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Sentences ending with sale

Pa and I were passing the Court House, with Clarence, when she was put up for sale. [9]
The Judge, holding tightly to Stephen, pushed his way fiercely to the stand, vowing over and over that the commotion was a secession trick to spoil the furniture and stampede the sale. [9]
Jim Kendall runs the weekly newspaper in Grantley--I understood it was for sale. [9]
He could see the place now: the lonely, wooden houses, the ramshackle saloon, the ugly, yellow gleam from the street lamps in a line along the glistening pavement; beside him, a towering hill of granite with a real estate sign, "This lot for sale. [9]
Early that morning, so he told them, Hiram the groom had been to him to offer him a wonderfully large and splendid emerald for sale. [10]
Their statues are set up in the streets; their works still live in the churches and city buildings,--pictures, and groups in stone and wood; and their statues, in all sorts of carving, are reproduced, big and little, in all the shop-windows, for sale. [4]
I very cheerfully send you the twenty dollars, which sum you say is necessary to save your land from sale. [7]
A more advantageous, sale! [9]
He paid the price asked, and received the properly attested documents of sale. [5]
He said they offered to pay his expenses and give him one third of the proceeds of the sale. [5]

Short sentences using sale

Slow sale. [5]

Sentences containing sale two or more times

I have had to discipline the supervisors and bookkeepers, inspect and check the output, superintend the packing, and arrange for the sale of the crop-yes, I arranged for the sale of this year's crop myself. [11]
Every novel of mine written until 1893 was published in two or three volumes, and the sale to the libraries was greater than the sale to the general public. [11]
I got a decree of foreclosure on the whole; but, owing to there being no redemption on the sale to be under the Blanchard mortgage, the court allowed Mobley till the first of March to pay the money, before advertising for sale. [7]
I have seen a "td" notice of a sheriff's sale still booming serenely along two years after the sale was over, the sheriff dead, and the whole circumstance become ancient history. [5]

