| 1. | "Certainly it will only cost you a discount of , or , francs." The receiver started back. - from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas, Pere |
| 2. | But the Scotch merchants, it must be remembered, can discount their bills of exchange as easily as the English merchants and have, besides, the additional conveniency of their cash accounts. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |
| 3. | One discounts in terrestrial gloom celestial light. - from Les Miserables by Victor Hugo |
| 4. | It likewise discounts merchants' bills, and has, upon several different occasions, supported the credit of the principal houses, not only of England, but of Hamburgh and Holland. - from An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith |