"Ready cash" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... who bring into company their share, at least, of cheerfulness, good-breeding, and knowledge of mankind. In common life, one much oftener wants small money, and silver, than gold. Give me a man who has ready cash about him for present expenses; sixpences, shillings, half-crowns, and crowns, which circulate easily: but a man who has only an ingot of gold about him, is much above common purposes, and his riches are not handy nor convenient. Have as much gold as you please in ...
— The PG Edition of Chesterfield's Letters to His Son • The Earl of Chesterfield
... the shop below, was all that he now had left in his pocket. He remembered that he had intended to draw on his funds that morning. His departure from New York had been hurried, and he had come away with little ready cash. ...
— The Girl and The Bill - An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure • Bannister Merwin
... pulse quicken a trifle at the business manager's brusqueness, and upon him he kept an alert eye, for it was in that gentleman's trousers pocket that he divined the Transcontinental's ready cash was reposing. ...
— Martin Eden • Jack London
... discharge he lived by his wits and looks, but when this grew unproductive of ready cash, he decided to seek employment in his ...
— The Challenge of the North • James Hendryx
... gambler was Colonel Edgeworth, who on one occasion, having lost all his ready cash at the card tables, actually borrowed his wife's diamond earrings, and staking them had a fortunate turn of luck, rising a winner; whereupon he solemnly vowed never to touch cards or dice again. And yet, it is said, ...
— Strange Pages from Family Papers • T. F. Thiselton Dyer |
