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Use in Literature

Coupons

A fat, easy gentleman gave me several bits of paper, with coupons attached, with a warning not to separate them, which instantly inspired me with a yearning to pluck them apart, and see what came of it.–Louisa May Alcott in Hospital Sketches.

He did not have a coupon election by arrangement with the Conservative Party to smother his opponents, hut asked Henry, before he consulted any one, what office he would take for himself and what he thought suitable for other people in his new Cabinet.–Margot Asquith in An Autobiography, vols 1,2.

She would go down to the bank and clip her coupons.–Gertrude Atherton in The Sisters-In-Law.

Many persons live entirely on the income of shares, or debentures, or foreign bonds, which is paid in coupons, and these are handed in for the bank to collect.–Walter Bagehot in Lombard Street.

Often enough the debenture, or the certificate, or the bond is in the custody of the banker, and he is expected to see when the coupon is due, and to cut it off and transmit it for payment.–Walter Bagehot in Lombard Street.

He came to dine that evening with the family, and notified Agathe that she must go the next day to the Treasury, rue Vivienne, sign the transfer of the funds involved, and obtain a coupon for the six hundred francs a year which still remained to her.–Honoré de Balzac in The Celibates.

He got them with cigarette coupons, and nearly smoked himself to death to possess these desired forms and faces.–Willa Cather in My Antonia.

Do the hard work at your end of the line; exert yourself to overcome his natural inertia and have the order blank, or the coupon or the post card already for his signature.–Business Correspondence

Simply send the coupon today and the Verbest goes forward at our risk.–Business Correspondence

To make ordering easier and to get the farmer to ‘act now’ a coupon or an enclosed postal card, good for a limited number of days is widely used.–Business Correspondence

• Prefaceiv
• Use in Literature1
• Coupons1
• Coupons – "Interest"3
• Nonfiction Usage5
• Historical Usage5
• Tongue-Twister Usage5
• Journalism Usage5
• Legal Usage7
• Governmental Usage9
• Patent Usage10
• Bibliographic Usage18
• Encyclopedic Usage28
• Lexicographic Usage30
• Index42