"Reserve fund" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... attempt to advise such a capable little person? Well, in the first place, there are such things as leases; and in the second place, if your tenant should move out, the agent must find you another in short order, and you will live, meanwhile, on the reserve fund. But, joking aside, there is very little risk. It is going to be a great winter for Santa Barbara, and your house is attractive, convenient, and excellently located. If we can get your affairs into such shape that your mother will not be anxious, I hope, and think, ...
— Polly Oliver's Problem • Kate Douglas Smith Wiggin
... comprehend the case. The men were dissatisfied. They had come in a roundabout way to the conclusion that some pecuniary concession, not mentioned in their bond, should come from the side of capital to that of labour. Whether wages, interest of capital, share of profits, reserve fund, they knew not nor cared. This was their stand. And being Englishmen they ...
— Shearing in the Riverina, New South Wales • Rolf Boldrewood
... had, tried, when a boy, to climb a tree. He fell down, and broke his leg. Seriously lamed, he went on crutches for six months, and at the end of that time quietly set about climbing the tree again, and succeeded. He had, in truth, a reserve fund of good-humor and sound sense, saw where he failed, and conquered it. His disappointment was worth twenty dozen successes to him, and to the world too. It is a good rule, also, never to make too sure of any thing, and never to ...
— Brave Men and Women - Their Struggles, Failures, And Triumphs • O.E. Fuller
... end of that period he found himself minus his heavy winnings at chemin-de-fer and ten thousand francs of his reserve fund ...
— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance |
