Ye maun just strike it out, ma'am, and say that the place is in open rebellion-" "I thought you bade me say that Miss Mary had gone down there and spoken to the people-" "I bade ye say," broke he angrily in, "that Miss Mary declared no rent should be demanded o' them in their present distress; that she threw the warrants into the fire, and vowed that if we called a sale o' their chattels, she 'd do the same at the castle, and give the people the proceeds."
"The Martins Of Cro' Martin, Vol. II (of II)"
Charles James Lever
The household was conducted on the same plan as that of the reigning monarch, and the warrants were made out in the same form and style.
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
The warrants were ignored, but Brown was invited to join a poker game in progress.
"Epistles-from-Pap-Letters-from-the-man-known-as-The-Will-Rogers-of-Indiana"
Durham, Andrew Everett