I said we wouldinvest the money in bonds and buy a cottage in Finland with the surplus.
If I couldn't make Havana respond in the key of my intrinsic feelings, if I had no authentic feeling with which to invest it, my book, almost all my books, were a weariness and a mistake.
Wallace proceeded; and, with calm dignity, announced the hatred that was now poured upon him by a large part of that nobility who had been so eager to invest him with the high office he then held.
But I think there cannot be a question that Lord Ruthven's services to the great cause invest him with a claim which his opponent does not possess.
As the Roman soldiers were obliged to pass the whole year under arms, in order to invest the city during the winter as well as the summer, they now, for the first time, received pay.
Unhappily, though the House could make the bill perpetual, at least till formally repealed, it could not invest its good effects with equal durability.
Any other doctrine would invest the House of Commons, elected for the ordinary business of the state, with a supreme power over every branch of it.
But as he did not invest the classes with the powers exercised by the gentes, the measure failed, like the similar attempt of Theseus, and for the same reason.
The right to investsachems and chiefs elected by the gentes.
The Right to Invest and Depose its Sachems and Chiefs.
Whether the right to invest was purely functional, or carried with it the right to exclude, I am unable to state.
It is evident that the failure of gentile institutions to meet the now complicated wants of society originated the movement to withdraw all civil powers from the gentes, phratries and tribes, and re-invest them in new constituencies.
When the Douglases maintained their power in Galloway the deeds committed within that grim, grey fortress were such asinvest it with fearful interest.
Countries with young populations (high percentage under age 15) need to invest more in schools, while countries with older populations (high percentage ages 65 and over) need to invest more in the health sector.
Indeed, the presence of English actors on the American stage is so pervasive of everything, from farce-comedy to society-tragedy, that they fairly invest our national drama.
If one has a wall to decorate, the first idea of the true decorator is to invest it with splendor or with delicate strength of color.
Though clearly but a young man, he could at will invest himself with the aloof but benevolent dignity of a father-confessor.
For what he had learnt of him during their brief association had enabled that clever journalist to invest his copy with an atmosphere of "exclusiveness" which had attracted universal attention.
You may not find folks as ready to invest in your burial outfit as they was to prevent you from needing one.
He often said,' If English people would only invest their money here, instead of in Peru or the Argentine Republic, they would get eight per cent, on good security.
This newer imperialism does not rest primarily upon a desire for more territory, but rather upon the necessity for markets in which to sell manufactured goods and for opportunities to invest surplus accumulations of capital.
Here, it would seem, is an opportunity for those who are interested in bettering the condition of their fellow men by wholesale, and can invest large capital, but little time, in the work.
What wonder, then, that the overworked and struggling farmer finds little chance to study, or to investigate and invest in fertilizers or even in modern methods of agriculture.
There will be a large force on the north bank of Cape Fear River, ready to follow up and invest the garrison, if they should go inside.
I accordingly made a camp or bivouac near the Louisville road, about five miles from Savannah, and proceeded to invest the place closely, pushing forward reconnoissances at every available point.
The thought flashed through his mind that if Jones had any money to invest he might better buy himself a new necktie and have his shoes repaired, or even invest in a new dress for his daughter, who needed it.
It contrasts the open honours with which we invest the sword, as the means of putting man out of the world, with the concealing and retiring circumstances that accompany his introduction into it.
There is no accounting for ears; or for that laudable enthusiasm with which an Author is tempted to invest a favourite subject with the most incompatible perfections.
The great name remained the secret of Hea; if any man succeeded in divining it, that alone would invest him with a power superior to the gods.
Just at present she's earning big dividends; and until we can find a place to invest her selling price, the money will earn six per cent instead of sixty, as at present.
Land forces cannot invest Fort Fisher, or cut it off from supplies or reinforcements, while the river is in possession of the enemy.
I was still in a condition to either move by his left flank, and invest Richmond from the north side, or continue my move by his right flank to the south side of the James.
You must first know what people need, and then invest yourself where you are most needed.
His fortune was made by his losing something, which taught him the great lesson that he must only invest himself or his money in something that people need.
