He was very severe in repressing drunkenness and dissipation, though no one was readier to make allowance for a little extra merriment on market days and festive gatherings.
It is immensely rich in natural productions, and wants only a market to have a great trade.
Worth estimated by any standard of purchasing power, especially by the market price, or the amount of money agreed upon as an equivalent to the utility and cost of anything.
A town has both a market and a church or churches.
Edward watched the effects on the stock-market of these little notes which he wrote out and then shot through a pneumatic tube to Mr. Gould's brokers.
He must go where his largest market is: where the buyers are.
Wonderful man, Beecher is," said a market dealer in green goods once.
The cross stands in an open area in the centre of the market place, and is twenty-seven feet high above the basement, which is raised by rows of steps about five feet.
The first station after leaving Stafford for Shrewsbury, and immediately after crossing into Shropshire, is a small markettown and borough, with a corporation, which can be traced back to Henry III.
Previous to 1711, the cloth market was held in the open street.
Lord Furnival a charter to hold a market in Sheffield on Tuesday in every week, and a fair every year about the period of Trinity Sunday.
The markets for live stock of the district and from Ireland are important, and market gardening is carried on to a considerable amount in the neighbourhood of the town.
If it has not already been done, we hope that the cultivation of land on the system of market gardens will be added to the trades, as affording a more certain, and, in some respects, more generally useful employment.
A week more elapsed, and the officers and crew began to talk of the voyage to their marketin China.
In the second place, I was scandalized and alarmed by an incident which took place--still on the endless journey from east to west--in a street hard by the market of Covent Garden.
To be well within bounds I will assume that one robe sent to market by these Indians represents six dead buffaloes.
This condition of affairs rapidly improved; but such was the furor for slaughter, and the ignorance of all concerned, that every hide sent to market in 1871 represented no less than five dead buffalo.
There had always been a market for buffalo robes at a fair price, and as soon as the railways crossed the buffalo country the slaughter began.
At that time robes were worth from two to three times as much as they ever had been in the south, the market was very active, and the successful hunter was sure to reap a rich reward as long as the buffaloes lasted.
By that time the market had become completely overstocked with robes, and the prices received by Andrews and other hunters was only 65 cents each for cow robes and $1.
Those bands of Sioux who live at the agencies, and whose peltries are taken to market by the Union Pacific Railroad, live in lodges of cotton cloth furnished by the Indian Bureau.
In the summer and fall of 1872 one hide sent to market represented at least three dead buffalo.
The number of robes sent to market represent only what we may call the foreign exchange of these tribes, and is really not more than one-tenth of the skins taken.
The business-like, wholesale slaughter, wherein one hunter would openly kill five thousand buffaloes and market perhaps two thousand hides, could easily have been stopped forever.
Its game resorts are all laid bare, and the market hunters and sportsmen swarm in immediately, slaying and to slay.
A market was readily found for them in the East, and the prices paid per ton were sufficient to make the business of bone-gathering quite remunerative.
Until the building of the first transcontinental railway made it possible to market the "buffalo product," buffalo hunting as a business was almost wholly in the hands of the Indians.
The three-quarter breed is an enormous animal in size, and has an extra good robe, which will readily bring $40 to $50 in any market where there is a demand for robes.
Through want of skill in shooting and want of knowledge in preserving the hides of those slain by green hunters, one hide sent to market represented three, four, or even five dead buffalo.
In this instance, the overgrown arrogance of the latest stock-market millionaires has degenerated into imbecility, induced by protracted success in their despoilment of the public.
He smiled deprecatingly but forgivingly: the money-market was a pampered child; no need to be too harsh.
Huge blocks have been thrown on the market this past week.
He was a resourceful stock-market manipulator, though he would have resented being called a thief not half so hotly as being called a speculator, because that sounded worse in a bank president.
The market won t-- "This is no time to think of eighths and quarters," said Mellen with decision.
A few minutes later the stock-market became very weak--the suspicious gambler was selling stocks to be on the safe side.
Under the new selling pressure the market acted crazily.
He shook his head several times as in sorrow over a fellow-Christian gone wrong: The stock-market had sinned.
Or, he could so misuse it as to foil some stock-market plan of Mr. Dawson's, or of his associates.
The Street felt that to "trade" in such a market was like playing rouge-et-noir in an utterly dark room.
