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Necker   /nˈɛkər/   Listen
Necker

noun
1.
A lover who necks.



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"Necker" Quotes from Famous Books



... be populace. The inevitable, tragic corollary of civilization is populace. For the rest, abuses can be corrected by equity; and equity, if it is not found in the enlightened, is not to be found at all. M. Necker is to set about correcting abuses, and limiting privileges. That is decided. To that end the ...
— Scaramouche - A Romance of the French Revolution • Rafael Sabatini

... House—seem to think little of taxes. Some Members of this House seem to have no patience with me if I speak of the cost of the war; but I am obliged to ask its attention to this point. I recollect reading in the life of Necker, that an aristocratic lady came to him when he was Finance Minister of Louis XVI, and asked him to give her 1,000 crowns from the public treasury—not an unusual demand in those days. Necker refused to give the money. The lady started with astonishment—she had an eye to the vast funds of the ...
— Speeches on Questions of Public Policy, Volume 1 • John Bright



Words linked to "Necker" :   neck, lover, Baronne Anne Louise Germaine Necker de Steal-Holstein



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