Advertisements
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Examples
- I advertised, and I answered advertisements, but without success. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I saw these advertisements about harpooners, and high wages, so I went to the shipping agents, and they sent me here. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Blucher's French is bad enough, but it is not much worse than the English one finds in advertisements all over Italy every day. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Never collect anything but advertisements relative to next of kin. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- He did advertise in the _Lexington Union_ in September, 1833, offering reapers for sale at fifty dollars; but there were no answers to his advertisements. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
- All the advertisements were blacked out, supposedly to prevent communication in that way with the enemy. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Briggs wrote to me of a Jane Eyre: he said, the advertisements demanded a Jane Eyre: I knew a Jane Elliott. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- I was fairly at the end of my tether at last, and could hardly find the stamps to answer the advertisements or the envelopes to stick them to. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
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