14225 examples of selling in sentences

The Turks by selling for gold that which was bought for paper, rechanging gold for paper at their own prices, made huge profits and caused a heavy depreciation of the note at the expense of the population.

Yet did the knave clear fifty or sixty pounds by subscription and selling the copyright.

It has been held that a general clause of this description prohibited a tenant from keeping a school, for which he had taken it, although a lunatic asylum and public-house have been found admissible; the keeping an asylum not being deemed a trade, which is defined as "conducted by buying and selling."

Are you selling to-day?" "Not much, sir.

This was the farm of old Volkert Van Brunt, five years since, off of which he and his family had made a livelihood for more than a century, by selling milk.

The purchase of this steed gave Henrich the first opportunity of remarking the Indian mode of buying and selling, and the article that formed their medium of commerce, and was employed as money.

" "Is your heart in buying and selling laces?"

"Yes." "What are you selling?" asked Dick.

"Well, please give the pin to Tom," said Baxter, "and if you feel like it, write me a letter some day," and he told them of the cities he expected to visit during his next selling tour.

Thus, my lords, it appears to me that the bill will lessen the consumption of these destructive spirits, certainly in a great degree, by raising the price, and probably by transferring the trade of selling them into more reputable hands.

It is to little purpose, my lords, that the licenses for selling distilled spirits are to be granted only to those who profess to keep houses for the sale of other liquors, since nothing will be more easy than to elude this part of the law.

Whoever is inclined to open a shop for the retail of spirits, may take a license for selling ale; and the sale of one barrel of more innocent liquors in a year will entitle to dispense poison with impunity, and to contribute without control to the corruption of mankind.

It is confessed that it will hinder nobody from selling them; and it has been found, by experience, that nothing can restrain the people from buying them, but such laws as hinder them from being sold.

Those non-Brahmins therefore who are coqueting with the Government are selling themselves and the nation to which they belong.

Grocer (selling English goods of all kinds).M. Peltier, 5 Boulevard du Collège.

It would only create embarrassment to raise produce that could not be sent to market; and he well knew that a population of any amount could not exist, in quiet, without the usual attendants of buying and selling.

"Between perjury and selling Government secrets I suppose we have enough evidence to justify his arrest?" "I think so," said Sir George, nodding his head solemnly.

" "If she has ceased to interest his fancy, very likely he may have sold her," said Mr. Percival; "for a man who could entertain the idea of selling Flora, I think would sell his own Northern wife, if the law permitted it and circumstances tempted him to it.

He made a heap o' money selling women and children, and he's come North to spend it.

" As he passed out, Rosa whispered to her mother, "What does he mean about a deacon's selling women and children?"

"Ye see they ain't got any heart, 'cause they's used to selling picaninnies.

"I have no objection to your selling them.

Wheat was selling at nearly 3l.

Buonaparte said he then procured a person, as nearly resembling de Kolly as could be found, to carry on the English stratagem, under a hope that Ferdinand would have fallen into the trap; and with all the original credentials, this agent of the French police went into the castle of Valençay, under a pretext of selling some trinkets.

NO INSTANCES OF ISRAELITISH MASTERS SELLING SERVANTS.

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