Books for Heep

Usage examples of ledgers.

Each box had the name of the client on it, in large black letters, and each contained the cash books, invoices, receipts, ledgers, paying-in books, bank statements, petty cash records, stocktakings, and general paraphernalia needed for the assessment of taxes.

It was easy to imagine Onyx Jewel in this room, going over the ledgers, planning how to improve the livestock or enlarge his holdings.

She lifted the ledgers from the desk drawer and opened them, then positioned a second chair alongside hers.

I went the Book Depot the next morning and opened up for business, the ledgers having hinted at the desirability of earning a few dollars, if not an actual fistful or more.

It was also the signal for the Transport Board officials to close their ledgers for luncheon.

A guard sergeant filled a bucket of water and doused the pile of brandy-soaked uniforms which, heavily sprinkled with gunpowder and then piled with loosely stacked, brandy soaked ledgers, had caused the pungent smoke.

Most of the ledgers were scorched, and a few had burned to ash, but the fire had not spread and so no real harm had been done.

Infuriatingly, the ledgers were not listed in alphabetical order but by army number, which meant that every name and page had to be scanned.

Finally, she closed the ledgers and walked around the edge of the counter.