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Ben runs away to Chicago, sin city, carnival to a million peculators in wheat, meat and railways.

From Time Magazine Archive

So he condemned, in no measured terms, these nefarious adulterators, and would-be peculators.

From The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day by Clynton, Richard

Yet their frauds were as molehills to the mountains which the busy hands of our public peculators have heaped up, and are daily piling higher.

From Public School Education by Müller, Michael

He has thanked the peculators for not despairing of their commonwealth.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

"Sing Tantararara Rogues all," &c.—The above is the chorus of many satirical songs written to expose the malpractices of peculators, &c.

From Notes and Queries, Number 61, December 28, 1850 by Various