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Sentences starting with sold

Sold to a French priest by a French prince, with the French King and the French nation standing thankless by and saying nothing. [5]

Sentences ending with sold

Not many tickets were sold. [5]
Mr. Dickinson, who was a director in the Maplewood line, got a handsome underwriting percentage, and Mr. Berringer, also a director, on the bonds and preferred stock he sold. [9]
Valuable goods of various kinds lay here until they could be placed in cellars or storehouses or sold. [10]
Natasha's trousseau had to be ordered and the house sold. [2]
She heard disquieting things, I am sure, from Cousin Robert Breck, who had become more and more querulous since the time-honoured firm of Breck and Company had been forced to close its doors and the home at Claremore had been sold. [9]
The output of the paper was ten times as great as it had ever been before, yet every copy was sold. [5]
It cannot be sold. [4]
That one's for sale, the Hartford one is sold. [5]
In our whole ride through the mountain region we saw only one or two places where liquor was sold. [4]
I have not received a letter from home lately, but got a "'Journal'" the other day, in which I see the office has been sold. [5]

Short sentences using sold

Ah, you have sold yourself. [9]
I hain't sold much lately. [4]
I sold my horse. [5]
Not much sold, he said. [4]

Sentences containing sold two or more times

In the first year you sold 90,328; in the second year, 104,851; in the third, 133,975; in the fourth year --which was last year--you sold 160,000. [5]
I was never worthy of her, for I have sold my heart's love for money, as Judas sold the Lord. [10]
He sold his time to the Doctor, and, having sold it, he took care to fulfil his half of the bargain. [6]
The story is this: Dixon sold and deeded the land to Thomas; Thomas sold it to Anderson; but before he gave a deed, Anderson sold it to Miller, and took Miller's note for the purchase money. [7]
In one instance they sold a man a gallon of rum worth two dollars for a piece of property which was sold some years later for $100,000. [5]
The stock which I sold at such a fine profit early in January, has never ceased to advance, and is now worth $60,000 more than I sold it for. [5]
One hundred and fifty to two hundred thousand, let us say, for the right to build tracks on Maplewood Avenue, and we sold nearly two million dollars worth of the securities back to the public whose aldermen had sold us the franchise. [9]
Of the oldest book, The Innocents Abroad,--now forty years old--you sold upward of 46,000 copies in the four years; of Roughing It--now thirty-eight years old; I think--you sold 40,334; of Tom Sawyer, 41,000. [5]

