Memcons are the stock-in-trade of the diplomatic set. From Wordnik.com. [Rogue Warrior]
My stock-in-trade is food, and making sure there's plenty of it. From Wordnik.com. [EDF: From Anxiety to Creativity] Reference
His stock-in-trade, like that of Field-lane chapmen, is all plunder. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, August 21, 1841] Reference
And force became the stock-in-trade to maintain and defend injustice. From Wordnik.com. [Further Submissions and Responses by the ANC to Questions raised by the Commission for Truth and Reconciliation] Reference
The stock-in-trade for this skilled labour is an H.B. pencil and a Webster. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, November 28, 1917] Reference
His stock-in-trade consisted only of a few old Violins of no particular value. From Wordnik.com. [The Violin Its Famous Makers and Their Imitators] Reference
His stock-in-trade consists of a few newspapers, his pantry holds but potatoes. From Wordnik.com. [Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81.] Reference
Almost every other designer's stock-in-trade is that special frisson of the new. From Wordnik.com. [American Dreamer] Reference
"Beautiful ideas" are the very best stock-in-trade a young writer can begin with. From Wordnik.com. [The Idler Magazine, Vol III. May 1893 An Illustrated Monthly] Reference
So Mr. Balls was called in to value the stock-in-trade, with a view to arranging that. From Wordnik.com. [Edward FitzGerald and "Posh" "Herring Merchants"] Reference
Men now regard their knowledge of other men as a part of their capital or stock-in-trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 40, February, 1861] Reference
The charcoal-maker uproots trees and plants, and burns them for producing his stock-in-trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
The traditional journalist's stock-in-trade is access; stalking moguldom requires "proximity.". From Wordnik.com. [The Shame of No Shame: Fawning, Sniping in Media Land] Reference
He is well advised to be worried about peaking too soon; the strong finish is his stock-in-trade. From Wordnik.com. [The McCain Behind the Curtain: Todd S. Purdum] Reference
Indeed, notions of 'pre-emptive wars' and 'regime change' are becoming the political stock-in-trade. From Wordnik.com. [Strategy and Tactics of the ANC] Reference
The distinctions and divisions have become part of the stock-in-trade of would be philosophic jurists. From Wordnik.com. [Ethics] Reference
He took the Spanish mission into his stock-in-trade, and he has since made that as hackneyed as the rest. From Wordnik.com. [My Contemporaries In Fiction] Reference
His physical and mental inferiority was his stock-in-trade, and he relied on it as a safeguard against reprisals. From Wordnik.com. [A Girl Among the Anarchists] Reference
On his pleading guilty, the stock-in-trade, together with the stolen property which he had purchased, was confiscated. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
To the novel it became actually a stock-in-trade, and as such it was used by Henry Kingsley in his novel of "Ravenshoe.". From Wordnik.com. [Lynton and Lynmouth A Pageant of Cliff & Moorland] Reference
In consequence of such worship the stock-in-trade of the merchant, become abundant and the produce of the agriculturist. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 3 Books 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12] Reference
Story-tellers had generally much the same stock-in-trade -- stories of Arthur, Charlemagne, Sir Guy of Warwick, Sir Bevis of. From Wordnik.com. [Stories from Le Morte D'Arthur and the Mabinogion] Reference
When Jerry shows up, the old man is holding a jewelry bag, stock-in-trade, the case you carry as you hump around the country. From Wordnik.com. [Rich Cohen on Jerry Weintraub] Reference
Penn's stock-in-trade is contrarian advice to center-left politicians -- you go to him when everyone else says you're doomed. From Wordnik.com. [John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...] Reference
Her stock-in-trade consisted for the most part of these stories, which she would retail to her lady friends at afternoon teas. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
The receptionist led the couple to a table by the little black riser where Loudon would soon be performing his stock-in-trade. From Wordnik.com. [Songs in the Key of Lacerating] Reference
Many might have been somewhat hazy as to antecedents, but all were well-provided with a certain stock-in-trade -- personal charm. From Wordnik.com. [Juggernaut] Reference
England they would be kept out of sight, but here in Russia, running sores, mutilated hands and legs, are valuable as stock-in-trade. From Wordnik.com. [Russia As Seen and Described by Famous Writers] Reference
But let others beware of Mr. JOHN FOSTER, a most ingenious manipulator of the old stock-in-trade and possessing a rare sense of humour. From Wordnik.com. [Punch or the London Charivari, Volume 158, March 24, 1920.] Reference
The lady anchor did not blush to tell me that the network was obliterating its very stock-in-trade (newsworthy pictures) out of sheer fear. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hitchens on the cultural fatwa] Reference
The material losses in Cebú amounted to about P1,725,000 in Lutao, represented by house property of Chinese and half-castes and their cash and stock-in-trade. From Wordnik.com. [The Philippine Islands] Reference
The man sat with his little glazed box of Turkish and foreign coins before him on the pavement, his whole financial stock-in-trade amounting to perhaps twenty or thirty pounds. From Wordnik.com. [The Making Of A Novelist An Experiment In Autobiography] Reference
If it is going too far to say that every modern politician owes his stock-in-trade of general ideas to the Greeks, there are certainly few who do not owe them their perorations. From Wordnik.com. [The Legacy of Greece Essays By: Gilbert Murray, W. R. Inge, J. Burnet, Sir T. L. Heath, D'arcy W. Thompson, Charles Singer, R. W. Livingston, A. Toynbee, A. E. Zimmern, Percy Gardner, Sir Reginald Blomfield] Reference
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