Trusts
[trʌsts]
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of trusts, foretells indifferent success in trade or law. If you imagine you are a member of a trust, you will be successful in designs of a speculative nature.
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Examples
- For unions and trusts, sects, clubs and voluntary associations stand for actual needs. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- And the better part of the soul is likely to be that which trusts to measure and calculation? Plato. The Republic.
- For there is nobody--he told me so himself when he talked to me this very day--there is nobody he likes so well as you, or trusts so much. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- Thus Mr. Roosevelt has always had a remarkable power of diverting the country from the tariff to the control of the trusts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- For trusts there is a Sherman Act. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Certainly the trusts increase. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It's about a will and the trusts under a will--or it was once. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- As the country herein trusts you, so, under God, it will sustain you. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- What Brooke trusts to, is that they are going to turn out Oliver because he is a Peelite. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- He hates him, I believe, and he already trusts me and believes in me as a representative of what he believes in. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- They can center it upon the tariff or the trusts or even the currency. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- No, returned Shirley, answering the smile; Captain Gérard Moore, who trusts much to the prowess of his own right arm, I believe. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Tradition has centered upon the tariff, the trusts, the currency, and electoral machinery as the items of consideration. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We do not have to force an interest, as we do about the trusts, or even about the poor. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We work very hard but no one trusts us. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Over twenty years ago we formulated a sweeping taboo against trusts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- So, I grow up, and little by little father trusts me, and makes me his companion, and, let him be put out as he may, never once strikes me. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- He trusts that the work which must be done in the mean time, can be well enough executed by the old men, the women, and the children. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Both those trusts are sacred to me, he said, and both shall be sacredly kept. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- We stand in relation to it as the men of the '80's did to the trusts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The trusts had appeared, labor was restless, vice seemed to be corrupting the vitality of the nation. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
Edited by Lenore