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Sentences starting with sell

Sell it at ten or fifteen cents--duty added--and destroy the market for the original $3,50 book? [5]
Sell your ten- months' camel, buy the lad out, and bring him back to Soada. [11]
Sell out to him! [11]
Sell your manuscripts for as good a price as you can get. [4]
Sell them at a dollar apiece and fetch down the market for the genuine hundred-dollar bond? [5]
Sell it! [11]

Sentences ending with sell

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]
He said it was original, faithful to nature, but he did not feel warranted in accepting it; such a work would not sell. [14]
All you've got to do is to sell. [4]
I wonder how the faithful old relic is going to sell? [5]
It is a something we have felt always when we returned to her, and a something we had no desire to sell. [5]
Everybody will think something must be the matter, or nobody would be fool enough to sell. [4]
A great many people were come in as much to "make fete" as to buy and sell. [11]
Do you think, Mr. Henderson, we had better sell? [4]
Failing health persuades me to sell. [5]
Is not a market a place to buy and sell? [11]

Short sentences using sell

I will sell the thief. [5]
They just made him sell. [8]
I don't sell flag! [4]
Feller wouldn't sell. [9]

Sentences containing sell two or more times

Yes, dear, sell your manuscripts, but don't sell your soul. [4]
When a book will sell by subscription, it will sell two or three times as many copies as it would in the trade; and the profit is bulkier because the retail price is greater..... You didn't ask me for a subscription-publisher. [5]
We can then sell the rest of the stock on the prospect of the business of the road through an improved country, and also sell the lands at a big advance, on the strength of the road. [5]
I don't mean sell it all, but sell part--enough, you know, to--" "See how you tremble with excitement. [5]
The author may sell his product outright, or he may sell himself by an agreement similar to that which an employee in a manufacturing establishment makes with his master to give to the establishment all his inventions. [4]
But besides this fact, and owing to a public taste not cultivated or not corrected in the public schools, their books do not sell in anything like the quantity that the inferior, mediocre, other home novels sell. [4]

More example sentences with the word sell in them

A sample: a youth staked out a claim and tried to sell half for L5; no takers; he stuck to it fourteen days, starving, then struck it rich and sold out for L10,000. [5]
You'd gamble with your immortal soul, but you wouldn't sell it--not for three millions, not for a hundred times three millions. [11]
This place is your daughter's for her to do what she chooses with it, and I think she ought to sell it. [11]
Now, sir, if you will be so kind as to look at these maps and plans in my portfolio, I am sure I can sell you an echo for less money than any man in the trade. [5]
Do exactly as you please with the land--always remember this--that so trivial a percentage as ten per cent will never sell it. [5]
Don't I tell you I can't sell myself out to a thing I don't believe in? [8]
Jacob, I wonder you could sell it! [8]
Smith said he would sell $200 or $300 worth himself. [5]
Mr. Trollop, you would not sell your vote on that subsidy bill--which was perfectly right--but you accepted of some of the stock, with the understanding that it was to stand in your brother-in-law's name. [5]
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]
Don't wait and worry about a good price but sell out for whatever you can get, and come along, or you might be too late. [5]
Exploding at the word intriguer, Nicholas, raising his voice, told his mother he had never expected her to try to force him to sell his feelings, but if that were so, he would say for the last time.... [2]
I know they won't sell it, but no matter, I will not throw away a good idea for all that. [5]
But if you won't sell at any price, all right; we must try to worry along without the light of your countenance on, the posters, but we got to have it for the banquet. [8]
He was quite without self-consciousness, although there was that little touch of irresponsibility in him which betrayed a readiness to sell his dignity for a small compensation. [11]
He commissioned Anselmus Winckler, an excellent notary, and formerly his most intimate school friend, to close the apothecary shop and to sell privately whatever it contained. [10]
Do what you will with me: sell me and my brother, put us to turn a mill--but I will not sing in the temple! [10]
Some day somebody will import it into Europe and sell it for cheese. [5]
As for my wife, she couldn't run it, and--" "You could sell it," interrupted Tarboe. [11]
One bookseller to whom I applied told me that he had had a few copies before he understood the nature of the work, but that, after becoming acquainted with it, nothing should induce him to sell another. [5]
It was they who made him sell the farm. [8]
But this valley where the Tent stands is for those who have broken the commandment, "Thou shalt not sell thy soul. [11]
You see, they were all drinking, and the Injin--he was a chief---proposed--he proposed that Val should sell him his sister, Jen Galbraith, to be the chief's squaw. [11]
The third year we could, easily sell 1,000,000 bottles in the United States and----" "O, splendid! [5]
Ole missus--dat's Miss Watson--she pecks on me all de time, en treats me pooty rough, but she awluz said she wouldn' sell me down to Orleans. [5]
But as it was, I had a competence and several houses in Glasgow, and I set forth to Virginia with a goodly sum of money and a shipload of merchandise, which I should sell to merchants, if it chanced I should become a planter only. [11]
And then there was the goose-rancher--a fellow who drove a hundred geese before him about the city, and tried to sell them. [5]
It is a volume that is making a deal of talk just now, and is very widely known--except among parties who sell it. [5]
He was, indeed, very reluctant to sell any part of the land at any price; and indeed--this reluctance was justifiable when one considers how constantly and how greatly the property is rising in value. [5]
The sutlers alone venture to trade, and they sell stolen goods. [2]
Well, I'm hard up; I don't mind gossip among ourselves; but sell the stuff to you--I'll see you damned first! [11]
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]
You take me up de country a piece, en sell me on a farm; dem people ain't gwine to ask no questions if I's a bargain. [5]
Then get the towns on the line to issue their bonds for stock, and sell their bonds for enough to complete the road, and partly stock it, especially if we mortgage each section as we complete it. [5]
Jim says: "Mars Tom, can't we tote it back home en sell it? [5]
We sell our tobacco and our wheat, and get money in return. [9]
He go not to the Post for drink; he sell not next year's furs for this year's rations; he shoot straight. [11]
I should like to set them bidding against each other for the copyright, if I sell it at all. [6]
You can begin to sell town lots on that appropriation you know. [5]
What a satisfaction to sell things to Mrs. Spence! [9]
He instantly proposed to sell the numbers by auction. [11]
Speculation--you bought heavily to sell on an expected rise? [11]
Afterward he began to sell off his furniture, with the idea of hurrying to Leadville and tackling silver-mining--threw up his law den and took in his sign. [5]
But Naboth refused to sell it. [5]
Peter had refused to sell himself. [9]
I don't want to sell him. [5]
I should like to sell him my picture of Alexander saluted by the priests in the temple of Jupiter Ammon. [10]
They ain't begun to sell her yet--he's waitin' for somebody. [9]
We don't intend to sell 'em--it's no name for the transaction--but to give 'em. [8]
I am willing to sell all that property and throw in the improvements. [5]
Your idea is to sell a part of him for ready cash. [5]
I always said to my customer: '"I am a fool to sell a picture of Francois Millet's at all, for that man is not going to live three months, and when he dies his pictures can't be had for love or money. [5]
If you b'longed to me, I'd sell you down de river 'fo' you git too fur gone. [5]
My mistress began to make her preparations, and Susanna was a witness of her consultation with the marquis about whether she would keep or sell the Holland estates and castles. [10]
I was willing to give my last sou, to sell my belongings, to take from the poor to help you--until you defamed a good man. [9]
It's your business to get control of things that belong to other people, and sell them out. [9]
