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  • Jane's talked to the police, brokered a deal.†   (source)
  • They would motor back to the shore and bring the sardines to the fish broker in the market before dawn.†   (source)
  • They make a living selling their mushrooms to brokers who set up shop in motel rooms near the forests.†   (source)
  • "I know," Sammy says to broker the peace.†   (source)
  • We survived the Holocaust because of the enormous risks Schindler took and the bribes and backroom deals he brokered to keep us, his Jewish workers, safe from the gas chambers of Auschwitz.†   (source)
  • E*ut here in the country, we still marry the one our parents pick out with the shad-chart, the marriage broker.†   (source)
  • We'd been expending heroic effort searching for an apartment, a frustrating process which we'd borne in mostly good humor although the bare spaces and empty rooms haunted with other people's abandoned lives kicked up (for me) a lot of ugly echoes from childhood, moving boxes and kitchen smells and shadowed bedrooms with the life gone out of them all but more than this, pulsing throughout, a sort of ominous mechanical hum audible (apparently) only to me, heavily-breathing apprehensions which the voices of the brokers, ringing cheerfully against the polished surfaces as they walked around switching on the lights and pointing out the stainless-steel appliances, did little to dispel.†   (source)
  • Dad brokers the deal.†   (source)
  • In Chicago, before the news arrived, brokers spent a good deal of time discussing the morning's strange weather.†   (source)
  • TO BE SOLD AT THE OFFICE OF WILLIAM TONGUE, BROKER, AT THE HOUSE OF THE LATE MR. WALDRON NEAR THE EXCHANGE (LOWER END OF BROAD STREET) THE FOLLOWING GOODS AND MERCHANDISE, VIZ.†   (source)
  • Sometimes in the evening I would go out to him and find him in the garden near the oratory, sitting absolutely composed on a stone bench there, and I'd tell him my troubles, the difficulties I had with the slaves, how I distrusted the overseer or the weather or my brokers ....all the problems that made up the length and breadth of my existence.†   (source)
  • His lawyer had brokered a deal for the charges against him for hitting me, so he was spending the weekends in jail and doing a lot of community service at the animal shelter, cleaning out cages.†   (source)
  • They can strut their stuff and visit with their friends without any exposure to kidnappers, paparazzi, scnpt-flingers, assassins, cxspouses, autograph brokers, process servers, psycho fans, marriage proposals, or gossip columnists.†   (source)
  • She announced the death of her godfather, Don Salomon Valdes, a broker at the stock exchange, who, convinced that he had lost everything he owned, hanged himself from the chandelier in his elegant office.†   (source)
  • There were salesmen, mortgage brokers, lawyers from Houston, and local attorneys.†   (source)
  • Mavens are really information brokers, sharing and trading what they know.†   (source)
  • It was natural for him to live out here on the island, close to the power brokers, so to speak.†   (source)
  • When Darmmen finished, Horst took his place and, with short, brisk sentences, related the lack of proper ships in Narda, how the dockworker recommended Clovis, and the deal that was brokered thereafter.†   (source)
  • It took two weeks before our peace was brokered, that day he saw me jump into the pool from the diving board after Grandfather jumped first.†   (source)
  • My broker's in Bluefield.†   (source)
  • Soon he was buying and selling potatoes, opening warehouses, forming relationships with commodities brokers nationwide.†   (source)
  • I'll be a futures broker.†   (source)
  • One broker, though, remembered Smith ("He's been in and out of here going on a good ten years"), and was able to produce a ticket for a bearskin rug pawned during the first week in November.†   (source)
  • We were waste brokers.†   (source)
  • Doctors, lawyers, contractors, stockbrokers, auto mechanics, mortgage brokers, financial planners: they all enjoy a gigantic informational advantage.†   (source)
  • Each time he succeeded in dumping some on the world market for a loss it was snapped up by canny Egyptian brokers in the Levant, who sold it back to him at the original price, so that he was really worse off than before.†   (source)
  • These were the sons and daughters of small towns around Alabama and Georgia, the offspring of real estate brokers, insurance barons and English professors.†   (source)
  • After Dewayne Squire, Lanier called to the stand a Mr. Dewberry, a land broker who specialized in farms and hunting clubs.†   (source)
  • The Kennedy brothers have broken the man who once considered himself Washington, D.C.'s ultimate power broker.†   (source)
  • Call George Sandlin's broker.†   (source)
  • The broker hurried over to my father.†   (source)
  • Broker peace so that they might be free to work their deceit?†   (source)
  • However, the most advanced speakers were so-called brokers, students who transmitted information between Jocks and Burnouts, and whose status in school was denned largely by verbal activity in gossip and negotiation.†   (source)
  • Yes, and that older group with similar aspirations, the "fundamentalists," the "actors" who sought to achieve the status of brokers through imagination alone, a group of janitors and messengers who spent most of their wages on clothing such as was fashionable among Wall Street brokers, with their Brooks Brothers suits and bowler hats, English umbrellas, black calfskin shoes and yellow gloves; with their orthodox and passionate argument as to what was the correct tie to wea†   (source)
  • If and when they did, the loss of an eye or an arm was not out of the question-such were the brokers of false papers.†   (source)
  • Whilst other men built the ships and sailed them, he built piers and storehouses, brokered cargoes, changed money, insured shipowners against the hazards of the sea.†   (source)
  • Despite the fact that he was an American, Shaw had become Martinez's chief broker.†   (source)
  • I regarded my role in prison not just as the leader of the ANC, but as a promoter of unity, an honest broker, a peacemaker, and I was reluctant to take a side in this dispute, even if it was the side of my own organization.†   (source)
  • If it doesn't arrive, the day will come when brokers come here to bid for it—at triple or more the present prices!†   (source)
  • The movie "The Model and the Marriage Broker" will be shown in the living room this evening.†   (source)
  • For example, I spend a lot of time dealing with just a few apartment rental brokers in New York who might be, let's say, ethically challenged.†   (source)
  • "Maybe I want to broker a truce," he said.†   (source)
  • And on the floors below us, in order of descent, were three small firms of computer dealers, attorneys, and real estate brokers.†   (source)
  • Willie was also a broker, and being one of the first Ceylonese to work for the English firm of E. John and Co. brought them most of their local business.†   (source)
  • Janis is going to study real estate, become a broker.†   (source)
  • Three or four other firms, brokers, etc. All behind proprietary layers.†   (source)
  • 4TH JUROR: I'm a broker.†   (source)
  • They're small-time brokers, set up by the old man about fifteen years ago.†   (source)
  • I didn't like that room, and I thought it would be better after that for Metty not to use the car and for me to be my own customs clerk and broker.†   (source)
  • I tried to phone my broker but all the lines are tied up.†   (source)
  • The sharp reaction to my idle comment about real estate brokers opened a door to speculation.†   (source)
  • Any man who brokered peace with the sons of Shataiki could not be a man who followed Elyon.†   (source)
  • Two men breaking through the crowds, converging, brokering death.†   (source)
  • A deal had already been brokered by Ozzie.†   (source)
  • I make a generous brokering fee and you're a wealthy man, free of care, of unpleasant drudgery.†   (source)
  • Surratt travels frequently between Canada, the South, New York City, and Washington, brokering deals for everything from guns to medicine.†   (source)
  • Mya was much younger than Ser Lothor, but when her father had been brokering the marriage between Lord Corbray and his merchant's daughter, he'd told her that young girls were al-.†   (source)
  • Jimmy Carter came and brokered an unusual three-legged dog of a peace that spared the despots and absurdly married the U.S. military with the same soldiers who had been the instruments of torture and terror.†   (source)
  • In the past five days alone, he has helped Montana's farmers by approving a massive wheat sale to the Soviet Union, brokered a global ban on the testing of nuclear weapons, cut income taxes, and even stood before the UN General Assembly promising to send men to the moon.†   (source)
  • The purpose of the visit was listed as 'business investments in the Economic Zone', and was renewable at Shenzhen immigration with proof of investment along with the corroborating presence of a Chinese banker through whom the money was to be brokered.†   (source)
  • In August of 1997, DeRose brokered a ten-year deal that made Coca-Cola the district's exclusive beverage supplier, bringing the schools up to $11 million during the life of the contract (minus DD Marketing's fee).†   (source)
  • Petyr had brokered the match himself.†   (source)
  • They're far more easily brokered.†   (source)
