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"Stockbroker" Quotes from Famous Books

... conservatory, and to their right the walk leading to the tradesmen's entrance and the back premises; here also was the pantry window, of which more anon. The right house was the residence of an opulent stockbroker who wore a heavy watch-chain and seemed fair game. There would have been two objections to it had I been the stockbroker. The house was one of a row, though a goodly row, and an army-crammer had established ...

— Raffles - Further Adventures of the Amateur Cracksman • E. W. Hornung

... notary, and Count Steinbock, and my niece Hortense, and the stockbroker to the Treasury. It is now half-past ten; they must all be here by twelve. Take hackney cabs —and go faster than that!" he added, a republican allusion which in past days had been often on his lips. And he put on the scowl that had brought his soldiers to attention when he was beating ...

— Poor Relations • Honore de Balzac

... the bricklayer and the stockbroker by the ropes, and the cynical lawyer in the pavilion! But I prefer to consider the ...

— From a Cornish Window - A New Edition • Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... A house bought with the price of dishonour. A house, everything in which has been paid for by fraud. [Turns round and sees SIR ROBERT CHILTERN.] Ask him what the origin of his fortune is! Get him to tell you how he sold to a stockbroker a Cabinet secret. Learn from him to what you owe ...

— An Ideal Husband - A Play • Oscar Wilde

... nine o'clock in the morning," said Raffles, "to catch the early stockbroker who would rather be ...

— Mr. Justice Raffles • E. W. Hornung

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