Use bought in a sentence
Sentences starting with bought
- Bought with some of money obtained by first article for M. D." That capacity for work, incomparable gift, was what she had always coveted the most. [9]
Sentences ending with bought
- Now what do you reckon it was he bought? [5]
- There had come to him, without the asking even, that which Joel Mazarine, had he been as rich as any man alive or dead, could not have bought. [11]
- I don't want to be bought. [9]
- But we have the proof that dynamite was in the satchel, we've found the contractor from whom it was bought. [9]
- An indiscreet confession, since about half of them must have been Democrats before they were bought. [5]
- As she entered, she saw a heap moving in one corner--a lion lately bought. [11]
- Individualism had been rampant, competition the custom; you bought an alderman, or a boss who owned four or five aldermen, and then you never could be sure you were to get what you wanted, or that the aldermen and the bosses would "stay bought. [9]
- These were the price, the inevitable price, paid for the blessings it bought. [7]
- An injustice endured is a florin, for which in marriage a calf can be bought. [10]
- And days passed into weeks, and no sign or message came from Judge Whipple in regard to the piano he had bought. [9]
Short sentences using bought
- I bought them very cheap. [2]
- Who bought her, sir? [9]
- I bought ten pounds. [2]
- I bought Fabian out. [11]
- I bought a lot. [8]
- He had bought it then. [11]
- The lot is bought. [4]
- I'm to be bought. [11]
- That's why I bought them. [11]
- She had bought a basket. [6]
Sentences containing bought two or more times
- Thus, to sum up, he bought himself free of a sharp pain in his heart, he bought himself free of the tortures of a waiting conscience, he bought a whole night's sleep--all for twenty-five cents! [5]
- Fuller bought no ticket; I bought none. [5]
- You have not bought us all, Robert Dudley, who have bought and sold so long. [11]
- I've bought it, bought the whole hillside. [4]
More example sentences with the word bought in them
- The captain of your brother Philometor's Philobasilistes is bought over, and will stand by us; but his price was high--Komanus was forced to offer him twenty talents before he would bite. [10]
- The miniature was wrapped now in a silk handkerchief which Polly Ann had bought for me in Lexington. [9]
- He said he would have me educated, and bought me books, and I tried to read them. [9]
- In very few words Nicholas bought seventeen picked stallions for six thousand rubles--to serve, as he said, as samples of his remounts. [2]
- And he's clever with his hands he bought an old abandoned farmhouse in Silliston and made it all over himself until it looks as if one of our great-great-grandfathers had just stepped out of it to shoot an Indian only much prettier. [9]
- He asked me why I went on eating the food bought with such money, living under his roof? [9]
- I know that while the coming transaction was still a secret, you and other, gentlemen connected with the matter bought up large interests in other lines, which you proceeded to lease to yourselves at guaranteed dividends which these lines do not earn. [9]
- A little book which we bought tells us all we care to know about it. [6]
- The culmination came when the news leaked out that Mr. Stephen Brice had bought the young woman in order to give her freedom. [9]
- Glancing at my watch,--which I had bought in Philadelphia,--I saw that the hands pointed to half after seven. [9]
- Our favourite spring was the Schaalbach at the foot of the Steiger,--[We pupils bought it of the peasant who owned it and gave it to Barop. [10]
- The soft-hearted tyrant was really sorry for the faithful old servant he had bought a generation since for the home to which he had brought his fair young wife, and he began to speak kindly to her, as he had previously done to the birds. [10]
- The farm mentioned was one which he had bought at Redding, Connecticut, where, later, he built the house known as "Stormfield. [5]
- I bought what was called a seed-leaf cigar with a Connecticut wrapper. [5]
- The King was warm and comfortable, now, for he had cast his rags and clothed himself in the second-hand suit which Hendon had bought on London Bridge. [5]
- The young master wants some stallions bought and there are our foals to. [10]
- We bought a wagon and two miserable old horses. [5]
- I broke my vow, I perjured my soul, I bought your wife with ten kegs of rum! [11]
- After registering, the visitors all bought note-paper with a chromo heading, "Among the Clouds," and a natural wild-flower stuck on the corner, and then rushed to the writing-room in order to indite an epistle "from the summit. [4]
- At all events, victory had never been bought more cheaply. [9]
- Mr Swiveller, recovering very slowly from his illness, and entering into the receipt of his annuity, bought for the Marchioness a handsome stock of clothes, and put her to school forthwith, in redemption of the vow he had made upon his fevered bed. [12]
- She saw a very real, very human individual, clad in a dark nondescript suit of clothes which had been bought ready-made, and plainly without the bestowal of much thought, on Fifth Street. [9]
- He bought the very cheapest one he could find, plain wood, stained. [5]
