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...e observed, in many cities, that the sex always shrink from calling up the central office themselves. I don’t know why, but they do. So I touched the ... ... don’t know why, but they do. So I touched the bell, and this talk ensued: CENTRAL OFFICE. ( Gruffy.) Hello! I. Is it the Central Office? C. O. Of cou... ...to do Adam a favor and herself a credit. Then the unexpected happened. Two bankers came for ward and took hold of the matter—not for fun, not for sen... ...more than that now, with this stern business gravity injected into it. The bankers dis cussed the monument with me. We met several times. They propos... ...h, its form would become as familiar as the figure of Napoleon. One of the bankers subscribed five thousand dollars, and I think the other one subscri...

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...nion, we are obliged to frown upon all modes of violence as hostile to the central principle of that union. We are obliged to rate it, according to th... ...stonishing translation of an ancient people across the pathless deserts of Central Asia, intersected continually by rapid rivers, rarely furnished wit... ...e tragedy, according to the great divisions of the route marked out by the central rivers of Asia. The first stage, we have already said, was from the... ...that large masses of the Imperial troops were converging from all parts of Central Asia to the fords of the river T orgai as the most convenient point... ...rcle, composed of men, women, and children, gath- ered by hundreds round a central fire, all dead and stiff at the return of morning light. Myriads we... ...r that part of the accumulations which rises above the optics of sublunary bankers; whilst the Ceylon pillar is constantly unweaving its own granite t...

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... marked with cross and key, and fetched up from the square magazine in the central depot of the infernal factory, third turning to the right off the g... ...n sat in a web, but as yet had done no more than shoot up a glow along the central heavens, in amid the waves of deepened aloud: a mir- ror for night ... ...cried Abrane, as he puffed. ‘What! cut and run and leave us, post winnings—bankers—knock your luck on the head! What a fellow! Can’t let you. Countess... ...s, gigs, carts, pony-traps, boys on ponies, a swarm on legs, flowed to the central point and huddled there. Was either champion born in Kent? An audac... ...et- fully: ‘He changes.’ On the hall table at Esslemont, a letter from his bankers informed the earl of a considerable sum of money paid in to his acc...

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...to bankruptcy of money! And so this poor Versailles Court, as the chief or central Solecism, finds all the other Solecisms arrayed against it. Most na... ...; and rests now, irrecognisable, reburied hastily at dead of night, in the central ‘part of the Churchyard Sainte-Catherine, in the Suburb Saint-Marce... ...ng to the Champ-de-Mars and from it, in the utmost excitability of humour; central Fatherland’s Altar quite heaped with sign- ing Patriots and Patriot... ... 318 The French Revolution so-called. The Countries of the Loire, all the Central and South- East regions, start up distracted, ‘simultaneously as by... ...m: for instance, the Battalion of the Filles-Saint-Thomas, made up of your Bankers, Stockbrokers, and other Full-purses of the Rue Vivienne. Our worth... ... Jacobin President, “which it may be interesting not to state,” have got a Central Committee sitting close by, under the roof of the Mother Soci- ety ...

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...sky. The rain, carried aslant by flaws of wind, blackened that side of the central building which he had visited last night, but left a nar- row dry t... ...t was like the dwelling of an amiable Corsair. There were antiquities from Central Italy, made by the best modern houses in that department of industr... ...al began to inquire what quantity of dust and ashes was de- posited at the bankers’. It then transpired that the commissary had so far stolen a march ... ...when Mr Dorrit, who had lately succeeded to his property, mentioned to his bankers that he wished to discover a lady, well-bred, accomplished, well co... ...ducation of his daughters, and to be their matron or chaperon. Mr Dorrit’s bankers, as bankers of the county-widower, instantly said, ‘Mrs General.’ P... ...ey have been accustomed, at quarterly intervals, to pay to my credit at my bankers’.’ Mr Dorrit bowed his acknowledgements. ‘Permit me to add,’ said M... ...may prove to be), which my friends here have been accustomed to make to my bankers’.’ Mr Dorrit lost no time in referring the delicate question to the...

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...nded of these shoals of migratory fishes, of salmon, shad, alewives, marsh bankers, and others, which penetrate up the innumerable rivers of our coast... ... us wander where we will, the universe is built round about us, and we are central still. If we look into the heavens they are concave, and if we were... ...a sphere whose centre is wherever there is intelligence. The sun is not so central as a man. Upon an isolated hill top, in an open country, we seem to... ...icular de partments. They make no steady and systematic approaches to the central fact. A discovery is made, and at once the at tention of all obser...

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...authorized incisions in travelers’ purses with the connivance of the local bankers. An innkeeper and an honest Calvinist to boot, he had married a con... ...ipal authorities of Paris as yet have laid on no water supply to flush the central kennel which drains the houses on either side, and as a result a st...

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...le tops, ran round the walls, surmounted with many artistic ornaments. The central table was crowned with a tall glass of exquisitely-arranged grasses... ...ettlement of accounts made startling revela- tions that the balance at her bankers was just eleven shillings and fourpence halfpenny, and what was nea... ...Esdale is coming to-night to show us his photographs of the lost cities in Central America. You’ll stay, won’t you?” “If Mrs. Brownlow will let me. I ...

