My father was in the Austrian service, and retired upon a pension and his patrimony, and purchased this feudal residence, and the small estate on which it stands, a bargain.
I let him have four horses, which I purchasedfrom our Rising-sun Brethren.
I purchased two thousand of him, part trade, part cash; and he is to deliver it to you.
They separated from him, purchased a tobacco keg, filled it with stone-coal cinders, within an inch of the top, packing them very hard to make them weigh heavy.
He accordingly placed upon the table a pack of cards which he said he had purchased that evening.
Over the cries of the Hermanitos came the wail of the sirens, the clamor of the bells on the American fire engines the city had purchased a few years back.
Consul Campfield afterwards gave us a refreshing row about the harbor, bringing us within view of the two iron-clads newly purchased and brought out to run the Turkish blockade.
A certain sculptor, Cavalier Pacetti, purchased this last fragment, sold at auction for the sum of seven or eight hundred dollars.
The right of excavation here vests in a Frenchman, who has purchased the same.
He was then a candidate for the Polish crown; and having purchased the support of the emperor Charles VI.
Here was an order which was not to be purchased like the Order of Leopold and the French Legion of Honor.
In the first place, we had not purchased our costumes and scenery in Italy.
Once she went to a druggist's store, but, being unable to get what she wanted, she entered another one and purchased a small package.
I had purchasedseven slaves from a man in New Orleans, and I could not pay for them.
The brown shoes which she had purchased expressly for her visit to Lady Ogram would have seemed impossibly large and coarse.
He purchased the estate from Robert Catesby, the projector of the Gunpowder Plot, who sold the manor to provide funds for carrying on that notorious conspiracy.
I lately purchased a coffee-pot which enables me to do it in the very best manner, with no more trouble than I have in making the tea.
This if well carved is an excellent dish for eight or nine persons; it is a dish very much esteemed in France, and is considered cheap food from the nourishment afforded by the haricots, which can be purchased at sixpence per quart.
He had purchased the vessel for this one purpose, and with his own hands he had strewn the deck with blossoms, till it looked like a floating garden of fairyland.
Keep it, Sir, for those whose love and faith can be purchased with jewelled toys!
Therefore the word 'free' cannot be applied to that recording-force of nations which we call Journalism; inasmuch as it is now a merely purchased Chattle.
The planterspurchased them, not as apprentices, but as slaves.
The planters grew richer, purchased more land and more slaves, while the apprenticed men, who had no money and no means of obtaining any, of course could not become land-owners.
Their fathers purchased wives: why should they not sell their own children?
It is better to die than give up that rich inheritance bequeathed us by our fathers, and purchased by their blood.
It is terrible to see, but you remember that the greatest blessing the world ever received was purchased by blood,--the blood of the Son of God.
As his lameness interfered with successful hunting on land, but not with his dexterity in handling the paddle, I purchased for him a light canoe in which he made many short excursions.
First, I went to a butcher, and purchasedfrom him about two hundred and fifty pounds of his choicest cuts of meat; telling him, that as it was to be dragged by dogs on a sled some hundreds of miles, I wanted as little bone as possible.
Knowing, then, that I was simply an opium eater, I purchased my own morphia at the drug-stores, and took it per mouth instead of by a hypodermic syringe.
Petro discovered the man who had bought the mare, and re-purchased her from him, as I had directed: but the description of the first seller did not tally with my recollections of Lepardo.
When we announce that mine host of the Elephant is to be major domo, and our respected townsman George Jenkins, who purchased as our readers are aware the gold medal ox at Smithfield, is to cater for the occasion, need we say anything more?
At the same time any of the more common extracts, juices, and tinctures (or the proper parts of the plants for making these several medicaments), may be readily purchased at the shop of every leading druggist.
Five guineas were paid by the Corporation for the pound of Saffron which theypurchased for Queen Elizabeth; and to constitute this quantity forty [486] thousand flowers were required.
In this country it may be purchased as a powder, but not readily miscible with water, so that many persons fail in making the decoction.
On the Saturday preceding Palm Sunday (says Miss Baker), the market at Northampton is abundantly supplied with figs, and more of the fruit is purchased at this time than throughout the rest of the year.
Thought upon thought, and recollection upon recollection came crowding in, from the remembrance of the proud day when he had purchased the costly book, in order to write down the birth of the little babe of a day old.
He bought meat, and a loaf of bread, candles, chips, and from a little retail yard he purchased a couple of hundredweights of coal.
Rome reached a greatness such as no other state of antiquity attained; but she dearly purchasedher greatness at the sacrifice of the graceful variety, of the easy abandon and of the inward freedom of Hellenic life.
He had purchased the right to build it from the Indians.
I am to apprize your Excellency, that the officers of every rank, both British and German, but particularly the former, have purchased within this State some of the finest horses in it.
Besides these, he had rejected sixty odd, after we had purchased them, at £3000 apiece.
They have purchased the Indian right of soil to about fifty millions of acres of land, between the Ohio and lakes, and expected to make another purchase of an equal quantity.
Congress have lately purchased the Indian right to nearly the whole of the land lying in the new State, bounded by lake Erie, Pennsylvania, and the Ohio.
I have purchased little for you in the book way since I sent the catalogue of my former purchases.
Hanging up the receiver, Vivian purchased a five-cent box of blacking, a commodity not ranking among Meeghan's best sellers, and returned to make ready for his professional rounds.
The heirs of the Count Peter inherited his accumulated treasures, his purchased estates, his title, and his prospects of future success in mining, which were as brilliant as they had been in his lifetime.
Two large suit cases were purchased and the recovered articles packed into them.
Tickets were purchased without delay, and soon the car was moving.
Alleghany Indians protesting, however, not less firmly than the French, that the lands purchased by the English under that treaty extended no farther toward the sunset than the laurel hills on the western edge of the Alleghanies.
Provided therefore we have not purchased it too dear, there is all the reason for exultation which the friends of the administration display, and which all Americans may be allowed to feel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purchased" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