- I bought the usual paper-cutter to remember the place by, and had Mont Blanc, the Mauvais Pas, and the rest of the region branded on my alpenstock; then we descended to the valley and walked home without being tied together. [5]
- On the way up town these adventurers bought books on engineering, and suits of India-rubber, which they supposed they would need in a new and probably damp country, and many other things which nobody ever needed anywhere. [5]
- One of the Ulema, or holy men, present had said in reply to Diaz: "It is the look of one who hath walked with Death and bought and sold with Sheitan the accursed. [11]
- They bought it, type, fixtures, good-will and all, for a thousand dollars, on long time. [5]
- After I had tossed her half of the nuts, which I had just bought, I felt happier than I had for many a day, and I would certainly have given her some money, though only a little . [10]
- And those Smiths took it and bought tickets with it to see Madame Bernhardt. [5]
- So the King told her to have her way, and she rode straight back and bought the captives free in his name and let them go. [5]
- I went down to that village, and bought some lots myself. [11]
- I bought them to start a portrait-gallery of my ancestors with. [5]
- The stock rose to sixty-five dollars a foot, and at this figure the world-renowned tragedian, McKean Buchanan, bought a commanding interest and prepared to quit the stage once more--he was always doing that. [5]
- Speculation--you bought heavily to sell on an expected rise? [11]
- She is dear to him, for he bought her dear, and he does not want her to die, save at the stake. [5]
- She sent back to her, as the head of Hanno's family, the bridal dowry with which Hanno had bought her from her father as his wife. [10]
- Yet she ought to find recovery on his couch, if anywhere; for he had surrounded it with images of the saints, pious maxims, and little relics, bought chiefly from the venders who frequented the tavern. [10]
- Rigid ostracism was to be the price of bidding on any goods displayed, and men who bought in handsome furniture on that day because it was cheap have still, after forty years, cause to remember it. [9]
- This also seemed to be the opinion of Mr. Bigler, who heard of it as soon as anybody, and, with the impudence of his class called upon Mr. Bolton for a little aid in a patent car-wheel he had bought an interest in. [5]
- Henderson was compelled to be in the city most of the time, and Jack Delancy fancied that business required his presence there also; but he had bought a yacht, and contemplated a voyage, with several of the club men, up the Maine coast. [4]
- My lodge ain't to be bought, nor anything in it--not even the broom to keep it clean of any half-breeds that'd enter it without leave. [11]
- He went straight to a slopshop and bought as neat and reasonably well-fitting a suit of clothes as an Englishman could be persuaded to wear. [5]
- He gave that time to me--time which could not be bought by any man at a hundred thousand dollars a month--no, nor for three times the money. [5]
- And all the time M. Marchand kept coming and going, at first when Dennis was there, and always with some good reason for coming--horses, cattle, shooting, or furs bought of the Indians. [11]
- We bought our tickets, and then went wandering around here and there, in the solid comfort of being free and idle, and of putting distance between ourselves and the mails and telegraphs. [5]
- In less than three hours after daylight all the horses and mules and donkeys in the vicinity would be bought, hired or stolen, and half the community would be off for the mountains, following in the wake of Whiteman. [5]
- She usually bought three cents' worth of tea at a time. [4]
- The case was this: Henderson (for whose company Daniel Boone cut the wilderness road) believed that he had bought the country, and issued grants therefor. [9]
- Not long after this Mr. Swain bought the house in the Duke of Gloucester Street. [9]
- In anticipation of this hour there was a blood bay for Honora, which Chiltern had bought in New York. [9]
- Yet if, on this account, you take me for a woman whose heart and hand can be bought for gold, you are mistaken. [10]
- We always marked these paragraphs, and sent the papers to all the people who had bought pictures of us. [5]
- Some fine pictures there, lent by the S. of A. several of them they bought, the others came to them by gift. [5]
- He had bought them as curiosities. [6]
- Pertinax was killed, the wretched Didius Julianus bought the empire, and this brought my father to Rome from Pannonia. [10]
- But I bought the volume out of curiosity, wondering the while whether he could have written it. [9]
- Hawkins bought out the village store for a song and proceeded to reap the profits, which amounted to but little more than another song. [5]
- West of Cincinnati the smallest coin in use was the silver five-cent piece and no smaller quantity of an article could be bought than "five cents' worth. [5]
- They trusted to the sign to inveigle foreigners into their lairs, and trusted to their own blandishments to keep them there till they bought something. [5]
- He involuntarily seized the saddlebag which contained the handsomest gift he had bought in Brussels for the person who had drawn him back to Ratisbon with a stronger power of attraction than anything else. [10]
- This locket was the precise counterpart (had she but known it) of a silver one bought at Mr. Judson's shop many years before, though the inscription "Cynthy, from Uncle Jethro," was within. [9]
