Sentence examples for old ledger from inspiring English sources

Your Profile describes how Slim is obsessed with numbers — he showed you his father's old ledger, and he is relentlessly focussed on the balance sheet and profit margins.

The old ledger, dated 1789 - 92 is the library's record of what books were taken out, and by whom in that period.

She noted her choice to include in this section "ledger drawings" – so-called because they were generally sketched on old ledger or account books – by Plains Indians who had been held in captivity.

In the play, an old man celebrates his 69th birthday by sorting through boxes full of ancient tape recordings, trying to reconcile his memories of events with actual notes that he has scribbled on an old ledger.

He collaged notes from a nearby church's old ledger to emphasize "the personal and humanness of this tragedy".

"We think the file was exploited when we updated from dusty, old ledger books to a Windows-based server system," said Alabaster Snowball, the elf in charge of administering the system.

It is filled with old ledgers, and the mannequins hold 19th-century letters and pens.

The staff brought out old ledgers for him and melted and analyzed a chip of his glass; the ingredients had changed little over the years.

There's no record of the Civil War perod, but old ledgers show that business, prospered mightily duing the Spanish-American, and World I, and II.

Using one of her father's old ledgers, she had begun working on In Name Only, a tale of loveless marriage, as a teenager in 1941.

Now, here and elsewhere, people are digging through records, checking death certificates, comparing numbers on graves with names in old ledgers, so these dead, too, will be remembered.