He would see about selling the stock and making re-investments to-morrow.

"The railway is already nearly half built, and it represents a German investment of between £16,000,000 and £18,000,000.

You, of course, understand they were not seeking an investment, but trying, with all their hearts, to benefit the children.

Manufactures have been established in which the funds of the capitalist find a profitable investment, and which give employment and subsistence to a numerous and increasing body of industrious and dexterous mechanics.

Although I would not advise anybody to follow our example, yet it is a fact that we got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.

The country houses and fields in the neighbourhood of the city were laid waste by the enemy; the two legions in the city, who went forth against them, prevented the investment of the walls.

West had taken an option on the property, when he found by accident that the Pierce-Lane Lumber Company was anxious to get hold of the tract and cut the timber on a royalty that would enable the owners to double their investment.

Yet it would be a poor creature in these days when there is scarcely a possible young man in one's circle who has not quite freely and cheerfully staked his life, who was not prepared to consider his investments as being also to an undefined extent a national subscription.

Again, in time of war or general disturbance, a man may require ready money at once, and have to sell out his investments in land or consols for a third or even a still smaller fraction of the sum he would have received from them, if he could have waited for the market to right itself, which would have happened in due course; but he compels Time to grant him a loan, and his loss is the interest he has to pay.

"We go to London every week to fuss about his affairs; he's always changing his investments, taking his money out of one thing and putting it in another, you know.

They had found the necessary money in the "sure and certain hope" of having a good and secure investment for their capital, and lo!

The returns have already more than justified the investment.

"Twenty picture theatres at twenty thousand dollars eacha low estimate, my dears, for such as you requirewould mean an investment of four hundred thousand dollars.

I was angry at the time, because their withdrawal had driven me into a tight corner to protect my investment, and I told them they would bitterly regret their action.

He points out that horses involve a large original investment, are worn out in farm work, and after their prime steadily depreciate in value; while, on the other hand, the ox can be fattened for market when his usefulness as a draught animal is over, and then sell for more than his original cost; that he is less subject to infirmities than the horse; can be fed per tractive unit more economically and gives more valuable manure.

They had, between them, considerable money, but they realized they could not enter a field that required such an enormous investment as film making.

When the mortgage was foreclosed in 1845 the bank bought in virtually the whole property to save its investment, and operated the works for several years until a new company, with a manager imported from Sweden, was floated to take the concern off its hands.

The chiefs of the Bellovaci then feared an investment like that of Alesia, and resolved to quit their position.

In spite of this humility of manner, however, he cherished a secret pride in his superior wealth, and was apt to remind his associates, upon occasion, that he could buy up any one of them without feeling the investment.

[Footnote 3: The special assessment is thus in its nature, in part a private investment.

Newspapers in Norway are not so good an investment; in fact, none of them may be considered financial ventures.

The growth of this system is a curious commentary on the purely mercenary policy which is ordinarily supposed to govern the investments of capital.

Will American girls grudge the investment of their lives? Only like souls I see the folk thereunder, Bound who should conquer, slaves who should be kings, Hearing their one hope with an empty wonder, Sadly contented with a show of things.

The growth of commerce and of the mechanical trades in the towns required larger ships, factories, and shops, and increasing investments.

A very civil native, named Muncherjee, who calls himself a milliner, has, I am informed, very frequently well-chosen investments to dispose of, but upon my visits I have seen nothing wearable in the shape of bonnets and caps.