- That night when the play was over I went to her lodging, and after a scene too distressing to dwell upon, bought her off. [9]
- An eighteenth of the Ophir was a fortune to John D. Winters--and the Ophir can't beat the Johnson any..... My debts are greater than I thought for; I bought $25 worth of clothing, and sent $25 to Higbie, in the cement diggings. [5]
- It is said the noses have been counted and enough votes have been bought to pass it. [5]
- Mr. Ritchie bought the miniature from that most estimable of my relations, Monsieur Auguste de St. [9]
- So he bought the jockey's house and well-supplied forge. [10]
- In reply to the house-keeper's excited questions, he related that Protarch had sold his master's oil at Messina for as high a price as his own, bought two new horses for his neighbor Cleon, and sent Mopsus himself forward with them. [10]
- The Cossacks sold the horse for two gold pieces, and Rostov, being the richest of the officers now that he had received his money, bought it. [2]
- Instinctively he fingered the heavy gold watch-chain he had bought in Paris to replace the silver chain with a little crucifix dangling, which his father and even his great-grandfather had worn before him. [11]
- Virginie also bought the furniture from Zoe's bedroom as it stood, together with the little upright piano on which she used to play. [11]
- I have bought the finest of them. [10]
- So I bought the cuckoo clock; and if I ever get home with it, he is "my meat," as they say in the mines. [5]
- The placard announced the coming of Mr. Glover's Company for the following night, and that the Honorable Alva Hopkins of Gosport, ex-Speaker of the House, had bought three hundred and twelve seats for the benefit of the members. [9]
- When, having bought the coat merely with the object of taking part among the people in the defense of Moscow, Pierre had met the Rostovs and Natasha had said to him: "Are you remaining in Moscow?... [2]
- His wife bought the carpet, and then she erected a monument to his memory. [5]
- That is what the book is bought and read for, by the great majority of its purchasers, as all but simpletons very well know. [6]
- We camped on the boiler deck, and bought some cheap literature to kill time with. [5]
- I have bought the 'Adhemar', the yacht which I chartered last winter. [9]
- I early found that those were too expensive for me: I have always bought cheap cigars --reasonably cheap, at any rate. [5]
- The railroad answered that they had bought the land with other properties from the man, also deceased, to whom the old gentleman was alleged to have sold it. [9]
- I remembered at that moment, as he stood in the crowd looking at me, the piles of linen which he had bought at Ste. [11]
- There is where that minority becomes an obstruction --but still one can't say it is on the wrong side.--Well, after they have finished the bribery cases, they will take up cases of members who have bought their seats with money. [5]
- If this lady that autumn day had bought a plain bonnet she would have continued on in her humble, sensible way of living. [4]
- They're Huck's--no, no thanks, Huck--Mr. Jones bought one and I the other. [5]
- I bought this tear-jug of a dealer in antiquities for four hundred and fifty dollars. [5]
- Slatin was always suspected, and was therefore watched carefully; but the Khalifa knew that Macnamara had no chance to escape, for he had no friends in Cairo, no money, and no more could have bought a camel than a kingdom. [11]
- He commandeered my sulky and that rawbone I bought from the Reverend Tripple, and away he went like greased lightning over the bridge. [11]
- I've got a suit of fine chain-armour which I bought of an Arab down by Darfur. [11]
- Coming to a spot where a great gap of vacant land showed in the street-land which he had bought for the new offices of his railway combine--he stood and looked at it abstractedly. [11]
- Here rare some specimens which I lately bought at an auction sale of the effects of a bankrupt bric-a-brac hunter: Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen. [5]
- It was the song that makes the world go round; I bought it of a Boy: in scars I paid for it, Phyllis, to you who jested at my wound. [11]
- To-day I bought some matches in the street From one whose eyes had long since lost their sight. [11]
- Iras herself has some little regard for me, so she bought Philostratus. [10]
- Everybody bought, everybody sold--except widows and preachers; they always hold on; and when the tide ebbs, they get left. [5]
- The young man sold what he did not have, and the other young man bought what he will never get. [4]
- Some men are so valuable that they can be bought twice, or even three times, and they make figuring complicated. [9]
- They were entombed, so to speak, in a hideous big house over on the South Side, which fortunately burned down, and then they bought in Park Street, and took a pew in St. John's. [9]
- He never was so summoned, but none of his acquaintances would have been surprised to hear any day that he had gone to Panama or Peoria, or to hear from him that he had bought the Bank of Commerce. [5]
- They admit their Signatures as indorsers, and the one swears he bought the note for value from the dupe. [5]
- Can he possibly show that it is less a sacred right to buy them where they can be bought cheapest? [7]
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