| 单词 | unsalable |
| 例句 | “Then ask him to take Levy Pants off our hands. I talked to three Realtors this week. Every one of them said it was the most unsalable property they’d ever seen.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z A private collector told me he, too, owns an unsalable canvas. Does My Family Own a Painting Looted by Nazis? 2016-04-05T04:00:00Z Around 1936, when the legendary New York dealer Paul Rosenberg acquired it from Picasso, such pictures were seen as prankish creations, which made them virtually unsalable. The Winning Card at Auction: Expressiveness 2010-05-07T11:30:00Z Belonging to a generation of artists who saw portable painting and sculpture as obsolete, Mr. Oppenheim started out in the realm of the esoteric, the immaterial and the chronically unsalable. Dennis Oppenheim, a Pioneer in Earthworks and Conceptual Art, Dies at 72 2011-01-27T04:30:03Z A large percentage of her creative output has been in the ephemeral form of performed and printed words, all but unsalable and uncollectable, investment-wise, in an art world context. The Precarious Art of Cecilia Vicuña 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Deeley protested that he had called it one of the 10 most unsalable films he had ever seen. Robin Hardy, Who Set ‘The Wicker Man’ Cult Alight, Dies at 86 2016-07-04T04:00:00Z But the gory images have been deemed unsalable and returned to Kansas authorities to prevent new owners from disseminating them. Antiques: Gangsters, Outlaws and Artifacts of Their Crime Sprees 2012-09-13T21:02:45Z Most mornings he inspects each plant for blemishes or seeds — a sign that the plant would be unsalable — and sets the large carbon dioxide tank to 1,015 parts per million. Cannabis farmers in a poor California town want to go legit; instead, police crack down 2020-07-19T04:00:00Z Admittedly, this expanded version of impeachment could have been deeply fraught, not to say politically unsalable, if pursued as envisioned in the House. Impeachment in an alternate universe: Will Ralph Nader's "missing" charges haunt America's future? 2019-12-22T05:00:00Z There's an added complication that the fumigant often used against the stink bug - methyl bromide - damages car upholstery to the point that they are unsalable. Stink bugs threaten NZ car imports 2018-02-19T05:00:00Z Even in outline, the Trump budget is impractical, cold-hearted and unsalable. Opinion | Nice speech. But what about the budget? 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z The executives told Mr. Lee the smartphone was becoming increasingly unsalable. The Fatal Mistake That Doomed Samsung’s Galaxy Note 2016-10-23T04:00:00Z Some people view Hershey as unsalable because of the trust’s strong control and because any deal would also essentially require approval from Pennsylvania’s Attorney General. Hershey CEO J.P. Bilbrey to Step Down 2016-10-14T04:00:00Z Seattle's free food banks, which gather unsalable food from markets and unharvested produce from the fields, report that demand for food has doubled. Racial, partisan divides shape American views of poverty and the poor 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Some businesses gladly parted with their old bottles, which due to age and changes in health regulations, were unsalable. Iowa businessman collects old pharmaceutical bottles 2016-07-31T04:00:00Z Not wanting the unsalable stock in sight of customers, he stores the TDIs at a vehicle-prep station down the block from his dealership. VW’s Dealers Fume While Waiting for Diesel-Car Fix 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Food vendors do the same, charging high prices of stale unsalable food. The Prison-Commercial Complex 2016-03-21T04:00:00Z Another one holds bottles we kept at a wine storage facility in Chelsea whose labels were destroyed from the floodwaters of Hurricane Sandy, making them unsalable. Michelle DeFeo of Laurent-Perrier: A Toast to France in a Queens Loft 2015-08-29T04:00:00Z Here’s how it works: Fruits and vegetables that either haven’t been sold or are unsalable because of cosmetic defects are collected by gleaning groups such as Food Forward and delivered to L.A. Avoiding food waste, training workers, feeding seniors: L.A. Kitchen does it all 2015-08-17T04:00:00Z “The problem is that it is politically unsalable,” said Donald F. Norris, director of the School of Public Policy at the University of Maryland Baltimore County. Baltimore’s blight puts O’Malley on defensive in bid for presidency 2015-05-29T04:00:00Z But an insect infestation hit the village two years ago, rendering the fruit unsalable and forcing growers to concentrate on less-profitable vegetables. Nepal mountain village is spared death but not destruction in quake 2015-04-28T04:00:00Z "I would imagine the next stage