The element of speculation enters into manufacture at every poresize of market, competitors, and price are all unknown.

what would my most grave speculations avail?

Gambling, lotteries, and speculation cause embezzlement, crime, unhappy homes, and wrecked lives.

[Footnote: Some of the numerous land speculation companies, which were so prominent about this time, both before and after the Revolution, made claims to vast tracts of territory in this region, having bought them for various trinkets from the Indian chiefs.

Otherwise, his reasonings, if true at all, are true everywhere alike: his speculations concern humanity at large, and are not confined to the hundred or the bills of mortality.

I tell you, Norton," spoke Haines in a confidential manner, "this land speculation fever is a frightful thing.

I buy up all her smiles all day With all my love, And sell them back, cost-price, or, say, A kiss or two above; It is a speculation fine, The profit must be always mine.

"I told him how Haines wanted to get in some land speculation scheme with Altacoola, how we tricked him and caught him with the goods when he made the proposition to me and how we forced him to confess.

Therefore they make haste to be rich, and care little, should the speculation answer and much sugar bring in great gain, what becomes of the gang ten years hence.

Gregorio got himself into that horrible speculation years and years ago, though I knew nothing about it.