The last bid was fifty pounds a head from Mancune.

For Susan the first bid was 500 dollars, and the highest 700 (nearly 150l.), at which she was "knocked down."

The bid is twenty guineas a head.

He had been with the American forces in Siberia and his chief bid for distinction was a noisy dislike for the Worker's & Peasants' Republic of Russia, and the I.W.W. which he termed the "American Bolsheviki".

The bids at an auction or the flipping of pennies are exact sciences compared with the relation between crime and punishment and the process of arriving at the right penalty.