Markets

Examples

• But in the seaport and markets mingled men of every known race, comparing their religious ideas and customs. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The manufacturers first supply the neighbourhood, and afterwards, as their work improves and refines, more distant markets. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The wool would produce me a better price if it were suffered to go to foreign markets; but that, Messieurs the Public, your laws will not permit. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• It brought prosperity and ease and comfort, it allowed the small as well as the large owner to have his share of the profits of the markets of the world. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• She attended the markets--she insisted upon being supplied with food for those who were too poor to purchase it. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The nature of the commodity renders it not quite so proper for being transported to distant markets as wool. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The town is capable of holding five hundred thousand souls: the houses are from three to five stories: the shops and markets well provided. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The greater part, too, of the Spanish and Portuguese colonies, are altogether new markets. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It just shows, he continued, what these European markets are, when a fellow can make a reputation cooking peas! Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Even Mexico and Peru, though they cannot be considered as altogether new markets, are certainly much more extensive ones than they ever were before. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The fruit is shipped in refrigerator cars, and is usually about eight days in making the trip from Southern California to the Eastern markets. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• She sent this didactic gem to several markets, but it found no purchaser, and she was inclined to agree with Mr. Dashwood that morals didn't sell. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His machinery came on the markets of the world, his shipping took the seas with a splash of patriotic challenge. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Here the rubber markets are located and here the rubber is carefully examined, graded, boxed and shipped to New York or Liverpool. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• After about forty-eight hours in these chill rooms, the hogs are run onto the cutting floor, where they are made into the various commercial cuts which are seen in the meat markets at home. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• But the extent of their respective markets is commonly extremely different. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Minor foreign markets were glutted, and would receive no more. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Though they introduce some rival commodities into the old market, they open many new markets to its produce. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Such are, in a great measure, the trades which carry the goods of the East and West Indies and of America to the different European markets. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It gave government to the rich, and imagined that wise men could be bought and bargained for in the slave markets when they were needed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The taste for caterpillars still survives in China, where they are sold in dried bundles in the markets. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The industry of Great Britain, instead of being accommodated to a great number of small markets, has been principally suited to one great market. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.

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