...nd peoples made rich and mul- titudinous by their efforts, they thought in terms of harbours and shining navies, great roads engineered marvellously, ... ...t houses with the utmost gusto, invested the proceeds and my father’s life insurance money, and got us into a small villa at Penge within sight of tha... ... mainly with births, marriages and deaths, business starts (in the vaguest terms) and the distresses of bankruptcy. And yet, you know, she did have a ... ...iven up, and my Staffordshire uncle arranged for me to lodge during school terms with a needy solicitor and his wife in Vicars Street, S. W ., about a... ...the telling, but I do not think I ever saw the world at large in any other terms. I never at any stage entertamed the idea which sustained my mother, ... ...rst personal pronoun. We both could write, and all that we said in general terms was reflected in the particular in our minds; it was ourselves we saw... ...xthly, he and several associated firms had organised a simple and generous insurance scheme against lead-poisoning risks. Seventhly, he never wearied ...

... old Mat Penniman, general utility man, collector of rents and salesman of insurance—bro- ken, silent, gray; a mystery, reputed to have been a “crack”... ...am dead sure there will be no diffi- culty in getting him to pay for title insurance, so now for heaven’s sake let’s get busy—no, make that: so now le... ...assessment and there will be no difficulty in getting him to pay for title insurance. So let’s go! Yours sincerely, As he read and signed it,... ...d, handy car line. $3700, $780 down and balance liberal, Babbitt- Thompson terms, cheaper than rent. DORCHESTER.—A corker! Artistic two-family house, ... ...s I can get Lyte here to loosen up for a building-mortgage on good liberal terms. Heavens, man, we’d be glad to oblige you! We don’t like these foreig... ... lavender-bordered milky tiles, while the lords of the city, the barons of insurance and law and fertilizers and motor tires, laid down the law 53 Si... ... it is that we ought to always speak of each other only in the friendliest terms and institute a spirit of broth- erhood and cooperation, and so I cer... ...k and the sharpest red, announcing that Mr. George F. Babbitt was Estates, Insurance, Rents. The bar- tender held it as though it weighed ten pounds, ... ...is fifty thousand bucks a year, to mingle with the big- gest executives on terms of perfect equality, and to show as big a house and as swell a car as...

... were almost always full. Pierrotin and his competitor were on the best of terms. When the former started from Isle-Adam, the latter was returning fro... ...self in all the purchases that he made for the count, yet according to the terms of the Code he remained an honest man, and no proof could have been f... ...ither the steward nor his wife had attempted to put themselves on familiar terms with him. Moreover, the noblest and richest people in the sur- 81 Ba... ... de Reybert will lodge for the present in the chateau; endeavor to keep on terms with them, like well-bred persons who hate each other, but still keep... ... Marquise de las Florentinas’ party, for my sister wants me to draw up the terms of her new engage- ment; I shall have to leave after the dessert. But... ...believe it,” said Pere Leger, smiling. “In a word, you are a runner for an insurance company.” “No, monsieur. I am the inspector-general; charged with...

...d a prosperity in which there was noth- ing fictitious. He was on the best terms with the house of Nucingen, to which Roguin had introduced him, and h... ...ld sooner or later build up a fine neighborhood, was a man to keep on good terms with. Grindot accordingly re- solved to sacrifice his immediate gains... ... of how he could dislodge him and relet the improved appartement on better terms. He watched and waited and spun the web of his mischievous legal pro-... ...girl, during the pauses of the quadrille, using, however, the round- about terms of a timid lover. “My fortune depends on you, mademoiselle.” “And how... ...n were chronicled; and bargains driven, without shame, for what the Bourse terms “pickings to be gobbled up,” commissions exacted for the smallest ser... ...involved to a large amount he accepts a failure as total shipwreck without insurance, passes it to his profit-and-loss account, and does not com- mit ...

... always had the high- est opinion of the Emperor Napoleon. And he spoke in terms of the strongest indignation of the faithless conduct of the allies t... ...oman.” This promise was graciously accorded, and they separated upon great terms of amity. “Don’t let Lady Southdown come again, Pitt,” said the old l... ...and rates, and the interest of the mortgage to the brother butler; and the insurance of his life; and the charges for his children at school; and the ... ... honestly, to depose Lady Southdown, and to be on the friendliest possible terms with all the relations of his blood. So he dictated a letter to his b... ... vivors not to give way to grief and informing them in the most respectful terms that they also would be one day called upon to pass that gloomy and m... ... come to the scratch” (it was Mr. Frederick’s own expression) on any other terms. Osborne said Fred had agreed to take his daughter with twenty thousa...

