Substitute currency

Usage examples of scrip.

Dio Francesco fondatore del minorico ordine fu scripta da San Bonaventura e da quatro altri frati.

They would strip you of bag and baggage, scrip and scrippage, and then what they would do to your stripped body is beyond imagining.

There was a slight jostling and for the next few steps, a smiling Ghost let deutschmarks, corporate scrip, coins, and credsticks dribble from his fingers.

Mistress Alice Shipside, who lived at the Grange, was a learned lady, and though she loved well to play at tennis, and was famous at closh bowls, loved still better the lore of scrip and the grey goose quill.

Gideon, the scrip of David, from which the smoothest stones are taken for the slaying of Goliath.

Your cut is two percent, which should come to about two thousand dollars in Starbright scrip.

By this time Nan began to feel very weary, and she threw herself down on the bed with the baby, but she kept in her hand some little scrips of the pretty lawns and ginghams that she had found on the floor.

Why--one of the scrips was exactly like a waist that one of those girls had worn.

He had more than kept his word, giving each of the peasants clothing, a knife, a scrip of food for the journey, a waterbag and either a silver coin or a handful of bronze ones, in addition to his freedom.

He collared the nearest trash bag tearing it open, pulling out pages, scraps, fragments of landscapes, coastlines, a palm size scrip of cheap newsprint stapled together in black and blue here, here's one, Genesis to Revelation the whole thing boiled down to ten pitiful little pages of illiteracy and hideous cartoons, here's the creation.

Now that the time was near, she was stroking the bulging scrip, apparently without realizing what she was doing.

The federal government-or what was left of the federal government, trying desperately, and not always successfully, to keep a battered and Balkanizing country from flying completely apart, struggling to put the Humpty Dumpty that was America back together again-the federal government paid Abner (and others like him) a yearly allowance in federal scrip or promise-of-merchandise notes for giving room and board to refugees from the drowned lands .

She could also see that she was going to need some barterable commodity other than company scrip to get by.

I carry, behind the ruins of my face, inside my brain, the smell of excrement and pounded, flayed flesh stirred deep into the mud of the streets, the composted stench of decaying scrip and bank drafts and certificates of mortgage in the civil registry, and in the merchants’ bank, and of course the bitter, corrosive wash against my bandages of shingle, lath, and floorboard as they burned.

After contrasting, with indiscreet wit, the nature of God, and the actions of Jehovah, he concludes: Scilicet ut haec de filio Dei non credenda fuisse, si non scripta essent.