And now he considered that it would be an exceedingly desirable project to introduce the raising of the commodity in the projected new settlement, and thus diminish to the nation the large sums annually expended in the importation.
I do not aver this, for truth is not the staple commodity of that family.
Taste is too freezing a commodity for us, and, depend upon it, will go out of fashion again.
A dealer in stocks or any commodity for speculative purposes; a speculator.
Any commodity that lies on hand, or is not salable; an article of slow sale, or in no demand.
Any commodity re\'89xported; -- chiefly in the ptural.
To deal in stocks or any commodity with a view to speculative profits.
The aldermen voted in favor of Sharp because cash was not only a more valuable commodity than the bonds but, to use Alderman Fullgraff's own words--"less easily traced.
He believed that success depended upon supplying a commodity that made the buyer a friend; and heaven, to him, was a vast County Fair, largely attended by farmers, where exhibitions of plowing were important items on the program.
The average millionaire believes in education, because he has heard the commodityhighly recommended in the newspapers.
He rivaled both Yankee-Gentile and Jew, and his blarney was a commodity that stood him in good stead.
Mighty and destructive," he replied, "by that severe act of Parliament which excludes us from having any commerce with any nation in Europe but our own, so that we cannot add to our plantation any commodity that grows out of it .
Thus, early in its history, Virginia had found a commodity for which she was preeminently suited, in the production of which she could compete successfully with any country in the world.
Her future lay in the discovery and exploitation of one staple commodity for which she was so preeminently adapted that she could, even with her costly labor, meet the competition of other lands.
Virginia was not prepared to compete with the workers of Europe in their own chosen fields, and persisted, had to persist, in the production of the one commodity for which she possessed unsurpassed natural advantages.
Like them he found too severe the struggle for existence at home, like them he sought to reach a land where labor, the only commodity he had to sell, would bring the highest return.
Until the treaty made by Lord Elgin in 1858 the importation of opium had been for many years nominally contraband, while yet the trade in it was as open as that in any other commodity and was as little interfered with by the Government.
Opium, being the commodity which the people most imperatively demanded, was always paid for in hard cash, while ordinary merchandise might be bartered against Chinese produce.
The trade in this commodity differs from all ordinary commerce in the conditions under which it has been carried on, and in the sentiments which have grown up concerning it.
A reasonable man would have perceived the utter impossibility of preventing the Chinese people from purchasing a commodity for which they had an overmastering desire.
It was an understood thing that the Company should never keep less than two years' supply of tea in the London warehouses, and long after the Company ceased to trade stocks of that commodity often amounted to nearly twelve months' consumption.
Moreover, they have by dint of advertising all over the world, attending exhibitions, and many other devices, forced their commodity into markets which would never have come to them.
But the chiefest commodity that this Tree produceth, is the wine which issueth from it, pleasant, & as nourishing as Muskadine or Alligant.
Labor is a commodity like every other, and rises or falls according to the demand.
If a commodity is raised by authority above what it will yield with a profit to the buyer, that commodity will be the less dealt in.
When any commodity is carried to market, it is not the necessity of the vendor, but the necessity of the purchaser, that raises the price.
Miss Snevellicci was at once overwhelmed with blushes and expressions of gratitude, of which latter commodity neither Mr nor Mrs Crummles was by any means sparing.
After some half-hour's delay, Mr Squeers reappeared, and the boys took their places and their books, of which latter commodity the average might be about one to eight learners.
I likewise bought three bales of cotton cloth, which cost me 800 ducats, that commodity selling well in Pegu.
There is no commodity in the Indies worth bringing to Pegu, except sometimes the opium of Cambay, and if any one bring money he is sure to lose by it.
I have already said that the staple commodity of the journals appears to be formed of stories.
Sir,' answered I, 'fools are like to be so common a commodity at court, that I am weary of my coat.
Should such a commerce be pursued, how many cargoes of this commodity alone would arrive in our ports, and from thence be distributed to the different markets of Europe!
And to command all these, they have, at this day, the best Generals of Christendom; which were the onlycommodity the Civil Wars did leave them.
If any commodity can be made in Canada at a profit under present conditions, I wish all success to the man who undertakes to make that commodity, but to tax me to give the man a bonus to do so is to rob me of my honest earnings.
By making the land a commodity to buy political support, the settlement of the country has been kept back.
The men got out and began filling the cart with peat from the piles of this commodity lying about.
It is amusing to hear the talk about the English war bread in this country, to anyone who has experienced the same commodity in Germany.
The production and sale of this commodity are now monopolized by the State.
It is labor both useful and desired, and therefore an economic commodity subject to the law of supply and demand.
In a free market this commodity would be furnished at the cost of production.
To use Franklin's language, there was no other market that they could go to for the commodity that they wanted.
Another commodity in which Franklin dealt was the unexpired time of indentured or bond servants, who had sold their services for a series of years in return for transportation to America.
To lay duties on a commodity exported, which our neighbours want," he wrote to James Lovell in 1778, "is a knavish attempt to get something for nothing.
This is thecommodity of price, of which you have the monopoly.
But no commodity will bear three-pence, or will bear a penny, when the general feelings of men are irritated, and two millions of people are resolved not to pay.
No man ever doubted that the commodity of tea could bear an imposition of three-pence.
The cylinders were charged at this point and dispatched to the scene of action, so that it became unnecessary to transport the commodity from Britain.
Seeing that the gas has to be transported in cylinders, which are weighty, it is incumbent that the waste of this commodity should be reduced to the minimum.
In proportion as the supply of a particular commodity can be more easily reduced, the price of it will more quickly rise after the difficulty of its production has been increased by taxation, or by any other means.
To circulate these additional commodities, even at the same prices as before, more money is required, more of this foreign commodity from which money is made, and which can only be obtained by importation.
Its natural price, its money cost of production, would be really altered by the altered value of money; and without any increase of demand, the price of the commodity would be naturally adjusted to that new value.
Whenever a commodity is required in greater abundance than before, its relative value rises comparatively with those commodities with which its purchase is made.
First he obtains a greater share, and secondly thecommodity in which he is paid is of greater value.
If the quantity of labour realized in commodities, regulate their exchangeable value, every increase of the quantity of labour must augment the value of that commodity on which it is exercised, as every diminution must lower it.
Harvesting" Ice At Jamestown About 1640 Conjectural Painting Although not a commodity in the strict sense of the word, an icehouse was indispensable in preserving certain products.
The majority of the colonists had to struggle to grow crops and produce goods with which they were familiar, and were reluctant to experiment with a commodity which required a special skill that they did not possess.
I shall cause him to be advertised by the first commodity of the note you write about his friends.
Then the chiefest of them took the present commodity offered by meeting with learned Priests that holy time, and meant to inform themselves of such doubts as were risen concerning the lawfulness of the business they had in hand.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "commodity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
