Buying

Examples

• Buying and selling was transacted by means of money in England then as well as now. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And then you have added so much to it yourself, you are always buying books. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• He gave me my watch and chain, and spared no expense in buying them; both were of superior workmanship, and very expensive. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I can't resist them when I see Sallie buying all she wants, and pitying me because I don't. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Was it for him to have the shame of buying her, or the meanness of punishing her? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• But as Warren Hastings looked at gold and thought of buying Daylesford, so Joshua Rigg looked at Stone Court and thought of buying gold. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• There was no buying of foundry iron by analysis, no high carbon steels, no fancy tool steels--nor any efficiency experts with their stop watches and scientific speed-and-feed tables. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The buyer is scarce ever under the necessity of buying, and will, therefore, only give such a price as he likes. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He first grew rich by buying up the property of those proscribed by Sulla. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• You've taken to being a nob, buying land, being a country bashaw. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• And how am I to live,' asked Mr Boffin, piteously, 'if I'm to be going buying fellows up out of the little that I've got? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• I should think you'd be ashamed to spend all your life buying men and women, and chaining them, like cattle! Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• It is frightful--this taking to buying whistles and blowing them in everybody's hearing. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• One day Dan happened to mention that he thought of buying three or four silk dress patterns for presents. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The commission charged for buying or selling is twelve and a half cents a share, so that on the usual order of one hundred shares, the broker receives twelve dollars and a half. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.

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