Takers
['tæŋkɚ]
Examples
- Thieves and thief-takers hung in dread rapture on his words, and shrank when a hair of his eyebrows turned in their direction. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Nineteen fair to middling Wallachian girls offered at L130 . 150, but no takers; sixteen prime A 1 sold in small lots to close out--terms private. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In vain I searched among the groups of travellers and leave-takers for the lithe figure of my friend. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Care-takers in calico lounged on the door-steps of the wealthy, and the Common looked like a pleasure-ground on the morrow of a Masonic picnic. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- At this rate I find some takers; perhaps the reader will receive it on the same terms--ninety feet instead of one hundred and eighty. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
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