We do not all know one another's tricks, but we have a fair idea of the general principle on which they are done and a very definite opinion about our own business as compared with that of the parson or the professor.
The qualifications for any business are three: native talent, education, and industry.
That novel-writing is a business I am credibly informed by my publishers.
The business man left his office in great haste and ran home, where he found the horse in the stable where he had left him.
The hook and eye "see that hump" was simple enough, but I fancy it required a splendid campaign of advertising and business push to get it to the front and make it pay.
I heard of a business man who had a very valuable horse.
If you do not sell the invention you can contract the manufacturing and go into the business of selling, or you can put it out on a royalty basis.
If I've got ter stand this kind of a deal ter be a Christian, I'll cut this whole business out.
You know, Fagin, the other day when Fred Hanks tried to kill himself, you told me you were tired of your business and wished you could be a Christian.
You can do all the business you have with me in a minute er two.
Evidently the Chief Justice had in mind the usages in the time of King Alfred, when the barrister was an employee of the court, and his business was to get the facts and then explain them to the King in the fewest possible words.
What percentage of the money from the lessons went to Mrs. Eddy, only an Armstrong Committee could ascertain, and really it was nobody's business but hers.
A man who works eight hours, with fair intelligence, and does not set out to make consumption and waste the business of his life, grows rich.
Plato would have done the same, but he saw that the business was extra hazardous, to use the phrase of our insurance friends.
In every big business or school, there is one man's mental attitude that animates the whole institution.
Brook Farm failed for lack of a leader with business instinct; but as it was, it divided up among its members a rich legacy of spiritual and mental assets.
The rhetor was a man whose business it was to persuade or convince.
Such men may be without conscience in a business way.
When a creator of New Thought goes into the business of retailing his product, he often forgets to live it, and soon is transformed into a dealer in Secondhand Thought.
Heaven provides us means of knowing all about what is best here, and supplies us in abundance every material thing for present happiness, and it is our business to realize, to know, to enjoy.
Every great business enterprise has a soul--one man's spirit animates, pervades and tints the whole.
The plan of making a business of being a "Levi" was borrowed from the Egyptians, who had men set apart, exclusively, to deal in the mysterious.
The set methods of the clergy, accusations of revolution and heresy, tilts with pious pedants as to the value of dead languages, all combined with his own lack of business shrewdness, had wrecked his various ventures.
Benedict, while agreeing that the world was bad, yet said that our business was to make it better, and that everything we did which was done merely to save our own souls, was selfish and unworthy.
The business ability of the woman was shown in thus organizing and allowing no one to teach who was not duly prepared.
Since the first weeks of the European War all stock-exchange transactions have been made, in theory at least, for cash, and speculative business of this nature has been consequently much reduced.
Another branch of business is the northern seal and whale fishery.
This morning his customers might wait for their milk, for all business must give way before such an important piece of sightseeing as this.
Well, we cut and dried that business pretty straight.
He tried hard to talk me over to his side, but I was rigid, madam, I was rigid, and thebusiness ended in my getting seven per cent.
One day Spotkirk came to me and told me he wanted me to do a piece ofbusiness for him, for which he would pay me twenty-five dollars.
You can be hanged if you like,' says I, 'but you'll do thebusiness all the same.
You may call it burglary or anything else you please,' said he; 'property is very unequally divided in this world, and it is my business in life to make wrong things right as far as I can.
I should refuse to believe a word of it," he said, "if it were not such a low, scoundrelly piece of business that it becomes quite possible in connection with the name of my son Bevis.
At first he scarcely knew what to do; he had not been brought up to work, and had no business experience, but he had courage and plenty of determination.
Mr. Hobbs was immensely impressed by this suggestion and Dick's business capacity.
This wretched, disgraceful business has changed that.
With a sigh, he laid the letter aside, and turned to his business correspondence.
This gave him a good-sized sitting room, which was his private office, and here he transacted all business that didn't require his presence at the more public buildings.
I shall never write him again, or refer to this miserable business in any way.
You understand, this business had to be done with.
I changed my name to Thorold and started in business as an army contractor.
Some business memorandum, no doubt; yet nothing surely that at this late day he might not in honor examine.
Now he has a fine business and a fine house and fine children, and I have nothing.
From the nose up, he will 'tend to his own business if you will 'tend to yours, strictly.
Like a man in a daze he dismissed his car, crossing pavements under Peter's guiding until he came to the building where the fortunes of the great Thorold mercantile business were administered.