...ter all. But I must prepare my poor Alice for what may be coming.’ ‘If any terms are offered to her, she had better put the matter into a lawyer’s han... ...l be expressed for your mother’s rejoining your father. In such a case the terms must be distinctly understood, and I have full trust both in Mr. Mark... ...e been weak, and that she ought to be very resolute with him if he came to terms. And then they looked after their young companions, and Mr. Dutton sa... ...stice, and introduce her to his fam- ily and friends as his wife, on equal terms? Otherwise, even if she were unwilling to stand up for herself, it wo... ...or her own dignity if she had held out a little before coming so easily to terms, after the way in which she has been treated.’ ‘When you see her, mot... ...ping agent’s, another at a ware- house in their own line, and a desk at an insurance office. This sounded best, but had the smallest salary to begin w... ...nting himself at offices, and she had been seeing rooms and lodgings. ‘The insurance office sounds the best, and would be the least shock to our belon...

...the eighteenth century found, on awaking, a chateau like Les Aigues in the terms of their bargain. My dear fellow, if you receive this letter in the m... ...e.” Mademoiselle Laguerre accepted his accounts at once in very flattering terms. In those earlier days the steward had endeavored, in order to win th... ... general the one he had obtained from his late mistress in such flattering terms, and asking, ironically, that a search should be made for the propert... ...re than likely to win their suit. They say, very truly: ‘ According to the terms of the lease, the care of the woods is left to the owner; he does not... ...nough to produce, you must sell; and in order to sell, you must be on good terms with everybody.” “I shall have the country people on my side.” “By wh... ...-sheriff other occupations which were poorly remunerated, that of agent of insurance (a new form of enterprise just beginning to show itself in France...

...f bookselling and the pike of paper-dealing 7 Balzac lived on the best of terms, and their mutual operations, ex- empt from the turmoil of retail bus... ...bet. “I give her at least eighty thousand francs there.” Being on intimate terms with a governor of the Bank, Minard ascertained that Mademoiselle Thu... ...ken his degree about five years earlier, and had kept the proper number of terms to become a barrister. Circumstances, however, about which he said no... ...his distress, for again he sent him a sum of money; enough to complete his terms for the bar; but, strange to say, he has never known the name or the ... ...you may not believe it, my dear friend, I actually kissed him! Change your terms.” The last three words were horrible to hear, especially when illustr... ...or apartment, where he proposed to establish his present business, namely, insurance for the “dots” of children, when Mon- sieur Picot, arriving from ...

... his legs, and well-coloured for a Londoner, would be accepted by any Life Insurance office, at a moderate rate, considering his age. The farmer thoug... ...ith a pang that he fancied himself being probed by the civil-speaking Life Insurance doctor (a gentleman who seems to issue upon us applicants from ou... ...prudence of admit- ting him to conferences and arguing with him upon equal terms. They tell us, that this is the imprudence of women under temptation;... ... and the fair division of peace, when once he had been allowed to get upon terms sufficiently close to assert his black nature; but how had it come ab... ...lliam had recently had a touch of the family complaint, and spoke of it in terms which gave the squire some fraternal sentiment. From that, they fell ...

...and friend of Carol’s sister; Mr. Marbury a traveling representative of an insurance company. They made a specialty of sandwich-salad-cof- fee lap sup... ...d meet Doc Kennicott—Dr. Will Kennicott of Gopher Prairie. He does all our insurance-examining up in that neck of the woods, and they do say he’s some... ...a breeze from the open door: “All this profit-sharing and welfare work and insurance and old-age pension is simply poppycock. Enfeebles a workman’s in... ...s farmer, grocer, town policeman, garageman, restaurant-owner, postmaster, insurance-agent, and farmer all over again, and the community more or less ... ...uth, they say. Guess it would be worth joining. Oh say, are you doing much insurance examining?” They went on to the street fair. Lining one block of ... ...d But?” CHAPTER XXXV She tried to be content, which was a contradiction in terms. She fanatically cleaned house all April. She knit- ted a sweater for...

