Sentence examples for in the coffer from inspiring English sources

("As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory springs", ran a preacher's advertising jingle).

This crude commercialisation of the doctrine of indulgences, encapsulated in Tetzel's slogan—"As soon as the coin in the coffer rings, so the soul from purgatory springs"—was, to Luther, "the pious defrauding of the faithful" and a glaring symptom of the need for broad reform.

However, as long as putting folks in jail puts money in the coffer, the system is unlikely to change.

Even though he's the Republican front runner, I will be telling these Donald Trump stories that I've been keeping in the coffer because nobody really cared.

Gingrich's embrace of Catholicism calls to mind the teachings of 15th-century Dominican Johann Tetzel, who famously remarked, "As soon as money in the coffer rings, the soul from purgatory's fire springs".

"We had precious little in the coffers," Mr. Plepler said.

Because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it".

Differences between Duke and Butler exist more in the coffers than on the court.

Because I am not putting one penny in the coffers of that whore".

Yet the average household watches more television than ever, keeping the profits in the coffers of the entertainment conglomerates.

"There may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it," Mr. Obama said in an interview with CBS News.