Buys

Examples

• A man to-day buys a ready-made shirt for fifty cents, which fifty years ago would have cost him $2. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Mr. Brocklehurst buys all our food and all our clothes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• The man buys it, of course, and finds nothing in it. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• You can't tell what you're smoking in one of these new houses--likely as not the CHEF buys the cigars. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Speculators buys 'em up cheap, when they's little, and gets 'em raised for market. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• The tailor does not attempt to make his own shoes, but buys them of the shoemaker. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The man who buys, does not always mean to sell again, but frequently to use or to consume; whereas he who sells always means to buy again. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Constructive business has no end of reactionary moments----the most striking, perhaps, is when it buys up patents in order to suppress them. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• My papa can buy you, said Eva, quickly; and if he buys you, you will have good times. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• In years of scarcity, therefore, the corn merchant buys a great part of his corn for the ordinary price, and sells it for a much higher. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Nobody buys it but in order to sell it again; and with regard to it there is, in ordinary cases, no last purchaser or consumer. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The queen buys him of his master the farmer, and presents him to the king. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• If a workman can conveniently spare those three halfpence, he buys a pot of porter. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• When it is done I will take it away with me, and the same person will buy it who buys all that I do. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• My own money buys me nothing but an uneasy conscience. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Buys new wooden legs now, and drinks nothing but water and weak tea. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Some buys up these yer old critturs, and ses there's a sight more wear in 'em than a body 'd think, said the man, reflectively. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.

Editor: Matt