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Sentences starting with buy

Buy as much meal, butter, cheese, and smoked meat, as is possible. [10]
Buy her for me You know that I always wanted her. [9]
Buy yourself a garland, a mask and some wine, as much as you can carry. [10]
Buy land and build flats for them? [9]

Sentences ending with buy

Which one did you buy? [5]
Yet if you win, you'll have what money can't buy. [11]
His name was Turk, and I should have sold him if he had not been the kind of dog that nobody will buy. [4]
And like a true artist, he loved his career for itself--not for what its fruits could buy. [9]
The thing is to find out what is the price, and then how to buy. [11]
I am here to buy. [9]
The Muhammadan merchant, tinman, shoemaker, or vendor of trifles sits cross-legged on the floor and reaches after any article you may want to buy. [5]
Shopmen stood at their doors and cried, "Rally up, rally up, buy, buy, buy! [9]
Also it was the time of year when butter and eggs, chickens and ducks were so cheap that it was a humiliation not to buy. [11]
The hermit endures solitude, hunger, cold, and manifold perils, to content his autocrat, who prefers these things, and prayer and contemplation, to money or to any show or luxury that money can buy. [5]

Short sentences using buy

Barnum did buy Shakespeare's house. [5]
I'll buy the Monument. [5]
Going to buy it? [5]
I'll buy Shakespeare's house. [5]
Tried to buy him. [9]
Callatin' to buy her? [9]
I buy five cents worth. [4]
What is't you buy? [5]
I will buy, buy, buy! [5]
Didn't he buy, after all? [5]

Sentences containing buy two or more times

In another three years, by 1820, he had so managed his affairs that he was able to buy a small estate adjoining Bald Hills and was negotiating to buy back Otradnoe--that being his pet dream. [2]
I don't care who you buy it for if you don't buy it for yourself. [4]
Even more than this might be inferred from the long morning's work, and that was that while Jack's occupation was to buy a horse, if he should buy one his occupation would be gone. [4]
You cannot buy them any more than you can buy other people, but you can sort of work together with some of them. [4]
We buy their potatoes (retail) at fifteen dollars a barrel; and those colored farmers buy ours for a song, and live on them. [5]
He says the people along here in Mississippi and Louisiana will send up the river to buy vegetables rather than raise them, and they will come aboard at the landings and buy fruits of the barkeeper. [5]
If you can buy one member of the lower house for ten dollars, how many members can you buy for fifty? [9]
You can't buy a lot on that street for much less than you can buy a lot in New York--or you couldn't when the boom was on; I saw the place just when the boom was in its prime. [8]