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]
I found a ticket for the theatre where an American actor--our biggest actor today--was playing, and I tried to sell it outside the door of the theatre where they were crowding to see him. [11]
But you sell thousands of my moss-backed old books every year--the youngest of them being books that range from fifteen to twenty-seven years old, and the oldest reaching back to thirty-five and forty. [5]
B.--That corn and those potatoes which General Gr-nt looked at I will sell for seed, at five dollars an ear, and one dollar a potato. [4]
In this state they rush to the great cities for a plunge into their turbid life-baths, with a frantic thirst for every exciting pleasure, which makes them the willing and easy victims of all those who sell the Devil's wares on commission. [6]
When they find they are not likely to sell out, they approach a citizen mysteriously, and say in a low voice--"Last copy, sir: double price; paper just been suppressed! [5]
Give most of them away, sell the rest. [5]
Should he tell the truth--that Boyne had tried to induce him to sell himself to the French, to invoke his aid against the English government, to share in treason? [11]
He alluded to the statement that the General Government was interested in these internal improvements being made, inasmuch as they increased the value of the lands that were unsold, and they enabled the government to sell the lands which could not be sold without them. [7]
The peddlers and the shopkeepers take such pieces occasionally, and sell them, sometimes for five or ten cents, to young collectors. [6]
The swindler allows the scheme to remain quiescent for a time, and then suggests that, as the money has not been repaid and as it would be unpleasant to sue his brother, it would be better to sell the note in the bazaar. [5]
We would sell the raft and get on a steamboat and go way up the Ohio amongst the free States, and then be out of trouble. [5]
Yet they made the paper sell, and if Orion had but realized his brother's talent he might have turned it into capital even then. [5]
I believed that the mining stocks I had on hand would soon be worth $100,000, and thought if they reached that before the Constitution was adopted, I would sell out and make myself secure from the crash the change of government was going to bring. [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]
He said to the Kentucky planters, 'Give your tobacco to me, and I will sell it. [9]
Theoretically it is the interest of both parties to sell as many books as possible. [4]
There was always the incentive to the upstart political and military buccaneer to overthrow the dictator and gain possession of the spoils, to sell new doubtful concessions and levy new tribute on the capitalists holding claims from a former tyrant. [9]
We shall sell the horses and shut up the house. [5]
You yourself are the greatest.--Did you give the Syrian your emerald to sell in order to fly from this house with the money?--You are silent? [10]
He had directed the Emperor's attention to the mosaic pavement in the steward's room, and had shamelessly accused Keraunus of having offered to sell him a work that belonged to the palace, contrasting his conduct with his own rectitude. [10]
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]
And as for the bushels of sketches and studies which Millet shovelled out during the six weeks that we were on the road, well, it would astonish you to know the figure we sell them at nowadays--that is, when we consent to let one go! [5]
The story made the book sell, but not enough to pay blank thousand dollars. [6]
He would sell the biggest farm he owned, which had been to him in its importance like the flour-mill itself. [11]
In round numbers the 4,000,000 buy and sell about $600,000,000 worth of goods a year. [5]
Mrs. Eddy knows that when you cannot get a man to try--free of cost--a new and effective remedy for a disease he is afflicted with, you can generally sell it to him if you will put a price upon it which he cannot afford. [5]
The author agreed that the publisher should have the exclusive right to publish his book for a certain term, or to make and sell a certain number of copies. [4]
There's no denying that the pictures have sold this first number; but I expect the literature of this first number to sell the pictures of the second. [8]
But he wrote that his man might probably return to the city soon, and then he meant to sell to him, sure, even if he had to take $10,000. [5]
Mighty few books that come strictly under the head of literature will sell by subscription; but if Uncle Remus won't, the gift of prophecy has departed out of me. [5]
My fourth of that claim only cost me $50, (which isn't paid yet, though,) and I suppose I could sell it here in town for ten times that amount today, but I shall probably hold onto it till the cows come home. [5]
The wonder is that a new book does not sell more largely, or it would be a wonder if the ability to buy kept pace with the ability to read, and if discrimination had accompanied the appetite for reading. [4]
Shall sell the team and go home. [5]
For example, this Swiss watch, which I will sell you cheap, for one hundred and fifty dollars. [9]
I felt that such a mine as the one described by Dan would bring a princely sum in New York, and sell without delay or difficulty. [5]
I never can square up; the rest of the plunder won't pawn or sell for half of the bill. [5]
He next recommended some of "Smith's Hair Glorifier," and offered to sell me a bottle. [5]
It has remained so to this day: they must travel together, hoe, and plant, and plough, and reap, and sell their public together, or there's no result. [5]
It took you six months to chisel it, and you can't sell it for a hundred dollars. [5]
Why not sell simultaneous rights, for this once, to the Ladies' Home Journal or Collier's, or both, and recoup yourself?--for I would like to get it to classes that can't afford Harper's. [5]
Yes, sir, the signorina was bargained for, like a horse, and her father didn't sell her cheap. [10]
If the ledge should prove to be worthless, we'd sell the water for money enough to give us quite a lift. [5]
But why can't she pawn it or sell it? [5]

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