She often dreamed too of Herr Dehnicke, the faithful, loyal little business man, who was ready to stand by her so staunchly through thick and thin.
People who before had troubled little about him, and had scarcely even spoken to him, now asked when they were to meet him out of business hours, and hinted that they wouldn't mind making a night of it in his company.
I am only the middleman, or, if you like it better, the agent, in a little private business that concerns you and your betrothed alone.
On the quiet evenings that he recruited from his nights of dissipation their business conversations were resumed.
It was then arranged that one of his vans should call the next day for the transparencies, and businessthus being concluded, he begged modestly to be allowed to stay a few minutes longer.
The bronze business has begun to boom all at once.
One fellow may have a book to write, another a great business to work up, a third may have others dependent on him, and many find it as much as they can do to swim against the current.
His uncle, a wealthy old bachelor who had travelled a great deal both on business and pleasure, had adopted him.
I swear the future proprietresses of the fancy art business may go to the deuce, as far as I am concerned.
They became very sociable, and told me that they were the owners of a large circulating library, and intended shortly to open a fancy art businessin Berlin, etc.
Efficiency in habits of thought is encouraged, his outlook on life is broader, he becomes more fit to take a prominent part in social and in business life, wherever judgment and thought are needed.
The influence of business life made the world more matter of fact and in consequence literature became rather more prosaic, with a tendency to present a realistic picture of everyday life and manners.
The army of business employees, alert, vigorous, ready for any quantity of reading-matter that would amuse or furnish knowledge, added their countless numbers to the reading public.
Now Browning was not at all like a poet in appearance, but rather resembled a prosperous business man, and it happened that as he was well toward the back of the hall no one recognized him.
Show his application of business sense to his poetry.
All our business being transacted, it was agreed that we should continue our route for London, to purchase silks and light goods, and return by the same route to Scotland.
But it is in the morning only, and before the business of the world summons us to its mechanical and artificial realities, that the beauties of May can be felt in all their freshness.
If I choose to kiss this young lady, or this young lady chooses to kiss me, that's no business of yours, I suppose?
My object now was to obtain a capital to commence business upon.
It was not his business to interrupt, by hinting suspicions, the progress of an affair which he hoped would, on some occasion or other, lead to consequences that he might turn to account.
Anxious to commence my new mode of life, I had soon completed my business with my friend.
Having settled our small bill, and left our packs in charge of the landlord, I walked out to see the minster, they to transact some business of their own.
This was not his business; but it was his business to lie concealed, and to spring out on his quarry the instant that its position invited to the effort.
Square, your last misfortune arose from this--you began business at the wrong end; you commenced too soon and too full.
But the stranger answered: 'I have some business to conclude first; in fourteen days I will return and bring the bride home.
Well, I suppose you know your own business best,' said the uncle.
So they all determined to go on their business or pleasure, and scorned the wise advice of old Peggy.
Stores for winter in barrels in cold store; not always satisfactory; thinks the cold-storage business not yet fully understood; says Ben Davis and Jonathan keep best.
One of the main difficulties in a general fruit-growing business is encountered in a hard subsoil--too hard when it is dry and too soft and yielding when wet.
I was at large expense to fence, but was so disappointed with the hog business that I took the fence down.
Now comes the interesting part, which makes business of the transaction.
Very few growers, however, make a businessof spraying.
In conclusion, I would say, that the business of growing fruit is much more certain of success than that of mercantile business.
In this soil workshop, too, live and labor certain minute organisms that make it their business to enrich the soil by helping the rootlets to assimilate the nitrogen of the air.
But now the business of the Empire demanded that he relieve the Empress of her regency.
All there were keenly affected by the stranger's mysterious business with the Emperor, except the Emperor himself.
But Jacqueline only allowed herself a little inconsequential sniff, and went back to the really serious business that did worry her.
There was still the mystery of his having blundered into a business that somehow concerned the Emperor of Mexico.
Yet he had laid bare the kernel of the whole business that bore the name of Jacqueline.
Then the Cossacks, including their colonel, left on some stealthy business without, and Jacqueline and Berthe were alone.
Listen, he has business of some kind with Maximiliano.
Homespun did not correspond with pressing business of state, to his mind.
Everybody he met seemed to twist Driscoll's business into a vital personal issue, and it did not take him long to place M.
He was brooding on Monsieur Éloin usurping his own place near the Emperor, and he wanted to finish the present business so as to overtake them both.
In ordinary business matters every one was ready to consult him.
