What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot to-day? ❋ Unknown (2004)
The Vicomte was in possession of the latest advices thence; the arrivals and expected arrivals, and the price-current of stock: that is, of marriageable young gentlemen, and all other matters of gossip; how the whole family of the ❋ Various (N/A)
One British tourist after another visited this country, with his glass at his eye, and his small vocabulary of "Very odd!" for all that was new to him; his "Quite so!" for whatever was noblest in thought or deed; his "Very clever!" for the encouragement of genius; and his "All that sort of thing, you know!" for the less marketable virtues and heroisms not to be found in the Cockney price-current. ❋ Various (N/A)
One might read the price-current in the busy wrinkles. ❋ Various (N/A)
It also publishes a weekly price-current of the produce of the country. ❋ Robert MacMicking (N/A)
He could neither divide nor multiply by fractions, and it is not too much to say that he might have been throttled on the spot if the moonshiners could have had a mental vision of the liberties the stalwart integers were taking with their price-current, so to speak, and the preternatural discount that was making so free with their profits. ❋ Mary Noailles Murfree (1886)
Prayer hummed up on every side, rising as the fragrant breath of souls above a city where, by way of divine service, nothing was chanted but the price-current of grain and the higher and lower cost of horses in the fairs which, on certain days, brought all the copers of La Perche together in the ❋ Unknown (1877)
What is the price-current of an honest man and patriot today? ❋ Unknown (1866)
If an accurate yearly price-current of slaves since the Revolution could be had, it would indicate the fluctuating probabilities of their general emancipation more exactly than the value of the English consolidated debt follows the varying prospects of peace or war. ❋ Unknown (1856)
I thanked him for the trouble which he had taken; and now submit a copy of his price-current: ❋ Unknown (1856)
If, therefore, we would compare sums of money belonging to different times with one another, we must first construct a price-current list of all the more important articles of commerce for the time in question, and in the quantities they are needed in every day life. ❋ Wilhelm Roscher (1855)
But, unfortunately, his own countrymen were also unprovided with a price-current of the latest quotation in phrases, and the same gift of groping and inconclusive generalities which perhaps was useful as a bewilderment to would-be hostile governments abroad was often equally effective in disheartening the defenders of nationality at home. ❋ James Russell Lowell (1855)
She had a dream-book, gotten up especially for policy buyers, and consulted it as regularly as a merchant does his price-current or a broker the sales of stock. ❋ Unknown (1847)
Portland Place, reads the Court Journal all the morning, and has an opera-box, while his partner lodges in Lombard Street, thumbs a price-current, and only has a box at Clapham. ❋ Benjamin Disraeli (1842)
Though he forgot his own name and those of his servants, he was always familiar with the price-current, and knew the exact value of every acre and vineyard in the vicinity. ❋ 1755-1826 Brillat-Savarin (1790)
