Agents

Examples

• Jos's London agents had orders to pay one hundred and twenty pounds yearly to his parents at Fulham. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A part of the second floor is devoted to the storage and the shipping of parts to branches and agents. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I saw these advertisements about harpooners, and high wages, so I went to the shipping agents, and they sent me here. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Mr. Arnold Bennett puts forth a rather curious hybrid when he advises us to treat ourselves as free agents and everyone else as an automaton. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In the hands of a skillful physician practically no danger is to be apprehended from the use of either of the two agents. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It is not until the speakers and the publicity agents have actually begun to animate it that the country sees what the party is about. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• However, I will write to my agents about the yacht, to Mrs Dengelton and the Rector about their joining us at Athens. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Various other anti-septic agents are used and combined in different ways, according to the results of experiments. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• His plan was to create a national telephone system, and so he confined each of his agents to one place, and reserved all rights to connect one city with another. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Do you think, if I instruct my agents about the yacht, and write to Mrs Dengelton and the Rector, that they will come out to Athens? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But his agents are numerous and splendidly organized. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Through all the agents that make and popularize thought must come a bent of mind interested in invention and freed from the authority of ideas. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• He had told Mr Rugg that he knew what lawyers and agents were, and that he would not submit to imposition. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Those agents were not always able to replenish the coffers of their employers so fast as they were emptied. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• If in addition to this the casks are washed out with an aqueous solution of the acid it will prove of great service, and all other agents at present used for this purpose will soon be abandoned. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• He quarrelled with his agents and screwed his tenants by letter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Of all the anti-septic agents used for the purposes mentioned boracic acid is the favorite, and salicylic acid next in choice. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• As beekeeping developed as an industry, the close relationship to fruit growing and horticulture became apparent, as bees were discovered to be the greatest pollen carrying agents known. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• About the monarch were accumulated his scribes, counsellors, record keepers, agents, captains, and guards. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He must have money to get the iron for his machines, to advertise, and to pay agents to try to sell them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Since the end of growth is outside of and beyond the process of growing, external agents have to be resorted to to induce movement toward it. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Lydgate thought of himself as the sufferer, and of others as the agents who had injured his lot. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• His agents did much to intensify the popular suspicion of the king. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But he lent an attentive ear to the tempter, and sent agents into Greece. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But there is the seed of an invention in it which might convert the police from mere agents of repression to kindly helpers in the mazes of a city. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• In fact, I'm not sure if I won't tell my agents to send me out another yacht to replace The Eunice, and then they can all ship on board of her. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The agents got my letter all right, sir, he said gayly, and had no difficulty in securing the yacht I wanted, which was still in the market. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Living birds can hardly fail to be highly effective agents in the transportation of seeds. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• So much for the buying; but can you trust your agents to get you a yacht as good as the one you have lost? Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Send the letters to the agents, he said; they will forward them; for you will write to me, won't you? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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