More example sentences with the word sold 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've sold all your papers, you know. [11]
Tell me, have you ever sold your clothes to the Mart, or whatever the miserable coffin-shop is called? [11]
She'd probably give you all she's saved to go to Europe with and study, saved from her pictures sold at twenty per cent of their value; and she'd mortgage the little income she's got to keep her brother out of jail. [11]
Let me see--why, yes, she was born the day I sold the blue enamelled timepiece to his Highness the Duc de Mauban. [11]
For in four years, with a year still to spare, you have sold the 250,000 volumes, and 240,000 besides. [5]
Can I not write as well as ever another--and this I know, that if I sold myself it was not cheap. [10]
He was lodging with Louis Charron, a small farmer and kinsman of Jean Jacques, who sold whisky--"white whisky"--without a license. [11]
Many a man who has come into some property after he has sold all his little antiquities has offered me ten times the price I have paid him to get them back again, generally in vain, unfortunately. [10]
One poor devil who had waddled (failed) in Change Alley had collected under his mattress the letters of Junius, then selling the Public Advertiser as few publications had ever sold before. [9]
And the stock which you sold to poor Garvin was so hopelessly watered that it never could have been anything but worthless. [9]
Under light awnings, which kept off the sun, were sold sandals and kerchiefs of every material and hue, ornaments, amulets, fans, and sun-shades, sweet essences of every kind, and other gifts for offerings or for the toilet. [10]
Read "Le Feu," which is most typical, which has sold in numberless editions. [9]
You made me what I am by your arts; you sold me to the treasurer of Rameses, and he gave me to the father of Mena, his brother-in-law. [10]
And we know what Helmholtz, the highest authority in Europe on the subject, has said about the human eye; that if an optician had sold him an instrument so carelessly made, he would have thought himself fully justified in returning it. [1]
All the seats were sold (in a driving rain storm, 3 days ago,) as reserved seats at 25 cents extra, even those in the second and third tiers--and when the last seat was gone the box office had not been open more than 2 hours. [5]
The book sold well, and the eccentric personage was voted a novelty. [6]
She was pretty well paid, to be sure, and in answer to Selene's enquiry, he had stated the amount she earned and mentioned the name of the rich manufacturer to whom she had sold her social standing for gold. [10]
When, before their wedding day, he gave his nieces the diadems which Jammtzer had made for them, his resentment concerning the ornament sold by Barbara again awoke. [10]
But I think we would make more money if we sold the plants now. [4]
We sold when we heard what an interest there was in the road. [4]
Beaten their cause was, and hunted down, Like to a moose in the chase full blown, Panting they stood; and a Judas sold Their hiding-place for a piece of gold. [11]
Not a farthing was to be taken from the moneyed capital for twenty years to come, and this was expressly recorded; nor might the trade be sold, or cease to be carried on. [10]
The joint one was that sufficient tickets to insure a good sum should be sold before the date of the performance should be set. [5]
True, there never was such a call for the paper before, and it never sold such a large edition or soared to such celebrity; but does one want to be famous for lunacy, and prosper upon the infirmities of his mind? [5]
But while I was sick, Adler's things had been sold and scattered, all except a few old letters, and some odds and ends of no value. [5]
However, while Reuben was away for a little while, the brethren sold Joseph to some Ishmaelitish merchants who were journeying towards Egypt. [5]
The State House was a building with much pretension to beauty, built in the classical style, of a yellow stone, with sold white blinds in the high windows and mighty columns capped at the gently slanting roof. [9]
I made a very nice picture of that man's house and I wanted to offer it to him for ten francs, but that wouldn't answer, seeing I was the pupil of such a master, so I sold it to him for a hundred. [5]
The earl put us up and sold us at auction. [5]
M'sieu' sold him up and shipped him off," said Gingras the shoemaker. [11]
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]
Mr. Curry owned two thirds of it--and he said that he sold it out for twenty-five hundred dollars in cash, and an old plug horse that ate up his market value in hay and barley in seventeen days by the watch. [5]
I had sold two hundred tickets among my personal friends, but I feared they might not come. [5]
His name was Turk, and I should have sold him if he had not been the kind of dog that nobody will buy. [4]
Good places in trees and seats on rail fences sold for half a dollar apiece; lemonade and gingerbread-stands had great prosperity. [5]
In a big town and an active market we should have brought a good price; but this place was utterly stagnant and so we sold at a figure which makes me ashamed, every time I think of it. [5]
It was mortgaged to within eight thousand dollars of what it could be sold for but, if he could gain time, that eight thousand dollars would build the mill again. [11]
Smith, our President, to the Falls, to the little Powhatan, where, unknown to me, he sold me to him for a town called Powhatan; and, leaving me with him, the little Powhatan, he made known to Capt. [4]
They sold themselves to the devil--such is their crime. [5]
I should like to have owned the ground and sold out and retired. [4]
Nobody knew what to do with it; so it was sold at 15 a ton, to light fires with. [5]
At the same time he did some hurried, nervous things that had a popular charm, and that sold in plaster reproductions, to the profit of another. [8]
He took ten thousand dollars of your money, got from the Wonegosh farm he sold for you. [11]
So Gridley stood there and shouted and perspired till the sun went down; and when the crowd dispersed he had sold the sack to three hundred different people, and had taken in eight thousand dollars in gold. [5]
I objected to the title, reminding her that it offended people of old, so that more than twice as many of the book were sold when they changed the name to "A Sure Guide to Heaven. [6]
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]
She, too, despised the soldiers, fervently believed they had sold themselves to the oppressors of mankind. [9]
