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Usage examples of auction.

And like as not he would have taken a few store pigs to the auction mart this week, sending the deadly contagion all over ALL THINGS WISE AND WONDERFUL405 Yorkshire and beyond.

I heard you say today you bought that Cowper alveolar drill of yours for fifty cents at an auction of the instruments of your old professor.

Once all the information was gathered and the piece was authenticated, an estimate was made, a blurb written, a photograph taken, and an auction lot number assigned.

Then the bimbo from the auction threw herself into his arms, and Kira turned off the set.

Joe tromped loudly into the house and transferred the twelve birdlets from bis pockets into an old-fashioned, hexagonal glass-paneled ballot jar which he had bought for five bucks at a Monte Vista, Colorado, auction.

But then the same man had come running up, out of breath, and as angry as a bondling was permitted to be, just as the auction closed.

Then the house was put up at public auction, and brought little more than sufficient to pay the creditors.

Ralph, who is as much an old hand at purchasing original art as he as at cruising, had advised me in advance that cruise art auctions are seldom a good idea.

The solicitor paused to take a sip of water, and went on to explain that Emma wished the Faberg6 object of art to be auctioned, the money returned to her grandchildren who had purchased it for her as a gift for her eightieth birthday.

I told him the short versionall about the art auction and the Denarians, but I elided over the details afterward, which were none of his chaste business.

He advised me to make it a condition of the agreement that my goods should not be sold by auction, and that my creditors should consider his valuation as final and binding.

They are great friends of Jews and itinerants, hand-in-glove with smugglers, Ladies Bountiful to pedlers, are diligent readers of puffs and advertisements, and eternal haunters of sales and auctions.

The house, village, and extensive rural areas on all sides reverted to the state and were auctioned off in the absence of discoverable van der Heyl heirs.

Veblen Hall, and we auction off only the innest things we can find, and best of all, all the money goes to a good cause.

The loadmaster paused only momentarily to consider the bother of being ten or more minutes late getting the cargo off the spacecraft for the auction.