I repeat that a man who has money may buy up and monopolise all the corn and kill others by starvation, completely oppressing them, as it has frequently happened before our own eyes on a very large scale.
I can imagine men without water and pure air because other men had assumed to themselves the right to monopolise these essential necessaries of all.
I looked upon him as my own special godfather, in whom I had a sort of vested interest, and I showed my annoyance when I was not allowed to monopolise him, or at least to remain near him.
You find there are too many soap manufacturers and too much soap, and so you propose to combine, and put your rivals out of business, and monopolise the soap market.
Sometimes it was a contest between rival families, and sometimes a struggle between the municipal aristocracy, who sought to monopolise the political power, and the common people, who wished to have a large share in the administration.
Nothing could show us more plainly than this the suspicion in which were held any attempts by Gloucester to monopolise the governmental power, and the surprisingly advanced state of constitutional theory.
Henceforward he was one of the King's trusty warriors, and the war indeed was to monopolisemost of his time for the next few years, though for the present there was a cessation.
Lenox has no business to monopolise you in this way.
And at least your proffer of friendship gives me better right to monopolise you than that chap Desmond can lay claim to.
What right have I to monopolise him for ten days, and leave you alone?
They neither absorb the whole material of life nor monopolise its values.
Primitive art is incredibly conservative; its first creations, having once attracted attention, monopolise it henceforth and nothing else will be trusted to work the miracle.
There is an inevitable comradeship with men of the same breeding or profession, however bad these may be, because habits soon monopolise the man.
As might have been expected, the Andine and sub-Andine regions almost monopolise the mining interest.
But English and French goods appear to monopolise the best shops.
She agreed with Kitty that it was most officious of a solitary male to monopolise the Grange, and bemoaned the loss to the neighbourhood in a manner tragic enough to satisfy even her daughter's requirements.
I should say politely, but firmly, that I could not find it in my heart to deprive them of such treasures--that with so many deserving objects craving support, it would be pure selfishness on our part to monopolise all the good things!
He goes in for cricket, and makes tremendous scores, I hear, and the Hill houses will soon monopolise him.
She was determined not to monopolise him so selfishly; but, somehow, when it came to the point, she was always forgetting these good resolutions.
In this series the faces may all be equally developed, or those facing one another may be most prominent, or, on the other hand, those looking away from one another may monopolise the design.
Oh, I shall hope to see her too; you won't monopolise her, you know.
The difficulty was that the island seemed disinclined to restrict itself to this modest sphere of usefulness; it threatened to monopolise me, and to leave very little of me or my friends, by the time that it had finished with us.
The amount that can be leased by any person or corporation is limited to 2560 acres, and the penalty for attempting to monopolise the product is forfeiture of tenure.
The unscrupulous speculator could monopolise the supply of foodstuffs, and give them an exorbitantly high value which purchasers would accept and pay for rather than go hungry.
For some occult reason no one contested the curate's right to have Constance all to himself on such occasions; for what right had he, a religious man, to monopolise this pretty infidel?
The main thing is that each be faithful in the administration of what he has received, and not seek to imitate his brother who is diversely endowed, or to monopolise for himself another's gifts.
They monopolise us unless we resist the intrusive appeals that they make to us.
Julia, whom she had trained never to monopolise attention in society, now left the piano in spite of remonstrance, and soon noticed her mother's face; for from red it had become paler than usual.
What the juristical oligarchy now claims is to monopolise the knowledge of the laws, to have the exclusive possession of the principles by which quarrels are decided.
Give me three weeks of it a year, and, as far as I am concerned, you might monopolise the orchestra for the other forty-nine.
The building itself was neither old nor new, and we were shown into a pew beneath a large stained-glass window that almost immediately began, in spite of myself, to monopolise my attention.
Young Grandcourt turned from the pretty, over-painted woman who, until that moment, had apparently held him interested when his food failed to monopolise his attention, and glanced heavily around at Geraldine.
For Jack's sake even more than his own it was better that he should be so deluded; and Margot was happily above the littleness of desiring to monopolise the credit for her ideas.
As a rule, she herself preferred to monopolise the larger share of a conversation, but to-night she was too tired to do more than offer the necessary remarks by the way.
And Ferrers, sliding into a vacant chair on the other side of Lady Florence, conversed volubly and unceasingly, as if seeking to monopolise her attention.
I would have your every look--monopolise your every word.
I shall monopolise a good deal of your time, and I fancy they intend to be rather gay here.
The Chamonix people, annoyed that foreign guides should monopolise the peak, threw cold water on the idea of ascending it, and were ready, if they got a chance, to deny that it had been ascended.
I was unwilling to monopolise a new ascent, though probably only an easy one, so I refused to go till my friend was better, and asked the guides to suggest something else.
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