276 examples of auctioneers in sentences

On the failure of the salvage company the underwriters had put the steamer into the hands of Messrs. Bull and Morse, a firm of Ship Brokers and Marine Auctioneers, but at the public auction no bids whatever had been made.

" While speaking, John Effingham led the way upstairs into the office of one of the most considerable auctioneers.

Auctioneers were here busily engaged in the disposal of their merchandise, which comprised every variety of produce and manufacture, home and foreign, from a yard of linsey-woolsey, "hum spun" as they termed it, to a bale of Manchester long cloth, or their own Sea-Island cotton.

Here a dozen or twenty auctioneers were loudly holding forth to the assembled crowds, and cracking up their wares in New York style.

When Mary was getting better in the previous year she would read all the auctioneers' advertisements on the walk.

"COTTON-FIELD HANDS.By Beard, Calhoun, and Co., auctioneers.

And now energetic persons had put churches into it, vast red things with gigantic bells, and large drapery shops, with blouses at six-and-eleven, and court photographers, and banks, and cigar-stores, and auctioneers' offices.

A droll Turk, who is the shekh ed-dellàl, or Chief of the Auctioneers, and is nicknamed Abou-Anteeka (the Father of the Antiques), has a large collection of sabres, daggers, pieces of mail, shields, pipes, rings, seals, and other ancient articles.

" Messrs. Fernandez and Whiting, auctioneers, New Orleans, in the "Bee," April 8, 1837.

They always were; began life as auctioneers in my father's time.

The Passive Resister will be shown symbolically carrying the teapot that was torn from him by tyrannical auctioneers.

S. LEIGH SOTHEBY and Co., Auctioneers of Literary property and Works illustrative of the Fine Arts will SELL by AUCTION, at their House, 3. Wellington Street, Strand, on MONDAY, Nov. 19 and Five following Days, the First Portion of the extensive and Valuable, STOCK of BOOKS of the late eminent Bookseller Mr. Thomas Rodd, of Great Newport Street, London; comprising among other important works, Anselme (P.)

He was in great demand among drovers and auctioneers; and in the stock news his name was always mentioned in connection with all the principal sales in the colony.

Losing money every time he sold a beast, wasting stamps galore on letters to endless auctioneers, frequently remaining in town half a week at a stretch, and being hail-fellow to all the spongers to be found on the trail of such as he, quickly left him on the verge of bankruptcy.

Auctioneers of paradise.

Auctioneers of paradise.

There were then few auctioneers, and cattle were sold in open market.

The auctioneers and our friends have large transactions'paper' here again.

There were few or no auctioneers or horse depositories when he began business; now the auctioneer was everywhere, and every country town of any consequence had its establishment for the reception and sale of horses.

Callers come still more thickly; another solicitor, well-to-do, and treated with the utmost deference; more tradesmen; farmers; two or three auctioneers, in quick succession; the well-brushed editor of a local paper; a second attorney, none too well dressed, with scrubby chin and face suspiciously cloudy, with an odour of spirits and water and tobacco clinging to his rusty coat.

No doubt there are still old libraries where, buried in dust and cobwebs, the folios and quartos lie undisturbed; but to turn the pages or examine the index of Book Prices Current is to have a vision before your eyes of whole regiments of books passing and repassing across the stage amidst the loud cries of auctioneers and the bidding of booksellers.

The term still used by auctioneers in describing a modern extending table as "a set of dining tables," is, probably, a survival of the older method of providing for a dinner party.

There were several makers of first-class furniture, of whom the names of some still survive in the "style and title" of firms of the present day, who are their successors, while those of others have been forgotten, save by some of our older manufacturers and auctioneers, who, when requested by the writer, have been good enough to look up old records and revive the memories of fifty years ago.

There is evidence of the want of interest in the subject of furniture in the auctioneers' catalogues of the day.

Exchange Alley was once Passage de la Bourse, and led down (as it now does to the State Houselate St. Louis Hotel) to an establishment which seems to have served for a long term of years as a sort of merchants' and auctioneers' coffee-house, with a minimum of china and a maximum of glass: Maspero'scertainly Maspero's as far back as 1810, and, we believe, Maspero's the day the apothecary entered it, March 9, 1804.

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