Significados de empty coffer en inglés

But deep in the empty coffer my hand found something Pertinax must have forgotten.

An empty coffer is a useless piece of furniture.

He peremptorily, refused the money for which they clamored, giving the most cogent of all reasons, an empty coffer.

Thus having said, Margrave turned from us, and cast into the caldron the last essence yet left in his empty coffer.

There was a national Board of the Treasury wrestling with the problem of home and foreign creditors, but confronted with an empty coffer.

There he stood, by a blazing fire, a small empty coffer by his side, engaged in reading some letters which he had taken from it.

The LDCF's empty coffers illustrate a wider imbalance in international climate finance.

With my empty coffers, I had no more friends.

Now Ukraine's change of government, and its empty coffers, puts the challenge against Australia into question.

He's had his empty coffers replenished with taxpayers' money and now he's going to fill his boots.

I myself, I confess, am at a loss to devise new means of replenishing my empty coffers.

Mine is scarcely the proper hand to pour the rich stream of your possessions into his empty coffers.

He thought only of his empty coffers, and of the necessity of paying the soldiers on the following day.

Fortunately she seems more alive to the advantages of foreign travel than to the filling of her empty coffers.

Normally, governments receiving external aid in bailout situations face empty coffers and are desperate for funding sources of any kind.

Euro zone officials have voiced scepticism about previous Greek warnings of empty coffers, although even they acknowledge a crunch is nearing.