8498 examples of stocks in sentences

There is a large building and court yard near one of the gates of the city supposed to have been a barrack for soldiers; three skeletons were found here with their legs in a machine similar to our stocks.

There were many different approaches and specialties: day trading, intermediate and long term investing, stocks, bonds, currencies, and commodities.

On line discussion groups argued about stocks 24 hours a day.

But they're good toolsI bought it for the Internet, so I can trade stocks.

There were rifles with smashed barrels, with stocks bored through by bullets, clean-cut holes that must have gone on through the men who held themlive men like ourselves; quick choking instants of terror the ghosts of which we were poking and peering into there in the warm sunshine!

I am thinking of proposing a company on the same plan you last proposed in your letter from Liverpool, and which you intend to create in case the Government shall choose to do nothing; that is to say, a company taking the right at one thousand francs per mile, paying the proprietors fifty per cent in stocks and fifty per cent in cash, raising about fifty thousand francs for a trial some distance.

He crossed over in a wobbly boat packed from cellar to attic with Red Tabs invalided with shell shock, Blue Tabs with trench fever, and Green Tabs with brain-fag; Mechanical Transporters in spurs and stocks, jam merchants in revolvers and bowie-knives, Military Police festooned with pickelhaubes, and here and there a furtive fighting man who had got away by mistake, and would be recalled as soon as he landed.

I've got one on the stocks, but I haven't touched her since this news came up river.

Your stocks of goods are nearly at their lowest, and the people that could not get inside could stay outside," he said.

A surprising number of trappers and traders, returning to the United States with their stocks of peltry, camped near us from time to time.

Gently has he dabbled in stocks, and no modern operator is half so conversant an he is with the juggles of the Stock Exchange.

'Tis the voice of PUNCHINELLO wafting sonorously from his tower the instructive moral "Whoe'er sells stocks as isn't his'n, Must pay up or go to pris'n.

"Experience has convinced me that there is no punishment to which the slave looks with more horror, than that upon which I am commenting, (the stocks,) and none which has been attended with happier results.

The negro was placed in a sitting position, with his hands made fast above his head, and his feet in the stocks, so that he could not move any part of the body.

Mr. found the 'stocks' such an effective punishment, that it almost superseded the whip."

That the LASH is the MAIN SUPPORT of the slaveholder's authority: but, that the stocks are "a powerful auxiliary" to his government.

When he came home, he was seized and confined in the stocks.

Barry was kept in the stocks day and night for a week, and flogged every morning.

At night he was again put in the stocks, in the morning he was sent to the field in the same manner, and thus dragged out another week.

At one time a negro, named Charles, was confined in the stocks in the building where I was at work, and had been severely whipped several times.

A man once came to him, of whom he said he was suspicious: he gave him two potions of salts, and fastened him in the stocks for the night.

He was afterwards kept in the stocks a week, and whipped every morning.

For this offence he was confined in the stocks six weeks, in a miserable hovel, not weather-tight.

It thus includes ready money, stocks and bonds, ships and wagons, furniture, pictures, and books.

At one minute the feet get fixed as in the stocks; at another, the upper portion of the body is called upon to make a right angle with the lower; even then, a projecting point of the rock above will sometimes prod you upon the upturned angle, in endeavouring to save which, by a too rapid act of humility, you knock all the skin off the more vulnerable knee.

8498 examples of  stocks  in sentences