"Blank cheque" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... which the framers of it did their work. These limitations were not unreasonable ones. It was right and proper that they should be imposed. There is no good ground for a belief that the time will ever come when a "blank cheque," to borrow Mr. Goschen's mercantile figure, will be given to any company of liturgical revisers to fill out as they may see fit. But the moulders of forms, in whatever department of plastic art their specialty lies, when challenged to ...
— A Short History of the Book of Common Prayer • William Reed Huntington
... the bounds of his imagination. These people also—with grey hair and truncated honour—had their emotions I Even it may be glowing! He came back to facts. Chaffery had induced Lagune when hypnotised to sign a blank cheque as an "autograph." "The strange thing is," explained Lagune, "it's doubtful if he's legally accountable. The law is so peculiar about hypnotism and I certainly signed the cheque, ...
— Love and Mr. Lewisham • H. G. Wells
... dear, there's no doubt about that—none at all. He proposes—well, it's carte blanche; there's no other word for it. A blank cheque, you know. We must do Master Nevile justice. It is the least he can ...
— Rest Harrow - A Comedy of Resolution • Maurice Hewlett |
