Bonds

Examples

• Except bills of exchange, and some other mercantile bills, all other deeds, bonds, and contracts, are subject to a stamp duty. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The false bonds are best broken: with their collapse would come a release of social energy into political discussion. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The money investment represented in capital stock and bonds was $11,216,886,452. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• But let him look at me, in prison, and in bonds here. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• And when gratitude has become a matter of reasoning there are many ways of escaping from its bonds. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• This preparation for bonds, and the additional ignominy it inferred, took a little of the excitement out of me. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• And the priest was locked up, Rocca said, because they found the three per cent bonds on his person. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The ends of the rails were not japanned, but were electroplated, to give good contact surfaces for fish-plates and copper bonds. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They were evidently intended for furze-faggot bonds which he meant to collect on his return. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He denied all knowledge of the five per cent bonds. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• And, in addition, there were certain religious bonds of a unifying kind. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• What power could I have over them, but that they were bound in the bonds of their sin, and delivered to me! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Without a word Tarzan of the Apes cut the bonds which held the Frenchman. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
• I must except, however, the little recruit into the Infant Bonds of Joy, who was stolidly and evenly miserable. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Finally, the bonds which connect the subject matter of school study with the habits and ideals of the social group are disguised and covered up. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• These things are called the Bonds of Christ, and the use they were once put to has given them the name they now bear. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Nor do I require bonds or signatures. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I will cut your bonds and you may come on deck. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• I noticed that these bonds were all portions of a gentleman's dress. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The shock to my already overstrained nervous system was terrible in the extreme, and with a superhuman effort I strove to break my awful bonds. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• It was quite evident he had stolen the bonds. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• The various exchanges and the largest banking institutions are situated here, and stocks and bonds are dealt in to a vast extent. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Thus the absence of Adrian, concerted for the purpose of separating, united them in firmer bonds than ever. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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