"Vend" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... N. sale, vent, disposal; auction, roup, Dutch auction; outcry, vendue^; custom &c (traffic) 794. vendibility, vendibleness^. seller; vender, vendor; merchant &c 797; auctioneer. V. sell, vend, dispose of, effect a sale; sell over the counter, sell by auction &c n.; dispense, retail; deal in &c 794; sell off, sell out; turn into money, realize; bring to the hammer, bring under the hammer, put up to auction, put up for auction; offer for sale, put up for sale; hawk, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget
... them, we might have a very choice breed for coach horses, some for the saddle and some for draught; and in a few years might draw off considerable numbers and ship them for Barbadoes Nevis or such parts of the Indies where they would vend." ...
— Customs and Fashions in Old New England • Alice Morse Earle
... went to stay with my uncle. Events moved forward rapidly. The terror bathed France in blood. Civil war broke, out in the Vende and in Brittany. Travel there became absolutely impossible, so that my mother, who had thought to spend two or three months at Rennes, found herself stuck ...
— The Memoirs of General the Baron de Marbot, Translated by - Oliver C. Colt • Baron de Marbot
... Elle est imprimee avec les memes caracteres, que l'Itinerarium de Joan. de Mandeville, c'est-a-dire par Gerard de Leeu, a Anvers, vers 1485, et non pas a Rome et a Venise, comme on l'avait suppose. Vend. 4 liv. 14 sh. 6d. Hanrott; 7 liv. Libri en 1859. (Choicer portion, 1562.)" Brunet writes elsewhere (cf. Mandeville par H. Cordier) about Mandeville from the same press: "...La souscription que nous allons rapporter ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... and peremptorily to insist upon its being strictly adhered to. And yet what is most astonishing is, that some two or three persons, of very little consequence in themselves, have dared openly to give out that they will vend the goods they have imported, though they have solemnly pledged their faith to the body of merchants that they should remain in store till a general importation takes place." The merchants met in Faneuil ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 73, November, 1863 • Various
... dares to tackle! Whilst Witlers howl, and Water-zealots cackle. The poor are poisoned, not by honest drink, But lethal stuff that might scour out a sink. The Poor Man's Beer, quotha! Who'll keep it pure? Not rich monopolists, nor prigs demure, Those shriek for freedom, these for prohibition, "Vend the drugged stuff sans scrutiny or condition!" Cries Vested Interest. "Close, by law or Vote, The Witler's tavern and the Workman's throat!" Shouts the fanatic. Which, then, fad or pelf, Cares really, solely, for the Poor Man's self? Nay; the Monopolist fights ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 104, April 15, 1893 • Various
... La Vende is laid waste by the troops of the republic, and hundreds of its inhabitants, who are royalists in their sentiments, are shot at a time. La Vende is a district in the southwest of France, that continues yet much attached to the family of the ...
— The Pioneers • James Fenimore Cooper
... est un fin boulanger, Qui en son art est sage et bien appris: Il vend bien cher son petit pain leger, Combien qu'il ait le froment a ...
— History of the Rise of the Huguenots - Volume 2 • Henry Baird
... towards Bridge water, Eeles are so cheap in the frosts of Winter, that they vend them for little. Their abundance is from hence, that as the people walk, in the frosty Mornings, on the banks of river, they discern, towards the edges of the banks, some parts not hoar, as the rest, but green; where searching the holes of the banks they find ...
— Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 • Various
... are lies frae end to end, And some great lies were never penn'd: Ev'n ministers, they ha'e been kenn'd, In holy rapture, A rousing whid, at times, to vend, ...
— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham
... according to their real merit, if their functions were appreciated at their just value, it would, perhaps, be found that they did not merit a larger salary than those empirics who, at the corners of the streets, vend remedies more dangerous than the evils they promise ...
— Letters to Eugenia - or, a Preservative Against Religious Prejudices • Baron d'Holbach
... chaffering darkies I pass to the sidewalk's end, Through the smiling gingham bonnets With their small farm-stuff to vend. ...
— More Songs From Vagabondia • Bliss Carman and Richard Hovey
... sidi, a little thing: When thou hast another bird to vend in the market of hearts, it would perhaps be well to examine with care the cage in which ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various |
