stockjobber

• “It was about the year 1688 that the word stockjobber was first heard in London.”

  Lombard Street : a description of the money market

• “a member of the legislature who can properly be called a stockjobber or”

  Washington and the American Republic, Vol. 3.

• “If any spirit ever walks it must be that of the stockjobber, for how can such a one rest in its grave without knowing what shares are doing?”

  The Three Clerks

• “But come, we must go back to the inn; there is an ally of mine coming to me; a perfect specimen of a sharp Cornish mining stockjobber — as vulgar a fellow as you ever met, and as shrewd.”

  The Three Clerks

• “I entered my "Speedwell," a prominent stockjobber.”

  Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08

• “They cared as much about liberty as about old moons: this one speculated on a title; that one on a vice; a third, to possess a carriage and dine at Vefour's, had become the thrall of a wealthy stockjobber who paid his virtues by the month and his opinions by the line.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 82, August, 1864

• “Wasn't it a stockjobber who thought Botticelli was a cheese?”

  Austin and His Friends

• “City coffee importer, and Lang, the stockjobber, well known in his own circle as an amateur prestidigitator.”

  A Voyage to Arcturus

• “Why don't you make your offer to some company floater or stockjobber?”

  The Intriguers

• “It was on an evening during the carnival season and the world, that is, the world that begins with the baron and ends with the stockjobber, floated upon waves of pleasure as bubbles of fat float on the surface of soup.”

  The Indian Lily and Other Stories

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