grubstaked

Half an hour later he was conferring with Jones, the erstwhile elevator boy and rabid proletarian whom Daylight long before had grubstaked to literature for a year.

Chapter XVII 2010

Forrest had lost everything in a series of calamities, so that San Francisco debated what price his Nob Hill palace would fetch at auction, he grubstaked one, Del

CHAPTER IV 2010

After the laundry my sister and her husband grubstaked me into the

Chapter 25 2010

Frequently, she even “grubstaked miners who had no other means of support while they looked for gold in the mountains and was repaid handsomely for her kindness and generosity by those who struck pay dirt.”

BLACK WOMEN OF THE OLD WEST 2009

Not every prospector was grubstaked by a large company or criminal consortium.

Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988

Not every prospector was grubstaked by a large company or criminal consortium.

Flinx In Flux Foster, Alan Dean, 1946- 1988

The correspondents understood that he had been grubstaked before without result.

The Snowshoe Trail Edison Marshall 1930

To make this clear you must understand that I, on behalf of the company and acting as the company's agent, grubstaked Whitey Lewis and four others to go in and stake those claims.

North of Fifty-Three Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

And, to cap it all, when “Lucky” Richard Forrest had lost everything in a series of calamities, so that San Francisco debated what price his Nob Hill palace would fetch at auction, he grubstaked one, Del Nelson, to a prospecting in Mexico.

The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London 1916

After the laundry my sister and her husband grubstaked me into the Klondike.

Chapter XXV 1913