Seller

Examples

• The seller is almost always under the necessity of selling, and must, therefore, take such a price as he can get. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Sales of one lot Circassians, prime to good, 1852 to 1854, at L240 . 242, buyer 30; one forty-niner--damaged--at L23, seller ten, no deposit. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• He had just received a box of new books from his London book-seller, and had preferred the prospect of a quiet Sunday at home with his spoils. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Transactions on the New York Stock Exchange may be made in three different ways: Cash, regular or on a limited option to buyer and seller as to the time of delivery or acceptance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The town was also the chief capitalist; as a seller of annuities on lives and inheritances it was a banker and enjoyed unlimited credit. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Taxes upon the sale of land fall altogether upon the seller. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Can't be buyer and seller too. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• As soon as a price is agreed on, each broker--the buyer and the seller--makes a memorandum of the transaction, which is reported to the offices at once by telephone. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Taxes upon the sale of ground-rents fall altogether upon the seller, for the same reason as those upon the sale of lands. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is true that the tower commanded a pretty view by land and water, but Colonel Sellers himself might have projected this enterprise as a possible source of steady income. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Perhaps the writer is a humorist, and had in his mind Colonel Sellers, etc. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• What a happy day for booksellers, music-sellers, and print-shops! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• This provision is to bring buyers and sellers in any security together as quickly as possible. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• I want you to take it home with you, and to mark off all the hardware sellers, with their addresses. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
• Siemens and H?pfer of Germany; Prof Sarnstrom and Akerman of Sweden; Turner of Austria; and Holley, Slade, Blair, Jones, Sellers, Clapp, Griffiths and Eames of the United States. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.

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