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Updated: June 19, 2025
I'm mighty glad to hear you're getting so many wedding presents that you think you'll have enough to furnish your house, only you don't want to fingermark them looking to see it a hundred-thousand-dollar check from me ain't slipped in among them, because it ain't.
"Eet say five thousand dollars cash, and the rest in a bond!" came enthusiastically from Ba'tiste. "Eet is simple. You have the mill, you have the timber. Ba'teese, he have the friend in Denver who will make the bond." "But how about the machinery; we'll need a hundred-thousand-dollar plant before we're through, Ba'tiste." "Ah!" The old French-Canadian's jaw dropped.
The terms that I have to offer are simply this: you can do everything you want, go anywhere you choose, if you will only leave this place. I have a hundred-thousand-dollar draft on the United States Treasury in my pocket at your immediate disposal." "But what's to become of me?" asked Chitterlings. "Your case has already been under advisement.
All the people down there are crazy about you now. You got the house a hundred-thousand-dollar order. You don't suppose anybody in business bothers about how an order's got do you?" "It's the way I feel not the way they feel." "As for the women down there of course, there's some that pretend they won't do that sort of thing. Look at 'em at their faces and figures and you'll see why they don't.
"'The first duty of every man who has money is to ask himself, What would Christ have me do with it? The second duty is to go and do it, after hearing the answer. "'If the money owned by church-members were all spent to the glory of God there would be fewer hundred-thousand-dollar churches built and more model tenements.
The heart of Achilles sang again all the heart of him woke up and laughed to the miles. He had found his clue he had passed the little hundred-thousand-dollar house, and the police in their big, bungling dust had passed it, too. Nobody knew but him... and he should escape over the long road... with the big machine, under him, pounding away.
Every considerable man in Bivouac soon had his social station assigned him, the whole community being divided into classes of "hundred-thousand-dollar monikins" "fifty-thousand-dollar monikins" "twenty-thousand-dollar monikins." Great conciseness in language was a consequence of this state of feeling. The old questions of "is he honest?" "is he capable?" "is he enlightened?" "is he wise?"
She looked up at the ragged sierras of cloud-capped buildings that rose above the streets, shaded by the night lights and the congealed vapors to gray, drab, ashen, lavender, dun, and cerulean tints. They were so like the wintry mountains of her Western home that she felt a satisfaction such as the hundred-thousand-dollar house had seldom brought her.
He announced that he would give the money to a college only if the town would give a similar sum, and what with John Barclay's hundred-thousand-dollar donation, and Bob Hendricks' ten thousand, and what with the subscription paper carried around by Colonel Culpepper, who proudly headed it with five thousand dollars, and after the figure wrote in red ink "in real estate," much to the town's merriment, and what with public meetings and exhortations in the churches, and what with voting one hundred thousand dollars in bonds by Garrison County for the privilege of sending students to the college without tuition, the amount was raised; and as the procession wheeled out of Main Street to attend the ceremonies incident to laying the corner-stone that beautiful October day, it is doubtful which was the prouder man Martin Culpepper, the master of ceremonies, in his plumed hat, flashing sword, and red sash, or General Philemon Ward, who for the first time in a dozen years heard the crowd cheer his name when the governor in his speech pointed at the general's picture his campaign picture that had been hooted with derision and spattered with filth on so many different occasions in the town.
He's my consulting engineer." "That cuts no ice. I'm doing some work for him for him; understand? It's not for you. He gave me the job not you. After what you've said to me here, I wouldn't take a hundred-thousand-dollar job from you, not if I was walking around on my uppers. Understand?" "But but-" Blake's anger burst out in volcanic rage. "That's it, straight!
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