23 Words to use with auctions

PURCHASING A HOUSE.Few men will venture to purchase a freehold, or even a leasehold property, by private contract, without making themselves acquainted with the locality, and employing a solicitor to examine the titles,; but many do walk into an auction-room, and bid for a property upon the representations of the auctioneer.

To live on the labors of a helot people blunts the finer sensibilities of men and women alike; when you can look unshrinkingly at the separation of husband and wife on the auction-block, when you can see innocent children taken from their mothers and sold into eternal separation, I think it is not unnatural in me to fear that a woman with my convictions would not be happy mated with a Southerner.

I don't s'pose half Shoreville knows yit that we was gwine ter have a auction sale."

Why stands she near the auction stand, That girl so young and fair; What brings her to this dismal place, Why stands she weeping there?

The money we used to lose at auction bridge now all goes to our brokers.

Now who supply the auction table of this Thomas N. Gadsden, Esq. with its loads of human merchandize?

Compiled from the auction catalogues & edited by Edward Lazare & Colton Storm.

Cart-horses furbished up for sale, with straw-bound tails and glistening skins; 'baaing' flocks of sheep; squeaking pigs; bullocks with their heads held ominously low, some going, some returning, from the auction yard; shouting drovers; lads rushing hither and thither; dogs barking; everything and everybody crushing, jostling, pushing through the narrow street.

I came to the conclusion they would attempt to dispose of the animals in Denver, and being aware that Saturday was the great auction day there, I thought it best to remain where we were at a hotel, and not go into the city until that day.

In the auction-mart taste is pretty steady.

Winifred Ray (A); 2Feb60; R251416. ANDREW, LUCY BRETT. Quickies; the A B C of contract bridge for the auction player.

From a cattle-auction advertisement: "NOTE.Pigs and Calves are requested to be forward by 11 o'clock.

From a stock-auction report: "THE BULL CALVES.

"Besides," added a butter man, who had originally been in the mock-auction line, "don't ye see, we can all stay at the auction, and kind o' bid on the things.

Auction-hunter described and ridiculed.

I will become thy slave, and thou may'st keep Me or at auction sell.

The long tables which had so often, to use a hackneyed phrase, "groaned" beneath the weight of civic farethe cosy high-backed stuffed chairs which had held many a portly citizennay, the very soup-kettles and venison dishesall were to be submitted to the noisy ordeal of the auction hammer.

The princely merchant, in his counting-room, involuntarily experiences the softening, humanizing influence of the hour, and, in tones tremulous with unwonted emotion, privately directs his Chief-Clerk to tell all the other clerks, that, on this night of all the round year, they may, before leaving the store at 10 o'clock, take almost any article from that slightly damaged auction-stock down in the front cellar, at actual cost-price.

One man in particular is busily engaged in selling his store of blacking in the auction style, in a manner that would do credit to a real Down-caster.

Plutarch informs us that tradesmen wrote in some such manner over their doors, and that auction bills ran thus: "Julius Proculus will this day have an auction of his superfluous goods, to pay his debts.

I described the furniture of the dining-room and the cobwebs that had hung from the ceiling; the auction-ticket on the chest of drawers, the rickety table and the melancholy chairs.

They're plain auction-room people, you understand,wouldn't hesitate to rob you in a genteel, auction way,but I'll be there and see that they don't.

Apart from a few more or less formal receptions and an occasional auction party, she found it pleasanter to stay at home.

23 Words to use with  auctions