"Biz" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... with another boy (EDDUDS 'is nime is) up fur end o' this street. 'E ain't so perticler as I am. Clerks lives there mostly, an' the biz ain't so good as it was in my old plice. Them clerks wears top-'ats, an' consequently they daren't smoke pipes. They cawn't afford to smoke cigars, and cigarettes is off'rin' eyep'ny oices to a stawvin' man. So they don't smoke at ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 101, September 26, 1891 • Various
... Switzerland, so long the final mark and aim of our exertions. We had looked, I know not wherefore, with hope and pleasing expectation on her congregation of hills and snowy crags, and opened our bosoms with renewed spirits to the icy Biz, which even at Midsummer used to come from the northern glacier laden with cold. Yet how could we nourish expectation of relief? Like our native England, and the vast extent of fertile France, this mountain-embowered land was desolate of its inhabitants. Nor bleak mountain-top, ...
— The Last Man • Mary Shelley
... a-sayin': "What's the matter, little Bill?" The old cat sneaks down off her perch an' wonders what's become Of them two enemies of hern that used to make things hum! But I am so perlite an' 'tend so earnestly to biz, That mother says to father: "How improved our Willie is!" But father, havin' been a boy hisself, suspicions me When jest 'fore Christmas, I'm as ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 1 (of 4) • Various
... then the world we went Into beat "The Settlement," And the friends 'at we'd make there Would beat any anywhere!— And they do—fer that's their biz: They beat all the friends they is— 'Cept the raal old friends like you 'At staid at home, like ...
— Songs of Friendship • James Whitcomb Riley
... hit from Logan, so I guess hit's right. The original note was three thousand dollars. They overdrew en added some. The int'rest en costs runs hit to forty-two hundred. The grass bill is less'n three hundred. The whole biz is near forty-five hundred." ...
— David Lannarck, Midget - An Adventure Story • George S. Harney |