  • You brokered millions for us out of the bloc countries, rerouted, renamed-Christ, repainted-ships throughout the Mediterranean, the Aegean, up the Bosporus and into Marmara, to say nothing about ports in the Baltic!†   (source)
  • The warrior had defeated him soundly and revealed his intentions of brokering a peace, while the Horde was plotting their final defeat.†   (source)
  • The truth, of course, was that instead of brokering their peace in front of the Council, Johan would accuse Qurong of plotting betrayal with Justin.†   (source)
  • Far beyond this hill lay the Southern Forest, where Jamous had been delivered by Justin, who brokered a peace with the Scabs.†   (source)
  • Brokers joked how the gloom might be the signal that a "day of judgment" was at hand.†   (source)
  • The brokers put up signs to let the mushroomers know where they are and they pay cash.†   (source)
  • "I'm a tax lawyer," said Joe, "and a real estate broker and a piano player.†   (source)
  • A broker had set them up for her for 50,000 kronor of the money she had borrowed from Blomkvist.†   (source)
  • All the brokers were invited to comment on the allegations.†   (source)
  • I'm a tax lawyer, a real estate broker, and a piano player.†   (source)
  • Just some other brokers from Charlotte and Columbia.†   (source)
  • Two talented young brokers and some clerical staff.†   (source)
  • It brokers sixty percent of its entire economy through the territory.†   (source)
  • Thereafter some of LuNoHo Company's dispatches to Terra reached Stu via his London broker.†   (source)
  • We reason with brokers, explaining our principles, and that usually works.†   (source)
  • "So you want to be a futures broker," says Amy after a while.†   (source)
  • I was a successful mortgage broker, married, seemingly poised at the sweet prime of my life.†   (source)
  • But he retired ten years ago for the more lucrative and less backbreaking trade of slave broker.†   (source)
  • Arms folded, they considered the shag carpeting while their brokers talked about "potential."†   (source)
  • The Clave isn't going to want to broker a truce with you.†   (source)
  • If it was Cain, why would he kill a broker from Russolmaz?†   (source)
  • "A covert broker," corrected the CIA director.†   (source)
  • He had to reach a deserted stretch of road in the moonlight and trap a broker of death.†   (source)
  • Broker your peace, but don't expect me and my men to go along with it.†   (source)
  • Nor would such banks or brokers take on the added trouble or expense; payments were guaranteed.†   (source)
  • Police officers who worked near Capitol Hill were never certain what power broker they might mistakenly pull over in a limousine, and so most simply chose not to take the chance.†   (source)
  • He wore an expensive brown silk suit like the guys on Wall Street wear, but you'd never mistake this dude for a broker.†   (source)
  • Langdon was not sure how powerful the Masons really were anymore, and he was not going to go down that road; perceptions of the modern Masons ranged from their being a group of harmless old men who liked to play dress-up ....all the way to an underground cabal of power brokers who ran the world.†   (source)
  • , from the broker to the high school, from the high school (downhill, at last) back to Sunset Towers.†   (source)
  • As soon as you get to the broker's office I want you to sell AMO, sell SEA, sell MT, and put all the money into WPP.†   (source)
  • But the trading of shares decreased significantly that day, and some brokers who wanted to look like progressive patriots started going against the stream.†   (source)
  • When they had finally reached a snowbound broker, Flora Baumbach was so nervous she dropped the telephone.†   (source)
  • Then, after two hours of watching mysterious symbols move across the lighted panel high on the wall of the broker's office, her eyes began to cross.†   (source)
  • Turtle returned to her calculations, multiplying numbers of shares times price, adding a broker's commission, trying to total the sums to the ten thousand dollars they had to spend.†   (source)
  • Flora Baumbach, her strained eyes shielded by dark glasses, drove Turtle to school on her way to the broker's office and picked her up in the late afternoon with a sheet of prices copied from the moving tape.†   (source)
  • He paused, then added, "So why don't you boys go home, go to college, and then go be chemists or insurance brokers or whatever?†   (source)
  • Oh, I'm sure if the Olympians saw your work, they'd realize how amazing you are, and I'd have to broker a bidding war.†   (source)
  • Each of the eight brokers was attended by two or three body slaves ...though one Grazdan, the eldest, had six.†   (source)
