Great Auctioneer was saying, almost in the words of Mr. Harpworth.
The auctioneer was leaning forward now upon the tall cupboard with an air of command, and surveying the assembled crowd with a lordly eye.
Here the Shadowy Auctioneer broke in again and lifted me out of that limited moment.
He was that Great Auctioneer who brings all things at last under his inexorable hammer.
Gentleman and ladies, it is a great moment in the life of an auctioneer when he can offer, for sale, free and without reservation, such treasures as these.
Wharves, street frontages, building sites, allotments all passed under the hammer of the Government auctioneer of the day at curiously low prices.
The auctioneer went from room to room; they had begun in the outer rooms, now they were coming to the reception-rooms, at whose far end was the kitchen.
The official auctioneer accepted Timar's offer, and gave over the whole cargo to him as his property.
I disturbed the auctioneer feeding his poultry, and cajoled him to come to the house, which I had found locked up.
When the auctioneertold me I could have it for two shillings if it was any good to me, I thought how little he knew of his business.
He had his five dollars still in his pocket, and when the first horse was brought out, the auctioneer raised his hammer and shouted in loud tones: "How much am I offered for this horse?
The auctioneer was in plain sight above the heads of the crowd, and the horses were led out one by one from the stable.
The property of Roscius was knocked down at a mock auction to a bad lot of ruffians, who were there to intimidate the auctioneer into doing their smallest bidding.
From this circumstance, the word Rostrum, which means the prow of a ship, has been derived, and has got into such universal use as to describe the box from which an auctioneer launches his eloquence.
The auctioneer stopped, looked around, and began in a rough manner to relate some anecdote connected with the sale of slaves, which he said had come under his own observation.
The auctioneer commenced by saying that Miss Isabella was fit to deck the drawing-room of the finest mansion in Virginia.
The auctioneer once more resorted to his jokes, and concluded by assuring the company that Isabella was not only pious, but that she could make an excellent prayer.
As far as he could make out in the flickering light of one of the gas-stars, which the auctioneer had just ordered to be lit, there were half-erased scratches and triangular marks on the cap that might possibly be an inscription.
You'll lose it, sir," said theauctioneer to the little man.
Thirteen shillings," the auctioneer was saying, in his dispassionate tones.
He handled her with an approach to gentleness, asking the auctioneer all he wanted to know.
The auctioneer fetched another boy from the pen and walked round with him and Marzuk.
His instructions understood, the auctioneer hurried away to the centre of the market-place, where the other dilals surrounded their chief.
The three sat along the arcade some twenty yards from one another, and raised the price of the two little girls three, four, sometimes five dollars at a time, the auctioneer thanking them with a "Praise be to Allah the One!
A bad price--a bad price," muttered the auctioneer sadly, and then he withdrew from the line and returned to the pen.
Furniture and stuff was jammed all around, even at the back of the platform where the auctioneer stood.
As Mr. Bullfinch and Jerry took seats in the back row, the auctioneer was holding up a table lamp.
Richard, who was sitting at the long table with the catalogue before him, kept his eyes fixed upon its pages while the auctioneer pointed him out as the purchaser of the lot in question.
The first gleam of pleasure which had visited his dark soul for twenty years was the sight of Solomon's countenance when, on the sixth day's sale, the auctioneer gave out that lot 970 had been withdrawn.
Then the auctioneer stepped up to her, and gave her a blow with his whip, that she might rouse herself up, and appear less miserable to the buyers.
It was very hot, and Jimmy found the waiting difficult to bear as he listened to the hum of voices and glanced at his watch, until at last the auctioneer sat down at a raised table.
The auctioneer apparently waited for him to take it across, but Jimmy quietly sat down.
It was about 1680 that he turned auctioneer of books, though he did not wholly abandon publishing.
They accordingly engaged a room of an auctioneer in Spring Gardens for a display of their works during May 1761.
One critic objects to a swelling on the foot of Juno as a defect in its proportion; but the auctioneer informs him that the swelling is intended to represent a corn, and the defect is thereupon pronounced an absolute master-stroke.
Presently the auctioneer proceeds: 'Bring forward the head from Herculaneum.
But the auctioneer had scant time for jokes or reckless buyers as he was there for business.
I heard the auctioneer say you presented a rare print to the Museum in New York City.
Such a choking and coughing as ensued made them separate in haste, for fear the noise would make the auctioneer come out to enquire.
We mean, it was too bad for that nice old auctioneer to be used by the city man as he certainly was.
The old auctioneer heard the note of anxiety in her tone and peered over his specs to study her guileless expression.
Arriving home, late that afternoon, Mrs. Fabian was given a letter sent from the old auctioneer at Morristown.
But he had not quite ended his tale before an old buggy drove up and the auctioneergot out.
I want to ask the auctioneer how much this little box and mirror are?
Some of the assembled people looked guilty, and the auctioneerrode rough-shod over their feelings.
There seemed to be a far different type of buyer at this sale, than the girls had found at any of the little sales in Westchester; and once the auctioneer began on the antique pieces, the prices ran up alarmingly.
The two bed-rooms were so small that few people could get in, so the auctioneer ordered Abner to carry the articles for sale, out on the lawn where everyone could see them.
I am surprised that the old auctioneer would do such a thing.
What some people would call proud," the auctioneer replied.
The auctioneer responded by handing the doctor a small hand bill setting forth the sale.
Going up to theauctioneer who had just mounted a bench for the purpose of selling the slave, he enquired where she had come from.
I attended the sale, hitched my horse in the barn lot and was walking across the garden at the back of the house toward an open space, where the crowd was gathered waiting for the auctioneer to open the sale.
I'll take your word," the auctioneer had said in reply to some doubts expressed by her.
Only an instant did the auctioneer wait, and then his decision, "Gone!
No one would rise above that, Harney was sure, and quietly waited until the bids were far between, and the auctioneer still dwelling upon the last, seemed waiting expectantly for something.
In Britain an auctioneer must have a licence (for which he pays L10), renewable annually.
Verbal declarations by an auctioneer are not suffered to control the printed conditions of sale.
He is silent; theauctioneer grows warmer; but bids gradually drop off.
The auctioneer sees his advantage, and expatiates volubly in mingled French and English, and bids rise in rapid succession.
Backus, an auctioneer of considerable prominence in mercantile and social circles.
Sinton, of the real estate and auctioneer firm of Selover & Sinton, then the leading firm in that line in the city.
The auctioneer is seated under a candelabra, at his desk, which is placed upon a circle of boards running round the apartment, and forming a trestle for the display of engravings.
The auctioneeris in his pulpit, employed in knocking down an assortment of vehicles to a small but sufficiently eccentric-looking audience.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "auctioneer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
