Use goods in a sentence
Sentences starting with goods
- Goods were transported on strings of pack-horses. [4]
Sentences ending with goods
- All of these were come out of curiosity, that they might see for themselves any who had the temerity to bid on a neighbor's household goods. [9]
- The sutlers alone venture to trade, and they sell stolen goods. [2]
- Who shall gainsay Turkey if she chooses to bring an army here and recover control, remove thy family from Egypt, and seize upon its lands and goods? [11]
- The King continued to struggle in the woman's strong grasp, and now and then cried out in vexation-- "Unhand me, thou foolish creature; it was not I that bereaved thee of thy paltry goods. [5]
- These "sage-freighters," as they were called, hauled grain and flour and merchandise from Sterling, and Jane laughed suddenly in the midst of her humility at the thought that they were her property, as was one of the three stores for which they freighted goods. [13]
- Likewise I made the furs of North Germany and the toys of Nuremberg a part of my trade, which in my uncle's life-time had been only in spices and woven goods. [10]
- The poor and the crude in mind can only understand an objective emotion, and the counters for these are this world's goods. [11]
- Be it known that the Honourable Adam was a man of substance in this world's goods. [9]
- Much of his substance he had lent to false friends never to see it more, and it would scarce be believed how many times knavish rogues had beguiled this learned man of his goods. [10]
- The door was stacked high with bales of dry goods. [9]
Sentences containing goods two or more times
- I had inspected the goods brought from Arabia and India by way of Berenice and Coptos, and had selected those I needed before the vessel that brought them had moored in the Mariotic harbor, and other goods will have reached Alexandria before me. [10]
More example sentences with the word goods in them
- It was not without great fear and trepidation that little Nell slipped off her shoes and gliding through the store-room of old curiosities, where Mr Brass--the ugliest piece of goods in all the stock--lay sleeping on a mattress, passed into her own little chamber. [12]
- The carts from which the noise proceeded belonged to traders from neighboring cities, who preferred to leave their goods in the threatened town, rather than carry them towards the advancing Spaniards. [10]
- Sixty days hence, when they are called to deliver the goods, they will think they've been struck by lightning. [5]
- I don't know what some folks think so well as I know what some fools say,--rejoined the Little Gentleman.--If importing most dry goods made the best scholars, I dare say you would know where to look for 'em.--Mr. [6]
- Behind the store were moored the barges that floated down on the swift current to the Ohio, carrying goods to even remoter settlements in the western wilderness. [9]
- Arrived, the goods were deposited inside the hut, the lads were dismissed, and David and Faith were left alone. [11]
- My arms were well fastened down, and I was tied about till I must have looked like a bale of living goods of no great value. [11]
- A tradesman's wife was showing a rent in her shawl and telling how much the shawl had cost; another was saying that all silk goods had now got dear. [2]
- Valuable goods of various kinds lay here until they could be placed in cellars or storehouses or sold. [10]
- My field of usefulness is about trimmed down to tramps, budding authoresses, and that line of goods now; but don't you worry --I'll harry you on theirs while they last! [5]
- All day in turn M. Loisel and M. Rossignol sat in the office and received that which represented one-fortieth of the value of each man's goods, estate, and wealth--the fortieth value of a woodsawyer's cottage, or a widow's garden. [11]
- A terrible evil, truly, to the Illinois farmer, who never wore, nor ever expects to wear, a single yard of British goods in his whole life. [7]
- Marchand has been travelling in France," he added disdainfully, "but he has brought his goods to the wrong shop. [11]
- He went back to the pile of dry goods, and began to work. [9]
- She would remain to deliver the goods, of course. [5]
- 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]
- It has yet to be said of the Carvels that their guests are hurried away, or that one, by reason of his worldly goods or position, shall be more welcome than another. [9]
- Instead of the timid, irregular exchange of goods as far as the Rhine, the Main, and the Danube, regular intercourse with Venice, Milan, Genoa, Bohemia, and Hungary, Flanders, Brabant, and the coast of the Baltic had commenced. [10]
- And all the time, hatred of his ostensible "uncle" was steadily growing in his heart; for he said to himself, "He is white; and I am his chattel, his property, his goods, and he can sell me, just as he could his dog. [5]
- Spite of all this, that community of goods produced a chronic state of poverty in the church of Jerusalem. [4]
- With enough of this world's goods to give him comfort of body and suave gravity of manner, the figure he cut was becoming to his Quaker origin and profession. [11]
- Egyptian vessels were there, manned by Phoenician colonists from the coasts of the Delta, and bringing fine woven goods from Malta, metals and precious stones from Sardinia, wine and copper from Cyprus. [10]
- According to Diodorus, there was a president of the thieves' caste, from whom the stolen goods could be reclaimed on relinquishment of a fourth part of the same. [10]
- And, again, by the tariff system the whole revenue is paid by the consumers of foreign goods, and those chiefly the luxuries, and not the necessaries, of life. [7]
