The stolen herd was driven to Adelaide, and there sold openly.
For every ten horses they sold they could afford to return one.
The bull is accordingly sold publicly by him, and in the prisoner's presence.
After the bull had been sworn to by Mr. Hood and another witness, they brought up some more evidence, as they called it, about the other cattle we had sold in Adelaide.
So each lot travelled different ways, and were sold in places where they were quite strange and no one was likely to claim them.
They'll rake all the colonies to get hold of him again, partic'ler as he sold for near three hundred pound.
No publics were allowed at first, so, of course, it was sold on the sly.
Had he seen the prisoner Marston when the cattle were soldnow alleged to belong to Mr. Hood?
Only if we'd sold to any one that thought there was a cross look about it, we'd have had to take half money, that's all.
So this looked like a hitch, as juries won't bring a man in guilty of cattle-stealing unless there's clear swearing that the animals he sold were the property of the prosecutor, and known by him to be such.
But the rest of us only come in with the mob, and soon as they was sold stashed the camp and cleared out different ways.
Jim hadn't sold his bits of traps, because he didn't want it to be known he wasn't coming back.
He included the purchase money in a cheque given for the bull and other cattlesold on that day.
He sold and delivered him according to instructions.
They sold us six dogs and eight horses, the greater part extremely lean.
They sold us four horses and thirty dogs, which were immediately slaughtered for food.
They also met, very opportunely, some Indians, who sold them a number of horses.
That gentleman concluded that she had been made prisoner and sold to the Spaniards on the Del Norte; but I think it more probable it was nearer, in North California, at the mission of San Carlos or San Francisco.
About three in the afternoon he came up with us, and after a great fight we were forced to yield, and were carried all prisoners into the port of Salee, where we were soldas slaves.
It was afterwards sold for a tenth of that sum to pay his debts.
The king had been sold by the Scotch to the English Parliament, and on the approach of Cromwell's army the king's troops refused to fight.
Behold, a man found in a certain field the croppings of a wondrous mine of gold, and he went forth and sold his home and all he had and bought the field; then he rejoiced in wealth.
And Jesus called the priests and said, Behold, for paltry gain you have sold out the temple of the Lord.
And there they put the body of the man who sold his Lord.
We might havesold it for three hundred pence, and had the money to supply our wants and feed the poor.
In course of time the protoplast, the earth, the plant, the beast, the man sold out their birthrights unto sin; but Christ was present to redeem.
Our own fine team had been sold the day before for forty pounds; and one of our neighbours, a Mr. D, was to convey us and our household goods to Douro for the sum of twenty dollars.
To add to these troubles, my sister and her husband sold their farm, and removed from our neighbourhood.
These had an attractive appearance; and my brother, who was a captain in one of the provisional regiments, sold a great many of them among the officers, without saying by whom they were painted.
It had been sold for twelve dollars, part to be paid in cash, part in potatoes; the potatoes were nearly exhausted, and they were allowanced to so many a day.
And there dwelled Joseph, when he was sold of his brethren.
And fast by is yet the tree of elder that Judas hanged himself upon, for despair that he had, when he sold and betrayed our Lord.
A little farther on, surrounded by a brilliant suite of Malay princes, was the Sultan of Johore, whose father sold the island of Singapore to the British.
Then, sir, I sold farm tools and my horse, and sent the wife to a hill station for her health.
Sold by all Druggists Stationers, News and Fancy Goods dealers.
Don't say so; for I remember hearing about a man who sold his shadow, and then got into lots of trouble because he had none.
Dey sold me way from my mammy when I was a baby, and I'se knocked roun eber since.
Close by was a tidy little house under the hill, and in it a tidy little woman who sold things to eat.
Of course he did not race them himself, but sold them as yearlings.
Well, I suppose some understrapper there got to hear of it, and probably sold the thing to one of the men who gather up garbage for the "Liar.
Some of this land was sold or given away as "homesteads," and then it became AGER PRIVĂTUS, or private land.
The Aduatuci, who had assisted the Nervii in their struggle, were conquered by Caesar and sold into slavery.
The inhabitants were sold as slaves, and the town was levelled to the ground.
The city was destroyed, and the inhabitantssold into slavery.
Seventy of her Senators were killed, three hundred of her chief citizens imprisoned, and the whole people sold as slaves.
Many thousand prisoners were taken, and sold in Italy as slaves.
The leaders of the Veneti were put to death for their treachery in seizing Roman officers, and the rest were sold into slavery.
In addition to the clients there were actual slaves, who were the property of their masters, and could be bought or sold at pleasure.
The volume was published; a sufficient number was sold among my friends to defray all expenses, and it was charitably noticed by the Philadelphia press.
