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"Some food," itemized Bud. "Yes, enough for us and to feed a starving Robinson Crusoe," amended Cub, beginning the list on a fresh sheet of paper. "And drinking water." "No. 2," commented Cub, as he jotted it down. "And we ought to have a wireless set on hand," Hal suggested. "Sure," said Cub. "You bring that and your loop aerial. This set is too big to transfer on board very well."
Following is a copy of the itemized bill, which will be of interest to business men and artisans of other countries: To six boats, per agreement................30 lire.
In appraising her business assets, she itemized her knowledge of several languages, her excellent education and her willingness to work. She was countered by the reminders that she did not know stenography, could not use a typewriter and had no prior experience.
They sat down in the same impersonal way and glanced around the room with eyes that seemed to see nothing. By the side of the mantel was a framed piece of history, an itemized bill of the first generation of the firm, dated June 28, 1706, and quaint with its old spelling, its triple column of pounds, shillings and pence. "May I look at that?" asked one of the accountants, rising.
I still have our ledger which gives an itemized account of the cost of this experiment in self board, and its footings are incredibly small. Less than fifty cents a day for both of us! Of course our mothers, sisters and aunts were continually joking us about our housekeeping, and once or twice Mrs. Babcock called upon us unexpectedly and found the room "a sight." But we did not mind her very much.
"I advise you to make your estimate well, however. My hands and strength are assets which you might have trouble in doing without." "And do you estimate the whole of our relationship on a carefully itemized basis of material gain and loss?" "Claire, isn't that your understanding, stated by yourself, of our partnership?" "Yes, but well, it's hard to estimate human companionship." "I know it."
I likewise took particular note of the Faun of Praxiteles, because the idea keeps recurring to me of writing a little romance about it, and for that reason I shall endeavor to set down a somewhat minutely itemized detail of the statue and its surroundings. . . . .
One advantage of the Secret Service is that it has no worrying audit. That Service is ludicrously starved, of course, but the funds are administered by a few men who do not call for vouchers or present itemized accounts. Mahbub's eyes lighted with almost a Sikh's love of money. Even Lurgan's impassive face changed.
He furnished the House with an itemized list which it took the Committee days to plod through of his bookkeepers, clerks, porters, and charwomen, and the varying emoluments they had received since the Department was organized, three years and a half before.
"And I remember looking at the Rappahannock Forge." Trehearne broke in to ask how many English dog-locks there were, and if the snaphaunce Highlander and the big all-steel wheel lock were still there. At the same time, Cabot was inquiring about the Springfield 1818 and the Virginia Manufactory pistols. "I'll have a complete, itemized list in a few days," Rand said.
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