waste-book

“Silence!” exclaimed her husband, who was writing down some figures in his waste-book.

Madame Bovary 2003

My friend, in whose waste-book I found them, -- a beneficed clergyman in Worcestershire, who has been several years dead, -- obtained them from a college friend during the last century.

Notes and Queries, Number 48, September 28, 1850 Various

_ You identify it by means of the copy which you have made from your waste-book, which book you have left at Sunderland.

The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 William Brodie Gurney

Accountant, or London Merchant_, containing instructions and directions for the methodical keeping of merchant's accounts, after the most exact and concise way of debtor and creditor; also a _Memorial_, vulgarly called a waste-book, and a cash-book, with a journal and a ledger, &c.,

Notes and Queries, Number 77, April 19, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc Various 1852

"Silence!" exclaimed her husband, who was writing down some figures in his waste-book.

Madame Bovary Gustave Flaubert 1850

"Silence!" exclaimed her husband, who was writing down some figures in his waste-book.

Madame Bovary A Tale of Provincial Life Gustave Flaubert 1850

It was a kind of rhymed diary or waste-book, in which he deposited his every-day thoughts and feelings, without any order or plan, -- reminding us of "Tristram Shandy" or of "Don Juan," although not so whimsically delightful as the former, nor so brilliant and poignant as the latter.

Poetical Works Charles Churchill 1747

Then, on cross-examination, he says, "I know that £.40. note, by the copy I made of it in my waste-book" -- he had not the waste-book here, but he says, "I know it also _from my initials on the back_ of the note, made a day or two afterwards, when it was fresh in my recollection.

The Trial of Charles Random de Berenger, Sir Thomas Cochrane, commonly called Lord Cochrane, the Hon. Andrew Cochrane Johnstone, Richard Gathorne Butt, Ralph Sandom, Alexander M'Rae, John Peter Holloway, and Henry Lyte for A Conspiracy In the Court of King's Bench, Guildhall, on Wednesday the 8th, and Thursday the 9th of June, 1814 William Brodie Gurney

Answers in the form of a Dialogue; as likewise a Waste Book, with a complete Journal and Ledger thereunto appertaining; "annexed to Malyne's _Consuetudo vel Lex Mercatoria_, edit. 1636, folio, gives rather a different explanation of the origin of the term" waste-book "to that contained in the answer of your last correspondent.

Notes and Queries, Number 74, March 29, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. Various 1852