"Stocktaking" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... pursued: "Got 'er photograph 'ere." But he did not get up at once, and we turned to the fountain-pens. "Any nib," he said, "crossed ever so, I could mend it. Kep' the books too; we was always stocktaking." ...
— A Diary Without Dates • Enid Bagnold
... example of a stocktaking record made at Christ Church, Canterbury, has been preserved. The inspection took place in 1337. First are recorded the books missing from the two "demonstrations," as ...
— Old English Libraries, The Making, Collection, and Use of Books • Ernest A. Savage
... "I have—and a bad one, too, and that's why I sent for you. The stocktaking is nothing; but I was afraid I might get another that would stiffen me properly. Look here, Lawson, you've been a true friend to me. You picked me up six months ago a drunken, half-maddened beast in Apia and saved my life, reason, and ...
— The Ebbing Of The Tide - South Sea Stories - 1896 • Louis Becke |
