His speech on this matter would not be bad reading for some of the pension-Jobbing congressmen of the present day, and their supporters; but as concerned these French claims he could have been easily answered.
"Thomas Hart Benton"
Theodore Roosevelt
There was a lot of Jobbing going on between the priest and the village grocer, and finally it was arranged that the latter should pay off the existing debt if the landlord could be forced into letting him the farm at a "fair rent," that is to say, thirty per cent reduction on the old rent.
"Muslin"
George Moore
There are in the Cape Legislature some few members supposed to be "low-toned" and open to influence by the prospect of material gain, but, though I heard of occasional Jobbing, I heard of little or nothing amounting to corruption.
"Impressions of South Africa"
James Bryce