- He remained in the palace scarcely half an hour and then, while Pollux was still engaged in escorting his mother and their household goods to his sister's house, he went to visit the night magistrate, who presided over the safety of Alexandria. [10]
- On many of the monuments we see people purchasing goods and weighing out the gold in payment; while others are paying their tribute in gold rings. [10]
- Asiatics appeared in the majority only in the market place, where the dealers were just leaving their stands to secure their goods from the storm. [10]
- A member of the Council would be like the receiver of stolen goods if he allowed a man whom he deemed worthy of the stocks to render him many services. [10]
- I agree with the commercial traveler who says that it will only be in the millennium that all goods will be alike on both sides. [4]
- But I heard the Bradlaughs were in the market for these goods, and I told the selling house to lie low, that I'd go after it. [9]
- When I visited the Bay of Islands in 1835, the dress and food of the inhabitants had already been much modified: they raised potatoes, maize, and other agricultural produce, and exchanged them for English manufactured goods and tobacco. [1]
- In round numbers the 4,000,000 buy and sell about $600,000,000 worth of goods a year. [5]
- An accumulation of such goods is easily and quickly made. [5]
- The freight of spices and Levantine goods, Milan velvets, silks, and fine Florentine cloths, which they were bringing from the city of St. Mark, represented a large fortune. [10]
- As to any special book, the publisher is the sole judge whether to push it or to let it sink into the stagnation of unadvertised goods. [4]
- I am not sorry to share my goods with the poor. [11]
- The shops were small, open in front, when the shutters were down, much like those in a Cairo bazaar, and all the goods were in sight. [4]
- They unlocked their shops and locked them up again, and themselves carried goods away with the help of their assistants. [2]
- The lottery-houses were set up early, and, to the last, attracted crowds, who could not resist the tempting display of goods and trinkets, which might be won by investing six kreuzers in a bit of paper, which might, when unrolled, contain a number. [4]
- The market was set up beyond the Alphaeus, and there traders from all parts of the world were to be seen; Greeks, Carthaginians, Lydians, Phrygians and shrewd Phoenicians from Palestine settled weighty business transactions, or offered their goods to the public from tents and booths. [10]
- The merchant who sends his goods here only load camels, and wretched asses, and flat-bottomed Nile-boats, while we in our harbors freight fine seagoing vessels. [10]
- It was Mahommed Selim himself who saved his father's goods to him. [11]
- Suffice it to say that Mr. Cluyme, who was in dry goods himself, was as ignorant when he left Eliphalet as when he met him. [9]
- I said "With pleasure: get the goods ready, send the same to me, I will have Jean type-write them, then I will mail them to the Century and tonight I will write the note to Mr. Gilder and start it along. [5]
- La Pompadour will pay according to the goods you bring. [11]
- In the latter part of winter the prospect brightened, business revived, orders for goods poured in to all the factories in the country, and everybody believed that we were on the eve of a very prosperous season. [4]
- Rolls of goods packed in sacking leaned against the chests, inviting a fugitive to slip back of them, and surely no one would suspect the presence of a pair of lovers in the rear of these mountains of hides and bales wrapped in matting. [10]
- Why not come out with it, sir, and say the moneyed classes, who would rather see souls held in bondage than risk their worldly goods in an attempt to liberate them? [9]
- Love for Eva Ortlieb held his master as if in a vise; but a Schorlin seemed to him far too good a match for a Nuremberg maiden who had grown up among sacks of pepper and chests of goods and, moreover, was a somnambulist. [10]
- Property in lands or goods is due wholly and only to the labor man has put into it. [4]
- Canada exacts duties on English goods, and England cannot help herself. [4]
- The townsfolk drove off our cattle as security and, by way of punishment, your uncle seized the goods of their merchants, and they came to blows. [10]
- In the train of wains laden with supplies a man lay on top of the goods. [5]
- On the strength of this arrangement, he accepts orders and makes contracts for the delivery of goods. [4]
- By the side of the path, on the dusty dry grass, all sorts of household goods lay in a heap: featherbeds, a samovar, icons, and trunks. [2]
- The carts were obliged to pass through the back-building with the workshops, and the goods liable to be injured by the weather, were to be placed in the course of the day in the large garrets of his house. [10]
- When he will not tell what the true reason was, he stands in the attitude of an accused thief who has stolen goods in his possession, and when called to account refuses to tell where he got them. [7]
- Verily he was not suffered to sell any other goods in the land, inasmuch as the Republic set strait bounds to the dealings of German traders. [10]
- If he could not get their goods and estates peaceably, riots were so easy to arrange; he had arranged them before. [11]
- Therefore it became necessary to hoist the goods to be stored in the attic from the courtyard, which caused delay and hindrances of many kinds. [10]
- On this particular morning, about nine o'clock, he was stacking bolts of woollen goods near that delectable counter where the Colonel was wont to regale his principal customers, when a vision appeared in the door. [9]