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... the sea-board as to be safe from invasion; and, thirdly, that it might be central alike to all the States. It was presumed, when Washington was found... ...ing in the States. San Jose, the capital of the republic of Costa Rica, in Central America, has been pre- pared and arranged as a new city in the same... ... will stand something higher in the world than Mexico and the republics of Central America. Her cotton monopoly will have vanished, and her wealth wil... ...down and perish in its mud. Cairo is the southern terminus of the Illinois Central Railway. There is but one daily arrival there, namely, at half-past... ... the United States. They see to what Mexico has come, and the republics of Central America; but the prospect of even that degradation is less bitter t... ...most unconsciously. Whether this man be rich or be a bankrupt, whether the bankers of that city fail or make their millions, the creative energies of ...

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...ieve her sufferings. Is it your opinion that men’s acts proceed from one central and unchanging and inalterable impulse, or from a variety of impuls... ...bunco steerers, misers, swindlers, explorers, adventurers by land and sea, bankers, financiers, astronomers, naturalists, claimants, impostors, chemis...

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...still, I trust. It was of good repute in its own way, seeing that no man doubted the word or solvency of Heine Brothers; but they did not possess, as bankers, what would in England be considered a large or profitable business. The operations of English bankers are bewildering in their magnitude. Legions of clerks are employed. The senior book-keepers, though only salaried ...

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...ubted the word or solvency of Heine Brothers; but they did not possess, as bankers, what would in England be consid- ered a large or profitable busine... ...e consid- ered a large or profitable business. The operations of En- glish bankers are bewildering in their magnitude. Legions of clerks are employed.... ...y be enhanced. An Englishman moving himself off to a city in the middle of Central America will find the customs to which he must adapt himself less s...

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... reaching all parts of the body, with fixed stations or receivers like the central stations of a telephone system, and with a grand cen- tral exchange... ...tation on the stock exchange. There is another class of forgers, generally bankers, who speculate with trust funds. To cover up the shortage they sign... ... period outlined that man developed his big brain (cerebrum) involving the central nervous system. Furthermore, it was developed by, and trained to, t... ... of education and apparent lack of physical defect commit property crimes. Bankers often take money on deposit after the bank is insolvent. Not infreq... ...s it comes through bad loans and unforeseen condi- tions. Business men and bankers frequently shock their friends and the community by suicide, on dis... ...here can be no question that practically all criminals are poor. Even when bankers get into prison they almost never have much money when they start t...

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...but on receiving a cheque for the amount (on Messrs. Pump and Aldgate, our bankers,) tears came into the honest fellow’s eyes. He squeezed our hand un... ...going on phamusly. Y ou should see how 92 Thackeray polite they har at my bankers now! Sir Paul Pump Aldgate, & Company. They bow me out of the back ... ...very convenient to his Lord- ship I know, who had a bill coming due at his Bankers which he had given them. James de la Pluche, Esquire, is thus for t... ...y the night before—aving a multachewd of bisniss on, and Stockbrokers’ and bankers’ 112 Thackeray accounts to settle: atsettrey atsettrey. It was lay... ...Mare’s day my Saint Helenas quotid at 14 pm, were down at 1/2 discount; my Central Ichaboes at 3/8 discount; my Table Mounting & Hottentot Grand Trunk... ...0 for the account at 17 primmium, down to nix; my Juan Fernandez, my Great Central Oregons, prostrit. There was a momint when I thought I shouldn’t be... ...ain; and who were, as we very well know, the chief phy- sicians, the chief bankers, the chief statesmen, the chief artists and musicians, the chief ev...

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...embraced the sons of farmers, lawyers, physicians, politicians, merchants, bankers and ministers, and some men of ma- turer years who had filled such ... ...pi- tal, Lexington, Chillicothe and other comparatively large towns in the central part of Missouri. I found a good many troops in Jefferson City, but... ...as guarded from Rienzi, south of Corinth, to Columbus; and the Mississippi Central railroad from Jack- son, Tennessee, to Bolivar. Grand Junction and ... ...Mobile and Ohio railroad and from Jackson to Bolivar where the Mississippi Central is crossed by the Hatchie River. General Sherman commanded on the r... ...iven up and Bolivar became our most advanced position on the Missis- sippi Central railroad. Our cavalry was kept well to the front and frequent exped... ...could have ordered across the river to attack and break up the Mississippi Central railroad far to the south. This would not only have called Van Dorn...

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...ork harder than all these, and yet Be thought an idler by the noisy set Of bankers, schoolmasters, and clergymen The martyrs call the world.’ And ther... ... ever summered solitudes; Until the tossing arms grew still Upon the woody central hill; And, gathered in a panting band, We flung on high each waving ...

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...nk account. And as he performed the latter office by communicating with the bankers, so the former sprang as directly from his good understanding with ... ...e him. Those people—and his free synthesis lumped together capitalists and bankers, re tired men of business, illustrious collectors, American father... ...ikingly yellow gold, mounted by a short stem on an ample foot which held a central position above the fireplace, where, to allow it the better to show,... ...rs of the day as might be; it took on finally the likeness of some spacious central chamber in a haunted house, a great overarched and over glazed rotu...