Contracts

Examples

• Except bills of exchange, and some other mercantile bills, all other deeds, bonds, and contracts, are subject to a stamp duty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When the steam pressure varies in this flat tube its coil expands or contracts, and in moving the index hand over the scale indicates the degree of pressure. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The answer is that justice is of use in contracts, and contracts are money partnerships. Plato. The Republic.
• He made short-term contracts, and tried in every way to keep control of the whole system in the hands of the parent company. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mr. Tulkinghorn, profoundly attentive, throws this off with a shrug of self-depreciation and contracts his eyebrows a little more. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• He received other contracts, and eventually the national government came to rely upon his factory for a large part of its war supplies. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Gould was pounding the Western Union on the Stock Exchange, disturbing its railroad contracts, and, being advised by his lawyers that this patent was of great value, bought it. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In contracts, Socrates, justice is of use. Plato. The Republic.
• This is seen in narrow stove chimneys, when a _sacheverell_ or blower is used, which still more contracts the narrow opening. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A gentleman can have no feelings who contracts such a marriage,' flushes Podsnap. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And by contracts you mean partnerships? Plato. The Republic.
• He started enormous public works and particularly the construction of new roads, and he is accused of making a political use of the contracts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The opposition coach contracts for these two; and takes them cheap,' said Mr. Bumble. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• As the tire cools it contracts and fits the wheel closely. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• If the heat is removed, the liquid cools, contracts, and slowly falls in the tube, resuming in time its original size or volume. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Contracts were made for mules at from eight to eleven dollars each. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It is common to all men, and to be found in no other race of animals, which seem to know neither this nor any other species of contracts. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Much as people's breaking promises and contracts and bargains of all sorts, makes good for MY trade. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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