What is "auctioneer"

Usage examples of "auctioneer".

And to the good-sport charity auctioneers and attendees who make Seattle a great place to live and write.

When Trace rejoined her, the auctioneer had already begun his rhythmic spiel to exhort bids from the large crowd on the first item, but Pilar was still sitting under the tree.

The same whifflers drift aimlessly about hoping to make a few quid on the side, crooked auctioneers, crooked vannies, crooked antique dealers moaning that the antiques are pure unadulterated gunge.

On one of the slave blocks was a light-skinned girl of mixed Yuye blood, and the auctioneer spotted Huy in the crowd and called out to him.

IV Then messengers sped to the maltster, the auctioneer, miller, and all The seven sons of the farmer who housed in the range of his call.

He was suspended, for the nonce, by a block and tackle, and being swung backward and forward, gave such loud and clear testimony to his own merits, that the auctioneer had no need to say a word.

All very well for Crassus Orator, so entrenched he could be party to a party deliberately designed to defy the sumptuary edict of his own father, so secure in his tenure of Senate and a new tribunate of the plebs that he could afford even the luxury of pretending to be vulgar and underbred, accept the blatant favor currying of a mushroom like Quintus Granius the auctioneer.

Jemmy, survivor of an unfeudal generation which had had all the trouble it wanted, telephoned the county town auctioneer to offer all live and dead stock on the home farm at the first autumn sales.

I still had the rest of the places to hack, then the Manhattan Big Two auctioneers, the hairiest problem of all.

For centuries, auctioneers had viewed the people who came to their salesrooms as nothing more than potential buyers.

Quite proletarian in appearance, they were being watched with vague, discreet apprehension by the auctioneers, smooth men in business suits who looked as if they might just have flown in from New York.

Apart from four or five earnestly suited auctioneers in their spacious rostrum, the place was deserted.

The auctioneers looked hopefully toward the door from the collecting ring, and Lot 1 made its apologetic appearance attended by a few worried-looking people who were apparently its vendors.

All horses always did, like jewelry, which was why auctioneers and jewelers spent happily on electricity.

The auctioneers produced the catalogue and set up the sales, and wanted their 10 percents for their trouble.