More example sentences with the word buy in them

Fresh proof of your maxim, mother: if you want to be well served you must buy rascals! [10]
Now, then, do you know what the margins would foot up, to buy it at sixty days? [5]
We know that you have armed a vast host against us, and we are ready to buy peace and liberty by a yearly tribute. [10]
If in seven years after marriage a man could buy a mattress and a sack of chaff to rest his head on, he thought himself as well lodged as a lord. [4]
The village baker would not sell him bread; his groceries he had to buy from the neighbouring parishes, for the grocer's flighty wife called for the constable when he entered the bake-shop of Pontiac. [11]
He smiled his wonted fraction by way of greeting, stopped to buy a newspaper, and finally leading me to his buggy, turned and drove out of town. [9]
Lise, feverishly occupied with her toilet, on her departure broke the silence there by inquiring:--"Say, if I had your easy money, I might buy a stove, too. [9]
If you do, will you give me enough to live on--enough to buy a suit of clothes a year, to pay for food and a room? [11]
Even grown-up people will sometimes buy another's dearest secret for a light asseveration. [10]
The Emperor's last will had a codicil, which concerned a son of his Majesty; but, a few days before his end, Charles had also remembered Barbara, and commissioned Ogier Bodart, Adrian's successor, to buy a life annuity for her in Brussels. [10]
Then your brow will grow smooth again; and if the model is a success, and you want to buy marble, or pay the founder, then out with your gold, out of the coffer and its hiding-place! [10]
He asked himself why Byng had not been content to buy one of the great mansions which could always be had in London for a price, where time had softened all the outlines, had given that subdued harmony in architecture which only belongs to age. [11]
Perhaps the villain who hung it to my chain may buy it back again. [10]
It was Richter who advised him to buy Whittlesey's "Missouri Form Book," and warned him of Mr. Whipple's hatred for the new code. [9]
Don't buy anything while I am here--but save up some money for me. [5]
Such a little while ago I came to this table with the thought of winning a hundred rubles to buy that casket for Mamma's name day and then going home. [2]
By and by, when we become a stock company I shall buy these royalties back for stock if I can get them for anything like reasonable terms. [5]
I buy them, when other steel companies won't touch 'em. [9]
You can't buy what you want--you love such curious things, I assume. [11]
They never know what to do with their money, but they find out that people buy pictures, at one point. [8]
But they too were to be cured, people need only buy his arcanum. [10]
Nevertheless I remembered well that her little shop, which was no greater than a fair-sized closet, had ever been filled with buyers when we had stolen in, against all commands, to buy a few dried figs. [10]
By and by we talked about what we better do, and found there warn't no way but just to go along down with the raft till we got a chance to buy a canoe to go back in. [5]
As soon as we are a little richer we will buy back the old man, and keep him and feed him till he dies. [10]
For instance, there was the Senator's check for $2,000--"to buy suitable clothing in New York with! [5]
How glad she was that she still had the four drachmae which she had coaxed out of Karnis in the Xenodochium that evening; she could buy whatever she liked for her lover. [10]
But his experience was that of all who buy, and renovate, and build. [4]
Furthermore, Colonel Clark was off the next morning at dawn to buy a Mississippi keel-boat. [9]
He said it was his duty to establish Georgie's identity, or something like that, and Georgie told him to get off at the next station and buy Waring's Magazine--was that it, Georgie? [9]
When his beard was first beginning to grow, he was given by our gracious Duke to Chevalier von Brand as his esquire, and sent to Spain, to buy Andalusian horses. [10]
He thought it was adverse to the interests of the poor settler, because speculators buy them up. [7]
With these I was able to buy mother many things that she stood in sore need of, and, though she died on New Year's morning, she had had many little comforts during her last days. [10]
But since the war come on, I tell you, I ain't kicking, I can go to a movie or the theatre once in a while, and buy nice clothes, and I don't get so tired as I used to. [9]
He was always wanting us to buy things. [5]
Now I've often wanted to ask you, did you buy that bonnet with the trembly jet things for Mis' Bass? [9]
Bemis did not want the mule; but the owner came out with a double-barreled shotgun and persuaded him to buy it, anyhow. [5]
What those people valued was _high wages_; it didn't seem to be a matter of any consequence to them whether the high wages would buy anything or not. [5]
Then speculators buy up the ground and sell, but the original owner is given the first choice by the government at a stated price before the speculator is permitted to purchase. [5]
What is wealth unless you buy things that give pleasure to life? [11]
One of the two standing in the door of the ruined chapel on the Ecrehos had the nature of those who buy but once and pay the price but once; the other was of those who keep open accounts in the markets of life. [11]
Another thing Mark Twain did that winter was to buy some land on Farmington Avenue and begin the building of a home. [5]
Many people had told us it was expensive to buy things through a courier, whereas I had supposed it was just the reverse. [5]
What we buy to-day will surely be taken from us tomorrow, for what oath would be sacred to Philip? [10]
Did you write to the government and say he ought not to be free to roam, lest he should discover more treasure-chests and buy another estate? [11]
He sometimes went to the city to buy iron or coals, but usually avoided any intercourse with the citizens, who shrugged their shoulders or pointed to their foreheads, when they spoke of him. [10]
He had been to Tennessee to buy a drove of hogs, but when he got there pork was dearer than he calculated, and he declined purchasing. [5]
She asked me to tell you to buy good things which will last you all your life, and says that it pays. [9]
