"Sale" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... the country boy that his mother's product should be at least tasted, his frank rejoicing when the old gentleman approved of it. He was not so well satisfied with the work of the Montague girl as his innocent little sister. In her sale of Mother's jellies to the city men, in her acceptance of their attentions, she appeared to be just the least bit bold. It seemed almost as if she wished to attract their notice. He hesitated to admit it, for he profoundly esteemed the girl, ...
— Merton of the Movies • Harry Leon Wilson
... remuneration, is invaluable to a gentleman unaccustomed to agricultural employment; who, without this reserve to pay his people, during the brief but expensive seasons of seed-time and harvest, must either work himself or starve. I have known no instance in which such sale has been attended with ultimate advantage; but, alas! too many in which it has terminated in the most distressing destitution. These government grants of land, to half-pay officers, have induced numbers of this class to emigrate to the backwoods of Canada, who are totally ...
— Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie
... Brewhouse Thrale's Illness and Winter in Grosvenor Square Proposed Tour Thrale's Death His Will Johnson as Executor Her Management of the Brewery Italian Translation A strange Incident Mrs. Montagu—Mr. Crutchley Sale of the Brewery Mrs. Thrale's Introduction to Piozzi Scene with him at Dr. Burney's Her early Impressions of him Melancholy Reflections Johnson's Regard for Thrale Mrs. Thrale's and Johnson's Feelings towards each other Johnson ...
— Autobiography, Letters and Literary Remains of Mrs. Piozzi (Thrale) (2nd ed.) (2 vols.) • Mrs. Hester Lynch Piozzi
... inventors be assured that any new invention, useful and practical, and above all, requiring but little capital to establish it as an industry, will find a ready sale in Spain. ...
— Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 • Various
... that place, for it is the best guarded and most secure. And, too, as this wall and fort have been built at so little or no cost to your Majesty, except from the two per cent tax levied once, and from your Majesty's monopoly of the sale of playing-cards, I ran so short of funds that I was compelled to leave this bit of the shore unenclosed. But, God be praised, the work in its present condition is so far advanced, that no enemy who attacks me can ...
— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 - Volume IX, 1593-1597 • E. H. Blair
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