They might have a long talk; he would give her the books and things he had bought for her, and he would have the pleasure of surprising her and seeing on her face that first look that no-one can disguise, the look of real welcome.

Ideals cannot be bought with gold.

To buy at the least, and sell at the most, regardless of the conditions under which least and most are attainedthe man who enters life with this idea of trade in his mind might just as well be born a shark and live to prey.

It also settled another difficult questionwhat to buy in a small country town.

We have a monopoly of the business, and you will have to buy of us, whether you like it or not.

The man who wants to buy, buys from a man across the sea and yet is served in his own town.

My own business prospered hugely, and I bought on credit such a stock of tobacco as made me write my uncle for a fourth ship at the harvest sailing.

[Nothing is more difficult than to give the average prices of Fish, inasmuch as a few hours of bad weather at sea will, in the space of one day, cause such a difference in its supply, that the same fisha turbot for instancewhich may be bought to-day for six or seven shillings, will, to-morrow, be, in the London markets, worth, perhaps, almost as many pounds.

You will be reporting to robbers that they are being robbed, not of their lives, their liberties and their honors, as they rob us, but of a paltry piece of jewelry, which they have bought out of their enormous profits.

Unfortunately Uncle Sam does not suggest how many War Saving Stamps could be bought as a result of economy along these lines.

Let one brother be bounden in prison, and go ye your way, and lead home the wheat that ye have bought into your houses, and bring to me with you your youngest brother, that I may prove your words, that ye die not.

A man who sets out as a "bull" upon a small scale can buy without sending up the price against him in the process, and, if he decides later that his judgment is mistaken, he can at any time cut his losses and sell out without much difficulty.

It was bought through his agent, and my father knows nothing of anythingunderhand.

"That this inestimable gift is cheaply bought by suffering in this world;that the giver of this great good has a right to try even to what may seem a cruel extent, the faith and love of those for whom he decrees this eternal bliss.

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He stowed the sandwich in a small army surplus backpack that he'd bought after his first week in town.

I bought about all the farms around yours up in the Bend country.

For people may fear that the price will rise further still, and hasten to buy what they must buy before very long.

Marry, come up, say Iwhat a plaguedoes an old weazen think that tender lasses are to be bought like pullets o' a market day?

Fearing to displease Sir Peter Lely by longer delay, Mr. Godwin set out for Hatfield Tuesday, wethat is, Moll, Don Sanchez, and Igoing with him as far as the borough, where Moll had a thousand things to buy against her wedding.

Besides the slaves, which the merchants bring down, there are many bought along the river: These are either taken in war, as the former are, or men condemned for crimes; or else people stolen, which is very frequent.

It was a clean, well-kept town, but the folk were undersized, and there was neither ale nor oatmeal cakes to be bought amongst them.

His weapons claim her admiration, And with an archness most bewitching (Her naive simplicity enriching), She wonders where a maid might buy than, And begs to be allow'd to try them.

I would willingly buy beforehand your glory; as much as you won in your last battle.

interest, to be secured by a lien on the customs receipts, and to be redeemed in thirty years' time by a cumulative Sinking Fund working by annual drawings at par, or by purchase in the market if the bonds can be bought below par.