Banking

Examples

• The great and general utility of the banking trade, when prudently managed, has been fully explained in the second book of this Inquiry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• But the revenue of idle people, considered as a class or order, cannot, in the smallest degree, be increased by those operations of banking. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Thus we say that a man's interest is politics, or journalism, or philanthropy, or archaeology, or collecting Japanese prints, or banking. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Mr. Lorry was expected back presently from the Banking House. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The name was indeed well known to us as belonging to the senior partner in the second largest private banking concern in the City of London. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• She said that her father had spoken of hiring a lodging for a short term, in that Quarter, near the Banking-house. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• The young couple had a house near Berkeley Square and a small villa at Roehampton, among the banking colony there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• In requiring frequent and regular repayments from all their customers, the banking companies of Scotland had probably this advantage in view. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Wall Street is, in fact, a frequent object of rather sarcastic reference, applying even to its regular and probably correct methods of banking. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Admirable schemes for banking development were available, and he made use of them. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• And you'll probably find that your creditors will impound the banking account of Mr. Cornelius, said Holmes. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• Her father had not been seen, since he quitted the banking-house towards four o'clock. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• I am Alexander Holder, of the banking firm of Holder & Stevenson, of Threadneedle Street. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• My idea of Wall Street banking has been very poor since that time. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The Lydian dynasty seems to have been a trading dynasty of the type of Minos in Crete, with a banking and financial development. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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