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Usage examples of "auction sale".
Anna thrilled at the thought of holding an auction sale right here on the mouth of the Mississippi, crying brazenly to the ships around them, announcing to everyone that the Petit Jour was laden with African muscle that would ease their labour, slaves to make Louisiana rich!
Boggis believes that at an auction sale there is no such thing as something nobody wants.
He liked Reggie, and it also occurred to him that a man of the world like the heir of the van Tuyls, who had been popping about New York for years, might be able to give him some much-needed information on the procedure at an auction sale, a matter on which he himself was profoundly ignorant.
Sophie, meanwhile, took herself off to an auction sale where she bought a carpet, three divan beds, a mahogany wardrobe and chest of drawers, four pairs of curtains, an etching entitled Off Valparaiso and a statuette of a girl with a beach-ball.
Mistress comes back in her buggy from auction sale and stranger follows right behind on horse.
I got it at an auction sale, thinking it would be junk, but was pleasantly surprised.
The only hard part was getting the cement truck, but a search of local papers had found an auction sale for a contractor going out of business, and for a mere $21,000 they'd acquired a three-year-old vehicle with a Mack truck body, only 70,567.