He did not know why he was saying these things to a mere girl, but he went on: "I'm authorized to sell the plantation if I can get anything like a reasonable price for it.
It was very funny to have a shabby little girl sitting there wanting to sell a fiddle, and the child was soon surrounded.
If Robert McFarlane comes while I am sleeping, with more talk of wanting to buy Neg Severin, tell him I will sell none of my slaves; not the least little negrillon.
Mr. Sublet had seen the man on the back gallery just as he came out of the swamp, trying to sell a wild turkey to the house-keeper.
Her first step was to induce Doctor Langle to sell Mezor.
Anyhow a practical man like your father won't sell me out before he's sure I can't pay off better.
You might even sell the Power Board on using your receptor, now!
We were keenly aware that the only thing to do was to sell our lives as dearly as possible.
Do you think you could help me sell that engine in Belfast and get enough for it to help mother think she can afford to add the rest of the price for a launch?
It was ascertained that the Indians had come to the Island on a venture to sell some of their sweet-grass baskets.
Jesus said unto him, If thou nothing therefrom goeth forth wilt be perfect, go and sellat any time unto them.
He that would have life eternal "let him go and sell all that he hath and give to the poor.
In the greater shops are models whose business it is to "show off" the gown the shopkeeper wishes to sell by wearing it before the possible purchaser.
If there is no other way of putting a stop to this, I'll sell every bed in the house, except the one we sleep on.
He used to have hens when he was little, and sell 'em.
Those only who wished tosell their produce in order to hoard, would fall under the description of men who bring a present supply into the market, postponing indefinitely their demand.
It is just probable that you'll not sell them any better than the booksellers.
He cannotsell his goods at the accustomed advantage.
Then he would sell the eggs and live on the proceeds.
I sent the ring to India, to one of the friends, asking him to sell it with all possible speed and forward the proceeds to us in Akká to be expended on the sick.
From all sides came the advice to sell at once, but Brewster was not to be pushed.
He could not and would not sell them and he dared not give them away.
Later on he instructed Bragdon to sell the pups for $25 apiece, and went away, ashamed to look their proud mother in the face.
And I've either got to sell them or kill them," he groaned.
I instructed Gardner to sell only when I gave the word," said Monty, lamely.
Very well, then, go and sell out," roared Brewster.
The owner of shares can at any time sell out, and have the satisfaction of knowing that he has greatly added to his wealth merely by affording countenance to the project while in embryo.
Syracuse Northern, whilst from Fulton into Oswego the Ontario & Western was most glad to sell trackage rights.
He could not sellhis honour even for this woman's life.
There's no one else I'd care to leave 'em with and I don't care to sell them.
The properties were put up to auction; some of them found purchasers, but the bulk of them remained in the ownership of the Government, which could neither sell them nor make any use of them.
The Chinaman is always ready to sell at any price which will leave him a trifling nett gain, whereas the native, having earned sufficient for his immediate wants, would stubbornly refuse to sell his wares except at an enormous profit.
These were delivered at a fixed minimum price to a Chinaman who went to Binondo (Manila) to sell them to the Chinese ironmongers.
Now that Spain is in danger of losing the Philippines, the executioners of the other day--the everlasting tyrants--tell us that America willsell the Islands to England.
In that province, as a rule, only genuine necessity, or a fancy price far in excess of producing-worth, would induce an owner to sell his land.
The object of the company was to purchase clothing and staple goods of all kinds required in the Islands, and to sell the same at 30 per cent.
Under the pretext of guaranteeing a loan, parents readily sell their children (male or female) into bondage.
The Archbishop ordered a military officer, who had a slave, either to sell or liberate her.
It pays better to sell Molave in baulks or logs, rather than sawn to specification, because this tree has the great defect of being subject to heart-cup.
And you would have me sell it for ten thousand pieces of silver!
Shall I sell it cheap--my soul and my heart's blood?
To sell a thing on credit may be an accommodation, but where is the friendliness?
Our vain and concentrated efforts to sell something that we had not the necessary means and connections to sell led us to neglect the things we could have done.
You see, it's nothing for the big houses to sell ten bonds or so.
And from the physical chaos in the chalet at Crestlands I am whirled madly every morning in a crowded express train, then in a convulsively serried subway car, to the more subtle chaos in the office of Salmon and Byrd--to sell Roumanian bonds.
Rather would I sell them for less to a more enlightened bookman.
Such was the recrudescence of Fred Salmon and the certificates are still in my safe in witness of it, and greatly to my surprise they have a market value now, even though I cannot sell them.
Do sellthyself to him, the infamous, Do stamp this brand upon our noble house, 65 Then shall the world behold the horrible deed, And in unnatural combat shall the steel Of the son trickle with the father's blood.
To sell ourselves are we called hither, and, Decline we that--to be his hostages.
After that the mother ran down and got poorer and poorer, and folks avoided her, and she got behind and had to sell her stuff, and a month before his time was out she got sick and pretty near died.
I cannot sell him vor less," replied the man, in a quick, decided way.
All was finally settled and they returned to George Town Cross Oats, minus their only daughter that they had to sell to save themselves.
I concluded to sell out the little comforts that I had collected to make home pleasant, and leave for regions farther North, where the foot of the slave owner doth not tread.
I want you to come across the bay and open the store and sell me that vase.
When did they sell you a membership in the military forces of the United States of America?
I can sell anything--at a price," Comrade Peck replied unconcernedly, and continued on his way back to the office.
Well, I must admit Comrade Peck can sell lumber," he announced grudgingly.
I know that statement to be true because I have demonstrated, over a period of five years, that I cansell my share of anything that has a hockable value.
Eventually he completed his circle and worked his way home, via Los Angeles, pausing however, in the San Joaquin Valley to sell two more carloads of skunk spruce.
I have no love for a man that would sell a babe from the mother's throbbing, heaving, agonized breast.
He told all these poor black people all around that for fifty cents he'd sell them a bottle of stuff that would make their hair straight like a white man's, in less'n a month.