More example sentences with the word sale in them

To your sorrow you are aware that frequently, much too frequently, when a book gets to be five or ten years old its annual sale shrinks to two or three hundred copies, and after an added ten or twenty years ceases to sell. [5]
My new book would issue in March, and they would tax the sale in both countries. [5]
I believe The World for Sale shows as plainly as anything can show the vexed and conglomerate life of a Western town. [11]
And incidentally everybody who had a farm for sale wrote to Mr. Crewe. [9]
The business in which his thriving brothers were engaged was the importation and sale of hardware and cutlery, and that spring his services were required at the "store. [4]
And yet Philip was not allowed to be unduly elated by the attention of his fellow-craftsmen, for he soon found that a man's consequence in this circle, as well as with the great public, depended largely upon the amount of the sale of his book. [4]
The same effort used to introduce a novelty will be much better remunerated by pushing the sale of an acknowledged good piece of literature. [4]
I picked it up at a sale in Dorchester. [9]
It is not uncommon that a book owes its notoriety and sale to its title, and it is not easy to find a title that will attract attention without being too sensational. [4]
A sale of twenty-five sets a day meant prosperity on paper, but unless capital could be raised from some other source to make and market those books through a period of months, perhaps even years, to come, it meant bankruptcy in reality. [5]
One has only to mark what sort of novels reach the largest sale and are most called for in the circulating libraries, to gauge pretty accurately the public taste, and to measure the influence of this taste upon modern production. [4]
She now returned to Lugano, and there sought to compensate her poor honest friend by the sale of her ornaments, but the time soon came when the generous artist was forced to submit to be supported by the charity of a servant. [10]
He had hoped to have come home enriched by the sale of his copyright, and with the prospect of seeing his name before long on the back of a handsome volume. [6]
He blushed even to acknowledge it to himself, but treason was in his mind--he was meditating, at last, the sale of the land. [5]
Only that morning, this gentleman, in glancing through the real estate column of his newspaper, had fallen upon a deed of sale which made him wink. [9]
I have offered this dwelling house and the Express for sale, and when we go to Elmira we leave here for good. [5]
There were other things on sale also, not for eating and drinking, but for wear and household use--from pots and pans to rag- carpets and table-linen, from woollen yarn to pictures of the Virgin and little calvaries. [11]
The book was then having its sale in England. [9]
But that is the way things always go; if you force a sale on a dull market, I don't care what the property is, you are going to make a poor business of it, and you can make up your mind to it. [5]
Her sale of the star had been only an unfortunate act of weakness, but the dance, the luckless dance! [10]
I knew that 'The Seats of the Mighty' and 'The Right of Way' would have a great sale, and after they were written I said as much to my publishers. [11]
As soon as the sale was completed and the money paid--which was on the 11th--I began to stick to Fuller's track without dropping it for a moment. [5]
Under this conception, the sale of indulgences, masses for the soul, and temporal power are perfectly logical --inevitable. [9]
He arranged with the planter, and mailed to Wilson the new bill of sale which sold Roxana to herself; then he telegraphed his Aunt Pratt: Have seen the awful news in the papers and am almost prostrated with grief. [5]
I said that the main popularity of the almanac was derived from its poetry and conundrums, and that a few conundrums distributed around through his Treasury report would help the sale of it more than all the internal revenue he could put into it. [5]
Carl had made the last sale and the most brilliant one of all. [5]
This is really the largest two-months' sale which any American book has ever achieved (unless one excepts the cheaper editions of Uncle Tom's Cabin). [5]
This table-top cost the labor of one man for ten long years, so they said, and it was for sale for thirty-five thousand dollars. [5]
It also appears that the sale of the public lands is largely on the increase. [7]
I had advertised that on this third day the box-office would be opened for the sale of reserved seats. [5]
There were closed tents in which magical remedies were to be obtained, though their open sale was forbidden by the authorities, from love-philters to the wondrous fluid which, if rightly applied, would turn lead, copper, or silver to gold. [10]
Motives of personal spite and of personal gain were laid bare, and even the barter and sale of offices of trust took place before my very eyes. [9]
Here rare some specimens which I lately bought at an auction sale of the effects of a bankrupt bric-a-brac hunter: Generalstaatsverordnetenversammlungen. [5]
I felt that some day I could get the book back under my control if I so desired, while the chances of the book making an immediate phenomenal sale were not great. [11]
The book has so many friends--this has been sufficiently established by the very large sale it has had in cheap editions--that I am still disposed to feel it was an inevitable manifestation in the progress of my art, such as it is. [11]
In the applausive silence, the emotional recess of the sale, as it were, the man to whom the bird and the song meant most, pushed his way up to the stand where M. Manotel stood. [11]
That one's for sale, the Hartford one is sold. [5]
I think the sale might be made with better advantage, however, now, than later when the agents have got out of the purchaser's reach. [5]
But as the sale drew to a close, an air of rollicking humour among the younger men would not be suppressed, and it looked as though Jean Jacques' exit would be attended by the elements of farce and satire. [11]
The demand and sale are widely taken as the criterion of excellence, or they are at least sufficient encouragement of further work on the line of the success. [4]
Piles of wooden sabots are for sale in front of the shops; and this ugly shoe, which is mysteriously kept on the foot, is worn by all the common sort. [4]
But for the panic our sale would have been doubled, I verily believe. [5]
He says that one time and another, he has heard much about the matter, that it was not a deed for Right of Way, but a deed, outright, for Depot-ground--at least, a sale for Depot-ground, and there may never have been a deed. [7]
Pie for sale on the grounds, and rocks to crack it with; and ciRcus-lemonade--three drops of lime juice to a barrel of water. [5]
There I sat on some steps and offered them for sale to the passers-by; but nobody wanted them. [10]
One sure sign of this is the phenomenal sale of pianos to households whose occupants had never dreamed of such luxuries. [9]
In the drawing-room of the Villa Nardi was shown, and offered for sale, an enormous counterpane, crocheted in white cotton. [4]
There are none of the shops common at watering-places for the sale of fancy articles, and, strange to say, flowers are not systematically cultivated, and very few are ever to be had. [4]
