Thus two crops were sometimes lost in taking one to market.

"My poor little boy from Lombardy said, as I walked with him across our market, 'These are sheeps' heads, are they not, aunt?

The traders bought them, took their babes from their arms, and offered them to the highest bidder; and they were sold for one dollar apiece, whilst the stricken parents were driven on board the boat; and in an hour were on their way to the New Orleans market.

The subscriber will give a good market price for fifty likely negroes, from 10 to 30 years of age.

If such a salutary law existed in London, pigs' brains would fall in the market, and I should not see so many milk-pails at the spring during my early morning walks to the Serpentine.

though the law is as fair as the outside of the whited sepulchre, the practice is as foul as the inside thereof; nor can one ever expect that it should be otherwise, when we see that, following the example of the treaty-breaking, slave-importing Queen Mother, every official, from the highest government authority down to the lowest petty custom-house officer, exposes his honesty daily in the dirty market of bribery.

[90] from the colleague he had betrayed, belied, and thrown a stone at, for having proved him in the great market-place a betrayer and a liar.

Never mind thatA vulgar and clumsy man, a market-place demagogue, lifted on a honey-barrel by grocers and slave-merchants, with a dense crowd around him, who listen in rapture because his jargon is unintelligible.

An Indian market in Mexico.

(Market boy series, v.3A)

A, B. (Market boy series) (Drug facts series)

So the pony cart and pony were purchased for her, and in this she went into the distant market town twice or more weekly.

The ball had been held for forty years or more, and had all that time been in the hands of the exclusive upper circles of the market town.

The other girls quickly made her thoroughly understand (a bitter knowledge) that the great people in the little market town, the very richest of them, were but poor in comparison with their papas.

There she learned all the pomp of villa life, which put into the shade the small incomes which displayed their miserable vanities in the petty market town.

The place is a little market town, the total of whose population in the census records sounds absurdly small; yet it is a complete world in itself; a capital city, with its kingdom and its ruler, for the territory is practically the property of a single family.

Hodge goes in to the market in charge of his master's sheep, his wife trudges in for household necessaries.

It is a religious duty to be seen there on market days.

He is a stout, substantial farmer, who has dined there every market day for the last thirty or forty years.

After the market dinner the guests sit stillthey do not hurry away to counter and desk; they rest awhile, and dwell as it were on the flavour of their food.

To rightly see the subjects loyally hastening hither, let any one ascend the church tower on market day.

But if we speak of history we shall never have done, for the town and its antique abbey (of which this tower is a mere remnant) have mingled more or less in every change that has occurred, down from the earthwork camp yonder on the hills to to-daydown to the last puff of the locomotive there below, as its driver shuts off steam and runs in with passengers and dealers for the market, with the papers, and the latest novel from London.

The cottage hospital; the flower show; the cattle show, or agricultural exhibition; the new market buildings arose through his subscriptions and influence; the artesian well, sunk that the town might have the best of water, was bored at his expense; and so on through the whole list of town affairs.

It protests against a free and open park; it abhors artesian wells; it detests the throwing open of nut woods that all may go forth a-nutting; it waxes righteously indignant at every gift, be it prizes for the flower show or a new market site.

He rode into market one day of the week; he went to church on Sundays with unfailing regularity, and he generally attended the petty sessional bench on a third day.