1 The first thousand dollar cheque which Lily received with a blotted scrawl from Gus Trenor strengthened her self-confidence in the exact degree to which it effaced her debts.
2 She opened the envelope and a cheque fluttered to the floor.
3 Lily sat down beside the desk at the foot of her bed, and spreading out the cheque, read over and over the TEN THOUSAND DOLLARS written across it in a steely business hand.
4 She reached out suddenly and, drawing the cheque from her writing-desk, enclosed it in an envelope which she addressed to her bank.
5 She then wrote out a cheque for Trenor, and placing it, without an accompanying word, in an envelope inscribed with his name, laid the two letters side by side on her desk.
6 He opened the cheque-book, and saw that, the very night before, a cheque of ten thousand dollars from Mrs. Peniston's executors had been entered in it.
7 He gave her three hundred dollars in money; I saw the cheque.
My Antonia By Willa CatherContext Highlight In BOOK 4. The Pioneer Woman's Story: III 8 Should the charge be less than this amount, you can return balance; if greater, we shall at once send cheque for difference on hearing from you.
9 The books he received for review were almost more welcome than the paltry cheque.
10 Frederick had wanted to pay for the timber with something called a cheque, which, it seemed, was a piece of paper with a promise to pay written upon it.
11 He will have paper that he write on; he will have his book of cheques.