They had been worth nothing before the committee had been ordered to sit.

He declined to give any opinion as to what the shares would be worth if the money were granted.
Ladies at Limehouse proved that if there were a bridge they could save 30s.

a year each, by buying their tea and sugar at Rotherhithe; and so singular are the usages of trade, that the ladies of Rotherhithe would benefit their husbands equally, and return the compliment, by consuming the bread of Limehouse.

The shores of Kent were pining for the beef of the opposite bank, and only too anxious to give in return the surplus stock of their own poultry.
'Let but a bridge be opened,' as was asserted by one animated vendor of rope, 'and Poplar would soon rival Pimlico.

Perhaps that might not be desirable in the eyes of men who lived in the purlieus of the Court, and who were desirous to build no new bridge, except that over the ornamental water in St.James's Park.' Upon uttering which the rope-vendor looked at Mr.Vigil as though he expected him to sink at once under the table.
Mr.Blocks, of the great firm of Blocks, Piles, and Cofferdam, then came forward.