would be the houses would be unsalable and eventually fall over." House price fears over coast erosion 2014-10-28T04:00:00Z Many executives would have given up after sinking a decade and $1 billion into an unsalable product. At 88, billionaire inventor Alfred Mann's motivated by more than money 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z The cobblestones bake in the sun, covered in trash, melted plastics, and burn marks where unrecyclable—that is, unsalable—materials were dispatched in the night. How Beijing--and the Rest of China--Recycles Plastic [Excerpt] 2013-11-08T16:45:03.663Z Bottles from which labels had slithered became unsalable. Big City: At the River Café, Assessing the Losses of the Finer Things 2012-11-10T15:37:15Z The De Soles say in their lawsuit that they were misled into buying “a canvas that is unsalable and worthless.” Knoedler Gallery Is Accused of Selling Fake Rothko Painting 2012-03-29T01:52:35Z It has a dry, cottony look; and is a poor, unsalable article, however fine the fibre. Sheep, Swine, and Poultry Embracing the History and Varieties of Each; The Best Modes of Breeding; Their Feeding and Management; Together with etc. 2012-03-21T02:00:35.167Z He has done all in his power to sell the place, but it seems to be unsalable, except at auction. The Dorrance Domain 2012-03-10T03:00:14.767Z When he carried round a better Greek specimen than any they possessed, the traders informed him that Greek and Latin were alike unsalable; the city was thronged with works from all Europe. The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages 2012-02-17T03:00:30.347Z An alert merchant with a large amount of an unsalable material on hand named it "Persis pink," and women fought for it. What Will People Say? A novel 2011-12-17T03:00:18.490Z A few letters, some private relics, unsalable remnants of books and pamphlets and scraps of manuscript constituted the effects. Etidorhpa or the End of Earth. The Strange History of a Mysterious Being and The Account of a Remarkable Journey 2011-10-18T02:00:20.997Z It took still more time for consultations as to what should now be done with their unsalable stock. The Cup of Trembling and Other Stories 2011-07-07T02:00:29.180Z Another big advantage the chain store has over the single store," continued Roger, "is that we have very little unsalable stock to dispose of. Dawson Black: Retail Merchant 2011-06-04T02:00:16.620Z The places these immigrants left to come to Oregon, although some of these places were comparatively new, were mostly over-supplied with unsold agricultural products—unsalable for want of markets. Dr. John McLoughlin, the Father of Oregon 2011-05-20T02:00:38.647Z Page 102, line 6.–"Shop-keeper" here does not mean the man who keeps shop, but an article that keeps the shop; i. e. remains on the shelf as unsalable lumber. Hesperus or Forty-Five Dog-Post-Days Vol. II A Biography 2011-05-14T02:00:08.440Z It may command a very high price at some seasons of the year and at other times be practically unsalable at any price, owing to an over-supply. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z The whole basin became filled with a tangle of drift-wood; great swamps were created beyond the flow line, springs were covered up and polluted, and the region rendered so unhealthy that land became unsalable. Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 2011-05-07T02:00:26.100Z And, on the other hand, the old-timer may snap away confidently at a subject which the beginner has scorned, and then find he has an unsalable print on his hands. Making Your Camera Pay 2011-03-31T02:00:21.163Z She has lately determined to edit an abstract of her work on 'Woman's Part in the Development of Civilization,' for a book-agent with whom she is in communication, and who undertakes to sell unsalable literature. Erlach Court 2011-03-12T03:00:24.407Z Pluto Oil shares, unsalable at a dollar a few weeks ago, now stood at eight. The Wicked Marquis 2011-02-24T03:01:06.123Z As a last resort the radish-bed must be removed to new ground, as the maggot renders radishes wholly unsalable. Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them 2011-05-10T02:00:58.433Z The committee must also beware of bargains offered by some booksellers who would unload upon Sunday schools their left-over and unsalable stock. Organizing and Building Up the Sunday School Modern Sunday School Manuals 2011-01-25T03:00:24.873Z At once, there is a means of broadening one's market and of disposing of photographs, by themselves, unsalable. Making Your Camera Pay 2011-03-31T02:00:21.163Z Was I to say to you, 'It's amateurish, unsalable?' The Song of Songs 2011-01-01T03:00:25.907Z It's incomprehensible to me because these works are absolutely unsalable. The French Art Heist: Who Would Steal Unsaleable Picassos? 