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"Auctioneer" Quotes from Famous Books

... which told of the interest of the crowd, the auctioneer read out a description of the bounds and acreage of Greenwood, ...

— Janice Meredith • Paul Leicester Ford

... game of playing at living. The sky shone brightly overhead; around the town stood hills which no romantic scene-painter could have bettered; the air of the man with water-cart, of the auctioneer's man with bell, and of the people popping in and out of the shops, was the air of those who did these things for love ...

— The Tale of Timber Town • Alfred Grace

... indulgences engender disease, which make them very liable to sudden death; or their master may be killed in a duel, or at a horse-race, or in a drunken brawl; then his creditors are active in looking after the estate; and next, the blow of the auctioneer's hammer separates ...

— Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman • Austin Steward

... committed a grave blunder—which will undoubtedly cause much complaint—in waiting until almost the last moment to announce the sale. But few bidders were present, and these had things pretty much their own way, apparently owing to the gross ignorance of the auctioneer. The gem of the gallery, the famous Rembrandt found and purchased in Paris some years ago by Mr. Von Whele, was knocked down for the ridiculous sum of L2,400. The lucky purchaser was Mr. Charles Drummond, of the firm of Lamb and ...

— In Friendship's Guise • Wm. Murray Graydon

... the faces of nearly all present; and even the auctioneer paused as he was opening his mouth, and with hammer uplifted in the air, prepared to listen. At the beginning of the story, many glanced involuntarily towards the portrait; but later on, all bent their attention solely on the narrator, as his ...

— Taras Bulba and Other Tales • Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol

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