"The check from the lawsuit arrived two weeks before her party and covered the entire cost of it," she said.

The check had arrived by special delivery the following morning.

Yet when the check arrived, it was only for fifty.

Within a week, the first check arrived, and 19 more soon followed.

I finally wrote to the manufacturer's chairman, and the check for $100 arrived in two weeks.

He lost track of her for about six months, and then a check arrived.

He was broke until his weekly check arrived from home.

Last year, when an unexpected check arrived, I decided to buy some stock.

So when the check arrived the second time, she put it into an individual retirement account.

A few days after school started, a check for a thousand dollars arrived in the mail at our house.