Purchasing

Examples

• From my infancy I was passionately fond of reading, and all the money that came into my hands was laid out in the purchasing of books. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She assisted me cheerfully in my business, folding and stitching pamphlets, tending shop, purchasing old linen rags for the paper-makers, &c. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The foreign trade of consumption is employed in purchasing foreign goods for home consumption. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The home trade is employed in purchasing in one part of the same country, and selling in another, the produce of the industry of that country. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• First, it maybe employed in raising, manufacturing, or purchasing goods, and selling them again with a profit. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• About the same time Kepler in purchasing some wine was struck by the rough-and-ready method used by the merchant to determine the capacity of the wine-vessels. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• The brokers did a fine business, and so did many such purchasers as were sharp enough to quit purchasing before the final crash came. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I had lived near what was called the Jersey market, and saw, with pain, the inhabitants wading in mud while purchasing their provisions. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We still consider his revenue as consisting in this power of purchasing or consuming, and not in the pieces which convey it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Money stands for all kinds of things--its purchasing quality isn't limited to diamonds and motor-cars. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Europe is bankrupt, and people's pockets rustle with paper money whose purchasing power dwindles as they walk about with it. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Being now ready for manufacturing, but requiring more facilities, Edison increased his real-estate holdings by purchasing a large tract of land lying contiguous to what he already owned. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Every shell that burst in the recent war diminished by a little fraction the purchasing value of every coin in the whole world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Goods can serve many other purposes besides purchasing money, but money can serve no other purpose besides purchasing goods. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I really must talk to him about purchasing a donkey. Jane Austen. Emma.

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