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More "Small capital" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... it is a better place for me because of that, Aunt Mary; but it is as good a place as any, I suppose, in which to begin with a small capital." ...
— The Inglises - How the Way Opened • Margaret Murray Robertson
... were most unpleasantly vociferous in the declaration of their readiness, there was one man who was well known to the humbler class of bookmen with whom he associated, who was known to speculate upon very small capital, but who had never been known as a defaulter. The knowing ones declared this man worthy to rank high amongst the best of them; but no one knew where he lived, or what he was. He was rarely known to miss a race; and he was conspicuous amongst the crowd in those mysterious purlieus ...
— Henry Dunbar - A Novel • M. E. Braddon
... talkative devil?" said Hamilton. "I pointed out to you that the prospects were very alluring. The Company was floated with a small capital——" ...
— Bones in London • Edgar Wallace
... in small capital letters are those of the principal divisions of the work; those in lower case are of single poems, or the subdivisions ...
— Poems - Household Edition • Ralph Waldo Emerson
... that Mr. Graves, the storekeeper, who is getting old, wants to get a boy, or young man, with a small capital to take an interest in his business, ...
— Only An Irish Boy - Andy Burke's Fortunes • Horatio Alger, Jr.
... in Small Capital Letters, and the Names of their Members are printed beneath. Where a short line, thus "——," is printed, the end of an ...
— Little Folks (Septemeber 1884) - A Magazine for the Young • Various
... moment alarmed me, for, acting on old Gadley's advice, I had persuaded my mother to put all her small capital into Mr. Stillwood's hands for re-investment, a transaction that had resulted in substantial increase of our small income. But, looking into his smiling eyes, my momentary ...
— Paul Kelver • Jerome Klapka, AKA Jerome K. Jerome
... luck at the diggings. A report, however, had just reached Nome that tons of gold were lying only waiting to be picked up on the coast of Siberia, and the adventurous Billy, dazzled by dreams of wealth, determined to sink his small capital in the purchase of a boat in which to sail away to the Russian "El Dorado." Having stocked his craft with provisions, Billy started alone from Nome, and after many hair-breadth escapes from shipwreck in the Straits, managed to reach East Cape. This was early in the month of August, when an American ...
— From Paris to New York by Land • Harry de Windt
... is the land for you, as you seem to surmise. Australia is the land for two classes of emigrants: first, the man who has nothing but his wits, and plenty of them; secondly, the man who has a small capital, and who is contented to spend ten years in trebling it. I assume that you belong to the latter class. Take out L3,000, and before you are thirty years old you may return with L10,000 or L12,000. If that satisfies you, think seriously of Australia. By coach, ...
— The Caxtons, Complete • Edward Bulwer-Lytton
... her father had been compelled to operate on small capital. They had figured, or rather Imogene had, dollar at a time. This new venture of Rogeen's rather appalled her. A hundred thousand of borrowed money! It was almost unthinkable. Anywhere else but in this land of surprises such a proposition would ...
— The Desert Fiddler • William H. Hamby
... in vain. Dorothea, at length, fixed her affection on John Christian, Duke of Liegnitz and Brieg, who enjoyed a great reputation for virtue, ability, and integrity. To him, after a short courtship. Dorothea was married on the 12th of December, 1610, at Crossen; and reached Brieg—the small capital of her future dominions—on the first of January in the ...
— Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. • Various
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