In this way many prizes are drawn by tickets which remain unsold in dealers' hands after they have reported to the agents; and the lottery makes it clear.
The tickets are issued to them in lots, one set of combinations going to one section of the country this week, another next; and all tickets unsold up to the hour for the drawing at Covington, are sent back to headquarters.
This mail also conveyed the lists of the drawing; but, in a regular manner of proceeding, they would not have been accessible to the agent before the departure of the stage with his unsold tickets.
The duty of the agent was to transmit to the principal office all unsold tickets, by the first mail that left after the known hour of drawing.
After he had left her he had gone to the dealer's on the avenue with the unsold papers.
With some unsold papers under his arm he had walked with her to the entrance, a new pang in his breast about her that he did not understand: for one thing she looked so plain, so common.
When these are gone, only one hundred copies remain unsold of the first two volumes (Miscellanies).
They must remain unsold and uncultivated for an indefinite period unless the price demanded for them by the Government shall be reduced.
After we had wound up our affairs, Edwards and I drifted down to the beef ranch with the unsold saddle stock, and the shipping season opened.
Several of the firm's steer herds wereunsold at Dodge, but on the approach of the shipping season I returned to my task, and we began to move out our beeves with seven outfits in the saddle.
The great bulk of the unsoldstock consisted of cows, heifers, and young steers unfit for beef.
A number of herds were unsold at Dodge, among them being one of ours, but we turned it southeast early in September and wintered it on our range in the Outlet.
All unsold remudas returned to Dodge, the outfits were sent home, and the saddle stock to our beef ranch, there to await the close of the summer's drive.
Any land so offered and unsold would remain open for six months for purchase at the same price and on the same terms.
His conclusion was that ten years from this time Illinois would have no more public land unsold than Indiana now has.
But truth is better than opinion, I maintain it; and as to the two stereotyped and unsold editions of the Essay on Consciousness, I say, Honi soit qui mal y pense!
I have heard of a man of literary celebrity sitting in his study writing letters of remonstrance to himself, on the gross defects of a plan of education he had just published, and which remained unsold on the bookseller's counter.
The whole of the unsold sheets were sent by the "Windsor Waggon" to Mr. Murray's at Fleet Street.
Rennell, "Tell them to send the unsold sheets to me, and I will pay the debt due to the printer.
Ne had the grace of guile gone among my ware It had been unsold this seven year, so me God help,”[140] the merchant in Piers Ploughman admits frankly.
And as he bought so must he sell only in the established and customary place; and food once displayed on his shelf or stall could not be taken out of the townunsold without leave of the bailiffs.
An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
Defn: An unsold end of piece goods, as cloth, ribbons, carpets, etc.
Some of the unsold land, especially of the pasture land, will never need to be sold; nor is the average purchase price likely to remain permanently as high as that obtained under the Act of 1903.
It did not pretend to give an accurate forecast, but only to estimate the maximum amount which would be needed, on the assumption that all unsold land would eventually be sold at the average price reached under the Act of 1903.
He carried an armful of unsold "extras" under one arm.
In his flight he had lost his unsold papers, and he felt ruefully in his pocket as he went down the street, pulling his rags about him as much from shame as to keep out the cold.
The latter sales have been at six dollars an acre, and what remains unsoldwill fetch that or more.
The places these immigrants left to come to Oregon, although some of these places were comparatively new, were mostly over-supplied with unsold agricultural products--unsalable for want of markets.
That Mr. Waller be secured in the ultimate Title to the two city Lots now in his possession and other lots not exceeding in superficial area five Acres, to be chosen by him from among the unsold lots of your present Survey.
But though Poll liked the money which now flowed in regularly, she sighed more than once for the good old days when she need not scrub her sitting-room nor polish her windows, nor worry herself about her unsold flowers.
She found that she had fifteen shillings, and had still a sufficient number of unsold flowers in her basket to give her, with a very few additions, sufficient material for to-morrow's work.
The next morning Susy arrived in good time at the neat room in Westbourne Grove, where the flower girls who belonged to the Guild had the privilege of keeping their unsold flowers.
A man who sells cabbages in the streets cannot leave his unsold stock to take care of itself at night, so he takes it home with him.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unsold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
