When I commenced on my own account, I adopted the system of keeping a check, the same as a bank chequebook.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
This packet"-and he passed me a large, sealed envelope-"contains a chequebook, the address of the lawyer who will manage your affairs, and a letter which you will not open unless you have certain news and proof of my death.
"Mr. Marx's Secret"
E. Phillips Oppenheim
Someone gave me a chequebook through a wicket and someone else began telling me how to write it out.
"Literary Lapses"
Stephen Leacock