He had sold the skeleton to a traveling quack for three dollars and was enjoying the result! [5]
We all thought the proposal daring, but in no way amazing; the public existed to be sold things to, and what did it matter if the Maplewood residents, as Ralph said; and the City Improvement League protested? [9]
Then he showed the property to a simpleton and sold it to him at a high figure. [5]
Kuni timidly asked the price of an indulgence, but the Dominican unctuously explained that they were not sold like penny rolls at the baker's; the heavier the sin, the higher the fine to be paid. [10]
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]
Not one of the plans Nicholas tried succeeded; the estate was sold by auction for half its value, and half the debts still remained unpaid. [2]
And this was the place we had all but sold our lives to behold! [9]
He laughed at the little beggars, and then a Nabataean took them to be sold at Clysma to a merchant from Rome. [10]
How, Mr. Chairman, the line that once divided your land from mine can still be the boundary between us after I have sold my land to you is to me beyond all comprehension. [7]
Then he ordered the less valuable of his two rings to be sold to offer a sacrifice to health-bestowing Isis, who had a little temple in Clysma. [10]
They have seen the land they sold at farm prices by the acre coming to be valued by the foot, like the corner lots in a city. [6]
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]
It was not the house of the disciple who sold the Master for thirty pieces of silver. [5]
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]
As soon as the Governor understood the case, he pardoned Tom at once, and the creditors sold him down the river. [5]
When Cromwell drove the French from Acadia, he granted great territorial rights to De la Tour, which that thrifty adventurer sold out to one of his co-grantees for L16,000; and he no doubt invested the money in peltry for the London market. [4]
Then she sold the estate and disappeared. [5]
McGregor and brought the dying soldier the comforting news that enough of his books were already sold to provide generously for his family, and that the sales would aggregate at least twice as much by the end of the year. [5]
That was on the day when the contents of the Manor were sold at auction by order of the Court. [11]
But nevertheless in the 8 weeks that have now elapsed since the day we published, we have sold 40,000 copies; which gives L3,000 royalty to be divided between the authors. [5]
It was estimated that when the flour sack's mission was ended it had been sold for a grand total of a hundred and fifty thousand dollars in greenbacks! [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 am told that these oranges are sold for a couple of francs a hundred. [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]
I have proof that the emerald which Hiram sold belonged to me. [10]
He had sold that night, for a mess of pottage, the friendship and respect of three generations. [9]
And he said that Gould sold out for a pair of second-hand government blankets and a bottle of whisky that killed nine men in three hours, and that an unoffending stranger that smelt the cork was disabled for life. [5]
Was it conceivable that Barbara had parted with this, his first memento, sold it, "turned it into money"?--the base words wounded his chivalrous soul like the blow of a scourge. [10]
Why, I wouldn't take a hundred dollars for that horse now--I wouldn't, honest; and yet I'd a sold her for fifteen before, and thought 'twas all she was worth. [5]
But the journal still languished, and the printers sold out to Captain Ogden, a rich man and a pleasant gentleman who chose to amuse himself with such an expensive luxury without much caring about the cost of it. [5]
It was really spring --everybody said so; but you could have sold it for summer in Canada, and nobody would have suspected. [5]
Queen Isabella of Spain sold her watch and chain and other millinery so that Columbus could discover America. [5]
He had a sovereign balm for "colds," composed of camomile flowers, boneset, liquorice, pennyroyal and gentian root, which he sold to all comers; and it was not unnatural that a visitor with weak lungs should lodge with him. [11]
The young man sold what he did not have, and the other young man bought what he will never get. [4]
The emerald he sold was my property; and were those stones really so much alike that even the seller. [10]
For years we sold them steel billets from which to make their plates, and three months ago they serve notice on us that they are getting ready to make their own billets, they buy mines north of the lakes and are building their plant. [9]
I suppose he sold that stock of mine and placed the guilty proceeds in his own pocket. [5]
I have not sold out of the "Buffalo Express," and shall not; neither shall I stop writing for it. [5]
Tom So-and-So had sold out of the "Amanda Smith" for $40,000--hadn't a cent when he "took up" the ledge six months ago. [5]
Clemens, meanwhile, had sold out his interest in the Express, severed his connection with the Galaxy, a magazine for which he was doing a department each month, and had written a second book for the American Publishing Company, Roughing It, published in 1872. [5]
That State had sold nearly all her public lands. [7]
Millet would have sold it for a pork chop. [5]
But if he sold it at seven hundred per cent. [5]
No liquor is sold in the place, nor within at least three miles of it. [4]
Bret Harte has sold his novel (same size as mine, I should say) to Scribner's Monthly for $6,500 (publication to begin in September, I think,) and he gets a royalty of 7 1/2 per cent from Bliss in book form afterwards. [5]
That old fool sold him, and never divided with me, and the money's gone. [5]
John Jones had sold half his interest in the "Bald Eagle and Mary Ann" for $65,000, gold coin, and gone to the States for his family. [5]
It was recently sold for one hundred thousand guldens; and I can see that it is piling up another fortune for its present owner. [4]
We'll not be sold by him. [11]
Yes, we were sold at auction, like swine. [5]
In 1904 you sold 1726 copies; in 1905, 2445; in 1906, 5381; and last year, 6574. [5]
His business was so crippled now, and so deranged, that to leave it would be ruin; therefore he sold out at a sacrifice that left him considerably reduced in worldly possessions, and began his voyage to San Francisco. [5]

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