He inoculated me with a taste for pictures and good engravings, of which I bought some.
I have bought many books, and at their ends I make an index of all the facts that concern my work; or, if the book is not my own, write out a separate abstract, and of such abstracts I have a large drawer full.
A boy of the name of Garnett took me into a cake shop one day, and bought some cakes for which he did not pay, as the shopman trusted him.
Mathew had not known about it before, except that on a certain day in the year his father had bought him toys.
He is very pleased that the Temple land has been bought in Kampala.
The Guardian feels a small piece of property which can be bought for this One Thousand Dollars should be procured at once, so that this goal of the Ten Year Crusade can be concluded.
She knew now that he had bought and paid for them as well as her, and sold them again at a fat profit, far across the seas--all but the dumb, deformed black woman whom he had picked from among them to act as her nurse.
You have boughtthe right to laugh at the sound, if you please.
Thine ears as well as thy hands are mine--I have bought thee, body and soul.
The presses and types were afterwards bought by Cromwell, and the work was subsequently finished and published in 1539.
These patents were invariably granted for life with reversion to a successor, and they were bought and sold freely.
Later that same year Howells senior, from whom the son evidently inherited his industry and ambition, bought the Ashtabula Sentinel and transferred the property to Jefferson, whither the family moved.
When he was three years old his father moved from Martin's Ferry to Hamilton and bought The Intelligencer, a weekly paper.
Bennington had bought the little bronco, and together they extended their investigations of the country in all directions.
The case, briefly, is this: We've bought this busted proposition of the people who were handling it, and have assumed their debt.
My friend Hare's brother, who married a sister of the impudent coxcomb, Edward Stanley, has bought a house at Torquay, and Hare tells me that unless he goes to Sicily be shall be there in winter.
We bought a field in a very beautiful situation overlooking the ruins of Brougham Castle and the confluence of the Eden with the Lowther, and proceeded to build a house on the higher part of it.
Which is the better portion--bondage bought with a ring, Or a harem of dusky beauties, fifty tied in a string?
At the ticket-office, after answering many inquisitive questions, she bought with her silver dollars a ticket that would take her a long way on the train that was going farthest from the city she had left in the first place.
Whether Wakefield really believed that he had bought it, or whether Rauparaha was equally confident that he had not sold it, will never be known.
At last he discovered this one, and, without telling us, ordered it to be bought for my birthday.
He bought for old Clemence and little Rosalie two shares in Government stock of 1,500 francs each.
It was I who bought the castle and farms and all the rest here at the sale yesterday.
Then he bought books--volumes which cost anything between twopence and two shillings; further than that he durst not go.
But the food I bought with his money was choking me.
We bought two, just to pacify the servants, and let them make the mixture, thinking nothing more about it.
The whole church was seated with carved oak benches, which he had bought from time to time from other churches, when they were re-pewed with "deal boxes!
They bought this, and had a suitable inscription engraved, and then placed it under a glass shade in the Town Hall, on a certain day for inspection.
He had bought a chapel from the Primitive Methodists for Divine service, and had erected schools for upwards of three hundred children.
The publican who had bought it said, "I wish I had not bid for the old thing at all; it is too good to 'scat' up for firewood.
He bought himself a fine house; he made all the friends he wanted, and more; he lived without a care, and with nothing to do but to enjoy himself.
I have heard tell that one day the king dropped in the street the piece of advice that he had bought from Babo, and that before he found it again it had been trampled into the mud and dirt.
The Wise Man bought the talisman for three pieces of silver (and wisdom has been sold for less than that many a time), and as soon as he had the talisman in his hands he hurried home with it and locked himself in a room.
So, filled with good resolves, the young man went the next day to his creditors and paid his debts; he bought back the house which his father had left him, and there began to lead a new life as he had promised.
I then bought thread and crocheted some lace which I sold for 25 cents.
This is an instance: "With the original cent I bought some darning-cotton and darned stockings, some for a cent a stocking, but most of them for a cent a hole.
Lulu" bought a penny rubber and sold it for 2 cents, bought darning cotton, pins, cloth for apron, etc.
Harry bought the old Wilson Carter place, and brought from his boyhood home two former slaves of his father to keep house for him, Old Uncle George and his wife Mam Liz.
Carmony had bought twelve copies of this newspaper and mailed them home to his friends.
She boughtmore radishes, more wine and some cheese.
Illustration: "And when he bought each of the girls a set of ribands, hers was the finest.
My only dislike arose from an attachment he discovered to my daughter: he would, in a jesting manner, call her his little mistress; and when he bought each of the girls a set of ribands, hers was the finest.
I sold my soldier's clothes, bought worse, and, in order not to be overtaken, took the most unfrequented roads possible.
I had them a dead bargain, or I should not have bought them.
I suppose you must recollect," resumed I, "one Doctor Primrose, from whom you bought a horse?
I deserted; and that answered my purpose every bit as well as if I had bought my discharge.
Some time after the accession of King Edward the writer went into a post office and bought two dozen penny stamps.
Of the latter only used specimens should be collected, as unused copies of any of the Dependencies may be bought at face value in Paris--a matter which largely robs the labels of their interest.
CELIA He hath bought a pair of cast lips of Diana: a nun of winter's sisterhood kisses not more religiously; the very ice of chastity is in them.
To quiet me, Josephine bought on the Pont-Neuf a little dog not unlike the Tarbes specimen.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "bought" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
