Citations:at sight

English citations of at sight

• In all hearts that witnessed Peterloo, stands written, as in fire-characters, or smoke-characters prompt to become fire again, a legible balance-account of grim vengeance; very unjustly balanced (...) but payable readily at sight, in full with compound interest!

  1843 Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 1, Ch. 3, Manchester Insurrection