What is "coffers"

Usage examples of "coffers".

So the High Duke had reluctantly opened his coffers while he still had subjects to tax and refill them and had hired the classic solution: a band of adventurers.

Moondarks lay crumbling on all sides of him in stacked stone coffers that must have numbered nearly a hundred.

Never before in the history of this fair realm have so many owed so much to the coffers of the king.

He had always lacked the funds to run his kingdom properly, since Richard had drained the realm coffers for his bloody crusading.

The result was, that Rospigliosi and Spada paid for being cardinals, and eight other persons paid for the offices the cardinals held before their elevation, and thus eight hundred thousand crowns entered into the coffers of the speculators.

Eastern vizier, who will empty his coffers to purchase them, and refill them by applying the bastinado to his subjects.

Twenty: Never Have So Many Owed So Much Never before in the history of this fair realm have so many owed so much to the coffers of the king.

We have thrown open the coffers of Fhirze for this assignation, but I would not slight the traditions of Naamah.

The others warded them, forming a line on either side of the galley as the coffers were handed down into the Illyrian vessels.

Serenissimans swarmed the vessel, for it had one of the coffers of gold.

Rohan had emptied his coffers and the drug had seeped through to Radzyn port, where Chaynal had sent out riders on his swiftest horses to distribute the life-saving dranath.

Part of his mirth had been caused by the wonderful joke he would play on Roelstra, for instead of beggaring himself and his or making odious concessions to the High Prince, there was unlimited gold to fill his coffers even after the grotesque sum paid for the dranath.

They carried coffers of medicines and surgical instruments as if the handles had melded to their fingers.