...passion. She delved into Tennyson and the Victorian poets, and soon was on terms of intimacy with the poets and essayists of New England. The novel- i... ...in his day a king all-powerful. Since then all deals had been spoken of in terms of the Hargus affair. Speculators said, “It was almost as bad as the ... ...uld slam it right into a couple of fellows over there, if we could come to terms. We came to terms right enough. Some of that wheat I sold at a profit... ...or Jadwin to sell out his holdings. His “long line” was a fearful expense, insurance and storage charges were eating rapidly into the profits. He must...

...om- achs, reading the morning papers with great gravity; bank cashiers and insurance clerks with flowers in their but- tonholes. At the same time the ... ... you’ll have any further use for it. Maybe I’d buy it if we could agree on terms.” T rina shot a glance at her husband. McTeague began to glower again... ... a strange woman during these days. T rina had come to be on very intimate terms with Maria Macapa, and in the end the dentist’s wife and the maid of ...

...nals: and to preserve a decently wretched physiognomy over it, and keep on terms with his companion, he had to grimace like a melancholy clown in a pa... ...eaver, Mr. Hadrian!” Benson caressed its injuries. “The cheapest policy of insurance I remember to have heard of!” said Adrian. Benson staggered, moan... ...eate smile for a gentleman; so much so that Ripton forgot to ask about the terms, which made the landlady in Mrs. Berry leap up to embrace him as the ... .... Their pursuits are identical; but that one has money, or, as the Pilgrim terms it, vantage, and the other 293 George Meredith has not. Their ideas ... ...ient beauty of his dear home angel. He was not one to take her on the easy terms that offered. There was that to do which made his cheek burn as he th...

...y ruled in lawyer Royall’s house. She had never put it to herself in those terms; but she knew her power, knew what it was made of, and hated it. Conf... ...t the store or in driving about the country on business connected with the insurance companies that he represented, or in sitting at home reading Banc... ...eseen as the fact of her suddenly find- ing it a convenience to be on good terms with Liff Hyatt. She continued to look up curiously at his freckled w... ... scant produce of his farm, and on the com- missions received from the few insurance agencies that he rep- resented in the neighbourhood. At any rate,... ...ster and Portland. It was the time of year when he usually reported to the insurance agencies he repre- sented, and there was nothing unusual in his d... ...er firm shoulders against the door as she spoke, like a grim gaoler making terms with her captive. “Y ou say you’ll come round and settle later? I’ve ... ...the dining-room for breakfast, and after breakfast he told her he had some insurance business to attend to. “I guess while I’m doing it you’d better s... ....” “For you, as a favour—I did. But how about the responsi- bility and the insurance? I don’t s’pose you ever thought of that? This pin’s worth a hund...

... “Not personally; she’s only been coming for about three weeks. In church terms, she is what’s referred to as a prophet. I don’t get into that side ... ...he axe.” Rick grinned. “You’re not setting me up are you? I know you have insurance, so the table may only have a few seconds left in this world.” C... ...ow this one is a copy of the deeds to this house and this one is his life insurance policy.” Lily handed them to Chris and continued. “And this enve... ...opes, always perseveres.” Chris went silent as Lily continued to read. The insurance pay out and funds in my accounts will see you financially secure ... ...act.” Sandy grinned. “You two are definitely an item and once you come to terms that Rick is not an Ian, you’ll let yourself go through the emotions...

... deal, yet nothing occupies him. Jester and jolly fellow, he keeps on good terms with all political opinions, and is patriotic to the bottom of his so... ... the director- cashier-manager and secretary-general of a celebrated fire- insurance company, “out of every five hundred thousand francs of policies t... ...trious Gaudissart, and here follows the history of how it happened. A life-insurance company having been told of his irresistible eloquence offered hi... ... political journalism not interfering with the pre- accepted cause of life insurance, the bargain was struck; al- though Gaudissart demanded an indemn... ...e office of the “Globe,” and every afternoon he betook himself to the life-insurance company, where he learned the intricacies of financial diplo- mac... ..., I am going to undertake the ‘Globe,’ the ‘Movement,’ the ‘Children,’ the insurance business, and some of my old articles Paris; instead of earning a... ... lunatic. “Would you like to buy my puncheons? you shall have them on good terms.” “No, I was merely speaking,” said the illustrious Gaudissart, “of t... ...ve two puncheons left of the same wine; if you find it good we can come to terms.” “Exactly,” said Gaudissart. “The fathers of the Saint- Simonian fai...

