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- noun Plural form of
ledger .
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Examples
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He was warm human, and, therefore, wiser than Uncle Robert and George Castner, who sought the thing, not the spirit, who kept records in ledgers rather than numbers of heart-beats breast to breast, who added columns of figures rather than remembered embraces and endearments of look and speech and touch.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 2010
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He was warm human, and, therefore, wiser than Uncle Robert and George Castner, who sought the thing, not the spirit, who kept records in ledgers rather than numbers of heart - beats breast to breast, who added columns of figures rather than remembered embraces and endearments of look and speech and touch.
ON THE MAKALOA MAT 1993
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He was warm human, and, therefore, wiser than Uncle Robert and George Castner, who sought the thing, not the spirit, who kept records in ledgers rather than numbers of heart - beats breast to breast, who added columns of figures rather than remembered embraces and endearments of look and speech and touch.
On the Makaloa Mat 1919
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I don't hate critical comment so much that I won't do it myself, but strictly speaking, the horizontal beams are called ledgers, the diagonal ones cross braces and I would imagine the duct tape is covering a coupler to prevent snagging of, and the resulting suing by a particularly litigious clumsy pedestrian, which ITTET is fairly likely.
Public Servitude: Making the Streets Safe for Absurdity BikeSnobNYC 2009
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For two hours the swish and rustle of the great blue pages of the ledgers were the chief sound, with the scratching of Mr. Wingfield's pen as he totalled up long columns of figures.
A Duet, with an Occasional Chorus Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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Also taken were drug paraphernalia and other accoutrements of the illegal drug trade, including documents Flores described as "ledgers" that listed the names of customers and amounts of money owed to their drug connections that will provide fodder for future investigations - and future charges
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Also taken were drug paraphernalia and other accoutrements of the illegal drug trade, including documents Flores described as "ledgers" that listed the names of customers and amounts of money owed to their drug connections that will provide fodder for future investigations - and future charges
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Also taken were drug paraphernalia and other accoutrements of the illegal drug trade, including documents Flores described as "ledgers" that listed the names of customers and amounts of money owed to their drug connections that will provide fodder for future investigations - and future charges
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Also taken were drug paraphernalia and other accoutrements of the illegal drug trade, including documents Flores described as "ledgers" that listed the names of customers and amounts of money owed to their drug connections that will provide fodder for future investigations - and future charges
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Also taken were drug paraphernalia and other accoutrements of the illegal drug trade, including documents Flores described as "ledgers" that listed the names of customers and amounts of money owed to their drug connections that will provide fodder for future investigations - and future charges
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