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Sentences ending with stock

He said he would not be in town; so I risked it and took my dinner instead of the stock. [5]
Now that they would have come good, there were none in stock. [5]
It is worth while to journey around the globe to see anything which can truthfully be called a novelty, and the diamond mine is the greatest and most select and restricted novelty which the globe has in stock. [5]
It was as when several grafts, bearing fruit that ripens at different times, are growing upon the same stock. [6]
You now see what modesty I have in stock. [5]
If he happens to be a cabbage, in Heaven's name don't try to make a rose of him, and do not disturb the vegetable maturing of his head by grafting ideas upon his stock. [4]
I tried to think what is the best way to kill a bear with a gun, when you are not near enough to club him with the stock. [4]
I can stop the run on his bank and the drop in his stock. [11]
Then she saw that the hair was longer, and more wavy than his, and fell down a little over the velvet collar of a coat with a wide lapel and brass buttons, and that the original of this portrait had worn a stock. [9]
I will do that in a quiet time, when there is not anything going on, and when I shall not be called upon to deliver intemperate compliments on a railroad in which I own no stock. [5]

Short sentences using stock

Wide West stock soared skywards. [5]
Merlin's stock was flat. [5]
His stock was flat again. [5]
Old Maryland stock. [5]

Sentences containing stock two or more times

By and by, when we become a stock company I shall buy these royalties back for stock if I can get them for anything like reasonable terms. [5]
Boards of directors, trusted by stockholders, betraying their trust, withholding information in order to profit thereby, buying and selling stock secretly; stock watering, selling to the public diluted values,--all kinds of iniquity and abuse of power which I need not go into. [9]
Then get the towns on the line to issue their bonds for stock, and sell their bonds for enough to complete the road, and partly stock it, especially if we mortgage each section as we complete it. [5]
We painted away together with all our might, piling up stock, piling up stock, but very seldom getting rid of any of it. [5]
Do you mean to tell me that a man who is getting fat dividends out of a stock does not regard more leniently the manner in which that stock is manipulated than one who does not own any of it? [4]
It was only sure that at least one of them would, and the Mergenthaler people were willing to trade stock for stock with the Paige company in order to insure financial success for both, whichever won. [5]
Dryfoos heard nothing of the strike in the lobby of the Stock Exchange, where he spent two or three hours watching a favorite stock of his go up and go down under the betting. [8]
People had to drive their stock long distances --immense journeys--from worn-out places to new ones where were water and fresh pasturage; and this wide space had to be left in grass and unfenced, or the stock would have starved to death in the transit. [5]

