It was about the year 1688 that the word stockjobber was first heard in London. From Wordnik.com. [Lombard Street : a description of the money market] Reference
A member of the legislature who can properly be called a stockjobber or. From Wordnik.com. [Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.] Reference
I entered my "Speedwell," a prominent stockjobber. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference
Wasn't it a stockjobber who thought Botticelli was a cheese?. From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
They cared as much about liberty as about old moons: this one speculated on a title; that one on a vice; a third, to possess a carriage and dine at Vefour's, had become the thrall of a wealthy stockjobber who paid his virtues by the month and his opinions by the line. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864] Reference
The stockjobber thus from 'Change Alley goes down. From Wordnik.com. [The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2] Reference
"Why don't you make your offer to some company floater or stockjobber?". From Wordnik.com. [The Intriguers] Reference
Sometimes it is of noble birth; and sometimes the spawn of a stockjobber. From Wordnik.com. [The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume III (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland I] Reference
Spain had abdicated; but I believe it was some stockjobber that had deposed him. From Wordnik.com. [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4] Reference
No stockjobber on 'Change could go about his exciting work with more animating eagerness. From Wordnik.com. [The Bertrams] Reference
A stockjobber, he wrote, is "a low wretch who gets money by buying and selling shares in the funds.". From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XII No 1] Reference
City coffee importer, and Lang, the stockjobber, well known in his own circle as an amateur prestidigitator. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage to Arcturus] Reference
My next lover was Fungoso, the son of a stockjobber, whose visits my friends, by the importunity of persuasion, prevailed upon me to allow. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
If any spirit ever walks it must be that of the stockjobber, for how can such a one rest in its grave without knowing what shares are doing?. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Clerks] Reference
This scandalous bargain was duly signed and sealed, the stockjobber furthermore agreeing to settle upon his daughter, on the marriage-day, a fortune of several millions. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds] Reference
After he had enjoyed the triumph of condolence, he turned to a wealthy stockjobber, and left me exposed to the scorn of those who had lately courted my notice, and solicited my interest. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II] Reference
It was on an evening during the carnival season and the world, that is, the world that begins with the baron and ends with the stockjobber, floated upon waves of pleasure as bubbles of fat float on the surface of soup. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Lily and Other Stories] Reference
At present I am content with observing that the quiet, respectable bookmaker is as honourable and trustworthy as any trafficker in stocks and shares, and his business is almost identical with that of the stockjobber in many respects. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour] Reference
The paper of the Corporation continued to circulate, but the value fluctuated violently from day to day, and indeed from hour to hour; for the public mind was in so excitable a state that the most absurd lie which a stockjobber could invent sufficed to send the price up or down. From Wordnik.com. [The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4] Reference
Everyone knows the story, and I believe the hero of it was either a stockjobber or a man who made screws in Birmingham. ". From Wordnik.com. [Austin and His Friends] Reference
"Oh, yes you do -- a bit of a stockjobber, great at ecarte, studied law in our year, and is always to be seen at the Opera with little Tigra of the. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
A stockjobber to a gallant soldier. From Wordnik.com. [Rides on Railways] Reference
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