| 单词 | grubstake |
| 例句 | He told Westerberg he planned on staying until April 15, just long enough to put together a grubstake. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Both, as it happens, were attributes prized by Charles Lewis Tiffany, who helped found a store that sold stationery and fancy goods in 1837 with a $1,000 grubstake from his father. At Tiffany, Something New Inside the Blue Box 2015-04-15T04:00:00Z He made a grubstake of, by all accounts, selling black market blue jeans and computers. Alex Gibney on "Citizen K": Real-life thriller of an oligarch who turned against Vladimir Putin 2020-01-18T05:00:00Z Musk, for instance, got at least part of his grubstake from an emerald mine his family owned during the apartheid era in South Africa. Column: Can America's billionaires please stop whining about their privacy rights? 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Small-time investors already have fled, their grubstakes or life savings decimated. Opinion | Why the crypto bubble has finally imploded 2022-11-11T05:00:00Z Mr. Trump hasn’t known fact from fiction since the day he called his daddy’s grubstake of $1 million “a small loan.” Opinion | Did Trump know right from wrong? 2022-07-06T04:00:00Z The resulting income, the firm hopes, will provide it with the grubstake it needs to move on to the big prize: titanium. Manufacturing metals: A tantalising prospect 2013-02-14T16:06:18Z In 1992, hungry for a bigger platform, he set up a hedge fund with a $25 million grubstake—half of which was his own money. Is SAC Capital's Steve Cohen Worth Catching? 2012-11-29T02:00:03Z But the search would have to be made under circumstances that would make the fair-weather prospectors of Colorado and the grubstake eaters of the Mojave desert gasp. The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia 2012-03-13T02:00:27.187Z I started out prospecting with scarcely a grubstake. Ruth Fielding In the Saddle College Girls in the Land of Gold 2011-06-14T02:00:22.083Z Hundreds are being liberally grubstaked and experienced miners are in active demand. All about the Klondyke gold mines 2011-04-13T02:00:12.887Z “We might get somebody to grubstake us at one of the stores.” The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z "We sort of came away without a grubstake." We Were There at the Oklahoma Land Run 2010-12-24T03:00:29.847Z “Rex, this is Mr. Long, who has been kind enough to grubstake us and share our watch with us.” Bransford of Rainbow Range Originally Published under the title of Bransford in Arcadia, or, The Little Eohippus Rich specimens were brought in and yielded enough when brayed in a mortar to keep him in a grubstake, but it takes capital to develop a hard rock mine and capital was wary. The Story of Sitka The Historic Outpost of the Northwest Coast "Some of this stuff's for to-morrow's grubstake," put in the Swede, "and most of the hardware's wanted for a job first crack out of the box in the morning." My Brave and Gallant Gentleman A Romance of British Columbia In the spring we’ll ask you to grubstake us, and get back to the wreck as soon as the weather permits. The Secret of the Reef 2011-04-12T02:00:26.980Z I want you to tell me who it was grubstaked you that winter you needed grubstaking mighty bad. Bred of the Desert A Horse and a Romance All the wrecks nest there while waiting hopefully for a payload or a grubstake. Turnover Point So when Mr. Eells offered me forty thousand cash and agreed to release you from that grubstake contract─” “You throwed the whole thing away, eh?” Wunpost Ragged, poor, roofless, grubstaked by 'pardner' or outfitter on a basis of half profit, the prospector stands as the eternal type of the trail-maker for finance. The Cariboo Trail A Chronicle of the Gold-fields of British Columbia If anyone would grubstake me, I’d break loose with Cap here and go prospecting for adventures into some of the unnamed ranges.” The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine But that project demanded a substantial grubstake, and other matters of moment were taking his attention at the time. When the West Was Young A job for coffee and cakes, and maybe a grubstake to work a few more lonely rocks. Turnover Point “And will you bring out that grubstake contract and have it cancelled in my presence?” demanded Wilhelmina peremptorily, and Eells bowed before the storm. Wunpost The sympathy of the miners will be with you, and there should be little difficulty unless it turns out that some one has a grubstake interest.” Louisiana Lou A Western Story You know as well as I do that papers ain't often drawn on grubstaking contracts. Rimrock Trail Marcus Katz and A. M. Franklin, who were working for the wholesale firm of L. M. Jacobs & Co., heard his story, saw the ore, and grubstaked him for another trip. When the West Was Young But he bought a team, wagon, and harness with the money, and he had enough left over for a two-months' grubstake and plenty of Durham and papers and a few magazines. The Ranch at the Wolverine “Suppose,” she said at last, “I should sell my mine elsewhere; how much would you take for that grubstake?” Wunpost There was a pal of mine put up the grubstake. The Dop Doctor Me, I got fo'-five chances to grubstake in that time, but I'm broke. Rimrock Trail He needed a good grubstake––and companions to help him hold down the claim against jumpers––before he could begin development work. When the West Was Young On the strength of that I doubles my grubstake, and he no sooner gets his hands on the two sawbucks than he starts for the street. Odd Numbers Being Further Chronicles of Shorty McCabe “Well, then, how much will you give me in cash for my mine and throw the grubstake in?” Wunpost He wrote the letters—to himself—and spread the news just to raise a grubstake. The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories Half an hour afterward he came to the house with his parfleches, and asked me to put him up a couple of weeks' grubstake. