"Buy out" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... mercantile venture was not successful. Berry was drinking and loafing, and Lincoln, who did not work as faithfully for himself as for another, was usually reading or telling stories. So when a couple of strangers, Trent by name, offered to buy out the store, the offer was accepted and more promissory notes changed hands. About the time these last notes came due, the Trent brothers disappeared between two days. Then ...
— The Life of Abraham Lincoln • Henry Ketcham
... now it was still possible to buy out the Company, but it was supposed that it would cost so much that it was generally ...
— The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists • Robert Tressell
... then," replied the triumphant Scraggs, "if you won't sell, then buy out my interest an' rid my ship o' this ...
— Captain Scraggs - or, The Green-Pea Pirates • Peter B. Kyne
... him if he likes, while Ned is away. But papa won't be here. He has quite decided, I think, to leave Burnet and make his home for the future with us in the High Valley. Three different physicians have already offered to buy out his practice, and it is arranged that Dorry shall rent the old house of him, and the furniture too, except the books and a few special things which papa wishes to keep. He is going to write to you about the building of what he is pleased to call 'a separate shanty;' but please ...
— In the High Valley - Being the fifth and last volume of the Katy Did series • Susan Coolidge
... the leaders; they are hungry for the fleshpots. If they had the opportunities, we should be served as they are now. That's the chief trouble,—nobody really cares to make the sacrifices. And that is why this row will be ended on the old terms: the rich will buy out the leaders. Better times will come, and we shall all settle down to the same old game of grab on the same old basis. But you," Sommers turned on the sauntering blue-eyed fellow, "people like you are the ...
— The Web of Life • Robert Herrick
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