counterfoil

Example Sentences

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O'Nolan bought Irish Hospitals sweep stakes tickets with the windfall and sent half of the counterfoils to Saroyan.

From Time Magazine Archive

He found time to watch a drawing from the huge yellow mixing drum under a wall-long panel of racing thoroughbreds, the nurses from the hospitals the Sweepstakes subsidizes pouring bags of counterfoils into the drum.

From Time Magazine Archive

When one of these books is finished, I return the counterfoils to Liverpool—they check 'em.

From The Talleyrand Maxim by Fletcher, J. S. (Joseph Smith)

From a recess he drew out a cheque-book and examined the counterfoils of the used cheques with interest.

From The Grell Mystery by Froest, Frank

At home, in her pretty bureau, a little gathering pile of bills, as yet unpaid, and an empty cheque-book with appealing counterfoils, awaited her attention.

From Marriage by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)