"Silent partner" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... time, and this class of people seemed to respect the Sunday preacher very little. The big saloon was owned by John Craycroft, formerly a mate on a Mississippi River steamboat, who gained most of his money by marrying a Spanish woman and making her a silent partner. ...
— Death Valley in '49 • William Lewis Manly
... wrote of jealous men, And her tears falling spoke beyond the pen; Eliza's silence she again implored, And promised all that prudence could afford. For looks composed and careless Anna tried; She seem'd in trouble, and unconscious sigh'd: The faithful Husband, who devoutly loved His silent partner, with concern reproved: "What secret sorrows on my Anna press, That love may not partake, nor care redress?" "None, none," she answer'd, with a look so kind That the fond man determined to be blind. A few succeeding weeks of brief repose In Anna's cheek revived ...
— Tales • George Crabbe
... sweater,—the public. Only by its sufferance of the bargain counter and of sweat-shop-made goods has the nuisance existed as long as it has. I am glad I have lived to see the day of its passing, for, unless I greatly mistake, it is at hand now that the old silent partner is going out of ...
— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis
... up—commissions from the stores, selling second-hand clothes and shoes, and so on. So when Cousin Mabel had this chance to buy out the Madame Ritz Beauty Parlors, where she'd been forelady for so long, I could furnish half the capital and go in as a silent partner." ...
— Wilt Thou Torchy • Sewell Ford
... evil-minded gossips in the bank said he was in league with "Old Nick." That, of course, was absurd, for it does not necessarily follow, because a man suggests a means looking to an end, disreputable though it be, that he has Mephistopheles for a silent partner. The conservative element among the employees would not openly venture so far, but rather thought if his satanic majesty and old Sanders ran a race, the former would come in a bad second, if he ...
— The Fifth String, The Conspirators • John Philip Sousa |
