Shares
[ʃɛr]
Examples
- As is well known to the wise in their generation, traffic in Shares is the one thing to have to do with in this world. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- And the first six months passed away pretty easily, old Sedley still keeping up with the notion that his shares must rise and that all would be well. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- In other cases, he really shares or participates in the common activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The Oliver has made many friends for itself by its fine alignment and visible writing, and shares with the other standard machines a considerable patronage. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- A broker desiring to buy shares of a certain stock will go to the part allotted to that stock and call out its name with the number of shares wished and the price he will pay. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One factory in Birmingham, England, is said to produce about twelve hundred weekly, and Belgium shares in their manufacture. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- It is so difficult to make shares at all even. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- The depth to which the shares or cultivator blades work in the ground may be adjusted by a gauge wheel upon the draught beam, or a roller on the back of the frame. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- He is deeply interested in South African gold shares. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- The commission charged for buying or selling is twelve and a half cents a share, so that on the usual order of one hundred shares, the broker receives twelve dollars and a half. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- Have no antecedents, no established character, no cultivation, no ideas, no manners; have Shares. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- On the American stock exchanges one broker may specialize in the shares of the Union Pacific Railroad, for instance, another in those of the United States Steel Corporation, and so on. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- One shares in what another has thought and felt and in so far, meagerly or amply, has his own attitude modified. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Sufficient answer to all; Shares. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- It shares in the wonder and glory that attach to adventure, travel, and exploration. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- One of the boys was hard up after a time, and sold two shares to Bob Cutting. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Much work shares in the defects of existing industrial society--defects next to fatal to right development. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The business of buying and selling shares is done in a large room known as the floor. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- O mighty Shares! Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- No landlord shares with him in its produce, and, the share of the sovereign is commonly but a trifle. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Have Shares enough to be on Boards of Direction in capital letters, oscillate on mysterious business between London and Paris, and be great. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- All these things may exert a combined pressure, in which it may never be possible to apportion the exact shares. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- I shall buy up some good Life Assurance shares, and cut into the Direction. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- In part, he shares the constitution and functions of plants and animals--nutritive, reproductive, motor or practical. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- It was found that all his property had been muddled away in speculations, and was represented by valueless shares in different bubble companies. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Does it require for its satisfaction material and visible things such as land or houses, or is the holding, say, of colonial railway shares sufficient? Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The one enjoys the whole produce of his own industry, the other shares it with his master. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- James Small of Scotland wrote of and made ploughs having a cast-iron mould board and cast and wrought iron shares in 1784-85. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- It is truly educative in its effect in the degree in which an individual shares or participates in some conjoint activity. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He goes, in a condescending amateurish way, into the City, attends meetings of Directors, and has to do with traffic in Shares. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
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