Which preposition to use with selling

for Occurrences 575%

In April, of the following year, this hive sent out two swarms, which were sold for $100 each.

at Occurrences 502%

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.

in Occurrences 457%

Primarily, goods are not bought and sold in the market.

to Occurrences 446%

For that flat out there," referring to a small, irregular patch of bouldery detritus, two or three acres in size, that had been deposited by Eaton Creek during some flood season,"that flat is large enough for a nice orange-grove, and the bank behind the cabin will do for a vineyard, and after watering my own trees and vines I will have some water left to sell to my neighbors below me, down the valley.

as Occurrences 149%

His chief purpose is to buy as cheap, and to sell as dear, as he can; and he is often able to heighten the recommendations or soften the defects of some of the articles in which he deals, without danger of immediate detection; or, in other words, his representations have some influence with his customers.

of Occurrences 86%

The farmer could by higher wages attract more labor, but as the selling of the harvest remains a haphazard matter, the venture might mean ruin all the more certain and serious were wage outlay large.

on Occurrences 82%

As he sat and pored over the pages of The Encyclopedia of Places Where Unicorns Can be Successfully Sold on the Black Market With No Questions Asked Except When the Salesman Happens to be a Mangaboo: Vol. 224, he heard a peculiar clattering noise outside.

into Occurrences 76%

To live on the labors of a helot people blunts the finer sensibilities of men and women alike; when you can look unshrinkingly at the separation of husband and wife on the auction-block, when you can see innocent children taken from their mothers and sold into eternal separation, I think it is not unnatural in me to fear that a woman with my convictions would not be happy mated with a Southerner.

from Occurrences 71%

Of short-horned stock, there is annually sold from £40,000 to £50,000 worth by public auction, independent of the vast numbers disposed of by private contract.

with Occurrences 45%

As that building was destroyed by fire in 1865, however, it is to be presumed that the HOGARTH nail perished with all the other nails, or was sold with them, as "junk.

like Occurrences 36%

They were bought and sold like cattle.

BY Occurrences 32%

| | | | SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS.

unto Occurrences 27%

And PYKE did sell unto him the mansion, and the foreign singers and dancers, and the players upon the violin, which is called the fiddle, and the players upon the big fiddle, and the players upon the drums, and the players upon divers other instruments.

under Occurrences 24%

He will not sell under a fair price, and he asks much more in the hope of showing a buyer who has beaten him down how cheaply he is getting goods.

out Occurrences 17%

On the whole, "it was best, as he was to marry Emmy, he should sell out of the army; and as there would be an election soon, he would bring him into parliamentyes- yesit did a man so much good to sit one term in the parliament of this realmto study human nature.

without Occurrences 16%

"But if other uses still demand liquid fire, I would really propose, that it should be sold only in quart bottles, sealed up, with the king's seal, with a very high duty, and none sold without being mixed with a strong emetic.

over Occurrences 9%

V. sell, vend, dispose of, effect a sale; sell over the counter, sell by auction &c n.; dispense, retail; deal in &c 794; sell off, sell out; turn into money, realize; bring to the hammer, bring under the hammer, put up to auction, put up for auction; offer for sale, put up for sale; hawk, bring to market; offer &c 763; undersell.

before Occurrences 9%

If any man shall refuse to pay his rates or his taxes, will not his goods be seized by force, and sold before his face?

within Occurrences 8%

The gentleman at St. Andrews, who said that there were but two trees in Fife, ought to have added, that the elms of Balmerino were sold within these twenty years, to make pumps for the fire-engines.

during Occurrences 7%

These, of course, have mostly been sold during the hard times to keep life in the owner and his family.

through Occurrences 7%

This publication gives condensed through time tables; through car service; a first-class map of the United States, west of Chicago and St. Louis; important baggage and ticket regulations of the Union Pacific Railway, thus making a valuable compendium for the traveler and for ticket agent in selling through tickets over the Union Pacific Railway.

after Occurrences 7%

I never bought goods sold after a fire, even though externally untouched.

among Occurrences 7%

" The principal reasons for supposing that Lodge studied medicine are the existence of a "Treatise of the Plague," published by "Thomas Lodge, Doctor in Physic," in 1603, and of a collection of medical recipes in MS., called "The Poor Man's Legacy," addressed to the Countess of Arundel, and sold among the books of the Duke of Norfolk.

for Occurrences 6%

"Oil selling for nothing, and the tree, the best of trees, to be blown down!" "Take care," said the Doctor, "take care of repining!

at Occurrences 5%

Both Richardson and Fielding were conscious of a moral intention; but where Richardson is sentimental, vulgar, and moral only so far as it is moral (as in Pamela), to inculcate selling at the highest price or (as in Grandison) to avoid temptations which never come in your way, Fielding's morality is fresh and healthy, and (though not quite free from the sentimentality of scoundrelism) at bottom sane and true.

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