He gave up the situation where he was working as a servant, and left some money with Phailna and said: "I have some business to do at home in my village, and shall be back soon.
The king would put him the question; "Is it the business of the bee merely to hum in the court of the spring?
In business and household management he was able to hold his own.
Her brother had gone away soon after she had married, and he had startedbusiness in Bombay.
You understand the business to some extent now, don't you?
Here Sahwah created a diversion by dropping her hat overboard, and the artist was forgotten in the exciting business of rescuing it from the swiftly running current.
It's his business to run down the enemies of our country and he is working for the good of all of us.
They have no business to make me pay duty upon it," said he to Mr. George.
The fact is that in all business arrangements Turner's worse nature, the mean, grasping spirit of the little tradesman, was brought into prominence.
In the case of Lewis he was evidently in the wrong, in the case of Charles Turner he was only hard; but in all business transactions he was as a rule ungenerous, and sometimes dishonest.
But it gets through more business in spring than in any other season.
One baby can furnish morebusiness than you and your whole Interior Department can attend to.
A gentleman of very nervous temperament informs me that upon one occasion he dreamed that his place of business was on fire.
Toward morning I get a little sleep, but I arise unrefreshed, and go to my business with a feeling of fullness in my head, and a sensation of weariness, which altogether unfit me for the duties of the day.
The following case is similar to the foregoing in its general features: A gentleman who had been unfortunate in some business speculations, shortly afterward became insane.
Thoughts similar to those which were excited during his business operations were in full flow, notwithstanding all his efforts to banish them.
All his disagreeable symptoms had disappeared, and he was enabled to resume his business with his mental faculties in their full vigor.
But after an industrious search among his father's papers, an investigation of the public records, and a careful inquiry among all persons who had transacted law business for his father, no evidence could be discovered to support his defense.
He was a person whom I employed on that occasion for a particular reason, but who never, on any other occasion, transacted business on my account.
In return for their hospitality she attended to her part of the ranch business by keeping the cabin and pantry strictly clear of all rats and mice.
In time the miner settled down into a daily routine of business and pleasure, with only the cat and the solemn and magnificent trees for company.
During all these years that he had tried to settle down into steady, legitimate business a haunting certainty had grown in his mind that they had been too hasty in abandoning this mine.
I must say, it does not show much consideration on the part of the young man to leave her at such a time,--I don't care what the business is that calls him away!
More than this, Mrs. Forsythe had sighed, and told her that poor dear Dick's business seemed to detain him; it was such a shame!
Gifford had quite forgotten the business in Mercer which needed him so early.
I don't understand about there being no engagement, but I cannot help remembering that she cared, though I have no business to.
That your business should take you away at this time, Mr. Forsythe, is unfortunate.
Howe said, when, the business over, he rose to go, "this den of yours is cold!
Brethren," said the preacher, "we have asked the blessing of God upon the deliberations of this Session; it now remains to bring the business before it.
The little ladies protested, but they were secretly very proud that his business should occupy him so much.
And to think of his going off on his confounded business at such a time, when she is in such trouble!
He would be at home for one day the next week; business had called him from Lockhaven, and on his way back he would stay a night in Ashurst.
And you have nobusiness to have doubts yourself, sir.
Next consider, for instance, a word like enhearsed: Now what businesshas it to be rhyming with first?
It's none of my business anyhow, though I wouldn't mind being the fellow in the case--this time.
She had intended calling upon the Chesters in their home and upon having a plain businesstalk with "Johnnie.
I know it's true, though I dare not tell them I've seen the Ghost; because they are both so discouraged and anxious over this farming business that if they found the place was really haunted they'd leave it.
She had made it her business to bestow this in a place of safety, although her frequent visits to the spot would have betrayed her interest in it had the elder Chesters been at all suspicious.
Then he forced himself to look towards Mrs. Chester and to return to the real business of the moment.
I shall make it my business to accomplish that fact even though, at present, he thinks a country blacksmith beneath his notice.
Also he made it sufficiently his business to watch for the reappearance of Dolly, minus the cake and attended by Seth and the too appreciative Peter.
It was intrusted to me by a law firm in Baltimore, the business managers of Mrs. Calvert's property.
Held there, of course; but took to thebusiness so well that by the time I was five I could take a fence with my father, any time he wanted to ride over the plantation.
Though liberal in her business dealings the old gentlewoman hated to be cheated, and she had openly declared to all who chose to listen that Oliver had cheated her.
These strangers were plain business men, with no sentiment about them.
