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Sentences starting with business

Business stood nearly still, and the streets bore an empty Sunday aspect. [5]
Business must be pretty good, eh, Hugh? [9]
Business men and operators could have learned something about stocks and investments, and politicians about city politics. [4]
Business hours were now over; the anxiety caused both by the delay in the rising of the Nile and by the advent of the comet had filled the waiting-rooms with more petitioners than usual. [10]
Business of all kinds was active and prosperous and growing more so day by day. [5]
Business takes me into the city and I will--" "You will let the young Alexandrians, with whom you revelled through the night, introduce you to new fair ones--I know it. [10]
Business is getting in on all these side streets. [8]
Business did not improve. [4]
Business comes to him; he does not have to drum for it. [4]
Business is war, commerce is war, both among nations and individuals. [9]

Sentences ending with business

And you say you're not sick, and so I don't see why we shouldn't come to business. [8]
You must tell your Mandane that you are called away by important business. [10]
He was a young undertaker, who had just succeeded to a thriving business. [6]
And for the young bloods, whose greatest regret was that they could not send forth a daughter of joy into the Champs Elysee in her carriage, she had ever sent them about their business. [11]
But you bet you, this is the business! [5]
During the earliest years of the new century the political atmosphere had changed, the public had shown a tendency to grow restless; and everybody knows how important it is for financial operations, for prosperity, that the people should mind their own business. [9]
Has anything gone wrong in the detective business? [5]
This is a wretched business. [5]
He surveyed the wreck which that old rioter and those two young farmers had made, and then said "This is a sad business--a very sad business. [5]
He wished people would mind their own business. [4]

Short sentences using business

The Alabama business you know. [5]
The business isn't worth it. [11]
Her business was with him. [11]
He came on urgent business. [11]
You do not understand business. [9]
A pretty business this! [10]
She couldn't stand this business. [11]
On business for the King! [10]
Are ye in the business? [5]
Diplomacy will do the business. [5]

Sentences containing business two or more times

In a business way I like him, but I want my own flesh and blood by me in my business. [11]
What his business was is, perhaps, none of our business. [6]
To him, life was his business, and to the long end business mastered his emotions. [11]
Do you mean to tell me, on the plea that business is business and hence a department by itself, that deception, cheating, and stealing are justified and necessary? [9]
But ours refuses to do business by business ways, and sticks to ham and lemonade. [5]
It was impossible to apply to business an individual code of ethics,--even to Perry's business, to Tom's business: the two were incompatible, and the sooner one recognized that the better: the whole structure of business was built up on natural, as opposed to ethical law. [9]
It seemed from the printing on the envelope to be a business letter; and business, in the condition he was in--and it was the condition in which he usually came home--did not interest him. [4]
The business of the other Arab, a noble-looking and wiry Bedouin from the South, had been with Ebn Ezra Bey, and each hid his business from his friend. [11]
Speaking generally of the mass of business men--and the mass are business men in this country--have they any habit of reading books? [4]
He explained how the enterprise differed from others, and how he needed for its direction a man who combined general business experience and business ideas with a love for the thing and a natural aptness for it. [8]