More example sentences with the word stock in them

And then there's your big high-sounding millionaire names stuck into your advertisements as stockholders--another card, that--and they are stockholders, too, but you have to give them the stock and non-assessable at that--so they're an expensive lot. [5]
Five hundred consumers would prematurely exhaust the already insufficient stock of provisions. [10]
Mr. Trollop, you would not sell your vote on that subsidy bill--which was perfectly right--but you accepted of some of the stock, with the understanding that it was to stand in your brother-in-law's name. [5]
I spent money with a free hand, and meantime watched the stock sales with an interested eye and looked to see what might happen in Nevada. [5]
They know she will, her stock of usable materials being limited and her procedure in employing them always the same, substantially. [5]
By examination it will be found that the first thirty-three lines, being precisely one third of the whole, relate exclusively to the distribution of the stock by the commissioners appointed by the State. [7]
An old planter, who has lived on the river since 1844, said there never was such a rise, and he was satisfied more than one quarter of the stock has been lost. [5]
And the stock which you sold to poor Garvin was so hopelessly watered that it never could have been anything but worthless. [9]
With all of which Mrs. Grafton was fain to agree, and must even excel, until her small stock of patience was exhausted. [9]
Day before yesterday, when we went about to learn how large a stock of provisions every house contains, people treated me and the others very rudely, many even turned us out of doors. [10]
Clemens said that when he took the Jumping Frog book to Carlton, in 1867, the latter, pointing to his stock, said, rather scornfully: "Books? [5]
Taking stock of what he brought in, Smith found food enough to last till the next harvest, and at once organized the company into bands of ten or fifteen, and compelled them to go to work. [4]
The California troops went back home, and Noble remained, to help drive the stock over here. [5]
At each place we stop there are always three, four, or more dug-outs arriving, bringing information of stock in other places in need. [5]
When we arrived we found them crowded with stock, all of which was thin and hardly able to stand up. [5]
But they were waved aside with a right royal gesture, and they stopped stock still where they were, like so many statues. [5]
If the stock was worth such a gallant figure, with five thousand shares in the corporation, it makes me dizzy to think what it would have been worth with only our original six hundred in it. [5]
If her plan was successful, she would have accomplished something unprecedented; if she failed--if, while turning, she lost her balance--her scanty stock of pleasure here below would be over, and also her great grief and insatiable yearning. [10]
Mr. Dickinson, who was a director in the Maplewood line, got a handsome underwriting percentage, and Mr. Berringer, also a director, on the bonds and preferred stock he sold. [9]
But we don't want to be the laughing stock of this whole town, I reckon, and never hear the last of this thing as long as we live. [5]
As she lay waiting for the day when she must go from the garish scene, she unconsciously took stock of life in her own way. [11]
By a general view of the resolution, it will be seen that a principal object of the committee is to examine into, and ferret out, a mass of corruption supposed to have been committed by the commissioners who apportioned the stock of the Bank. [7]
The stock became very valuable, and every effort was made to find this man, but he had disappeared. [5]
He was a very small man with a very high stock and spreading collar, a thin face, and large wide eyes. [11]
Mr Swiveller, recovering very slowly from his illness, and entering into the receipt of his annuity, bought for the Marchioness a handsome stock of clothes, and put her to school forthwith, in redemption of the vow he had made upon his fevered bed. [12]
I am still very rich, for my stock is far from exhausted. [14]
I have the usual stock of reminiscences. [5]
These latter pick up all the discarded days and add them to the world's stock again; and about as good as new, too; for of course the salt water preserves them. [5]
But Father Peter took no stock in the astrologer. [5]
Venters's calculating eye took count of stock that outnumbered the red herd. [13]
By a reference to the tenth section of the Bank charter, any gentleman can see that the framers of the act contemplated the holding of stock in the institutions of other corporations. [7]
It was necessary to take an account of stock, and straighten it out. [5]
The stock rose to sixty-five dollars a foot, and at this figure the world-renowned tragedian, McKean Buchanan, bought a commanding interest and prepared to quit the stage once more--he was always doing that. [5]
I don't like to say it,--he continued,--but poets commonly have no larger stock of tunes than hand-organs; and when you hear them piping up under your window, you know pretty well what to expect. [6]
She took him to her own chamber, and, still holding him by the hand as if she feared to lose him for an instant, gathered together the little stock she had, and hung her basket on her arm. [12]
In very prosperous times we might regard our stock and copyrights as assets sufficient, with the money owing to us, to square up and quit even, but I suppose we may not hope for such luck in the present condition of things. [5]
He hesitated, stopped, thumped the stock of his gun on the ground, and wheeled. [9]
During the next three months the one who is to die shall paint with all his might, enlarge his stock all he can--not pictures, no! [5]
The General has three boats chartered, with flats in tow, but the demand for these to tow out stock is greater than they can meet with promptness. [5]
I myself have thousands of dollars of worthless stock in my safe. [9]
The stock in this company is all full paid and entirely unassessable. [5]
I was just thinking what a different creature a Massachusetts man is from a Virginian, And yet I suppose they're both as pure English stock as you'll get anywhere in America. [8]
You must not think of selecting any more works for me yet; my stock is still far from exhausted. [14]
The fact that they belonged to this stock clearly shews that they inhabited the Old World; but not Australia nor any oceanic island, as we may infer from the laws of geographical distribution. [1]
Every one of these wild cat mines--not mines, but holes in the ground over imaginary mines--was incorporated and had handsomely engraved "stock" and the stock was salable, too. [5]
He was just then engaged in getting off stock, and welcomed the 'Times-Democrat' boat heartily, as he said there was much need for her. [5]
You will let them acquire half of the stock, in order that they may have an equal voice. [9]
Some gentlemen have their stock in their hands, while others, who have more money than they know what to do with, want it; and this, and this alone, is the question, to settle which we are called on to squander thousands of the people's money. [7]
A part of the Stormfield estate had been a farm, which he had given to Jean Clemens, where she had busied herself raising some live stock and poultry. [5]
And there, beyond the purple hills of Bozrah, and not so far as the stony pastures of Zoah, whither John had helped drive the colts and young stock in the spring, might be, perhaps, Jerusalem itself. [4]
This proves, by the number left in stock, that one Fourth of July per year is now inadequate, the country has grown so. [5]
He was now the manager's assistant; and, be it said in passing, knew more about the stock than Mr. [9]
Mr. Henderson was the holder of a large amount of stock in the Northeastern, inherited from his father. [9]
On the contrary, the first inspection of the tables suggested the prospect of days of unstinted luxury; and the younger portion of the household, especially, were in a state of great excitement as the account of stock was taken with reference to future internal investments. [6]
I'll get up the company and issue the stock, all in good time. [5]
Going to light the city and allow me to take all the stock if I want to. [5]
Do you see the bride in her high-waisted gown, and Mr. Calvin in his stock and his blue tail-coat and brass buttons? [9]
Notwithstanding the fact that a great many had driven a part of their stock to the hills some time ago, there yet remains a large quantity, which General York, who is working with indomitable energy, will get landed in the pine hills by Tuesday. [5]
It wasn't more than a year after that we began to hear things--and we couldn't sleep for sure, and the dividends stopped and the stock tumbled. [9]
He had never taken much stock in religion, but if Goodrich went in for it he thought he'd go and look it over. [9]
And I will take another hundred, of a different stock, and put them in the hands of certain Ann-Street or Five-Points teachers, and seventy-five of them will be thieves and liars at the end of the same dozen years. [6]
Tom Scott would take all the trade; in two years Gorner stock would go to two hundred, and inside of two more you would see all the other glaciers under the hammer for taxes. [5]
His Majesty the Sultan has already sent in large orders for his new harem, which will be finished within a fortnight, and this has naturally strengthened the market and given Circassian stock a strong upward tendency. [5]
I wore a suit of gray homespun, and in my saddle-bags I carried four precious law books, the stock in trade which my generous patron had given me. [9]
Its stock rose suddenly from less than nothing to a premium. [5]
Very few would succeed: you have to have a perfectly colossal stock of morals; and you can't get them on a margin; you have to have the whole thing, and put them in your box. [5]
My pile of stock was not all given to me by people who wished their claims "noticed. [5]
I carry some stock that'll make you sit up--I believe I told you when I was down your way. [9]
Gould & Curry stock paid heavy dividends--a rare thing, and an experience confined to the dozen or fifteen claims located on the "main lead," the "Comstock. [5]
You can't issue stock on an incorporation like that--or if you could, it would only keep you in trouble all the time. [5]
He learned the stock as if by intuition, and such was his strict attention to business that Mr. [9]
Jes as good stock as de Driscolls en de Howards, de bes' day dey ever seed. [5]
Will stood stock still from fright, and I was for dropping my rod and cutting, when I was arrested by the dominie calling out: "Have a care, Master Carvel; have a care, sir. [9]
We got a splendid stock of sorted spiders, and bugs, and frogs, and caterpillars, and one thing or another; and we like to got a hornet's nest, but we didn't. [5]
That done, he spilled the contents of his saddle-bags upon the grass and took stock. [13]
On one occasion some emigrants had their stock lost or stolen, and told Slade, who chanced to visit their camp. [5]
I suppose he sold that stock of mine and placed the guilty proceeds in his own pocket. [5]
This expert is so rare that the most populous country can never have fifteen conspicuously and confessedly competent ones in stock at one time. [5]
And it had so happened, a few years before, for the accommodation of some young men of his acquaintance that he had invested rather generously in Grantham mining stock at twenty-five cents a share, and had promptly forgotten the transaction. [9]
The elephant, the slowest breeder of all known animals, would in a few thousand years stock the whole world. [1]
He wore his sleeves tight and his stock high, as in the days when William the Sailor was king in England, and his long gold-topped Prince Regent cane was the very acme of dignity. [11]
It makes me shudder to this day, to remember that I once came near not getting rid of my stock at all. [5]
You can see she comes of good stock. [9]
And my wife, she came of the purest stock of Aquitaine, and she was constant, in her prayers. [11]
We can then sell the rest of the stock on the prospect of the business of the road through an improved country, and also sell the lands at a big advance, on the strength of the road. [5]
Writers of this school go in rags, in the matter of state directions; the majority of them having nothing in stock but a cigar, a laugh, a blush, and a bursting into tears. [5]
I regret to say that he's on the Stock Exchange--but I was very fond of his mother. [9]
Very soon I saw that the Major realised that this was a matter which was in his line; evidently he was turning over his stock of diplomacy in his mind and getting ready. [5]
And besides, you said you had home talk enough in stock to keep us up and at it half the night. [5]
I want to raise corn and stock. [13]
But he loved quiet and he dreaded mingling with the brawlers of the market-place, whose stock in trade is a voice and a vocabulary. [6]
I must add quickly that we got more than our share of their best stock along with this. [9]
His body was pulled out by men on a tugboat, and his worthless stock certificate was in his pocket. [9]
Of course the price of the stock at once fell to nothing, and the tragedian was ruined. [5]
I've got a pretty good stock of monkey-French, and I let it go. [11]
He urged the President to pay him a visit during the recess, and see his stock farm. [5]
I'll settle down presently; but it's a thoroughly useless business turning over old stock. [11]
A French Canadian pony used to be considered the most virile and lasting stock on the continent, and it is fair to say that the French Canadians themselves are genuinely hardy, long-lived, virile, and enduring. [11]
At Tom Hooper's place, a few miles from Troy, a large flat, with about fifty head of stock on board, was taken in tow. [5]
She was bound out to pick willow leaves for the stock, and she pointed to a house near by with water three inches deep on the floors. [5]

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