Michael Agelastes, big, burly, and dressed like an ancient Cynic philosopher, was distinguished by assuming, in a great measure, the ragged garb and mad bearing of that sect, and by his inflexible practice of the strictest ceremonies exigible by the Imperial family. From Wordnik.com. [Count Robert of Paris] Reference
Such other portions of principal as, though not exigible, we are still free to pay when we please. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference
For as long before they had held Achnagart on the tenure of a bunch of heather exigible annually and their fighting services as good clansmen. From Wordnik.com. [Camps, Quarters, and Casual Places] Reference
The tribute began to be exigible after the settlement in the promised land, and it was yearly repeated at one of the great feasts (Le 2: 14; 23: 10; 23: 15; Nu 28: 26; De 16: 9). From Wordnik.com. [Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible] Reference
The Secretary of the Treasury has reason to believe, that the late loan at Antwerp has paid up all our arrearages to France, both of principal and interest, and consequently, that there is no part of our debt exigible at this time. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference
This has obliged the Secretary of the Treasury to require some conditions, which may remove from us that loss which we encountered, from an unfavorable exchange, to pay what was exigible, and transfer it to France as to payments not exigible. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference
One goodly old man, named Michael Agelastes, big, burly, and dressed like an ancient Cynic philosopher, was distinguished by assuming, in a great measure, the ragged garb and mad bearing of that sect, and by his inflexible practice of the strictest ceremonies exigible by the. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
Such a paper money would, no doubt, fall more or less below the value of gold and silver, according as the difficulty or uncertainty of obtaining immediate payment was supposed to be greater or less; or according to the greater or less distance of time at which payment was exigible. From Wordnik.com. [II. Book II. Of Money Considered as a Particular Branch of the General Stock of the Society, or of the Expence of Maintaining the National Capital] Reference
Money is frequently sunk in France upon what are called Contracts for the constitution of a rent; that is, perpetual annuities redeemable at any time by the debtor upon repayment of the sum originally advanced, but of which this redemption is not exigible by the creditor except in particular cases. From Wordnik.com. [II. Book V. Of the Sources of the General or Public Revenue of the Society] Reference
The paper currencies of North America consisted, not in bank notes payable to the bearer on demand, but in a government paper, of which the payment was not exigible till several years after it was issued: And though the colony governments paid no interest to the holders of this paper, they declared it to be, and in fact rendered it, a legal tender of payment for the full value for which it was issued. From Wordnik.com. [II. Book II. Of Money Considered as a Particular Branch of the General Stock of the Society, or of the Expence of Maintaining the National Capital] Reference
“There is not, I trust, a subject in the empire who knows better the ten thousand punctilios exigible from those of different ranks, and clue to different authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Count Robert of Paris] Reference
It would be otherwise, indeed, with a paper money consisting in promissory notes, of which the immediate payment depended, in any respect, either upon the good will of those who issued them; or upon a condition which the holder of the notes might not always have it in his power to fulfil; or of which the payment was not exigible till after a certain number of years, and which in the meantime bore no interest. From Wordnik.com. [II. Book II. Of Money Considered as a Particular Branch of the General Stock of the Society, or of the Expence of Maintaining the National Capital] Reference
"There is not, I trust, a subject in the empire who knows better the ten thousand punctilios exigible from those of different ranks, and clue to different authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
It would be oAcrwife, indeed, with a paper money confifting in promiffory notes, of which the immediate payment depended, in any re - fpeft, either upon the. good will of thofe wIkj iiSued them j or upon a condition which the holder of the notes might noc always have it in Jiis power to fulfil; or of which the payment was not exigible till after a certain number of years, and which in the mean time bore no intereft. From Wordnik.com. [An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations] Reference
Such portions of principal as are exigible. From Wordnik.com. [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 3] Reference
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