2010-05-20T23:30:00Z Great wills are often wasted on unworthy objects, and the strong current of the mind, which could be applied to the making of world-enriching machinery, is used to manufacture some unsalable toy. What You Can Do With Your Will Power Now our friend, there, knows verses that are salable and unsalable as well as you do brown sugar.—Keep quiet now, and I will go and get your manuscript for you.——There, The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 119, September, 1867 A monument, if photographed a moment after the unveiling and with the crowd around it, is a likely seller; but if the photographer waits several years, a print of the monument is unsalable. Making Your Camera Pay 2011-03-31T02:00:21.163Z You go a begging with your king as with a brat, or with some unsalable commodity you are tired of; and though every body tells you no, no, still you keep hawking him about. Junius Unmasked or, Thomas Paine the author of the Letters of Junius and the Declaration of Independence Rice, without demand for it, is unsalable grain in store and on the field. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 Poor little sweating and fanning Suez, grown fat, and already getting lean again on the carcass of one man's unsalable estate! John March, Southerner The prices are also put down, and of course, we never will auction a thing off for less, unless it is unsalable otherwise and we wish to dispose of it.” Young Auctioneers The Polishing of a Rolling Stone The grocer enjoyed doing this kindness as heartily as she enjoyed receiving it, although he was so thrifty that he made his own meal from equally stale bread and some unsalable dried fish. A Sunny Little Lass She found naturally that her own handiwork was unsalable at any price, and that the fashionable shops where she had dealt prodigally would not advance her a cent even upon their own wares. Clark's Field Professionalism must not enter into the workings of the association, nor should the professionalized amateur take advantage of amateur connexions to create a market for writings otherwise unsalable. Writings in the United Amateur, 1915-1922 “Yes; we could have tried some fine experiments with them, whereas they will be useless and unsalable I expect.” The Vast Abyss The Story of Tom Blount, his Uncles and his Cousin Sam At such times notes become practically unsalable, and are not always paid at maturity. The Arena Volume 18, No. 92, July, 1897 The shares of the company, which a few months ago were quoted at high rates, have become unsalable. Daughters of the Revolution and Their Times 1769 - 1776 A Historical Romance Everywhere the Witch was pronounced to be beautiful, but unsalable. Audrey Craven The former was undoubtedly due to inexperience, and the latter to the tendency of the manufacturer or merchant to consider the foreign market as a place for disposing of a surplus unsalable at home. The Fabric of Civilization A Short Survey of the Cotton Industry in the United States A daily paper of yesterday is as unsalable as a last year's almanac. Ben, the Luggage Boy; or, Among the Wharves Scott's good humor and his partner's bad judgment saddled the concern with a lot of unsalable books. Lady of the Lake A single fruit which is a little riper or greener than the remainder may make the entire package unsalable. Tomato Culture: A Practical Treatise on the Tomato On the other side of the 148 hill he had a small but select graveyard where he buried such unsalable articles as he could not eat. At the Sign of the Jack O'Lantern Each rehandling will certainly discolor and perhaps break a good many of them, rendering them unsalable, if not worthless. Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure The money would be in land at two and a half per cent; repairs, taxes, lawsuits, farmers who don't pay their rent, a father-in-law who makes over to you unsalable property. Renée Mauperin It took Emerson eleven years to sell five hundred copies of "Nature," and Thoreau's books came back upon his hands as unsalable and were piled up in the attic like cord-wood. Four Americans Roosevelt, Hawthorne, Emerson, Whitman He did not shut himself up in a garret to produce unsalable works of "high art," and starve, or lose his senses. Lectures on Architecture and Painting Delivered at Edinburgh in November 1853 In dull times when everything was unsalable he did fairly well. Behind the Beyond and Other Contributions to Human Knowledge Touching on the tariff question he said the past year had been an unprofitable one to mere wool-growers, and that sheep had been unsalable at paying prices. Prairie Farmer, Vol. 56: No. 3, January 19, 1884. A Weekly Journal for the Farm, Orchard and Fireside He evidently considered her a very big and unsalable elephant, and repudiated the part of showman. The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner He thereupon reported the entire consignment to be unsalable, and credited Mr. Burns with the whole lot at the auction prices, less expenses. