Of what use to send two smugglers to the penitentiary, when at the Calcutta opium sales, once a month opium is auctioned off under the auspices of the British Government, to be disposed of as the buyers may see fit?
As the blue book states, this opium is auctioned off once a month.
Mary said the master married her mother and father after her mother was stood up on a stump and auctioned off.
Many a time if the boy was desirable, he was put on the stump and auctioned off by the time he was thirteen years old.
The goods of the proscribed were auctioned off publicly under Sulla's direction, and their children and grandchildren declared ineligible for public office.
Caius then assured himself of the support of the financial interests by a law which provided that the whole revenue from the new province of Asia should be auctioned off at Rome in a lump to Roman contractors.
There was no slave jail on the Stone place, and I never saw a slave sold or auctioned off.
My grandmother came straight from Africa and wuz auctioned off and bought by William Reide Father.
Did you ever see any slaves sold or auctioned off?
As we shall see hereafter, unless the accused was penniless, the cost of his maintenance in prison was a first lien on his sequestrated property and, if there was not ready money, his effects wereauctioned off to supply it.
By fortunate chance, gentlemen, a small lot of maids is to be auctioned off at a village very near the Imperial City tomorrow.
Many other maids will be auctioned off at the same time.
This only serves as an illustration of how easy it is to appeal to the girl's ambition; yes, even to that of a parent, in this nefarious business of securing girls to be auctioned as white slaves.
True it is that some girls go willingly to the block to be auctioned into a disreputable life, only to find later their terrible mistake.
That is the value the White Slave traders place upon the soul of a girl when she is auctioned off to the highest bidder for a house of ill-repute.
All of these things are considered by the crafty trader who procures the girl to be auctionedinto a life of slavery.
The slaves were auctioned to the highest bidder and Louisa and the twins were bought by a man living near Cadiz but Mr. Street refused to sell Amy Elizabeth.
He also remembers slave sales where Negroes were auctioned by auctioneers, the Negroes stripped of clothes to exhibit their physique.
While John was yet a small boy Benjamin Simms died and the Simms slaves were auctioned to the highest bidders.
He was sold to a nigger trader and come in the gang to Memphis, Tennessee and was put on the block and auctioned off to the highest bidder.
Grandmother was put up on the block to be auctioned off and freedom was declared!
The paltry sum obtained after it had been auctioned was delivered to the guards, who had refused to bury them without first being paid the necessary expenses.
Most of our possessions were auctioned at half their value.
Johann Schoepf observed a prompt consummation of the sort when a cooper being auctioned continually called to the bidders that whoever should buy him must buy his son also, an injunction to which his purchaser duly conformed.
I never seed no slaves sold on the block or auctioned off, and if any droves of slaves for sale passed our plantation I'se done forgot about it.
I ain't never seed no slaves bein' sold or auctioned off on de block.
When I'se livin' at Red House I seed slaves auctioned off.
I never saw any of them auctioned off or put in chains.
His job was to wash their faces and hands and fix their hair--comb and cut and braid their hair and dress them to be auctioned off.
They drove niggers in there by the hundred and auctioned them off to the highest bidder.
They was auctioned off just like you would sell goods.
They sold a lot of children from Virginia all along the way and he was put up in Tennessee and auctioned off.
The books, which made only a minor part of the latter sale, were all auctioned off on the sixth day.
They auctioned off niggers accordin' to the breed of them.
They put her up to stand on a barrel and auctioned them off at public auction.
Libbie & Co auctioned it off with the library of Israel T.
I seed slaves sold andauctioned off, 'cause I's put up to the highest bidder myself.
I never did see any slaves auctioned off, but I heered of it.
It was jus' a little stand built out in the open with no top on it, that the slaves stood on to get sold while the white folks auctioned 'em off.
For the fact that Berlin, for instance, obtains the bulk of the gold auctioned off on any given Monday by no means proves that the gold is going to remain for any length of time in Berlin.
The next time they put me up in a wagon and auctioned me off.
When ejected from their large holding by Dick o' the Grange, or in other words, wereauctioned out, they were unhappily at a loss where to find a place in which they could take a temporary refuge.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "auctioned" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
