Funds

Examples

• There are funds in hand at present. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• In 1855 the work was discontinued at the height of 152 feet, from lack of funds. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• It will have been gathered that the funds for this great experiment were furnished largely by Edison. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• While it obliges the people to pay, it may thus diminish, or perhaps destroy, some of the funds which might enable them more easily to do so. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Mostly these men have worked against great discouragement, with insufficient funds and small help or support from the mass of mankind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was no market for his wares, and after months of actual destitution he pawned the model of his sewing-machine and even his patent papers in order to secure funds to pay his passage home. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Lord Ravensworth, the principal partner, formed a favorable opinion of Stephenson’s plans, and agreed to supply him with the funds necessary to build a locomotive. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• We can keep thy secret, said he, furnish funds, and perhaps help in the business. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The demand for labourers, the funds destined for maintaining them increase, it seems, still faster than they can find labourers to employ. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But it would be otherwise in a country where the funds destined for the maintenance of labour were sensibly decaying. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The annuity I propose giving her, continued his lordship, of ?500, shall be derived from money in the funds. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The funds destined for employing industry are less than they had been the year before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• They have not shown any sign of being in funds. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• And Fred winced under the idea of being looked down upon as wanting funds for small debts. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I ask for nothing; there are funds in hand. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.

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