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Updated: July 24, 2025
You can insure your life as against your uncle's, for a round sum say for a hundred thousand pounds. You will make over the policy to me. I shall pay the premiums, and so if anything were to happen to you I should be recouped." He never once removed his eyes from Hine's face.
"He has corrupted the local courts by offering premiums for the defiance of the laws of Congress, and by openly discouraging the observance of the oath against treason."
"You are tired, poor fellow, and no wonder! I dare say, for all the good things you got at the ball, that a cup of tea will do you no harm," said Hannah, pouring out and handing him one. Ishmael took it wearily and sat it by his side. "And now tell me about the premiums," continued his aunt.
The idea so possessed him that while he was skinning the fox his sharp knife almost sacrificed one of the TWO ears imperatively required by the statute, in order that the wily hunter may not be tempted to present one ear at a time, thus multiplying red foxes and premiums therefor like Falstaff's "rogues in buckram."
With this view, he proposed that liberal premiums should be offered for the three best designs for a general almshouse; from which as insect architecture was well known to be in a very advanced and perfect state we might possibly derive many valuable hints for the improvement of our metropolitan universities, national galleries, and other public edifices.
You know that in the long run, even with the most ably managed companies, expenses and losses together just about eat up all the premiums received that less than a dozen first-class companies doing a national business have an underwriting balance on the right side for the last ten-year period." "I admit that unfortunately such is the case."
His genius lay in ensnaring parents and guardians and pocketing premiums. Mr. Pecksniff was a moral man. Perhaps there never was a more moral man than Mr. Pecksniff, especially in his conversation and correspondence. Some people likened him to a direction-post, which is always telling the way to a place, and never goes there; but these were his enemies. Into Mr.
The farmers are not going to blow in money to exhibit things for a blue ribbon, and the wealthy people who have fancy stock take the premiums and advertise their business. Money is paid for exhibits that more properly belong to the circus and the vaudeville, that ought to be paid in premiums to farmers who raise things.
"The story goes that the house-building scheme was promoted by the old Red Butte Western bosses, and if a man didn't take stock he got himself disliked. If he did take it, the premiums were held out on the pay-rolls. It smells like a good, old-fashioned graft, with the lid nailed on." "There wouldn't seem to be any reasonable doubt about the graft," said the superintendent. "But my duty is clear.
The public could not obtain the magazine through what are known as clubbing-rates, since no subscriber was permitted to include any other magazine with it; years ago it had abandoned the practice of offering premiums or consideration of any kind to induce subscriptions; and the newsdealers were not allowed to return unsold copies of the periodical.
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