  • They're global power brokers now, but twenty years ago they were hotheaded junior staffers in Command Saigon.†   (source)
  • I told him that I would probably try to sell without an agent, and he replied, 'John, that might work under normal conditions, but with the market tanking now, you really need the help of a broker.'†   (source)
  • The New York Stock Exchange president then announced a stunning pledge: The Wall Street Broker-Dealer Syndicate had committed itself to raise one billion dollars for the Seventh War Loan—enough to finance creation of a Superfortress fleet of sixteen hundred B-29's, geared to the destruction of Japan.†   (source)
  • We will get a broker's fee.†   (source)
  • Tell my broker to call me.†   (source)
  • John Kwang dressed like a power broker.†   (source)
  • He's going to be gobsmacked when he finds out I've turned overnight into a high-flying futures broker.†   (source)
  • They had gone via LuNoHoCo's commercial traffic to their Zurich agent, thence to Stu's Paris broker, from him by less usual channels to Dr. Chan, with whom I had once had a talk and with whom Sm had talked later, arranging a communication channel.†   (source)
  • I know you're not my broker.†   (source)
  • Broker a truce?†   (source)
  • Nor had there been any radical changes among insurance companies, insurance brokers, or the people who buy term life insurance.†   (source)
  • Grain farmers and brokers were unhappy because payment at catapult head continued to be Authority scrip at same old fixed prices.†   (source)
  • Then I watched him broker diamonds in Amsterdam between the merchants on the Nieuwmarkt and the dacha-elite in Moscow.†   (source)
  • She grew up with him, found out how her eye could quickly level on a scene, instantly figure the possibilities, aggressively fight and broker the way they'd want to shoot him.†   (source)
  • Maybe that's what I'll get my assistant to do when I'm an important futures broker and Elly comes over for lunch.†   (source)
  • But I'm not the buyer, I'm the broker.†   (source)
  • I'd kind of planned to spend the day ringing everyone up and telling them about my fab new job as a futures broker.†   (source)
  • Maybe futures brokers?†   (source)
  • I'm a broker and that's the way I work.†   (source)
  • Thomas had watched the duo walk into the woods to broker peace with Qurong, a peace that was somehow entwined with betrayal.†   (source)
  • I'm merely the broker.†   (source)
  • He operated through a branch of Russolmaz, the Soviet firm in Geneva that brokers all such purchases.†   (source)
  • He told me he's going after the raiders and the merger brokers who make billions in the markets and cost thousands upon thousands in jobs.†   (source)
  • Her objective was not lost on the attorney; she so complicated the issuing of the bonds that tracing them would be beyond the facilities of most banks or brokers.†   (source)
  • As you pointed out, some very important men in the White House and the State Department could get burned, a lot of nasty labels branded on the foreheads of global power brokers, I think you called them.†   (source)
  • Men and women-in eleven cases ostensibly husbands and wives-with extensive connections in Europe, in the main with technological firms and related nuclear and aerospace industries, all under intelligence microscopes for possibly selling classified information to brokers of the Eastern bloc and therefore to Moscow.†   (source)
  • The sado-romantic myth turns into a brilliant, blood-soaked monster who brokers assassination with the expertise of a market analyst, fully aware of wages, costs, distribution, and the divisions of underworld labor.†   (source)
  • Mr. Gordon, American Express does not give tips on horse races, nor broker the resale of Sweepstakes tickets.†   (source)
  • You'll have the broker in, and be turned out; that's what'll happen to you.†   (source)
  • No. I want to be a broker and make lots of money like my bosses.†   (source)
  • I'm on a different diet, I can't look at the tape, and my broker can't get me on the telephone.†   (source)
  • Else she'll sniff around for a marriage-broker's bounty.†   (source)
  • When I told you he was going to a marriage broker?†   (source)
  • And when the marriage-broker said to him, Speak!†   (source)
  • Money for marriage brokers-may they choke-I haven't.†   (source)
  • They were the most important real-estate brokers in the district and owned and controlled much property, including the enormous forty-flat building where they lived.†   (source)
  • And as they walked through the stone and plaster city brokers peered at them from barred windows and servants put one eye to a slitted gate and mothers turned the faces of their youngest children inward against their skirts.†   (source)
