Customers

Examples

• It started, as we have said, on September 4, 1882, supplying about four hundred lights to a comparatively small number of customers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• We had customers in all the little towns in south-west Wisconsin, south-east Minnesota and north-east Iowa. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• So well had the work been planned and executed, however, that nothing happened to hinder the continuous working of the station and the supply of light to customers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Think of what I have to provide for calling customers, my dear! George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Seeing the need for some means of increasing the demand for honey, a small honey business was started to dispose of the product of customers who had no market. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I do; especially when I've customers like you to deal with. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The real and effectual discipline which is exercised over a workman, is not that of his corporation, but that of his customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was a blessing for a commerce-loving country to be overrun by such an army of customers: and to have such creditable warriors to feed. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• A particular banker lends among his customers his own promissory notes, to the extent, we shall suppose, of a hundred thousand pounds. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He cannot be their merchant, nor they his customers; and they are all of them thus mutually less serviceable to one another. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The moment Madame Defarge took up the rose, the customers ceased talking, and began gradually to drop out of the wine-shop. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Morgan, whose firm was one of the first customers, expressed to Mr. Edison some doubt as to the accuracy of the meter. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And so much time was saved on this one application that customers soon began applying it to other kinds of work in their offices. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• If he attempts to sell them much dearer, he is likely to have so few customers, that his circumstances will not be much mended. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Our customers over there, seem not to be able to confide their property to us fast enough. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Again: Tellson's was a munificent house, and extended great liberality to old customers who had fallen from their high estate. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• We put many customers on, but did not make out many bills. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This free competition, too, obliges all bankers to be more liberal in their dealings with their customers, lest their rivals should carry them away. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He did not want his customers to count the heart-beats of the engine in the flicker of the lamp. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• There were a few customers, drinking or not drinking, standing or seated, sprinkled about. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The banks, when their customers apply to them for money, generally advance it to them in their own promissory notes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Current at first was supplied free to customers for approximately five months, which speaks quite as much for Edison’s Scotch canniness as for his inventive genius. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I'll be able to talk art with your customers. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The Bell Company was panic-stricken, for their customers demanded a telephone as good as Edison’s. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Our waste goes into the best of company, sir, on her rosy-cheeked little customers. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• A tradesman in London is obliged to hire a whole house in that part of the town where his customers live. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• We have already mentioned how an electrical engineer, shortly after placing irons in the homes of his customers, followed them with a number of small stoves and ovens. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I know of no way at present; but I will hang them on the wall of the shop, and perhaps some of my customers will see them and ask about them. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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