"Sum" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a bundle of hundred-rouble notes in his hand, about two or three thousand roubles. His hands and face were all covered with blood, and he looked like a madman. When I asked him where he had got so much money, he answered that he had just received it from you, that you had given him a sum of three thousand to ...
— The Brothers Karamazov • Fyodor Dostoyevsky
... slave dying en route, or in any of the towns en route, for the markets of the Coast, whatever may be the cause, the owner of that slave should be fined a sum equal to the duty paid ...
— Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846 • James Richardson
... through a high-placed window the gray of dawn grow into a clearer light, making visible rag-like streamers of wet and scudding clouds. He had a glimpse of mountain-sides sodden with thaw—the thaw to which he owed his whole sum ...
— A Pagan of the Hills • Charles Neville Buck
... the Directors, he had gone straight to the house at Shadwell inhabited by Mrs. Holland. She had left there, but had removed to a smaller one a short distance away, where she lived upon the interest of the sum that her husband had invested from his savings, and from a small pension granted to ...
— The Tiger of Mysore - A Story of the War with Tippoo Saib • G. A. Henty
... who expressed his willingness to receive on board his ship the son of any friend of his, but—and here comes the rub—Captain Grummit, he says, has made it a rule to take no midshipmen unless their parents consent to allow them fifty pounds a year, in addition to their pay. This sum, the Captain states, is absolutely necessary to enable them to make the appearance he desires all his midshipmen to maintain. Fifty pounds a year is a larger sum, I fear, than my purse can supply," observed my father when ...
— Dick Cheveley - His Adventures and Misadventures • W. H. G. Kingston
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