The Only Use of
bullion
in
Bartleby, the Scrivener: a Story of Wall Street
- 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.†
Definition:
a large quantity of gold or silver -- often in bars (ingots)