It rose, in fact, by the course which all, except fools, stockjobber stags, cheating gamblers, forging Pamphleteers and other temporary creatures of the damned sort, have found from of old to be the one way of permanently rising: by steady service, namely, of the Opposite of Beelzebub.
"History Of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Vol. III. (of XXI.) Frederick The Great--The Hohenzollerns In Brandenburg--1412-1718"
Thomas Carlyle
No stockjobber on 'Change could go about his exciting work with more animating eagerness.
"The Bertrams"
Anthony Trollope
"Never mind that," rejoined a stockjobber dryly.
"For the Allinson Honor"
Harold Bindloss