The price of beef from four to six cents a pound; it is now selling at five cents, but expected to be soon cheaper.
I was much pleased to see a poor negro child so well treated, but as to buying or selling human beings, I utterly abhor it.
The only condition upon which they could borrow money was selling out to the Steel Trust.
Securities fell in consequence of this selling on an average of about 40 points.
Thus the whole business of killing andselling meat was at one time in Paris confined to twenty persons.
With Pat and his players claiming half the receipts, the Cubs had far less enthusiasm for selling tickets during the week.
As a general rule, Mr. Hatfield did not favor selling tickets or charging admission for Cub affairs.
On drawing nearer, I discovered that she was the proprietress of a natty vegetable cart, piled full of all sorts of green stuff, which she was selling to the sellers.
Even spaces under high doorsteps are apparently rented for shops, rigged up with a sort of door, and old women sit crouching in them, sellingblueberries and dark bread.
It is a sore trial to Katrina, his doing this, especially the selling of liquor.
I learned afterward that on the present system of buying and selling the fish, the fishermen do receive from their labor an income independent of their wives.
Ste, they tell me, has come to a resolution of selling Holland H(ouse) as soon as possible, and of rebuilding Winterslow.
He talks of not selling his voice, but I have no more light into his scheme, or who the man is.
It had been a mere sentiment, a mere fancy, that had prevented him from selling it with the other gems; if he had been wiser and had sold it, he might perhaps have escaped that identification by Fra Luca.
Presently, in her disappointed search for remarkable objects, her eyes fell on a man with a pedlar's basket before him, who seemed to be selling nothing but little red crosses to all the passengers.
By this short sketch, and it is impossible to be more explanatory, you will perceive that all is confusion: all parties broken to Pieces, and the whole Opposition by tens and by twenties selling themselves for profit-power they get none!
I went yesterday to see Marshal Wade's house, which is selling by auction: it is worse contrived on the inside than is conceivable, all to humour the beauty of the front.
There are now selling no less than three of the principal collections, the Barberini, the Sacchetti, and Ottoboni: the latter belonged to the cardinal who died in the conclave.
The fiscal says that he does not consider the means employed by the governor to get these five thousand pesos as good, for it really means selling the encomiendas, and giving them for prices to those who do not deserve them.
That brought them very great wealth; for, sellingit for the bars of silver with which the latter kingdom abounds, the Dutch had money enough to continue the trade with China.
On the twentieth I left my house for the purpose of selling my furniture by auction, and went to the Hotel d'Europe for better air, and to be near the promenade.
It is a book which I always take care to have by me, for the best of all possible reasons,--I am always sure of selling it.
Louis, my coachman, told me, afterwards, that his master had found an opportunity of selling the three horses I had first seen, and to make up my number had been obliged to buy one from a fiacre the very day of my departure.
During the election he was arrested and placed in jail, under the charge of selling forty-eight pounds of twisted tobacco without license.
They said nowhere, unless a few "niggers" might be found selling it on, the street.
There was talk of Spain's being desirous of selling the Philippines to Germany, and the impression got abroad in America that the Germans were inclined to behave as if they were already the new masters of the islands.
Since I have been a member of the Senate, there was a law in this District authorizing the selling of colored men.
The treasury notes issued by the Government were falling in the market, selling at five and six per cent.
Judas Iscariot, selling his Master for thirty pieces of silver, is a fit type of those American citizens who sell their votes, and thus betray the right of self-government.
After giving Ann some further instructions in the art of selling candy, she permitted her to depart on her mission.
To help her cause, it had begun to be known that Ann Grippen had been seen with a clean face, selling candy in the street.
Perhaps there is no harm in the mere act of selling candy; but what a life for you to lead!
Thank you, Katy; you mean right, but never speak to me about sellingcandy again.
I know they will;" and Katy detailed her plan to the interested neighbor, declaring she was sure she could support her mother and herself by making and selling candy.
It was a great deal better than begging, and she thought her mother would consent to her making and selling the candy.
I get my living by selling candy," said one of them.
In a fortnight she had more than a dozen girls employed in selling candy.
She did not look upon the act of sellingcandy to the passers-by in the streets as degrading in itself, and therein she differed very widely from her mother, who had been brought up in ease and affluence.
I must begin now, mother, and make all the candy this afternoon, so that I can commence selling it early to-morrow morning.
I don't see any harm in selling candy to those who are willing to buy.
This girl was an orphan whose mother had recently died, and she had taken up the business of selling candy, which enabled her to pay fifty cents a week for her board, at the house of a poor widow.
In spite of all she had said to Katy about the disgrace of selling candy in the streets, she could not but be thankful that the poor girl had none of her foolish pride.
She might employ a dozen girls, or even more than that, and pay them so much a dozen for selling the candy.
You say there are rumours that I am thinking of selling my house on the Lucrine lake and of handing over to Quintus my tiny villa at quite a fancy price, that he may bring the heiress Aquilia to it, as young Quintus says.
Preserve it not only by raising a fresh loan, but by selling if necessary.
I have had no thought of selling it, unless I Page 246 nisi quid, quod magis me delectet, invenero.
But without selling anything, if I pay interest to the person from whom I buy for no more than a year, I can get what I want, if you assist me.
At this time there were two steamers in the roadstead, and tickets to Seattle were selling like hot cakes.
Actually, the "syndicate" were selling out, and without a struggle.
They keep to their old quiet way of living, and, beyond letting their houses and selling their goods, appear to be utterly unconscious even of the existence of the strangers on the other side of Paillon.
In Holy Week women are to be seen all over the old town selling plaited palm branches of a pale straw-color, some of which are bedecked with little bows of ribbon or stars of tinsel, used in the ceremonies of Palm Sunday.
Some writers say that he actually consulted the allies about the advisability of selling the whole population for slaves, in which debate the Theban Erianthus proposed to destroy the city and make the site of it a sheep walk.
Of course, if she had been sensible and business-like, she might have told Kate before selling to inquire at some shop what would be a fair price; and then she might have offered the girl that amount.
A crook's friends are generally like himself, and there's not much profit in selling goods to folk who don't mean to pay.
We're selling out as fast as we can get the truck; but there's a point I want your views about.
Keeping store in a wheat-growing district was not a simple matter of selling groceries; one was in reality a banker.
The selling of books by the ton proves a return to the extremes of romanticism.
PADDY THE BOOK AGENT Air LARRY O'GAFF The sun rose in splendor one foine summer morning That marked me first effort at selling a book.
Six months later he advertised again, as selling various articles of merchandise as well as "most kinds of painting done as usual, at reasonable rates.
He made frequent trips to New York City on a sloop called the "Shakespeare," belonging to the firm, selling produce of the farms around Coxsackie and purchasing goods in New York for his country store.
The man who sold "lemonade" on the plaza when first I visited this wonderful city I found selling lemonade still at two cents a glass; he had made a fortune by it.
If there was a law against selling the poisonous stuff to the natives, it was not enforced.
