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  • For years, fund-industry giant Jack Bogle, founder of Vanguard Group, has raile d against ETFs as trading vehicles, suggesting that if you give long-term investors a fund that can be easily moved at a moment's notice, investors would be unable to resist the allure of trading in trying to avoid even the slightest transitory market pain.

    ETF Party Could Be the Product's Zenith 2010

  • When Calandrino heard this, and perceived that he was not invisible to his Wife: full of rage and wroth, hee began to raile, saying.

    The Decameron 2004

  • Alas my Lord, Why do you raile and rave in such sort?

    The Decameron 2004

  • Martin raile neuer so much, and the Lawyer is after the old maner worshipped, whosoeuer inueigh against him.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Large floods of bloud adowne their sides did raile;

    The Faerie Queene — Volume 01 Edmund Spenser

  • Because He live lazily, raile upon authoritie, deny Kings supremacy in things indifferent, and be a pope in mine owne parish.

    Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

  • When Socrates heard mee raile against Meroe in such sort, he held up his finger to mee, and as halfe abashed sayd, Peace peace I pray you, and looking about lest any body should heare, I pray you (quoth he) I pray you take heed what you say against so venerable a woman as shee is, lest by your intemperate tongue you catch some harm.

    The Golden Asse Lucius Apuleius

  • But the Master did so raile on Greene, with so many words of disgrace, telling him that all his friends would not trust him with twenty shillings, and therefore why should hee.

    Henry Hudson Janvier, Thomas A 1909

  • They that rave, and rage, and raile against heaven I say not (faith be) they are guiltie of sacrilege, but at least they loose their labour.

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

  • Now this dislike it is useless to inveigh against and folly to raile at.

    A Voice From the South Anna Julia 1892

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