He stowed the notes away down in his trousers-pocket, unbuttoned and rebuttoned his coat, and jocosely informed me that the price of liquid drier was on the rise, and he would now lay in a stock before the market was too high.
No vestige of improvement had come over Wentworth Street--the narrow noisy market street, where serried barrows flanked the reeking roadway exactly as of old, and where Esther trod on mud and refuse and babies.
As a substitute for grey hair-dye, there is nothing in the market to compete with the production of first numbers.
A great many wethers of this breed are annually brought to market at Kathmandu, and may be readily procured, nor does it appear that those brought by Captain Turner were entire males.
Each farm was assessed at a certain quantity of grain, which the farmer might either pay in kind, or in money, at the market price.
The market places (Hats) are 24 in number, as will appear by the map.
In other words, Hongkong refuses to consider giving up its opium revenue until the Chinese take the market away from it.
He is praised for his goodness of heart by men who forget how he enforces the tyrannical law by which the Khan, instead of inflicting corporal punishment or imposing fines, sends off his subjects to the slave-market of Bokhara.
A market in this country assumes the appearance of a fair or festival.
From the book market I was in the habit of resorting to the Righistan (public place); it lay rather remote.
We traversed Gazavat, where the weekly market was being held, and had a first glimpse at the Khivan mode of living.
As it grew late I proceeded to the market to look for my friends, and it cost me much labour to make my way through the waving crowd.
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It is near hardwood forests and is an important market for hardwood mantels.
The principal building is the Dutch Reformed church in the centre of the market square.
In the large market place is the statue of the Prussian king Frederick William I.
The Friday market was certainly dropped by 1592, if it was ever held.
In the same year as the charter to Knutsford the king granted to William de Tabley a market every Saturday at Nether Knutsford, and a three days' fair at the Feast of St Peter and St Paul.
Knaresborough is said by Leland to be "no great thing and meanely builded but the market there is quik.
Dawson itself has all the resources of a civilized city in spite of being founded on a frozen peat-bog; and is supplied with ordinary market vegetables from farms just across the river.
Its charter as a town dates from 1298, and it was a much frequented market in the preceding century.
A market on Wednesday and a fortnightly fair on the same day from the Feast of St Mark to that of St Andrew are claimed under a charter of Charles II.
For the farmers of the better sort put off their dinner till two o’clock, when the prime of the market was over, and then sat down to boiled beef and carrots in the yard of the White Horse Inn, and often did their best in that way.
It was round the market in ten seconds that a grand lord was going to sell out of Grower Lovejoy’s waggon.
Bogert obtained several large specimens at the market in Patzcuaro.
As to the disturbance of the labour market consequent upon the war, he viewed it with no favour.
Let us suppose that during one year a market garden worked by one man has produced vegetables to the value of £10.
In the case of our market garden the introduction of intensive horticulture might mean that maximum production per head required the work of forty men.
They buy these things at the marketand use their street shovels for stewpans, as you see.
Then we will ride over there now and let you all see the largest wholesale produce market under one roof that you can find in all the world.
These, Jose told Francisco, were the market carts that brought the produce into the city.
Kirk her consul at Zanzibar, and told him to make the Sultan of Zanzibar order all slave-trading through that great market to cease.
At the end of every two weeks one of the four members of the "Great Long Island Frog Company" took to market from two hundred to two hundred and fifty live frogs, for which was received a dollar and a half per hundred.
Turn left on the back street until you reach the chowk--the market place!
There were natives in the market place, gathered in little clusters, discussing the recent riot.
It was fortunate that both were in native garb, because Biff could sense that eyes were watching them as they followed the street to the market place.
Piles of ancient bricks represented the walls of houses, though enough were still standing to mark the lines of streets and market squares.
The spring butter was packed into fifty-pound tubs to be shipped to market as fast as made.
Then the product that went to market was butter, now it is milk.
Another time I was walking along one of the market streets of New York, when a heavy bale of hay, through the carelessness of some workman, dropped from thirty or forty feet above me and struck the pavement at my feet.
I can see Father starting off with his market basket on his arm, the basket as full of provisions and reading matter as his step was full of vigour.
There's no end of a market for anything new in travels.
Esau tells me the roof and a portion of the market house was carried away, and it was the most violent gale I have ever known.
I mean that at last, after many vexatious and grievous failures, I am promised a most eligible alliance, the highest market price.