More example sentences with the word business in them

So, you see, you've kept me here talking when there's no need and while my business waits. [11]
I bow to your masculine secrecy--but why did my worldly-wise brother mingle a petticoat in this delicate business if he wishes to keep it hidden? [10]
Have you done your business to your satisfaction? [10]
Mr. Noble--"Senator Dilworthy, your bank account shows that up to that day, and even on that very day, you conducted all your financial business through the medium of checks instead of bills, and so kept careful record of every moneyed transaction. [5]
I don't worry you with business matters. [9]
Now, I tell you what, my gentle spy, if your business hath not concern, I'll stretch you by your fingers there to our public gallows, and my fellows shall fill you with small shot as full as a pod of peas. [11]
At that time you were wise enough not to attempt to pass comment upon accidents in business affairs which are, if deplorable, inevitable. [9]
He might make you run the business, with Tarboe as manager. [11]
Early tomorrow, before you proceed to business, they will be replaced by a stronger division, so that they may not prove a reinforcement to your brother's troops here if things come to fighting. [10]
I have met you on business three or four times; true, I never offered to corrupt your principles--never hinted such a thing; but always when I had finished sounding you, I manipulated you through an agent. [5]
If there are, you might speak of the renewed activity and all that sort of thing, in the hay business, you know. [5]
I can tell you how business is conducted in one of your branches. [5]
What business have you here watching a game between gentlemen? [9]
What business have you got sleuthing 'round after me like this? [9]
She said, "Will you go to him and tell him that this meddlesome minx, here, had no business to say anything about me to him, and you take it all back? [8]
Didn't I warn you fellows that Bedloe Hubbell meant business long before he started in? [9]
Arrived in New York, Ed found his way to Commodore Vanderbilt's business quarters, and was ushered into a large anteroom, where a score of people were patiently awaiting their turn for a two-minute interview with the millionaire in his private office. [5]
During those 1500 years, Satan's influence was worth very nearly a hundred times as much to the business as was the influence of all the rest of the Holy Family put together. [5]
During the long years of their union Mrs. Ebers was his active helpmate, many of the business details relating to his works and their American and English editions being transacted by her. [10]
It was the year in which he entered fully into the publishing business and launched one of the most spectacular of all publishing adventures, The Personal Memoirs of General U. S. Grant. [5]
We mane business, ye know; and the sooner ye put us on the scent of a V, the asier yell save yerself from a dale of trouble. [5]
I have neither written nor made a speech on that subject, because that was their business, not mine, and if I had a wish on the subject, I had not the power to introduce it, or make it effective. [7]
I have not written a single line, and have not once thought of business, or care or human toil or trouble or sorrow or weariness. [5]
A scholar who would not leave his garret and his books to take a place in a business house at a large salary. [5]
I wish you would learn of Everett what he would take, over and above a discharge for all the trouble we have been at, to take his business out of our hands and give it to somebody else. [7]
Or if you would learn business, and go to work in Pa's store. [9]
I said I would haunt them; I would infest every department of this iniquitous government till that contract business was settled. [5]
I wish you would go to the Mississippi River at once, and take hold of and be master in the contraband and leasing business. [7]
Not that I would ever engage in it as a business, for I wouldn't. [5]
Perhaps--perhaps, the business would always be his in spite of the second will! [11]
What was young Worthington doing in Brampton, and his father in the West on that railroad business? [9]
Jethro, had Mr. Worthington but known it, was more interested in animate machines: more interested in Mr. Worthington than the falling-mill or, indeed, the tannery business. [9]
The whole business world, as we know it, is crooked, and if we don't cut other people's throats, they'll cut ours. [9]
As the days wore on, and I attended to my cases, I thought of Maude a great deal, and in those moments when the pressure of business was relaxed, she obsessed me. [9]
And he was wont to leave his weighty business affairs to shift for themselves while he attended the diocesan and general conventions of his Church. [9]
Thinks I, it won't do to paddle; first I know I'll run into the bank or a towhead or something; I got to set still and float, and yet it's mighty fidgety business to have to hold your hands still at such a time. [5]
Time,' said Mr Witherden, pulling out his watch, 'in a business like this, is exceedingly precious. [12]
He must mingle with this society; he cannot sit at home--it is not business, it butters no commercial parsnips. [5]
They were mixed with the solid achievement of talent and force in the business of life. [11]
He was familiar with the routine of the business, he had adaptability, he was a quick worker, and for a fortnight things went swimmingly. [11]
No clever man with the instinct of a highway robber could fail to notice what a chance for business was here offered. [5]
The Commission charged with the examination of candidates for posts in the army came with the king to the Valley, whereas they could have transacted their business just as well at home. [5]
These victims, together with the captains and owners, presently ceased to laugh altogether, and began to rage about the revenge they would take when the passing business 'spurt' was over. [5]
Then Mr. Satterlee, with much hemming and hawing, stated the business which had brought them, while Cynthia looked out of the window. [9]
This was coincident with his failure at the ash-factory, where he mismanaged and even robbed Jean Jacques right and left; and she had firmly insisted on Jean Jacques evicting him, on the ground that it was not Sebastian Dolores' bent to manage a business. [11]
I've plenty dealin's with him, naturally, both of us being in the horse business, and I say he's right as a minted dollar as he goes now. [11]
In all conversations with Gough, and Anna Dickinson, Nasby, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Wendell Phillips and the other old stagers, I could not observe that they ever expected or hoped to get out of the business. [5]
You may come, with all my heart, with one condition only--that you do not ask my business. [9]
Fulkerson," said Beaton, with a return to what they were saying, "has managed the whole business very well. [8]
Here he was with a fine appetite: it was like coals of fire heaped on his head by Nature for last night's business at the Cote Dorion. [11]
