"For sale" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... two-wheeled chase, the wheels, axles, etcetera, all of silver, diamonds, pearls, precious stones, and gold. So great was the quantity of money that the shares were delivered by weight, to save the trouble of counting it; and when the cargo was taken out of the ship, and she was put up for sale, the French captain, upon the promise of reward from Captain Frankland, discovered to him 30,000 pistoles which were concealed in a place that no one would ever have thought of looking for them. Captain Frankland ...
— How Britannia Came to Rule the Waves - Updated to 1900 • W.H.G. Kingston
... Goriat, it was not until repeated messages had been sent to him, and eleven days had elapsed, that he answered the summons by his presence. In the meanwhile, having nothing better to do during this tedious interval, as no people would bring cattle or anything for sale, I took walks about the plain, shooting, and killed a new variety of gazelle, called Dera[11] by the Somali, and Salt's antelopes, here called Sagaro, which fortunately were very abundant, though rather wild; catching fish, drawing with the camera, bathing in the sea, ...
— What Led To The Discovery of the Source Of The Nile • John Hanning Speke
... artistic | | talent. PUNCHINELLO will be entirely original; humorous and | | witty, without vulgarity, and satirical without malice. It | | will be printed on a superior tinted paper of sixteen pages, | | size 13 by 9, and will be for sale by all respectable | | newsdealers who have the judgment to know a good thing when | | they see it, or by subscription from this office. | | | | The Artistic department will be in charge of Henry L. | | Stephens, whose celebrated cartoons ...
— Punchinello, Vol. 1, No. 8, May 21, 1870 • Various
... by the help of chisels, thin crowbars, and other instruments, it was safely detached. The plaster was then removed from the back down to the priming, and the picture was backed with strong canvas. It was then cleaned from all its defilement, and, on being offered for sale at a good price, was bought by a nobleman, whose name I have not heard, and is now in ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 182, April 23, 1853 • Various
... had been standing aloof at a window, turned suddenly. "But when the bonds are offered for sale, Halsey, won't the ...
— The Circular Staircase • Mary Roberts Rinehart
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