dynamic
toggle menu
menu
vocabulary
1000+ books

bullion
in a sentence

Show 3 more sentences
  • It was buried there back in 1821-Peruvian bullion, jewelry.†  (source)
  • His legs trembled as he hefted up a large sack that fairly sloshed and clinked with bullion.†  (source)
  • The projector was gold bullion.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)
Show 10 more
  • In the words of one of his opponents, it meant "political death to any man to even whisper a breath against 'old Bullion" (the nickname derived from Benton's fight for hard money).†  (source)
  • Robbery..."Jewels — watches — diamonds — stocks — bonds — sovereigns — counterfeiting — cash — bullion — dort..."†  (source)
  • At the end of his life he had to stand by and watch his masterpieces melted down for bullion.†  (source)
  • And she bought him a little bank, into which his reluctant fingers dropped a portion of his earnings, and from which he got a certain dreary satisfaction from time to time by shaking it close to his ear and dwelling hungrily on all the purchasable delight that was locked away from him in the small heavy bullion-clinking vault.†  (source)
  • Until she could find another bank there was nothing to do but sew them up in her clothes, and so Marija went about for a week or more, loaded down with bullion, and afraid to cross the street in front of the house, because Jurgis told her she would sink out of sight in the mud.†  (source)
  • I have seen this same aloofness in old miners who drift into the Brown Hotel at Denver, their pockets full of bullion, their linen soiled, their haggard faces unshaven; standing in the thronged corridors as solitary as though they were still in a frozen camp on the Yukon, conscious that certain experiences have isolated them from their fellows by a gulf no haberdasher could bridge.†  (source)
  • Our reserve of bullion is much larger at present than is usually kept in a single branch office, and the directors have had misgivings upon the subject.†  (source)
  • He was seen walking alone, buried in his own thoughts, his eyes cast down, supporting himself on his long cane, clad in his wadded purple garment of silk, which was very warm, wearing purple stockings inside his coarse shoes, and surmounted by a flat hat which allowed three golden tassels of large bullion to droop from its three points.†  (source)
  • I do not speak it in vanity, but simply record the fact, that I was not unemployed in my profession by the late John Jacob Astor; a name which, I admit, I love to repeat, for it hath a rounded and orbicular sound to it, and rings like unto bullion.†  (source)
  • It was that of a man, from five to eight and thirty, in the uniform of a general officer, wearing the double epaulet of heavy bullion, that indicates superior rank, the ribbon of the Legion of Honor around his neck, which showed he was a commander, and on the right breast, the star of a grand officer of the order of the Saviour, and on the left that of the grand cross of Charles III.†  (source)
▲ show less (of above)