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This effect on the entrepreneur of improvements and of falling prices combined, doubtless accounts for the failure of the bimetallist agitation to secure any appreciable hold in the business world.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

"Yes, yes—oh rather," I assented, as one dizzily accepts the propositions of a bimetallist; "and you don't know of anything else——?"

From Some Experiences of an Irish R.M. by Ross, Martin

The bimetallist agitation for a return to the wider use of silver concurrently with gold first became prominent in the years of depression which followed the crisis of 1873.

From Readings in Money and Banking Selected and Adapted by Phillips, Chester Arthur

How much, and where will it come from? asks the bimetallist.

From If Not Silver, What? by Bookwalter, John W.

Even the hardiest bimetallist cannot be got to think of his hobby in the face of the dread news just heard.

From Sketches in the House (1893) by O'Conner, T. P.