  • "She is leaving me," said the Abbess, "for some work across the city and when I have spoken here I must leave you both, for the flour-broker will not wait for me any longer, and our argument will take a long time."†   (source)
  • He formed a land company, went abroad and floated bonds in France to raise money, and dishonest brokers brought reproach upon his name.†   (source)
  • He's off to a marriage-broker.†   (source)
  • There had not been many such eligible young men as he in Mukaihara, and numerous marriage brokers had sounded him out.†   (source)
  • I, however,' said Louis, 'losing sight of you, sat in my office and tore the date from the calendar, and announced to the world of ship-brokers, corn-chandlers and actuaries that Friday the tenth, or Tuesday the eighteenth, had dawned on the city of London.†   (source)
  • He was a sly-looking little man with side whiskers, a solicitor in a very small way of business, but sharp enough to have realized earlier than anyone else that Animal Farm would need a broker and that the commissions would be worth having.†   (source)
  • It was a help to him as well; it brought in considerable insurance business, for he signed himself, "William Einhorn, a neighborhood broker," and various companies paid the costs.†   (source)
  • His first few thousand dollars ran out and he had to ask for more; he had a credit to establish with the brokers, and it was important that he meet his bills on time.†   (source)
  • I heard from Clem that Einhorn was after Tambow Senior to get somebody in City Hall to approach a vice-president about the claim, and I know he got off quite a few letters himself, complaining that one of the biggest brokers couldn't get a small fire settled.†   (source)
  • For several weeks he had been working under Uncle Charlie's eye, first as weighmaster and cashier and then learning to buy, meeting brokers and salesmen and learning about freight rates and the different coal fields.†   (source)
  • Only people like stock-brokers do that, and then merely at dinner parties.†   (source)
  • For weeks together he noticed nothing but clients and the vexing To Rent signs of rival brokers.†   (source)
  • Get out bonds to finance it?" asked a Sparta broker.†   (source)
  • Who drove out the businessmen and brokers from the temple with a whip!†   (source)
  • Hurstwood was already confronted, and recognized his friend Kenny, the stock-broker.†   (source)
  • The firm in question was Alsbery & Co., whiskey brokers.†   (source)
  • Now here's a lady who knows the right broker to come to, Orvy!†   (source)
  • A broker from Minnemagantic said, "Monarch is a lot sportier than Zenith.†   (source)
  • I'm Mr. Babbitt, the real-estate broker!†   (source)
  • They did not wish Babbitt and Thompson to have any share in the deal except as brokers.†   (source)
  • It was composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers.†   (source)
  • The next day, Sunday, she went to Rouen to call on all the brokers whose names she knew.†   (source)
  • This experience entitled me to be regarded as a sort of real-estate broker by my friends.†   (source)
  • For you, O broker, there is no other principle but arithmetic.†   (source)
  • "You shall open a broker's shop in Boston next month," said the black man.†   (source)
  • Let all gripping money-brokers lay this story to heart.†   (source)
  • And, sitting down, he wrote a letter to his broker, ordering him to sell out at the market price.†   (source)
  • A few days later he entered a dingy broker's shop in the main street of the town, and amid a heterogeneous collection of saucepans, a clothes-horse, rolling-pin, brass candlestick, swing looking-glass, and other things at the back of the shop, evidently just brought in from a sale, he perceived a framed photograph, which turned out to be his own portrait.†   (source)
  • The verdict of the sea quid-nuncs has been cited only by way of showing what sort of moral impression the man made upon rude uncultivated natures whose conceptions of human wickedness were necessarily of the narrowest, limited to ideas of vulgar rascality,—a thief among the swinging hammocks during a night-watch, or the man brokers and land-sharks of the sea-ports.†   (source)
  • His father, an ineffectual, inarticulate man with a taste for Byron and a habit of drowsing over the Encyclopedia Britannica, grew wealthy at thirty through the death of two elder brothers, successful Chicago brokers, and in the first flush of feeling that the world was his, went to Bar Harbor and met Beatrice O'Hara.†   (source)
