I get very tired; but I am obliged to go, because the Pevenseys know so many receivable people.
"John Leech, His Life and Work. Vol. 1"
William Powell Frith
These last sentences referred to the passage of the act repealing the specie circular and making the notes of the banks receivable in payment of federal dues.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
Clay, always active as the friend of the banks, introduced a resolution, nominally to quicken the approach of resumption, but really to help out precisely those weak banks which did not deserve help, making the notes of the resuming banks receivable in payment of all dues to the federal government.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt