It was, indeed, his good pleasure to imagine himself a "man upon town," who played a little, Discounted a little, dealt a little in old pictures, old china, old cabinets, and old plate, but all for mere pastime,-something, as he would say, "to give him an interest in it;" and there, certainly, he was right.
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
But Basel knew, through More and Erasmus,-whose canny smile probably Discounted its critical quality,-pretty much its line of defence.
"Holbein"
Beatrice Fortescue
If we are not in possession of the exact original of a translation, our conclusions must nearly always be Discounted by the possibility that not only the subject matter but the comment on that subject matter came from the French or Latin source.
"Early Theories of Translation"
Flora Ross Amos