Partners

Examples

• I am afraid that I-- I have seen you dancing this evening, and you had the very best of the girls for your partners. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• A little later, with his partners Need and Strutt, he built a very complete factory at Cromford, on the Derwent River. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• A new company was proposed, and prevented only by admitting a number of new partners. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Any one of these partners would have disinherited his son on the question of rebuilding Tellson's. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Those were hard times for Vail and the partners back of him. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• This machine infringed the partners’ patents, and caused them an almost endless series of expensive lawsuits. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• They rejected this with scorn, and at once started a lawsuit against Gutenberg and his partners. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• For God's sake, say no more of his partners. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But none of these partners was exactly the man to organize and build up such a business as this of the telephone should be, and each of them knew it. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But the type were destroyed, and the partners were afraid to make new ones, lest the suspicious public should spy upon them and learn their secret. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• You oppose yourself to the profit of the business, said Jerry, and me and my partners suffer. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Ma was there, and Ma's here; but Pa wasn't there, and company wasn't there, and there were not real partners there. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Tommy Chitling hasn't won a point; and I went partners with him against the Artfull and dumb. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Fifty would-be partners thronged round her at once, and pressed to have the honour to dance with her. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• We shall be at Newcastle all the winter, and I dare say there will be some balls, and I will take care to get good partners for them all. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• When the term of the contract between the partners came to an end it was not renewed. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Mothers, kiss you last--husbands, protectors no more, lead on the partners of your death! Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Usually a number would be brought in by a company of Mexicans, partners in the delivery. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Moreover, the United States government now seemed to have lost interest in the subject, and his partners, the Vails, were having financial difficulties of their own. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The firm of Boulton and Watt had a successful career, and in time the sons of the two partners took the latters’ places. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• But your father and me were partners, Bart, says the old gentleman, and when I am gone, you and Judy will have all there is. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• The machine was entirely completed by the latter part of May, and its work proved satisfactory to both partners. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The telegraph being an accomplished fact, pirates of the patent now appeared, and for a course of years Morse and his partners had to fight for their rights. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I am convinced that, at the worst, he would have returned from the seashore to take leave of us, and to make us the partners of his council. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The partners’ wrote frequently to each other, and their letters show the fierceness of the struggle they were waging to protect their rights. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His partners bought him out of the New Lanark business in 1828. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Then both the partners laughed together--pleasantly and cheerfully, as men who are going to receive money often do. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• The partners were angry, and said they saw no real advantage in the press. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• The concern prospered, and the partners were fast friends. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• My partners do almost everything, I'm merely holding on until you take my place, and can be off at any time. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.

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