Colonel Woodburn offered as his contribution to the celebration of the copartnership, which Fulkerson could not be prevented from dedicating with a little dinner, the story of Fulkerson's magnanimous behavior in regard to Dryfoos at that crucial moment when it was a question whether he should give up Dryfoos or give up March.
"A Hazard of New Fortunes, Part Fifth"
William Dean Howells
That the basis of the copartnership-and it was this that brought the curl to his lip-was such that neither a quarter of a mile nor two miles would stand in the way of a connecting vein of ore on paper, was to be expected by any one at all familiar with his uncle's methods.
"Peter A Novel of Which He is Not the Hero"
F. Hopkinson Smith
The noble lord insists on very little more than on the excellence of their Constitution, the hope of their dwindling into little republics, and this close copartnership in government.
"The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. VI. (of 12)"
Edmund Burke