I wish you to take up all the country stretching away from the north pole on all sides for many degrees south, and buy Greenland and Iceland at the best figure you can get now while they are cheap. [5]
We were besieged to take this and that horse or mule, to buy walking-sticks for the climb, to purchase lava cut into charms, and veritable ancient coins, and dug-up cameos, all manufactured for the demand. [4]
You can't expect to smell one without buying it, but you may buy one without smelling it. [6]
If yez want to see Mr. Daly, yez 'll have to be after going to the front door and buy a ticket, and then if yez have luck and he's around that way yez may see him. [5]
But I desired to have a still firmer one unite us, and since your parents are dead, and I cannot go with the bridal dower to Amram, to buy you from him, I now bring my suit to you in person, high-souled maiden. [10]
But it goes to France and comes back with a French label on it, and then they buy it. [5]
I was able to buy your daughter for you with less than the amount of your savings. [9]
I don't want to buy you; I want to borrow you. [8]
If you wish to buy them by the gross, for retail, go to Milan. [5]
He was going to buy the thing which had belonged to his daughter, was beloved by her--the living oracle of the morning, the muezzin of his mosque of home. [11]
They even wanted to buy the secret, and pay money for it; and if we could have invented something that would answer--but we couldn't; we hadn't the ingenuity, so we had to let the chance go by, and it was a pity. [5]
The State ought to buy the house for a governor's mansion. [9]
He then proposed to buy it. [5]
If I manage to buy into a paper, I think I will visit you a while and not go to Cal. [5]
The Razumovskis wanted to buy his house and his estate near Moscow, but it drags on and on. [2]
He had promised to buy her if he could, and to set her free: Stephen had made up his mind: He shouldered his way after Jenkins. [9]
I don't want to buy anything! [5]
If I want to buy anything in the market, have I got to look into every tuppenny interest concerned in it? [4]
I was going to buy a paper-cutter, but I believed I could remember the cold comfort of the Rigi-Kulm without it, so I smothered the impulse. [5]
When you wish to buy a pair of shoes you have the swing of the whole street--you do not have to walk yourself down hunting stores in different localities. [5]
I was resolved to buy a horse. [5]
You've got money to burn and you're sore because I spend mine to buy what I need. [9]
Now I want to ast you: what's de use er dat half a bill?--can't buy noth'n wid it. [5]
From time to time these ancestors had continued to buy desirable corners, which no amount of persuasion had availed to make them relinquish. [9]
But it went through his mind that this was a strange end for all Dryfoos's money-making to come to; and he philosophically accepted the fact of his own humble fortunes when he reflected how little his money could buy for such a man. [8]
After fooling with those assayers a week, they concluded not to buy "Mr. [5]
Gather philosophy from this: you may with impunity buy anything from a knave and fool except his nuptial bed. [11]
You missed seeing this young man you've just employed buy the prettiest quadroon wench I ever set eyes on. [9]
In one year this fund would buy her free again. [5]
I suppose he thinks I would buy it. [9]
Two years ago they tried to buy him off by offering to send him to the Senate, and Wallis Plimpton has never got through his head to this why he refused. [9]
I told him then that I wanted to buy her. [11]
Now one half the world are employed in getting ready to kill the other half, some of them by marching about in uniform, and the others by hard work to earn money to pay taxes to buy uniforms and guns. [4]
I will keep the thing in mind, and if nothing better turns up I will offer to buy it. [5]
She thought of the start he gave when he looked at the water-mark; she thought of the look on his face when he said he would buy all this paper she had. [11]
He could get the shadow, the sham, the base counterfeit of that meal; but it would do him no good, and money could not buy the reality. [5]
Then, going to the Seigneur and Cure, he asked them to buy the shop and tools for him, and let him pay rent until he could take the place off their hands. [11]
I cannot buy the ring, to be sure, but do not be down-hearted and look me well in the face, little maid. [10]
In these shops the precious old dears could buy everything they wanted in the most minute quantities. [6]
He said that the permission to buy Jumbo was not a concession; the purchase was made and the animal delivered before the public knew anything about it. [5]
He can buy the one for from three to six dollars, and the other for fifteen cents. [5]
We buy up the little lines for nothing, and get an interest in the big ones, and sell the little lines for fifty times what they cost us, and guarantee big dividends for the big lines. [9]
Do you think the government will buy it? [5]
So you play the dog in the manger, and won't let other decent folk buy what they want. [11]
Aunt Cynthy was the daughter of a Gipsy--they say the only Gipsy in that part of the country at the time--who used to buy and sell horses, and travel in a big van as comfortable as a house. [11]
The Turk and the Chinaman will buy those to kill missionaries and converts with. [5]
Now I've got the chance to buy it cheap. [9]
In round numbers the 4,000,000 buy and sell about $600,000,000 worth of goods a year. [5]
His orders are, that you set out for Arabia to buy up all the camels that are to be had. [10]
Most men toil that they may own a piece of it; they measure their success in life by their ability to buy it. [4]
Noble further said that there were fifty members present with money in their pockets, placed there by Dilworthy to buy their votes. [5]
The contents of that old glove will buy him the willing service of many an adroit sinner, and with what that coarse sack contains he can purchase the prayers of holy men for all succeeding time. [6]
Mr. Russell said that if it took time to buy a horse, it ought to take at least equal time and care to select the fodder that was to make a human being wretched or happy. [4]

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