Enterprises

Examples

• To what extent the motion-picture business may grow in the not remote future it is impossible to conjecture, for it has taken a place in the front rank of rapidly increasing enterprises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Sir Knight, answered Rowena, in enterprises such as yours, the real dishonour lies not in failure, but in success. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Mr. Edison's storage battery and the poured cement house have not yet reached the stage of great commercial enterprises, and therefore have not yet risen to the dignity of patent litigation. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Contemporaneously, he and his force of men were very busily engaged day and night on other important enterprises and inventions. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is surprising how many large enterprises and fortunes depend upon some few simple trade secrets the knowledge of which has baffled competition and crushed all rivalry. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The political enterprises of the papacy necessitated an increasing demand for money. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The missionary enterprises of the papacy in Mongolia ended in failure. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Both these enterprises were doomed to failure by the nature of things. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The financial aspect of these enterprises is often overlooked and forgotten. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• These were absorbed in enterprises already existing, and were the means of assisting their rapid growth and expansion, particularly the telephone industry. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• This belief was the stronger because the manufacturing enterprises belonged personally to Mr. Edison and not to his company. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Both relied successfully upon the power of the written word to link great multitudes of diverse men together in common enterprises. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This is perhaps the right place at which to refer to the matter, as it belongs in the list of his financial or commercial enterprises. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Its programme was faithfully carried out--a thing which surprised me, for great enterprises usually promise vastly more than they perform. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I panted for enterprises beyond my childish exploits, and formed distempered dreams of future action. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Edited by Edith