But that I could laugh at his impertinence, Alice, I would even now chide him soundly, and send his pitiful carcase to the stocks for this presumption.
Slaves were owned by many of the citizens, and stocks and a whipping-post were set up.
But he had not long resided on his benefice when Sir Amias Paulet, a justice of the peace, set him in the stocks for being drunk and making a disturbance at a fair in the neighbourhood.
The Bank Rotunda was at one period the place where bargains in stocks were made; but there the brokers were as great a nuisance as they had been at the Royal Exchange, and were turned out.
The door of the jail was on the Pioneer street side of the building, and across the way were the stocks and whipping-post.
You can have your Copper Stocks Gold and tin and coal-- What I'd have within my box Has to do with Soul.
Yet many a man has no real riches; his stocks draw dividends in dollars and cents only.
People whose incomes are derived from stocks in the businesses which prosper will probably receive much more than they pay by reason of the increased prices of other commodities, and certainly cannot be worse off than before.
Switzerland is a democratic federation which unites in a firm federal bond three different racial stocks speaking three unlike languages, and divided locally and irregularly between the Catholic Church and the Protestant.
The first difficulty, as to transporting gold, has been largely removed by arranging for drafts against stocks of it kept on both sides of the Atlantic.
All who at present possess large stocks of food, leather, oil, woolen cloth will be able to dispose of them at enormous profits.
But, suddenly, they find they cannot sell their cotton there or their copper, that they cannot market their stocks and bonds there, that they cannot send money to their families who are traveling there, because there is a war.
In addition to the stocks which had been built, he had a pillory set up, and those gentlemen who were not inclined to labor with their hands as well as they might, were forced to stand in it to their discomfort.
Mr. Lincoln was interested, as a speculator, in some mines in Montana, and by a peculiar manipulation of the stocks of these mines he lost every dollar of his hard-earned savings.
That each of us use our best endeavours to inculcate upon the minds of our respective stocks of children a venerable and honourable opinion of the other of us; and avoid as much as possible any insinuation that may have a different tendency.
Western stocksand securities tumbled to such a figure, that all Western banks that held such securities, and had procured advances thereon, were compelled to pay up or substitute increased collaterals.
These were sold "On Change," much as stocksare now sold on Wall Street.
He added that he was no speculator; that hitherto he had avoided having to do with stocks of any sort, but in the present case he really felt something like being tempted.
In order to prevent this havoc, contract the entrance or entrances of the hive attempted to be robbed, so that a few bees only can enter at a time, by which means the old stocks will be better able to defend themselves.
The most regular and beautiful forms, and the ones that are commonest in our racial stocks are the ellipsoid, ovoid and sphenoid.
That we are hybrids, still showing more or less trace of the racial stocks which originally concurred in our formation, is well known, but not clearly enough.
Yes, drunkenness is sadly on the increase; 'tis droll, though, for a drunkard in the stocks to imagine himself a Chief Justice!
I wonder," said the Chief Justice, "whether a man in the stocks endures a punishment that is physically painful?
Even the temporary dislocation of trade is a benefit to trade in the nation at war; for it enables existing stocks to be sold at exaggerated prices.
There would be a boom in stocks to dispel the gloom of Wall Street, and we should do the money-mongers good in spite of themselves.
A bull account exists in a stock or group of stocks when it or they have been bought for the rise by a Iarge number of operators; in the contrary case, when there have been heavy sales for the fall, a bear account is developed.
Emily Henderson, and for certain white and cream stocks (Matthiola.
They are now regarded as public officers, appointed, with certain privileges and duties, by the government to act as intermediaries in negotiating transfers of public funds and commercial stocks and for dealing in metallic currency.
Under such conditions, questions relating to the origin and spread of the racial stocks which form the population of Africa cannot be answered with any certainty; at best only a certain amount of probability can be attained.
Congress, by inducing members of Congress to invest in the stocks of said corporation.
In my next chapter I shall present Squire Hazeldean in patriarchal state--not exactly under the fig-tree he has planted, but before the stocks he has reconstructed.
But whether Captain Barnabas meant the stocks or the world, he did not clearly explain, and no one took the trouble to inquire.
High time indeed to have the stocks ready, when you get squalling and conspiring under the very nose of a justice of the peace, just as the French Revolutioners did afore they cut off their King's head; my hair stands on end to look at ye.
A more elegant, enticing, coquettish pair of stocks never gladdened the eye of a justice of the peace.
As soon as the great folks had fairly disappeared, a large number of small folks emerged timorously from the neighbouring cottages, and approached the site of the stocks with much marvel, fear, and curiosity.
The Squire was a staunch politician of the old school, and he did not like to think that in repairing the stocks he had perhaps been conniving at revolutionary principles.
Such was the beneficent effect of the fatal stockson the first day of their resuscitation!
Sir, it is no use now considering whether the stocksshould or should not have been repaired.
In one way it was not so disastrous as the fire of the year before, which had taken the business part and immense stocks of goods.
Close to this “spring,” as it is termed, thestocks were placed for the punishment of village sots and rogues.
Secret information made him aware that she had sold the various stocks that she held at her marriage.
She had probably sold the last of her stocks and shares, and now they were helping her to get rid of the small remainder of her possessions.
Father made a lucky hit by investing in stocks that doubled, and trebled, and quadrupled in value; but now, there is a combination against them, and they are falling.
Now, I think a capital of that amount invested in a man, is quite as safe as the same sum invested in any stocks whatever.
They don't bother about investments and stocks and all those things, but sing and have a good time.
Stocks are marketable commodities, equally with sugar and salt.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stocks" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
