Quotations
[kwo'teʃən]
Examples
- Twenty-five instruments were energized from one circuit, and the quotations were supplied from a central at 18 New Street. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Each firm had its own army of boys, numbering from twelve to fifteen, whose duties were to ascertain the latest quotations from the different exchanges. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The Gould and Fisk crowd had cornered gold, and had run the quotations up faster than the indicator could follow. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The reader may have noticed in a perusal of this chapter the lack of autobiographical quotations, such as have appeared in other parts of this narrative. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- This exhibited merely the prevailing price of gold; but as its quotations changed from instant to instant, it was in a most literal sense the cynosure of neighboring eyes. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Quotations were transmitted by the Morse telegraph from the floor of the Stock Exchange to the central, and thence distributed to the subscribers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Mr. Callahan's first idea was to distribute gold quotations, and to this end he devised an indicator. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- While with them I devised a printer to print gold quotations instead of indicating them. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Pope and Edison invented a one-wire printer, and started a system of 'gold printers' devoted to the recording of gold quotations and sterling exchange only. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- To-day, as usual, his quotations fell ineffectual: he soon shifted his ground. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
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