The description of Scott is wonderfully exact, though the forest that feathered o'er the sides of Benvenue, has since been cut down and sold by the Duke of Montrose.
Many of the columns of the Causeway have been carried off and sold as pillars for mantels--and though a notice is put up threatening any one with the rigor of the law, depredations are occasionally made.
If you were to turn up in London they would know that I had sold them, and Marner would soon hear of it.
I have sold all the cargo, and I have brought back a freight of six tons of Turkey figs, and four hundred boxes of currants.
We carried the rover into Gibraltar andsold her and her cargo there.
Thus the most loyal men--those who sold their estates to aid the King--have lost all, while those that did not so dispossess themselves in his service are now replaced on their land.
I do not believe you; you have sold them all to other people.
When on Saturdays the weather was fine and the wind favourable, they sailed to the nearest town, sold their fish, and went to church on Sunday.
After this the Black Rogue and the Shifty Lad grew bolder and bolder, and stole great quantities of cattle and sold them and grew quite rich.
There is a rich farmer up there on the hill, who has just sold all his fat cattle for much money and has bought some lean ones which will cost him little.
Then he went into the house and took away everything he could find, and sold the house to a friend of his who had long wished to have it, and his sister had no home to go to.
There I noticed that close to the place where I had fallen, a sheep fair was being held, and a bystander told me that every day horses or cattle were sold somewhere in the town.
You sold us a ram knowing full well that it was a wolf, and we came here to-day to pay you out for it.
The only wrong thing is this insulting presumption of these people, who have sold actions at a price lower than we have decreed.
I havesold our furs, and am now ready to account to you with a sum quite as much as we should have expected.
It comes to me with certain confirmation that there have been shares sold upon the street at twelve thousand livres to the action, whereas, as you very well know, fifteen thousand should be the lowest price to-day.
The samples are sent to manufacturers, with a catalogue, stating that so many pounds of rubber, corresponding to such or such a sample, will be sold by auction on a certain date at a certain market.
It was noted in that summary that the firm had sold in this country seven million copies of the works of Charles Dickens and four or five million copies of Scott's works, not individual titles, but the complete works of those authors.
Published Discount to Sold to Cost to Cost per Price Libraries Libraries at Booksellers Dollar of Sale Cost per Dollar of Sale 28%.
Large book jobbers tell us that millions and millions of poor juveniles are sold in America to thousands of the sort we librarians recommend.
Let us assume that this bookseller sold these books from his stock to the libraries, at a discount from the published prices, on regular books, of 1/3 and a discount of 10% from the published prices of net books.
A very large proportion of their purchases are of non-net books, which are sold to them at little or no margin of profit, and at the same discount as the booksellers get.
Published Discount Sold to Cost to Cost per Price to Libraries Booksellers Dollar Libraries at of Sale Cost per Dollar of Sale 28%.
Such books sold by the bookseller, cost him considerable in addition to the published price.
An excellent proof of this is found in the fact that many thousands of miles of right of way have been bought by promoters and either soldto a company, which built the lines, or used in financing the road.
Practically, commercial value is that for which a thing can be sold or exchanged at a given time and place.
Of course, all stock and bond issues outstanding in 1894 are still in existence, except as a few roads have been sold out or re-organized.
I sold one to the "Overland Monthly" for five dollars.
I sold my hard-bought school books for ridiculous sums to second-hand bookmen.
I was eight years old when I wore my first little undershirt actually sold in a store across the counter.
Then there was a Mexican who sold big slabs of brown chewing taffy for five cents each.
I learned from their further conversation that the huntersold his game to another man who cured the skins for shipment to the city.
I know it is frequently broadly asserted that the most of the birds used are made birds, but the manufactured creatures are poor deceptions; they are mixed with bird feathers, and are sold only to the less fastidious customers.
There was an old English clergyman on board, who collected curiosities; to him she sold her rings and brooches, and thereby obtained more than sufficient money to pay her passage.
In the streets the Germans sold iron crosses from job lots on barrows for ten francs each.
There had been other times when he had rocked a rocking-horse, broken a doll's head, sold meat from a wooden shop, fed a dormouse.
Ross, in Broad-Street,/and Sold by the Different Booksellers.
It is estimated that nearly twelve million pounds of fresh mushrooms are sold every year at the Central Market of Paris.
We are told that in the Roman markets this mushroom is frequently sold as an article of food.
They are sold at prices ranging from twenty-five cents to one dollar and fifty cents per pound, according to season, demand and supply.
There was a man said to me, 'If you had a little dog there, and he to be a calf, you'd have sold him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
