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A business with an income at its heels Furnishes always oil for its own wheels.

From Familiar Quotations A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature by Bartlett, John

Furnishes another illustration of the author's remarkable facility in assimilating different atmospheres, and in mastering, in a minute way, as well as sympathetically, very diverse conditions of life....

From Cecilia A Story of Modern Rome by Crawford, F. Marion (Francis Marion)

Furnishes a catalogue of Esau's sons, with their various titles and localities.

From Notes on the Book of Genesis by Mackintosh, Charles Henry

Furnishes them with the Cloths and Money.Then his own Tailor was ordered to take measure of us, and furnish us with two Sutes of Apparel.

From An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon in the East Indies Together with an Account of the Detaining in Captivity the Author and Divers other Englishmen Now Living There, and of the Author's Miraculous Escape by Knox, Robert