In the breeches club every member ballots for a pair, value a guinea, promised of more value by the maker.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton
On the second ballots the Socialists made a good many gains.
"A History of the Third French Republic"
C. H. C. Wright
That evening, in a grimly beleaguered court house, the commissioners certified the ballots as cast, and the cloud of black hats melted as quietly as it had formed.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck