How To Use Grubstake In A Sentence
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Forrest had lost everything in a series of calamities, so that San Francisco debated what price his Nob Hill palace would fetch at auction, he grubstaked one, Del
CHAPTER IV
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After all, how different is the $5 million in first-round venture capital financing for a cyber start-up from the silver prospector's grubstake?
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The correspondents understood that he had been grubstaked before without result.
The Snowshoe Trail
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With a grubstake from his father, he went to work.
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Let it "grubstake" its intellectual prospectors and send them forth where
The Frontier in American History
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And, to cap it all, when “Lucky” Richard Forrest had lost everything in a series of calamities, so that San Francisco debated what price his Nob Hill palace would fetch at auction, he grubstaked one, Del Nelson, to a prospecting in Mexico.
The Little Lady of the Big House, by Jack London
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She has, however, provisioned each egg with a grubstake: a substantial amount of nourishing yolk, which, soon after the egg hatches, is safely enclosed in the baby's gut.
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With a proper vehicle and a grubstake of running money, Quentin might even be able to make it into the interior of Mexico.
KISS OF THE BEES
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We grubstaked them and we were to see to getting the stuff out.
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The loan, known as a grubstake, entitled Bernard to a hefty share of the gold.
Gazette.com :
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Frequently, she even “grubstaked miners who had no other means of support while they looked for gold in the mountains and was repaid handsomely for her kindness and generosity by those who struck pay dirt.”
BLACK WOMEN OF THE OLD WEST
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He had been seeking a "grubstake," -- some one to finance another expedition into the virgin Clearwater for half of such gains as he should make.
The Snowshoe Trail
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Not much by Daddy's standards, but you'd figure someone with half a brain could do something constructive with that kind of grubstake, right?
Devil's Waltz
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In many cases, he grubstakes those who don't have the cash to pay up front.
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After the laundry my sister and her husband grubstaked me into the Klondike.
Chapter XXV
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But his father also had a fascination with gold, and he grew up hearing tales of miners, prospectors, and grubstakes at the dinner table.
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He argued that rich parent alluvial fields, such as the Victorian fields in the 1850s and Coolgardie - Kalgoorlie after 1892, grubstaked large numbers of prospectors and so quickened the rate of discovery of new deposits.
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Half an hour later he was conferring with Jones, the erstwhile elevator boy and rabid proletarian whom Daylight long before had grubstaked to literature for a year.
Chapter XVII
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To make this clear you must understand that I, on behalf of the company and acting as the company's agent, grubstaked Whitey Lewis and four others to go in and stake those claims.
North of Fifty-Three
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Now that he's been discharged, Wetter hopes to find some gold of his own using an anticipated loan for a "grubstake," an old mining term for money to sustain the search.
The Monitor :
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After the laundry my sister and her husband grubstaked me into the
Chapter 25
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Now that he's been discharged, Wetter hopes to find some gold of his own using a loan for a "grubstake," an old mining term for money to sustain the search.
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All I needed was a grubstake to keep the wolves from the door.
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Kellogg had termed his grubstake, before he knew it.
The Fortune Hunter
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Not every prospector was grubstaked by a large company or criminal consortium.
Flinx In Flux
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With a proper vehicle and a grubstake of running money, Quentin might even be able to make it into the interior of Mexico.
KISS OF THE BEES