  • And that is why they fall in love with a soldier or a fireman, whose uniform makes them less particular about his face; they kiss and believe that beneath the crushing breastplate there beats a heart different from the rest, more gallant, more adventurous, more tender; and so it is that a young king or a crown prince may travel in foreign countries and make the most gratifying conquests, and yet lack entirely that regular and classic profile which would be indispensable, I dare say, in an outside-broker.†   (source)
  • Doctors, chauffeurs, and Protestant clergymen could never smell of liquor, as could painters, brokers, cavalry leaders; Dick blamed himself only for indiscretion.†   (source)
  • At Rector's he could always obtain this satisfaction for there one could encounter politicians, brokers, actors, some rich young "rounders" of the town, all eating and drinking amid a buzz of popular commonplace conversation.†   (source)
  • He had gone over to Klein's, looking up some cotton broker whom he wished to see in regard to securities, exchanges, stocks, bonds, or something of the sort, Madame Ratignolle did not remember what.†   (source)
  • They were drovers and stock raisers, who had come from far states, and brokers and commission merchants, and buyers for all the big packing houses.†   (source)
  • Complete strangers would accost each other familiarly, just for the sake of easing their minds on the subject: every confounded loafer in the town came in for a harvest of drinks over this affair: you heard of it in the harbour office, at every ship-broker's, at your agent's, from whites, from natives, from half-castes, from the very boatmen squatting half naked on the stone steps as you went up—by Jove!†   (source)
  • To Gustaf Sondelius, dukes and cobblers were alike remarkable, and Martin was sometimes jealous when he saw Sondelius turning to a cocoa-broker's clerk with the same smile he gave to Martin.†   (source)
  • "Oh," said the broker, seeing him look at this and the other articles in the heap, and not perceiving that the portrait was of himself: "It is a small lot of stuff that was knocked down to me at a cottage sale out on the road to Marygreen.†   (source)
  • It was enchanting to be saluted by privates, quite as enchanting to return the salute in the dignified, patronizing, all-comrades-together splendor which Martin shared with the other doctors, professors, lawyers, brokers, authors, and former socialist intellectuals who were his fellowofficers.†   (source)
  • It was the same with cattle that were gored and dying, or were limping with broken bones stuck through their flesh—they must be killed, even if brokers and buyers and superintendents had to take off their coats and help drive and cut and skin them.†   (source)
  • This was in 1916, before the country had become wholesome and sterile, and the Brevoort was a tumult of French uniforms, caviar, Louis, dangling neckties, Nuits St. Georges, illustrators, Grand Marnier, British Intelligence officers, brokers, conversation, and Martell, V.O. "It's a fine crazy bunch," said Martin.†   (source)
  • Jurgis was willing, and so was Duane, and so they went to one of the high-class poolrooms where brokers and merchants gambled (with society women in a private room), and they put up ten dollars each upon a horse called "Black Beldame," a six to one shot, and won.†   (source)
  • He bought a cigar, and went outside on the corner where other individuals were lounging—brokers, racing people, thespians—his own flesh and blood.†   (source)
  • "Ethics of the business-broker ought to strictly represent his principles and not get in on the buying," he said to Thompson.†   (source)
  • Of course Jake is a rock-ribbed old die-hard, and he probably advised the Traction fellows to get some other broker.†   (source)
  • The cautions of the broker were wiped from his face, and his voice was cruel: "I've had enough of all this damn nonsense!†   (source)
  • Babbitt's virtues as a real-estate broker—as the servant of society in the department of finding homes for families and shops for distributors of food—were steadiness and diligence.†   (source)
  • He searched for an attitude, but neither as a Republican, a Presbyterian, an Elk, nor a real-estate broker did he have any doctrine about preacher-mayors laid down for him, so he grunted and went on.†   (source)
  • Warren Whitby, the broker, who had a gift of verse for banquets and birthdays, had added to Frink's City Song a special verse for the realtors' convention: Oh, here we come, The fellows from Zenith, the Zip Citee.†   (source)
  • Now, Purdy seemed ready to buy, and his delay was going to cost him ten thousand extra dollars—the reward paid by the community to Mr. Conrad Lyte for the virtue of employing a broker who had Vision and who understood Talking Points, Strategic Values, Key Situations, Underappraisals, and the Psychology of Salesmanship.†   (source)
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