The value of thepurchases made at Miami by the Indians, I was informed, is annually about $2,000.
Their purchases were complete by noon, but Hackett would not let them start until morning.
Austin's experienced presence, the purchases in St. Louis were made in record time and at the end of the second week in January, Roger and Ernest set forth alone for the desert country.
Purchases apparently were always made after dusk, and Ah Fu with his birdcage was due that evening.
Do you mean that they disappear, these purchases of Ah Fu's?
Purchases of all the above are made in Manila, and paid in reals and gold.
In this trading, somepurchases are also made, without royal duties being collected from those vessels.
He drove slowly this afternoon, and Mrs. Weston remembered, as she approached Harper's, that she had one or two purchases to make.
After reaching Fort Wintee and making some suitable purchasesfor our trip, we took a new guide and started on our journey for Fort Macumpagra, situate on the waters of Grand River, in the Spanish country.
Great purchases were made and great transactions apparently completed without the signing even of a cheque.
Rank squanders money; trade makes it;--and then trade purchases rank by re-gilding its splendour.
All war measures, external land purchases and organization, general laws and taxes should be the province of the federal government, but each colony should keep its private constitution, and money should issue only by common consent.
Boston was indignant, but restricted itself to ceasing all purchases of importations, trusting thus to wear out their oppressors.
Mamie Blanchard, under the eyes of the sheriff and deputy, entered the store and began making purchases in an ordinary manner.
Mamie Blanchard made purchasesat several departments, and then left the store.
Caracalla is assassinated; Macrinus is proclaimed emperor; hepurchases peace with the Parthians.
Expedition of Julian against the Persians, under Sapor II; Julian retreats and is slain; Jovian succeeds him in the purple; he purchases peace of Sapor by allotting him the Roman frontiers.
His transactions consist ofpurchases on account as follows: From Henry Karl & Co.
All of the columns for distribution are left blank, it being seldom that purchases from one firm are distributed to more than a half dozen different accounts.
Charged with all purchases of leather for use in harness department.
This account is charged with all purchases as represented by the footings of the purchase book or purchase journal.
Charged through purchase and cash books for all purchases of factory supplies, like oil, waste, belt lacing, and similar items.
It will be noted that neither purchases nor sales are recorded in detail, but that both purchase invoices and sales tickets are recorded by number, and only the totals extended in the proper column.
The trading account is made up by charging total inventory at the beginning of the year and purchases during the year; crediting net sales and inventory at the close of the year, the balance representing the gross profit.
When the goods sold are divided into departments, it is here customary to record carefully the purchases and sales for each department.
A Purchase or Invoice Book is the opposite of the sales book, being used for a record of all purchases made.
All returns or other similar deductions allowed on purchase invoices are charged to those from whom the purchaseswere made and credited to purchase account.
Charged with the cost of freight and cartage on all purchases for the harness department.
Footings of discount and total columns are posted to the credit of discount on purchases and bank accounts.
The balances of these accounts show actual net purchasesand sales.
Sales records were vouchered by original orders, shipping receipts, and invoice copies, and purchases by the regular vouchers, but there was no voucher for transactions involving transfers of values from one account to another.
No purchase book is kept, all purchases being posted from the journal or cash book.
Purchases for themselves and for those of their comrades who had given them commissions were made by these privileged men.
The early purchases of February, which would cost, landed in Liverpool, about 7⅝d.
If, on the other hand, produce is recklessly competed for, the money remittance to the exporter is lessened, and the purchasesof the importer are bought high, and arrive at a ruinously losing market.
Prices in Liverpool, however, had been falling rapidly; and a portion of these purchases arrived in Liverpool in the middle of May, to be sold at 5¾d.
March, when the purchases of the month of January would be reaching us, the average was about 7¼d.
Here are daily laid out for sale under the blue sky (and what a light to make purchases in!
Vancouver, where we made a few purchases to complete our outfit, and then rowed up the river two miles and a half, and encamped.
Instances have been given of purchases at sums equal to a king's ransom.
We can judge of the character of his library by these purchases of the collections of two of his famous astrological friends.
This collection consisted of upwards of three thousand manuscripts in about four thousand volumes, and were made up of purchases from the Duke of Buckingham (Stowe) and M.
Christians must be told that he who sees his neighbour want, and, instead of helping him, purchases an indulgence, purchases not the indulgence of the pope, but incurs the Divine displeasure.
At Peter Robinson's they spent about half an hour, Miss Starbrow making some purchases for herself, and, being in a generous mood, she also ordered a few things for Fan.
That was only the first of a series of purchasesmade that day.
Large purchases were made in Canada on behalf of the Italian Government.
These purchases support foreign factories, although our own factories use the same raw material which they import.
So these members of the Entente had to be assisted in making purchases abroad.
One of the largest importing houses was commissioned to do all the purchasing, while the other houses held off, and it was four months before the corn trade, on the selling side, discovered that purchases were made for the state.
Exceptional measures had to be taken to maintain the exchange rates with the United States from whom the chief purchases were made.
It insisted that there should be a consumption tax levying "upon the breakfast table and upon the purchases of a great mass of people.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purchases" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