...be social with it—would they let me—since it is but well to be on friendly terms with all the inmates of the place one lodges in. By reason of these t... ...old joy then. I no more felt unduly concerned for the landlord’s policy of insurance. I was only alive to the condensed confidential comfortableness o... ...like him in their streets,—but at seeing him and me upon such confidential terms. But we heeded them not, going along wheeling the barrow by turns, an... ...tle table. I began to think it was high time to settle with myself at what terms I would be willing to engage for the voyage. I was al- ready aware th... ... the creatures set down above as Duodecimoes are infallibly whales, by the terms of my definition of what a whale is—i.e. a spouting fish, with a hori... ...nnected with events hereafter to be detailed, he addressed them in unusual terms, whether of condescension or in ter- rorem, or otherwise; yet even Ca... ...icine here; you 312 Moby Dick want to poison us, do ye? Y ou have got out insurances on our lives and want to murder us all, and pocket the proceeds,... ...whatever ship Ahab sails in, that ship should pay some- thing extra on its insurance policy, just as though it were loaded with powder barrels aft and...

...ame words, whereas they stand on slightly different grounds, use different terms for the same thing and express the same thing in different words. Log... ...more evidently true of the species of common thought; it is true of common terms. Take the word “Chair.” When one says chair, one thinks vaguely of an... ... to convey in this first attack upon the philosophical validity of general terms. Y ou have seen the result of those various meth- ods of black and wh... ...t towards the final absolute truth of things. This real vagueness of class terms is equally true whether we consider those terms used extensively or i... ...nature of fact. 1.6. EMPT 1.6. EMPT 1.6. EMPT 1.6. EMPT 1.6. EMPTY Y Y Y Y TERMS TERMS TERMS TERMS TERMS Classes in logic are not only represented by ... ...don saving and investment to-day, and to do so is of course to abandon all insurance, is to become a driven and uncer- tain worker, to risk one’s pers... ...community would be the guardian of money deposited or paid in gradually as insurance for the children. And the fact of the whole business being regula...

...red, and hemmed, and herring-boned, and tucked and rucked (or whatever the terms are) for nothing. It was a gorgeous dress—slight mourning. I can’t de... ...s, with a most sumptuous diamond-studded bracelet as prize. He drew up his terms skilfully , and every one saw that the brace- let was a gift to Miss ... ... carrying with it the hand and the heart of Commissioner Barr-Saggott. The terms were a St. Leonard’s Round—thirty-six shots at sixty yards— under the... ...in the latter.” I do not quite see what this means, unless it refers to an Insurance Policy . Perhaps it was the Viceroy’s way of saying:— ”Lie low.” ... ...anch, and a sound practical man with a large experience of native loan and insurance work. He could combine the frivolities of ordinary life with his ... ...im next morning to raise a two-thousand rupee loan on a five hundred pound insurance-policy, eighty pounds paid in premiums. He would recognize you, b... ... in his nature; and, somehow or other, had construed the ordinarily polite terms of his letter of engagement into a belief that the Directors had chos... ...s information that Mr. Riley was to resign, under a month’s notice, by the terms of his agreement, telling Reggie that their letter to Riley would fol... ...upees. It opened to any sort of key, and there at the bottom, under Pack’s Insurance Policy, lay the Bisara of Pooree! Churton called Pack names, put ...

...ct. What folly, then, to dream of mapping out our minds in however general terms, of providing for the endless mysteries of the future a terminology a... ...its. Accounts between central and local governments could be kept in these terms. Moreover, one may imagine Utopian local authorities making contracts... ... there work for a week or month without deg- radation upon certain minimum terms, it seems fairly cer- tain that no one would work, except as the vict... ... privacy, locomotion, and almost all the freedoms of life, and on the same terms—if he possess the money to pay for it. That last condition may produc... ... able to live in comfort and decency upon that minimum wage, pay his small insurance premium against disease, death, disablement, or ripening years, a... ...n be imper- sonal as well as personal. We can escape ourselves. In general terms, at least, I understand him, but he does not under- stand me in any w...