One day she went out with her easy-going aunt Abigail to buy ribbons, the Chancy Creek invoices not supplying the requirements of Jacksonville society.
"Not Pretty, But Precious"
John Hay, et al.
No, indeed it is not; that is to say, it is certainly the first time the bricks have been burnt, but your accounts have been wrong over and over again, so that I have been led into sending out faulty invoices.
"Three Comedies"
Björnstjerne M. Björnson Commentator: R. Farquharson Sharp
The Susanna Hayes had entered Kingston harbor that afternoon, and this was Jonathan's first night spent in those tropical latitudes, whither his fancy and his imagination had so often carried him while he stood over the desk filing the accounts of invoices from foreign parts.
"Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates"
Howard I. Pyle