Thus the sale of the house which she had purchased for the dead man, and the disposal of her father's share in the Blomberg business, brought her far more money than she had expected. [10]
There were streets of shanties, where various things were offered for sale besides cheese and sausages. [4]
The various rulers of Mexico sold to American and other foreign capitalists the resources belonging to the people of their country, and pocketed, with their followers, the proceeds of the sale. [9]
And I thought of lookin' at blouses--there's a sale on I was reading about in the paper. [9]
Perhaps some hint of its sale had already reached his ears, for, although he had made no opposition to her apology, he afterward remained taciturn and irritable. [10]
The general chorus of approval and the rapid sale surprised Irving, and sent his spirits up, but success had the effect on him that it always has on a fine nature. [4]
He had heard nothing about the sale of the star, and whatever had displeased him in Barbara's conduct during the last few weeks she had succeeded in effacing. [10]
If we mistake not we have heard her name mentioned in connection with the sale of the Tennessee Lands to the Knobs University, the bill for which passed the House last night. [5]
Was there nothing, nobody, that commercialism did not think for sale and to be trafficked in? [4]
I trust that no word of mine will injure the sale of the moonlights. [4]
Yet cordials of nice brown, of delicate green, of an enticing yellow colour, were here for sale at Vilray market on the morning after the painful scene at the Manor Cartier between Zoe and her father. [11]
The Baillieres informed my correspondent that the sale of Homoeopathic books was much less than formerly, and that consequently they should undertake to publish no new books upon the subject, except those of Jahr or Hahnemann. [3]
At first you must give him several days in which to force a sale of his belongings at something approaching their value. [5]
In the early months of the year when the agents' canvass was just beginning, Mark Twain, with what seems now almost clairvoyant vision, prophesied a sale of three hundred thousand sets. [5]
The first remark Miss Bronte made was to express her fear lest so severe a notice should check the sale of the book, and injuriously affect her publishers. [14]
The sale was made on the very day that the coal venture had returned with its rich freight. [5]
Who would to Love make no replies, Nor drink the nut-brown ale, While throbs the pulse, and full's the purse And all the world's for sale? [11]
Who would to Love make no replies, Nor drink the nut-brown ale, While throbs the pulse, and full 's the purse And all the world 's for sale? [11]
From the 1st July, 1861, to the 30th September, 1862, the entire cash receipts from the sale of lands were $137,476.2--a sum much less than the expenses of our land system during the same period. [7]
In the tribune itself the cries of the water-sellers were incessant as they offered filtered Nile water and fruit syrups for sale. [10]
In your hands its sale has increased each year. [5]
The sale of it was large, not only on account of the value of the book itself, but also because of the sympathy of the American people with Mark Twain's brave struggle to pay his debts. [5]
He asked if it might not be late afternoon instead, because he had cargo from the Indies for sale, and in the morning certain merchants were to visit his vessel. [11]
She had bought it in secret from the Bedouin who for many years had brought shells for sale from the Red Sea, to surprise her husband with the gift. [10]
Suppose your story is published, cast into the sea of new books, and has a very fair sale. [4]
But happily there is a market for apprentice work, else the "Innocents Abroad" would have had no sale. [5]
The seizures and intended sale of secession property had stirred up immense bitterness and indignation in the city. [9]
It had been insufficient, not because of the value of the article for sale, but because of the rapacity of the vender. [11]
Yet with that instinct of gain so strong in the Anglo-Saxon, this trader had dared the worst for the chance of making money quickly and plentifully by the sale of copra to occasional vessels. [11]
The old rascal, indeed, had so cleverly worded his deed of sale as to obtain payment without transfer. [9]
Even with our increased reading population no such sale is found for a book of that description to-day. [5]
In a word, I kept the due state of a man worth a hundred thousand dollars (prospectively,) and likely to reach absolute affluence when that silver-mine sale should be ultimately achieved in the East. [5]
The thought that he was meditating on the incident of the auction sale crossed through her mind, and made her blood simmer. [9]
Jean Jacques, who had moved about all day with an almost voluble affability, seeming not to realize the tragedy going on, or, if he realized it, rising superior to it, was noticed to stand still suddenly when the auctioneer put up the fruit-dish for sale. [11]
But the sack had come sooner than it was expected; the people were not thoroughly aroused, and the sale dragged. [5]
The original sale had been made to a man, now dead, whom the railroad had bought out. [9]
Does not the great public involuntarily respect the author rather for the sale of his books than for the books themselves? [4]
He elected to go on to Montreal that very night, and before the sale was quite finished he prepared to start. [11]
It was got from the sale of your sporting-kit. [11]
In order to force the sale of Mrs. Eddy's Bible-Annex, no healer, Metaphysical College-bred or other, is allowed to practise the game unless he possess a copy of that holy nightmare. [5]
In order to force the sale of Mrs Eddy's Bible-Annex, no healer, Metaphysical-College-bred or other, is allowed to practice the game unless he possesses a copy of that book. [5]
The stock was for sale at a give-away. [5]
One ran as follows: "Here are shoes for sale, Round above and flat below; If David's foot they will not fit, Goliath's sure they'll suit, I know. [10]
Gogol exposed an extensive fraud practiced by the sale, in connection with lands, of the names of "serfs" (called souls) not living, or "dead souls. [4]
What could be expected when covetous patrons canceled their debts to their servants by bestowing advowsons of benefices upon their bakers, butlers, cooks, grooms, pages, and lackeys--when even in the universities there was cheating at elections for scholarships and fellowships, and gifts were for sale! [4]
I was not entirely broken in spirit, for I was building confidently on the sale of the silver mine in the east. [5]
At Bremen great droves of mules fill the street, and crowd the entrances of the sale stables there. [9]
Dr. Haygarth and Dr. Alderson could not stop the sale of the five-guinea Tractors, although they proved that they could work the same miracles with pieces of wood and tobacco-pipe. [3]
When it knocks down the sale about one-half, I shall know it's made a hit. [8]
The Maltese also distributed among her poor the large sums which the sale of Barbara's property produced. [10]
It is no certain sign that a book is good because it is popular, nor is it any more certain that it is good because it has a very limited sale. [4]
Two stall-keepers who, by day, were accustomed to offer their wares for sale near the Serapeum to the pilgrims, met him close to the city. [10]

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