1870 W.W. Fowler Ten Years In Wall Street 35: The puritan and blackleg exhange a sympathetic smile, when they see the stocks advancing in which they are interested.at blackleg, n.1
1870 W.W. Fowler Ten Years In Wall Street 43: A flunkey in livery, on the back seat with a bug on his hat.at bug, n.4
1870 W.W. Fowler Ten Years In Wall Street 81: ‘Seller three,’ rejoined O, ‘or regular?’ ‘Nothing up! and buyer three.’ ‘No commish,’ &c.at commish, n.
1870 W.W. Fowler Ten Years in Wall Street 37: As for those who take ‘flyers’ in one or two hundred shares, they are a great host whom no man can describe, much less enumerate.at take a flier (v.) under flyer, n.2
1870 W.W. Fowler Ten Years In Wall Street 32: The ring, to use a Wall Street phrase in this way, ‘milk the street,’ taking money out of the bears, who sell at a low price; and out of the bulls, who buy at a high price.at milk, v.
1870 W.W. Fowler Ten Years In Wall Street 79: Mysterious men, cormorants of ‘Queer Street,’ who seemed to extract a rich sustenance out of the viewless air.at Queer Street, n.
1870 W.W. Fowler Ten Years In Wall Street 82: He [...] offered with the greatest cheerfulness to show me the lions, or rather the bulls and bears of the street.at see the lions (v.) under see, v.
1870 W.W. Fowler Ten Years In Wall Street 43: A pair of spanking bays, tandem, whirled him to the Park in a tall Belmont, with a flunkey in livery.at spanking, adj.
1870 W.W. Fowler Ten Years In Wall Street 42: Making the values which pass through his hands perspire golden drops, just as the Jews clip and sweat the coin they handle.at sweat, v.1
1870 W.W. Fowler Ten Years In Wall Street 32: In that case, the ring find themselves saddled with a large amount of stock, for which there is little demand. And now the problem is to unload.at unload, v.