- Spain closes the Mississippi, arrests our merchants, seizes their goods, and often throws them into prison. [9]
- Large and small manufactories of it were everywhere erected, in which all the earthly goods of their owners were invested. [7]
- The goods they make are readily salable. [5]
- Thou'st writ the lying letter thyself, and my stolen bride and goods are its fruit. [5]
- Life was getting lonelier for him every day, and, after all, why should he leave distant relations and the Church his worldly goods? [11]
- Perhaps he wouldn't like to earn the dollar, but if it had been accompanied by a word of sympathy, his sensibility might have been soothed by your recognition of human partnership in the goods of this world. [4]
- Those theorizers who, led astray by the dark side of higher civilization, preach a community of goods, generally contemplate in their simultaneous recommendation of the emancipation of woman a more or less developed form of a community of wives. [4]
- From early until late, what a busy throng, what an abundance of wares--and how many of the most valuable goods are made in our own city! [10]
- The law the keeper of stolen goods, eh? [11]
- Nobody was disturbing it; nobody was interested in it; all the family's attempts to get attention to it had failed--except in the case of one of the trunks containing the dutiable goods. [5]
- As Stephen approached it, the thought came to him how little this world's goods avail in times of trouble. [9]
- A wanderer, an Ishmael then, her handful of household goods and her father in the grasp of the Law: to-day, Mademoiselle Victorine, queen of animal-tamers! [11]
- Grasp on India is part of the vast Oriental network of English trade and commerce, the carrying trade, the supply of cotton and iron goods. [4]
- As every one is bound to preserve himself, so he is bound to preserve the rest of mankind, and except to do justice upon an offender we may not impair the life, liberty, health, or goods of another. [4]
- Elk Cross Roads is a dirty grocery store, encumbered with dry-goods boxes, fly-blown goods, flies, loafers. [4]
- There they stood in the vast open hall, on the checkered marble floor, not by hundreds, but by thousands, dealing in goods which came from all quarters of the globe--from the most distant lands. [10]
- He has been in St. Louis five years, is now assistant manager of the largest dry goods house, and still lives in one of Miss Crane's four-dollar rooms. [9]
- They were engaged in packing and wrapping their goods, and in gathering, harnessing, and loading the animals, which could only be kept together by blows and shouts. [10]
- David, being an honest Quaker--for now again he wore his shovel hat--did not realise that the Khedive had only hungered for this chance to confiscate the goods of Shelek Pasha. [11]
- Never before in history has so much money been invested in publishing, with the single purpose of creating and supplying the market with manufactured goods. [4]
- When Charley made his offering, with a statement of his goods and income, the Seigneur and Notary did not know what to do. [11]
- In the warehouse he secretly modelled, instead of attending to the bales of goods. [10]
- Descriptions of it have been granted to the "Dry Goods Economist" (New York) and to a syndicate of American papers. [5]
- Alpheus's son, who had had a good position in a sporting goods establishment on Market Street, was sick and in danger of losing it, the son's wife expecting an addition to the family, the house on Russian Hill mortgaged. [9]
- Once the house had been spacious enough to shelter a numerous family and to store a great quantity of goods and provisions, but it was now long since the ruinous chambers had been occupied. [10]
- The shops sold goods that only poverty could buy, and sellers and buyers were pinched and griped alike. [12]
- The stocks of goods in the shops were not extensive, generally. [5]
- The goods are gone, Fred, and there's an end of it. [12]
- His rooms were full of dry goods boxes, into which his servant was crowding all manner of old clothes and stuff: I suppose he will paint 'Pub. [5]
- Instead of finding fault with the samples on view, thus hurting feelings and obstructing trade without occasion, you merely offer a higher class of goods for the money, and leave nature to take her course. [5]
- They've loaded goods even on the cannon! [2]
- The names were enrolled by the "chief of the thieves," and all stolen goods had to be given up to him. [10]
- Crusty old Nathaniel Durrett once declared that when you bought a bill of goods from Robert Breck you did not have to check up the invoice or employ a chemist. [9]
- The pirates had divided their booty, but the lion's share of goods and men had fallen to the larger ship. [10]
- When a traitor dies the State confiscates his goods! [11]
- For his wanton destruction of goods and furniture, he was always ready to pay, when sober, if he had money; but there were not a few who regarded payment as small satisfaction for the outrage, and these men were his personal enemies. [5]
- He's agreed to deliver those goods to the Bradlaughs by the first of April, you know, and Holster, of the Clarendon, swears it can't be done, he says Ditmar's crazy. [9]
- It is the decree of the court that she forfeit to the said lord bishop all her goods, even to the last farthing that she doth possess, and be thereto mulcted in the costs. [5]
- In that remote day, that man will earn, with _one_ week's work, that bill of goods which it takes you upwards of _fifty_ weeks to earn now. [5]
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