Mr Baptist, sole lodger of Mr and Mrs Plornish was reputed in whispers to lay by the savings which were the result of his simple and moderate life, for investment in one of Mr Merdle's certain enterprises.

A little farther along he came to a bridge across an imaginary stream, where a Civil Engineer (who had built the bridge) demanded something for interest on his investment, and it was forthcoming.

He had a graceful and poetic way of making an investment for each new son and daughter that blessed their union.

As a farming investment, using old-fashioned methods, it was not worth it.

Would it not be a paying investment to put stamps on the huge pile of manuscripts under the table and start them on their travels again?

He had reached the limit of profitable investment of profits in the oil industry.

It was money lent at a thousand per cent., which, as nobody will deny, was a very handsome investment.

Legitimate investment had no place in Daylight's play.

Neck-or-nothing--and that for the Funds!' She snapped her fingers to express her contempt for security of investment at three per cent.

The question of investment was one that occupied her greatly.

It was a sort of investment of good works, which he was effecting in the name of his young brother; it was a stock of good works which he wished to amass in advance for him, in case the little rogue should some day find himself short of that coin, the only sort which is received at the toll-bar of paradise.

Theodore Vail was given a banquet by his old-time friends in the Washington postal service, and toasted as "the Monte Cristo of the Telephone." It was said that the actual cost of the Bell plant was only one-twenty-fifth of its capital, and that every four cents of investment had thus become a dollar.