87 examples of stockbroker in sentences

At the death of her husband, a stockbroker's confidential clerk, who had died, leaving her at thirty years of age in very indifferent circumstances, she had gathered her scanty means together and withdrawn to Janville, her native place, where she had entirely devoted herself to her daughters' education.

Twopenny was stockbroker to the Bank of England, and died in 1809.

He was a young stockbroker, with expectations as yet unrealized, it is true, but with a good ancestry and with business popularity.

The failure of my stockbroker and my notary has ruined me, and while I owe nearly four million francs, my assets are only a quarter of my debts.

"'Duge the Infallible' I heard a stockbroker once call you.

For the merchant, the banker, and the stockbroker political frontiers have been broken down.

[person or firm trading securities] broker, stockbroker, jobber, stock dealer, odd-lot dealer; specialist.

" Therefore the girl had, against her inclination, joined the luncheon-party, where foremost of all to have her little attentions was a rather foppish young stockbroker named Girdlestone, who had been up there shooting the previous year, and had on that occasion flirted with her furiously.

You are no doubt very dependent on the care of your lawyer and stockbroker, of the guards and signalmen who convey you rapidly from place to place, and the policemen who walk the streets for your protection; but is there not a thought of gratitude in your heart for certain other benefactors who set you smiling when they fall in your way, or season your dinner with good company?

In the days of Napoleon the Third and the Prussians this was a stockbroker; it passed along with a mass of documents under its arm,as the father of Hamlet, rising from the grave, still wore his helmet and his sword.

Horace was a stockbroker, and James a solicitor.

And here there is neither poison nor steel, only a lovely woman, and an infatuated stockbroker, about whom I know enough to disgrace and ruin an archbishop.

This was not what the British stockbroker wanted; so the company was soon merged in the National Telephone Company, after making a place for itself in the history of literature, quite unintentionally, by providing me with a job.

These writers profess to tell the ordinary man how he may succeed in his trade or speculationhow, if he is a builder, he may succeed as a builder; how, if he is a stockbroker, he may succeed as a stockbroker.

These writers profess to tell the ordinary man how he may succeed in his trade or speculationhow, if he is a builder, he may succeed as a builder; how, if he is a stockbroker, he may succeed as a stockbroker.

Compare me with one of those rascals who disseminate phossy jaw and lead poisons, compare me with a millionaire who runs a music hall with an eye to feminine talent, or an underwriter, or the common stockbroker.

The landing of Napoleon at Cannes in March, 1815, brought, amongst other things, ruin to the worthy old stockbroker John Sedley, and the most determined and obstinate of his creditors was his old friend and neighbour John Osbornewhom he had set up in life, and whose son was to marry his daughter, and who consequently had the intolerable sense of former benefit to goad and irritate him.

Parisian newspapers, in their "society columns" referred, in veiled language, to the passion of an aged king, a democratic monarch, who had left his throne, much as a manufacturer of London or a stockbroker of Paris would leave his office, for a vacation on the Blue Coast.

The English issuing house sends round a stockbroker to underwrite the loan.

The making of a stockbroker.

Westaby Jones was, for a stockbroker, obviously astonished.

since, for all his sly pretence of quoting imaginary authorities, we have really only his unsupported word for the superlative genius of Charles Strickland, the stockbroker who abandoned respectable London to become a Post-impressionist master, a vagabond and ultimately a Pacific Islander.

"At the inquest he described himself as a stockbroker, so I presume he is still connected with the bucket-shop.

PEABODY, GEORGE, philanthropist, born at Danvers, now Peabody, in Massachusetts, U.S.; made a large fortune as a dry-goods merchant in Baltimore and as a stockbroker as well in London; gave away for benevolent purposes in his lifetime a million and a half of money, and left to his relatives one million more; died in London; his body was laid beside his mother's at South Danvers, U.S. (1795-1869).

" "WHAT IS YOUR LINE?" "I USED TO BE A STOCKBROKER, LIDY.

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