stock-jobber

Much of the paper echoed the keen reasoning of the earlier reports on public credit; allegations of stock-jobbing were met with the statement that Hamilton did not know a single member of Congress who could “properly be called a stock-jobber or a paper-dealer”; his reply to the favorite charge of Republicans that the way was being prepared for a change to a monarchy was a flat denial, with the added remark “that the project, from its absurdity, refutes itself.”

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Much of the paper echoed the keen reasoning of the earlier reports on public credit; allegations of stock-jobbing were met with the statement that Hamilton did not know a single member of Congress who could “properly be called a stock-jobber or a paper-dealer”; his reply to the favorite charge of Republicans that the way was being prepared for a change to a monarchy was a flat denial, with the added remark “that the project, from its absurdity, refutes itself.”

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Much of the paper echoed the keen reasoning of the earlier reports on public credit; allegations of stock-jobbing were met with the statement that Hamilton did not know a single member of Congress who could “properly be called a stock-jobber or a paper-dealer”; his reply to the favorite charge of Republicans that the way was being prepared for a change to a monarchy was a flat denial, with the added remark “that the project, from its absurdity, refutes itself.”

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

Much of the paper echoed the keen reasoning of the earlier reports on public credit; allegations of stock-jobbing were met with the statement that Hamilton did not know a single member of Congress who could “properly be called a stock-jobber or a paper-dealer”; his reply to the favorite charge of Republicans that the way was being prepared for a change to a monarchy was a flat denial, with the added remark “that the project, from its absurdity, refutes itself.”

Washington Richard Harwell 1968

The simple candor of the old man, no longer the stock-jobber, who, for the first time in his life, saw that something was more sacred and more precious than gold, really moved these world-hardened men; some exchanged smiles; other looked at Nucingen with an expression that plainly said, “Such a man to have come to this!” —

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

The stock-jobber could aim at a fortune any day with the artillery of speculation, but the man was a slave to the hope of happiness.

Scenes from a Courtesan's Life 2007

‘And now,’ said he, ‘will you tell the jury whether you are a stock-jobber or no?’

The Three Clerks 2004

It is true that he had a second trade; he was a stock-jobber as well as a Civil Service

The Three Clerks 2004

He did not like the idea of meeting a Cornish stock-jobber in a familiar way over his brandy-punch, while engaged, as he now was, on the part of Government; he felt that there might be impropriety in it, and he would have been glad to get off if he could.

The Three Clerks 2004

‘By the virtue of your oath, sir, are you a stock-jobber, or are you not?’

The Three Clerks 2004