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But I did not wish it; and Mr. Beverly told me that he should not sell his mother's unless they went to 110. 'In that case, said he, 'it might be worth while to capitalise her premium." "I liked the idea of capitalising one's premium.
The Smithson and Haselden firm had come to grief. Lesbia's little ivory purse had been emptied of its three or four half-sovereigns, and Mr. Smithson had been capitalising a losing concern for the last two hours. And the play had been fast and furious, although nominally for small stakes. 'I am afraid to think of how much I must owe you, said Lesbia, when Mr. Smithson bade her good night.
Doctor Julian Humphreys was spoken of by those who believed that they knew him best as an eccentric; because, being a physician and surgeon of quite unusual ability, he chose possessing a small independence amounting to a bare three hundred pounds per annum to establish himself in the East-End of London, and there devote himself with zeal and enthusiasm to the amelioration of the sufferings of the very poor, instead of capitalising his income and setting up in Harley Street, where his exceptional qualifications would speedily and inevitably have brought him a handsome fortune.
"Form No. 3. Issue by an Existing Company for the purpose of capitalising profits. "Form No. 4. Conversion of a Firm into a Limited Company which does Not involve the introduction of fresh capital. "Form No. 5. Conversion of a Firm into a Limited Company which Does involve the introduction of fresh capital.
In the original text, Cibber, in pursuance of that old-fashioned method of capitalising every third or fourth word without any particular rhyme or reason, has spelled occasion with a big O. Well he might, for it was, perhaps, the most important occasion in all the eventful life of Oldfield.
If you had fifty bonds that cost you par, and sold them at 110, you would then buy at par fifty-five bonds of some other rising kind, and go on doing this until I named no limit for this process; but my delighted mind saw visions of eighty and a hundred thousand a year comfort at least, if not affluence in New York and I explained to Ethel what the phrase capitalising one's premium meant.
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