Sample Sentences forbullion (auto-selected)
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It was buried there back in 1821-Peruvian bullion, jewelry.† (source)
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His legs trembled as he hefted up a large sack that fairly sloshed and clinked with bullion.† (source)
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The projector was gold bullion.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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Robbery..."Jewels — watches — diamonds — stocks — bonds — sovereigns — counterfeiting — cash — bullion — dort..."† (source)
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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)
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At the end of his life he had to stand by and watch his masterpieces melted down for bullion.† (source)
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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)
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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)
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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)
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When you came to 201 there was a hearty welcome, a kind smile, a good dinner, and a jolly shake of the hand from the host and hostess there, just for all the world as if they had been undisputed masters of three or four thousand a year—and so they were, not in money, but in produce and labour—if they did not pay for the mutton, they had it: if they did not give bullion in exchange for their wine, how should we know?† (source)
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'Besides which,' continued Mr Gregsbury, 'I should expect him, now and then, to go through a few figures in the printed tables, and to pick out a few results, so that I might come out pretty well on timber duty questions, and finance questions, and so on; and I should like him to get up a few little arguments about the disastrous effects of a return to cash payments and a metallic currency, with a touch now and then about the exportation of bullion, and the Emperor of Russia, and bank notes, and all that kind of thing, which it's only necessary to talk fluently about, because nobody understands it.† (source)
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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)
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Your mission is to locate and recover the bullion.† (source)
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And what if some of that bullion went to fund your cause?† (source)
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