Establishment

Examples

• I expect a judgment shortly and shall then place my establishment on a superior footing. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I will see the lady who keeps the establishment immediately. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Notwithstanding the establishment of a regular routine of manufacture and sale, Edison did not cease to experiment for improvement. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• A drive of an hour brought us to the picture-dealer's establishment. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• They exactly correspond, so I gather that the lady went back to the same establishment for the second. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• The acquisition of valuable and extensive property, therefore, necessarily requires the establishment of civil government. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It was clear that the whole establishment was roused. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The engineering establishment of Mr. Hall, at Dartford, in Kent, was selected as best adapted for the purpose of making the machinery and for carrying the plans into operation. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• There's the Mincing Lane establishment, and there's your mother's Academy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Thus they reached Mr Venus's establishment, somewhat heated by the nature of their progress thither. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• How _they_ might be benefited, how _they_ must rejoice in such an establishment for you, is nothing to _you_. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• They had been so long on short rations that my first thought was the establishment of a line over which food might reach them. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• To me, sir,' said Mr. Creakle, darting his head at him suddenly, and drawing it back again, 'the principal of this establishment, and your employer. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Between thirty and forty years ago, before the establishment of the buss-bounty, 16s. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• That of England contributed as little towards effectuating the establishment of some of its most important colonies in North America. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Babylon was full of Aramean traders, who had great establishments, with slaves, freed-men, employees of all sorts. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He remained in London a year and a half, working in two of the leading printing establishments of the metropolis, where his skill and reliability were soon prized. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• He was the universal landlord; the wealth and authority of his temples and establishments outshone those of the king. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The pressure became so great that the larger establishments ceased their use, and only the small shops, that employed a few workers, were able to continue using the new machine. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• An apparatus for generating coal gas on a small scale for private establishments, remote from sources of ordinary supply, is represented in the accompanying woodcut. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Electric motive power was not devised to supply the great manufacturing establishments of the present. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Lady Tippins says to her fan, 'Two establishments. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• This is a well-known article of commerce, used in mercantile establishments for the stamping of consecutive, duplicate, and manifold numbers on checks and other documents. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Many of his officials, particularly his provincial officials, had great subordinate establishments, and were constantly tending to become independent. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The greatest of these works were located in Great Urgroez, Hungary, and Bisritz, Moravia, with twenty or more auxiliary establishments. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• In effectuation some of the most important of these establishments, the different governments of Europe had as little merit as in projecting them. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• On the contrary, the force seems to increase, just as the number of printing establishments increase, with the multiplication of new inventions. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• The words, accordingly, which in the original languages denote those different establishments, have very different meanings. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• You decorated our towns with edifices, you bestowed on us useful establishments, you gifted the soil with abundant fertility. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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