"Agio" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... discount, abatement, concession, reduction, depreciation, allowance; qualification, set-off, drawback, poundage, agio[obs3], percentage; rebate, rebatement[obs3]; backwardation, contango[obs3]; salvage; tare and tret[obs3]. sale, bargain; half price; price war. wholesale, wholesale price; dealer's price; trade price. ...
— Roget's Thesaurus
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... is, and was, and ever will be, their internecine foe. Silly and sanguinary enough were their schemes, God knows! and bootless enough had they succeeded; for nothing nourishes in the revolutionary atmosphere but that lowest embodiment of Mammon, "the black pool of Agio," and its money-gamblers. But the battle remains still to be fought; the struggle is internecine; only no more with weapons of flesh and blood, but with a mightier weapon—with that association which is the true bane of Mammon—the embodiment of ...
— Alton Locke, Tailor And Poet • Rev. Charles Kingsley et al
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... Marsilio, e di stare in suo corte. Rinaldo gli rispose infuriato: Chi non e ineco, avverso me sia detto; E cominciogli a trassinar l'elmetto. E trasse un mandiretto e due e tre Con tanta furia, e quattro e cinque e sei, Che non ebbe agio a domandar merze, E ...
— Stories from the Italian Poets: With Lives of the Writers, Volume 1 • Leigh Hunt
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... financiers on record;—and never from that day wanted abundance of money, for one thing. Which he judged to be extremely expedient for a literary man, especially in times of Jesuit and other tribulation. 'You have only to watch,' he would say, 'what scrips, public loans, investments in the field of agio, are offered; if you exert any judgment, it is easy to gain there: do not the stupidest of mortals gain there, ...
— History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. X. (of XXI.) - Frederick The Great--At Reinsberg--1736-1740 • Thomas Carlyle
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