Bought

Examples

• We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of Hoyle and learned many two-handed card games. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Her uncle, always liberal, had bought a garden-chair for her express use. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Sons of white fathers, with all our haughty feelings burning in their veins, will not always be bought and sold and traded. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I was not bought, body and soul. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• See here, I've bought a statuette for you! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Generally speaking, meats are the most expensive foods we can purchase, and hence should be bought seldom and in small quantities. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He bought Mr. Peacock's practice, which, they say, is worth eight or nine hundred a-year. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But they had bought gloves, too, as I did. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• I bought it of an individual that he gave it to, and that lived here after him. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I'm a settin' on Mr. and Mrs. Raggles's sofy, which they bought with honest money, and very dear it cost 'em, too. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It all seems to centre round that bust of Napoleon which I bought for this very room about four months ago. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
• It was very difficult to get the land he wanted for his central station, but he finally bought two old buildings on Pearl Street for $150,000. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When this great company, therefore, bought gold bullion in order to have it coined, they were obliged to pay for it two per cent. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I see myself, as evening closes in, coming over the bridge at Rochester, footsore and tired, and eating bread that I had bought for supper. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• He married Miss Griswold of Poughkeepsie, and bought an estate of two hundred acres near that city. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• When the gloves were bought, and they had quitted the shop again, Did you ever hear the young lady we were speaking of, play? Jane Austen. Emma.
• Rawdon bought the boy plenty of picture-books and crammed his nursery with toys. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• He shook his head, and said that the boy had been impudent and disobedient, ever since he bought him; that he was going to break him in, once for all. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Bedad it's him, said Mrs. O'Dowd; and that's the very bokay he bought in the Marshy aux Flures! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• They've bought the house at the back: it gives them a hundred and fifty feet in the side street. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• A rich American had bought a tract of central real estate in Paris and had built a row of shops arranged on the two sides of a cloister. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Do not fear, Mr Boffin, that I shall contaminate the premises which your gold has bought, with MY lowly pursuits. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• You've bought a house. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• She was a manufacturer--she made fine linen and sold it; she was an agriculturist--she bought estates and planted vineyards. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I bought nearly half a pint of their money for a shilling myself. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Please say she's heartily welcome to the things she bought of me--as a gift. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Bought him at a sale,' said Mr Boffin. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I had bought a ticket at Milan for Stresa. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Mr Merdle wanted something to hang jewels upon, and he bought it for the purpose. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Because it would be unknowingly sold with the mounds else, and the buyer would get what he was never meant to have, and never bought. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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