Yet a little investigation would have shown that at the time this company arose no opportunity of safe remunerative investment open to the outside public existed, every sound form of business being already fully supplied with capital.
— from The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by J. A. (John Atkinson) Hobson
‘I used to make trumpets of paper, eldersticks, eltrot stems, and even stinging-nettle stalks, you know.
— from The Trumpet-Major by Thomas Hardy
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