| 单词 | conscience money |
| 例句 | President Ulysses S. Grant would later declare it "conscience money." A $400 million cash payment to Iran has little precedent 2016-08-29T04:00:00Z To a certain extent this was what we should now call "conscience money." The Story of Florence 2011-10-20T02:00:24.237Z And the conscience money is going to help out. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z Yes, and I sent conscience money too upon one occasion. Three Plays by Granville-Barker The Marrying of Ann Leete; The Voysey Inheritance; Waste 2011-03-22T02:00:23.063Z He said it was conscience money and not to be talked about. Jan Vedder's Wife And she called this fund her "conscience money." It, and Other Stories Before he left, Aunt William pressed a sovereign into his hand guiltily, as if it were conscience money. The Twelfth Hour I believe it to be 'conscience money'—either from the man who claimed the body as that of his wife, or from the woman's husband according to the marriage certificate. A Cry in the Wilderness 2011-06-01T02:00:28.933Z But you don't have to be satisfied with his conscience money any more. By Proxy Or perhaps she subsequently sent conscience money to the Red Cross anonymously. More Tish For the one week after the Colombo's arrival she could send conscience money. The Grey Wig: Stories and Novelettes In addition a large income came through the vows made by the people or the conscience money which was paid either in currency or gifts. The Makers and Teachers of Judaism But I have paid conscience money many times. An Ideal Husband The conscience money she either spent upon him or put back into his pocket a little at a time, sure that he, the most careless of men about money, would never detect her. Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise The United States treasury yearly receives large sums of “conscience money.” The Ways of Men I only ordered the oysters and coffee; all the rest is conscience money—or sentiment—from the landlord. A Modern Instance If I donated to a church, it was called conscience money; and if I didn't donate to it, they said I was mean and miserly. Oh, Money! Money! All the spare money my trade rivals spend on hospitals, cathedrals and other receptacles for conscience money, I devote to experiments and researches in improved methods of destroying life and property. Major Barbara We frantically scatter conscience money and invent systems of conscience banking, with expiatory penalties, atonements, redemptions, salvations, hospital subscription lists and what not, to enable us to contract-out of the moral code. Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara Madame de Soulas, who had been uneasy as to her daughter's intentions, was touched by this liberality, and made her a present of six thousand francs a year in the funds as conscience money. Albert Savarus M. Le Grand, author of the piece, deigned to call upon the king of thieves, spoke some words of argot with him, and by way of conscience money gave him a hundred crowns. A Book of Scoundrels |
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