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters He used up his grubstake, got a second from his backers, and subsequently a third. When the West Was Young You tell the boys you are not going, and that Uncle Ike will not grubstake you. Peck's Uncle Ike and The Red Headed Boy 1899 Now that is what he done–he covered up that find and went back to the man that had grubstaked him. Wunpost I'm down and out, and I'm free to confess it, and any of you ladies and gents who would like to grubstake a stranger in a foreign land, why, here's your chance. The Book of All-Power Twenty-odd years ago I was offered the section that town now stands on, for a team and a two weeks' grubstake for a man and his wife. Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters He had been seeking a "grubstake,"—some one to finance another expedition into the virgin Clearwater for half of such gains as he should make. The Snowshoe Trail He counted out the hoard of golden cowries he'd been loaned as grubstake, did some arithmetic, and allowed his wife to pour him a second cup of coffee for the road. Blind Man's Lantern He was working on my grubstake–and he was with you when you made your strike.” Wunpost How much would be needed to help these settlers hold on—a little grubstake, some future operating money? Land of the Burnt Thigh The rest was promissory notes and grubstake shares. All Day September The correspondents understood that he had been grubstaked before without result. The Snowshoe Trail "I want to give you a grubstake," answered the motor wizard. Owen Clancy's Happy Trail or, The Motor Wizard in California You’re a crook and you know it; and I don’t want that grubstake contract, nohow. Wunpost Ida Mary and I woke up one day a few weeks after our arrival to find our grubstake almost gone. Land of the Burnt Thigh Let it "grubstake" its intellectual prospectors and send them forth where "the trails run out and stop." The Frontier in American History "I wish you would grubstake me," he timidly suggested. A Daughter of the Middle Border He'll have to get money for another grubstake before he goes any more prospecting. Frank Merriwell, Junior's, Golden Trail or, The Fugitive Professor “Here’s that grubstake agreement, all cancelled,” she said, and he took it and grunted ungraciously. Wunpost I need financin'—a burro and a grubstake and me for the big dry spot. Overland Red A Romance of the Moonstone Cañon Trail Money's only a grubstake, so's you c'n buy things and go out and hunt for gold. The She Boss A Western Story He had inveigled other men to share his hopes and labors, to grubstake him while he drove the tunnel that was to cut the vein. Poor Man's Rock He must get all his grubstake in too, and after snowfall he would have to be mighty careful about making tracks around any place. The Lookout Man Did I ask you to get back my grubstake? Wunpost Cheyenne is a kind of hobo puncher that rides the country with his little old pack-horse, stoppin' by to work for a grubstake when he has to, but ramblin' most of the time. Partners of Chance We get work at the camps when our grubstake's gone; and then we ramble on and on—just driftin', kinda. The She Boss A Western Story Sure as a grubstake, you gave me my start. The Rim of the Desert Well, there was two ol' soaks that got around him to grubstake 'em. Casey Ryan I was afraid he'd get a grubstake an' start back alone. The Hunted Woman Half an hour later he was conferring with Jones, the erstwhile elevator boy and rabid proletarian whom Daylight long before had grubstaked to literature for a year. Burning Daylight After the laundry my sister and her husband grubstaked me into the Klondike. John Barleycorn He asked me for a grubstake, and the same I gave to him. Ballads of a Cheechako He produced the scanty remains of his "grubstake." The Fortune Hunter "I've been grubstaked all over Australia, and up the Yukon, and over Death Valley, but I have never found a spot where there's so little gold as there is in these hills." Boy Scouts in an Airship; or, the Warning from the Sky The workers were the fellows toiling for grubstakes. Burning Daylight Why, she has fed every 'stew bum' on the Yukon, and there isn't a busted prospector in the country who wouldn't swear by her, for she has grubstaked dozens of them. The Spoilers That winter he worked for a grubstake in Juneau, and the next spring found the heels of his moccasins turned towards salt water and his face toward Chilcoot. Revolution, and Other Essays He had his hand in his pocket, clutching the still considerable remains of what Kellogg had termed his grubstake, before he knew it. The Fortune Hunter The cold weather had come on with the long nights, and the sun had begun to play his ancient game of peekaboo along the southern snow line ere aught was heard of Malemute Kid's grubstake. The Son of the Wolf As the camp of a man who was prospecting for pastime rather than for a grubstake, the place was perfect. The Trail of the White Mule This here party claimed the misfortune of bein' a younger son, whatever that is, and is grubstaked to a ranch by his people back home. The Spoilers “Missourian chaps, and a couple of Cornishmen, but they went down to Eldorado to work at wages for a grubstake.” The God of His Fathers: Tales of the Klondyke I was thinkin' how but for delay me and my grubstake—provisions, ye know—that was consigned to me clear away at Spokane, might hev been drownded along with them hogs and Hebrews. The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories Told him to consider it in the light of a grubstake. The Son of the Wolf I carry a thousand dollars or so in my inside pocket, just to count over now an' then to convince myself I needn't worry about a grubstake. The Trail of the White Mule Cash watched them for a day or so; saw the size of their grubstakes, asked few questions and listened to a good deal of small-town gossip, and nodded his head contentedly. Cabin Fever All summer he fought mosquitoes and washed the sure-thing bars of the Stuart River for a double grubstake. The Son of the Wolf They would go on prospecting, using the check for a grubstake, That much they had decided without argument. Cabin Fever Now a man who puts his life and time against a grubstake ordinarily finds it hard enough to turn over half of what he finds. The Son of the Wolf The others would bring enough for a winter grubstake, and would prolong their freedom and their independence just that much. Cabin Fever Cash had learned, he said, to hope high but keep an eye on the grubstake. Cabin Fever |
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