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Coal not being much in evidence in the diamond fields where the sun is ever shining with all its might paraffin was an important factor in the culinary sphere. When, therefore, a few gentlemen formed a syndicate, to vaunt their loyalty in a crisis by cornering all the kerosene in town, another outcry followed. On Tuesday the wide-awake vendors asked fifty shillings, and were paid it cheerfully.
Jim put a new block in the stove; then, sitting down, remarked: "For a capitalist who contemplates buying up part of the town, securing a new railroad, and cornering a township of gold ore, this is quite a modest layout." "Now while it's fresh," she replied, "let's have the whole thing; especially the invitations." She took paper and wrote them down as he recited them.
That would be cornering the whole legal supply of the community, Curly, and it wouldn't leave anybody for the prosecution." "Sho'!" said Curly. Then suddenly he added: "There's the old man. Don't you never doubt he'd prosecute joyful. And there never was a man from Kansas didn't know some law. Why, onct, down on the Brazos " "He can't act as attorney-at-law," said Anderson.
The American Amateur Championship was held that year in Detroit. I had accompanied my employer there; for, though engaged on this nerve-wearing contest, he refused to allow his business to be interfered with. As he had indicated in his schedule, he was busy at the time cornering wheat; and it was my task to combine the duties of caddy and secretary.
They are the 'casuals', who live from hand to mouth, those to whom an appeal can be made by the careful working class when the price of bread is run up to famine figure, owing to the 'cornering' of wheat, which of late years has been much practised in Persia. The baker used to be the first victim of popular fury in a bread riot, and it is said that one was baked alive in his own oven.
"Cotton is going up, and then it's going to fall." "I don't believe it." "I know it; the trust has got money and credit enough to force it down." "Well, what then?" The Colonel glared. "Then somebody will corner it." "The Farmers' League won't stand " "Precisely. The Farmers' League can do the cornering and hold it for higher prices." "Lord, son! if we only could!" groaned the Colonel.
It particularly annoyed him, entering that backwater of perfect peace, to think that a lot of unscrupulous Trusts and Combinations had been cornering the market in goods of all kinds, and keeping prices at an artificial height.
So strong are my childish impressions of those Sunday morning feasts that it would be pretty hard for any one to convince me that there is not more molasses on a plate when it is spread all over the plate than when it occupies a little corner if there is a corner in a plate. At any rate, I have never believed in "cornering" syrup.
SHE had not finished her fling and never did madder chase ensue than the one which at length ended in effectually cornering the flighty one. "Lemme tote her home. Fer de Lawd's sake, sah, lemme tote her home quick, 'fore Unc' Jess an' Missie Peggy kill me daid," begged Cicero. "You tote her home, you spindly little shaver!
It isn't half bad; change from deer meat and rabbits and grouse, anyway." Marion shook her head. "There it is again. I couldn't take it home without lying about where I got it. And Kate would catch me up on it she takes a perfectly fiendish delight in cornering me in a lie, lately." She brightened a little. "I'll tell you, Jack. We'll go up to the cave and cook some there.
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