Which preposition to use with sales

of Occurrences 1125%

A variety of other occupations, equally indispensable, claimed their attention, and would leave but a comparatively small portion of time for needlework: that in thus providing themselves with employment at home, they at least saved the time of going backwards and forwards, and were spared some trips to market, for the sale of vegetables to pay, as would then be necessary, for the work done by others.

in Occurrences 140%

The British prisoners were not put up for sale in the same way.

at Occurrences 98%

The colour stayed long enough, as a rule, to admit of sale at a decent price, but was liable to fade after.

by Occurrences 74%

It will be | | printed on a superior tinted paper of sixteen pages, size 13 | | by 9, and will be for sale by all respectable newsdealers | | who have the judgment to know a good thing when they see it, | | or by subscription from this office.

to Occurrences 63%

The clerk who made the supposed sale to Vantine and got a commission on it, resigned suddenly two days agojust as soon as he had intercepted your cable and answered it.

for Occurrences 60%

Miner had not as yet wholly settled with Stanton for me, and had before my return from Hartford given Col. Smith a bill of sale for me.

on Occurrences 33%

I had been avoiding that particular bookstore for a week because my book lay for sale on a forward table.

with Occurrences 21%

The mate, who, by his cruelty, had been the author of the former mischief, did not choose to expose him to sale with the rest, lest the small sum he would fetch in that situation should lower the average price, and thus bring down[A] the value of the privileges of the officers of the ship.

as Occurrences 17%

"See here, Carlyle," he exclaimed bluntly, "I am not questioning your word, but it is a bit difficult for me to understand why a guest of mine should indulge in angry controversy with a government prisoner, sent overseas for sale as an indentured servant.

without Occurrences 11%

"Often has the serpent lain hid beneath the coloured grass, under a beauliful aspect, and often has the evil inclination affected a sale without the husband's privity.

from Occurrences 8%

He often reminded grandma that she should teach us to speak the high German, so that we might appear well among gentlefolk; and my cherished keepsakes included two wee gold dollars and a fifty-cent piece of the same bright metal, which he had given me after fortunate sales from the herds.

during Occurrences 7%

The increase of lands sold over the previous year is about 6,000,000 acres, and the sales during the first two quarters of the current year present the extraordinary result of five and a half millions sold, exceeding by nearly 4,000,000 acres the sales of the corresponding quarters of the last year.

among Occurrences 6%

'The writings of working men, certainly,' said Lord Minchampstead, 'have an enormous sale among their own class.' 'Just because they express the feelings of that class, of which I am beginning to fear that we know very little.

into Occurrences 5%

All the features of the building lead me to guess that it is a remnant of the old Spanish Barracks, whose extensive structure fell by government sale into private hands a long time ago.

under Occurrences 3%

What the nature of these exploits were the reader who has accompanied us in our voyage through the pages of this book, will learn when he purchases the next story in this series, now on sale under the title of "The Bird Boys' Aeroplane Wonder or, Young Aviators On a Cattle Ranch.

across Occurrences 3%

" Miss Beemis hugged herself a bit flatter, looking out straight ahead into a parasol sale across the aisle.

about Occurrences 2%

He recalls that during one of these sales about $800.00 was paid for him.

before Occurrences 2%

"We must finish the sale before the driving-matches," he said.

near Occurrences 2%

I had some money, and there was a house with a piece of land for sale near the town.

than Occurrences 2%

He had so much skill in knowing what to retain, emphasize, or subordinate, and so much genius in presenting in an attractive style what he wrote, that his work of this kind met with a readier sale than his masterpieces.

through Occurrences 2%

"BRIGHTON.A small General for Sale through old age.

within Occurrences 2%

So far as Islam is concerned, this view may be illustrated by the following utterances: "The best of deeds is the gain of that which is lawful": "the best gain is made by sale within lawful limits and by manual labour."

after Occurrences 1%

It would very naturally happen then that a sale in Missouri in the latter part of 1862 or any time thereafter might be well construed by ex-slaves as a sale after emancipation, especially since they do not as a rule pay as much attention to the dates of occurrences as to their sequence.

on Occurrences 1%

A lady consulted St. Francis of Sales on the lawfulness of using rouge.

like Occurrences 1%

Even Bill would throw off a little, he told himself, on a sale like this.

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