coke, attorney general, and gave money to a clerk and a doorkeeper `` that we might have access to their master for his counsel butt colde nott have him att Leasure by the reason of thees trobles '' ( the Essex rising on February 8 ).

The procedure for determining the amounts of money to be spent by county colleges and raised by taxation will certainly startle many taxpayers.

It will determine the amount of money to be spent by the college and will certify this amount to the board of freeholders, which `` shall appropriate in the same manner as other appropriations are made by it the amount so certified and the amount shall be assessed, levied and collected in the same manner as moneys appropriated for other purposes ''.

The letter writer who suggested saving money by taking kids out of school at 14 should have signed his letter `` simpleton '' instead of `` simplicitude ''.

Don't you see the amount of money that has been invested by whites around that church??

Payment by check or money order.

There is little enthusiasm for spending money to develop more powerful engines because of the erroneous belief that the aircraft has been made obsolete by the missile.

Can you consider restricting any additional employee benefits to those paid for by profit-sharing money, such as was done in the union contract recently signed by American Motors Corporation??

For example, instead of putting in your driveways last ( as many builders do ) you can now save money by putting them in first.

There are few areas left where a builder cannot find a dealer equipped to save him money by delivering everything at lower cost just where his workmen will need it.

To figure the value of the farm in terms of investment income, divide the estimated annual net farm income by the percentage that you could expect to get in interest if the money were invested in some other way.

Naturally, such scholarly facts are of little concern to the man trying to make money or fan patriotism by means of folklore.

But there are also the commercial propagandists and the analysts -- one dominated by money, the other by nineteenth-century German scholarship.