I can't jump you along now over stocks and stones as I used to.
"The Eye of Dread"
Payne Erskine
The change from Samoa to rural England is probably not so great as the change from rural England to Brook Farm and the other experimental communities of the United States, companies of cultivated and earnest people, coming from one of the best civilized stocks, and settling under the favourable material conditions of a new country for the very purpose of working out a socialist ideal.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
That isn't, he considers, my line in the least, and, let me once begin to talk to him of stocks and shares and he'll open all his ears.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole