Fordyce gets hold of the bills you gave Mossop, and Rawkins buys up some of the things you had given renewals for, and then all that trash you took in part payment of your acceptances turns up, some day or other, to be paid for; and what between the bills that never were to be negotiated-but somehow do get abroad-and the sums sent to meet others applied in quite a different direction, I'll lay eighty to fifty in tens or ponies there's no gentleman living ever mastered one of these embarrassments.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
In most cases the Bushman who buys a forest ranch has scarcely any money left when he has made the purchase.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
The farmer who moves in town to live on his income is a sorry individual unless he has a garden and chickens, or buys and sells farms, or occupies his time with work of some kind.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter