They adduce Octave Mirbeau, whose play "Les affaires sont les affaires" (1903) also put at its center a ruthless money-dealer. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But to look for gratitude from a money-dealer is as vain as to try to touch the heart of the wolves of the Ukraine in winter. ❋ Unknown (2007)
For, a money-dealer having committed some fraud in the way of his business, he cut off his hands, and nailed them to his counter. ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)
His father Caius Octavius was, from his earliest years, a person both of opulence and distinction: for which reason I am surprised at those who say that he was a money-dealer [108], and was employed in scattering bribes, and canvassing for the candidates at elections, in the ❋ Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus (N/A)
He is a money-dealer, a monopoliser; we must make him disgorge. ❋ Various (N/A)
"You have to pay a pretty premium for them," added the money-dealer, as he stopped to wipe his lips. ❋ Frederic Jesup Stimson (1899)
Ricardo, however, was not a mere money-dealer, nor even a walking treatise. ❋ Leslie Stephen (1868)
I had pressing occasion; but since our dispute regarding the affair of the succession, my Lady had resolutely refused to sign any papers for my advantage: and without her name, I am sorry to say, my own was of little value in the market, and I could not get a guinea from any money-dealer in London or Dublin. ❋ William Makepeace Thackeray (1837)
The young Mohican bent over the track, and removing the scattered leaves from around the place, he examined it with much of that sort of scrutiny, that a money-dealer, in these days of pecuniary doubts, would bestow on a suspected due-bill. ❋ Unknown (1826)
The young Mohican bent over the track, and removing the scattered leaves from around the place, he examined it with much of that sort of scrutiny that a money-dealer, in these days of pecuniary doubts, would bestow on ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
There was nothing about the residence of 'Squire Van Tassel to denote the grasping money-dealer, unless a certain negligence of the exterior might be supposed to betray the abode of such a man. ❋ James Fenimore Cooper (1820)
I have elsewhere preserved the character and habits of the money-dealer in the age of James I. -- See "Curiosities of Literature," 11th ❋ Isaac Disraeli (1807)
It is to be observed, that he did not receive this 100,000_l. _ in money, but in bills on a great native money-dealer resident at Benares, and who has also an house at ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
Every great merchant and money-dealer wishes to be the founder of what is called a family. ❋ Unknown (1812)
And then there had been some further delay as to the amount, and part of the money had been paid to a third person, and a bill had been given, and Heaven and the Jews only knew how much money Lord Lufton had paid in all; and now it was ended by his handing over to some wretched villain of a money-dealer, on behalf of Mr Sowerby, the enormous sum of five thousand pounds, which had been deducted from the means of Lady Lufton! ❋ Unknown (2004)
a guinea from any money-dealer in London or Dublin. ❋ Unknown (2006)