If then he wished to set up business for himself, he must get permission, after passing an examination. [4]
But it wasn't wise for the missionary to take the journey alone--it was a bad business in any case. [11]
Many times that winter I was a guest at the yellow-brick house, and I have to confess, as spring came on, that I made several trips to Elkington which business necessity did not absolutely demand. [9]
Really gentlemen--' 'Well, will you have the goodness to state your business then, Mr Brass? [12]
Any experienced 'drummer' will testify that, when you want to do business, there is no economy in ham and lemonade. [5]
But this business will teach him. [11]
And then I will jump 15 years, and do Ragsdale's leper business. [5]
But if you will have the truth: the fish-knife business by all means. [11]
The Semi-Homoeopathic practitioner will gradually withdraw from the rotten half of his business and try to make the public forget his connection with it. [3]
Then the constellations will be re-organized, and polished up, and re-named--the most of them "Victoria," I reckon, but this one will sail thereafter as the Southern Kite, or go out of business. [5]
Mr. Brad, to whose nineteenth-century and newspaper eye Philip had shrunk from confiding his modest creation, but who was consulted in the business, consoled him with the suggestion that this was a sure way of getting his production read. [4]
He regarded the whole business of the war not with his intelligence or his reason but by something else. [2]
A reverend friend, who thought I had certain projects in my head, wrote to me about lecturing: where I should appear, what fees I should obtain, and such business matters. [6]
At last Richambeau, who had watched the whole business from the deck of the Victoire, burst out laughing, and sent for Elie Mattingley. [11]
It was Fleda who had warned Ingolby of the dangers that surrounded him --the physical as well as business dangers. [11]
A young lady, who had listened to a solemn sermon of Dr. Posthelwaite's, slipped out of Church before the prayers were ended, and hurried into that deserted portion of the town about the Court House where on week days business held its sway. [9]
Monsieur Vigo himself, who had gone to Vincennes on his own business, did not return. [9]
A dozen persons who had business with Pierre were awaiting him in the drawing room. [2]
The only complaints which we have heard have come from circuits which were so large that the judges could not dispose of the business, and the circuits in which Judges Pearson and Ralston lately presided. [7]
The business in which his thriving brothers were engaged was the importation and sale of hardware and cutlery, and that spring his services were required at the "store. [4]
The business on which folks want me, will keep cold, especially at this season. [12]
His business, of which Ebn Ezra Bey had due knowledge, had now been with Nahoum. [11]
He said that where his advantage was not concerned, there was ever so much good in Dryfoos, and that if in some things he had grown inflexible, he had expanded in others to the full measure of the vast scale on which he did business. [8]
Mr. Mavick arose when his visitor stood at his desk, buttoned up his frock-coat, and extended his hand with a show of business cordiality, and motioned him to a chair. [4]
Such was Berry when he had under his razor one of Ingolby's business foes of Manitou, who had of late been in touch with Felix Marchand. [11]
My father failed when he came to Coniston--he was not meant for business, and Uncle Jethro took care of him all his life, and paid his debts. [9]
I don't know what your business with him was," the long-moustached detective said to Jean Jacques, "but whatever the grudge is, if you don't want to appear in court in the morning, the walking's good out of town night or day--so long! [11]
It's no matter what you say when you talk to yourself, but when you talk to other people, your business is to use words with reference to the way in which those other people are like to understand them. [6]
He listened to what Langeron said, as if remarking, "So you are still at that silly business! [2]
But just now what capital we have has to go into the business. [9]
Let's show 'em what business means. [11]
I don't see what business it is of yours. [9]
Some of them were posted to Gregorig at his place of business and could have been read by all his subordinates; the others were posted to Gregorig's wife. [5]
The following days were overcrowded with business details. [10]
His artistic faculties were once more roused into play, and found a field for their freest exercise when Antinous told him that he was at his disposal till mid-day, since his master--or rather Caesar as he was now permitted to name him--was engaged in business. [10]
Her white caps were now plaited with almost coquettish skill and care, and the firm, contented manner in which she ruled Trautchen and the two under maid-servants showed that everything was going on well in Peter's house and business. [10]
To him they were incapable of the real business of life, and were only meant to be housekeepers to men who make the world go round. [11]
The old prince went up to him and began to talk business. [2]
In midwinter Jack went to Washington on business. [4]
Is it not well to remind the student from time to time that a physician's business is to avert disease, to heal the sick, to prolong life, and to diminish suffering? [3]
This suited Fulkerson well enough, and he went on with relish, "I'm going out of the syndicate business, old man, and I'm on a new thing. [8]
So--the burgomaster is well and has transacted a great deal of business with the Prince. [10]
I was warmly welcomed by old friends and by the Governor and his family, and I soon set up an establishment of my own in Williamsburg, joining with a merchant there in business, while my land was worked by a neighbouring planter. [11]
Hammering each other--for we stepped aside and looked on while they rolled, and struggled, and gouged, and pounded, and bit, with the strict and wordless attention to business of so many bulldogs. [5]
How often do we spoil our best chances by following an urgent instinct to arrive at certainty as early as possible, and by not being strong enough to postpone opening our business till a favorable moment offers. [10]
If one whom we recognized and adored as a god should go abroad in our streets, and the day it was to happen were known, all traffic would be blocked and business would come to a standstill. [5]
Farewell, Antonio, till we meet again, perhaps to-morrow, in spite of a chaos of business. [10]
Mr. Tooting, as we have seen, had a remarkable business head, and combined with it--as Austen Vane remarked--the rare instinct of the Norway rat which goes down to the sea in ships--when they are safe. [9]
In our time we have organized that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]
In our time we have organised that scattered and wandering force and set it to work, and backed the business with capital, and concentrated it in few and competent hands, and the results are as we see. [5]

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