caster-up

Updated: May 18, 2025

"You are, in fact, sire," said the impassible caster-up of figures. "Well, but yet, monsieur, the money is somewhere?" "Yes, sire, and even as a beginning, I bring your majesty a note of funds which M. le Cardinal Mazarin was not willing to set down in his testament, neither in any act whatever, but which he confided to me." "To you?" "Yes, sire, with an injunction to remit it to your majesty."

Alexandre Dumas - Ten Years Later

"You are, in fact, sire," said the impassible caster-up of figures. "Well, but yet, monsieur, the money is somewhere?" "Yes, sire, and even as a beginning, I bring your majesty a note of funds which M. le Cardinal Mazarin was not willing to set down in his testament, neither in any act whatever, but which he confided to me." "To you?" "Yes, sire, with an injunction to remit it to your majesty."

Alexandre Dumas - The Vicomte De Bragelonne

The caster-up of sums cast a look at the delinquent, the tottle of the whole of which was, "you sha'n't be long on the debit side of our account." "But what is to be done?" was now the question. "I am afraid," said I, "we must dig him up like a dead tree, or an old post."

Edward Howard - Rattlin the Reefer