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy But his lands were unsalable at any price, and he saw no means of support at Geneva. Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII Small, defective, unsalable potatoes are rich in sugar and starch and are therefore good stock food. Agriculture for Beginners Revised Edition In some seasons the fruit is made almost unsalable. Apple Growing Litchfield Exploration & Salvage opened a huge munitions depot, and combat equipment, once almost unsalable, was selling as fast as it came out. The Cosmic Computer It also probably includes boughs, and other unsalable parts of the tree. Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation There would be no longer any use for horses, and if the railways extended the species would become extinct, and therefore oats and hay would become unsalable. Hidden Treasures Or, Why Some Succeed While Others Fail To this end he filled the old shop with all his old, faded, unsalable goods, besides looking around among the wholesale houses and picking up several cart-loads of cheap lots, more or less damaged. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money So we owe all this—these empty houses and shops, unsalable property, and everything, to those who have lost faith—or never had it. The Cow Puncher Lever recalled that the chap had said in the letter that if Lever found the manuscript unsalable he should destroy it, as the writer was moving about and had no permanent address. Ralestone Luck Here’s one apple you can have,” and the apple-woman carefully picked out one that she considered unsalable. Adrift in New York Tom and Florence Braving the World Scab and other diseases caused a large proportion of the fruit set to drop, and the remainder was unsalable in unsprayed orchards. Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916 It was the custom then for employers to allow clerks a reward for selling things that were particularly unsalable, or which required some special skill or impudence in the seller. Captains of Industry or, Men of Business Who Did Something Besides Making Money Old properties, long considered unsalable, were changing owners. The Cow Puncher If this timber holding should turn out to be worthless, if it should prove unsalable at any price, it would be a question of a job for him, before so very long. The Hidden Places Lots of old goods piled away out of sight, as unsalable, were brought forward, carefully examined, and marked down, on an average, to half cost. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862 If the instrument does not conform to the measurement it is unsalable and that is sanction enough. New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915 Finally, after the foreclosure of many lives, the sickness and fatality of the property became so marked, that it became unsalable. The Easiest Way in Housekeeping and Cooking Adapted to Domestic Use or Study in Classes The small size and imperfect curing which the Labrador summer allows make the fish almost unsalable in English and American markets. Bowdoin Boys in Labrador An Account of the Bowdoin College Scientific Expedition to Labrador led by Prof. Leslie A. Lee of the Biological Department With the anxious servility which wealth always commands, we purchase an apple of this capitalist, blandly choosing a knotty and unsalable specimen. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873 As a matter of fact, it is quite unsalable at any price that would be at all satisfactory to the owners. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore Antonyms: unmarketable, unsalable. marl, n. greensand. marriage, n. matrimony, wedlock; wedding, nuptials, espousals, nuptial rites. Putnam's Word Book A church fair opens, and towards the close it is found that some of the more valuable articles are unsalable. The Abominations of Modern Society She had a throb as she realized that, besides her house and garden, this unsalable bit of the mountainside was her only remaining possession. Hillsboro People I was rich in unsalable cattle, owned a thirty-two-thousand-acre ranch, saddle horses galore, and was in debt. Reed Anthony, Cowman A few had left; carelessly abandoning their unsalable goods to their landlord, with great cheerfulness and a sense of favor. Frontier Stories Some of these were left with masses of unsalable property on their hands. The Long White Cloud In the first place, although we had at Gizhiga fifteen or twenty thousand dollars' worth of unused material, most of it was of such a nature as to be absolutely unsalable in that country. Tent Life in Siberia For some reason this trade has greatly declined within the past five years, the stock becoming unsalable, and its production being interrupted. Camp-Fire and Cotton-Field Southern Adventure in Time of War. Life with the Union Armies, and Residence on a Louisiana Plantation My holdings of mixed stock on the Clear Fork had virtually cost me nothing, and while they may have been unsalable, yet there was a steady growth and they were a promising source of income. Reed Anthony, Cowman Two hundred million dollars' worth of her property has become unsalable, if not worthless, within two months. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861 He had found the fiddle rather unsalable, and feared if he lost his chance of disposing of it, it might remain on his hands for a year more. Phil, the Fiddler The bakers refused categorically to make square Matzoth, declaring that if they did so, their stock would be unsalable. The Book of Delight and Other Papers Their only ill effect has been, that they have encouraged many otherwise deserving young men to set a Sibylline value on their verses in proportion as they were unsalable. Among My Books Second Series Now, he was here in the dark, with fifteen dollars in his pocket, and an unsalable horse on his hands; outcast, deserted, homeless, hopeless: and by whose fault? A Modern Instance Bankers succumbed beneath the burden of their unsalable issues. A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States This land would be on their hands, unsalable, if the base went somewhere else. A Gentleman from Mississippi The backs were off some, the pages were torn from others, still others were just slightly cracked in the front, which, as all careless book returners know, makes a book unsalable, and therefore second-hand. Tales of the Jazz Age If the ground is kept mellow and bare under the bushes, the fruit will be so splashed with earth as to be unsalable, and washed fruit is scarcely fit for the table. Success with Small Fruits "As we stand at present," Boyd acknowledged, "we are the owners of one hundred thousand dollars' worth of useless machinery and unsalable supplies." The Silver Horde The London Exchange was flooded with unsalable paper, an occurrence which had also taken place on a smaller scale in 1837. A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States So far as anything that Keith knew to the contrary, his father was still painting unsalable pictures in the Burton home-stead studio. Dawn After a basket of hens' eggs has been incubated four days it is removed and the eggs examined by lighting, to remove those which are infertile before they have been rendered unsalable. Farmers of Forty Centuries; Or, Permanent Agriculture in China, Korea, and Japan To accomplish these results, all the unsalable, useless, and ugly furniture taking up valuable space must be carted away to some auction room and sold for what it would bring. Felix O'Day Thus far only about 13 billion dollars of the ultimate surplus, including 5 billion dollars of unsalable aircraft, has been declared. State of the Union Address It was impossible to obtain any credit from the banks, and all securities were unsalable, unless at ruinous rates. A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States It dammed up vast unsalable surpluses, helping to bring about unemployment and suffering in the United States and everywhere else. State of the Union Address If it could have obtained the moon it would have upset all the astronomers of Europe and made Whitaker's Almanack unsalable without a pang. The Grim Smile of the Five Towns "Only that in consequence of having in store a large stock of unsalable goods bought by your indiscreet son-in-law, who knows no more about business than a child, we are in a temporary strait." Cast Adrift See what can be sold instead of burned, and don't cut down recklessly; an unsalable tree may be valuable as a windbreak or as shade for your house. Three Acres and Liberty At one time there were people dying of actual starvation in India, while men were burning unsalable wheat in America. In the Days of the Comet It was a strip along the shore, almost worthless, and unsalable at present. Cy Whittaker's Place Neither man would give consent, and so that astonishing and most noble echo had to cease from its great powers; and since that day that magnificent property is tied up and unsalable. Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories The owner had lavished a fortune in the purchase of unsalable treasures. Zanoni A few had left carelessly abandoning their unsalable goods to their landlord, with great cheerfulness and a sense of favor. By Shore and Sedge Particularly demonstrative were the ebullitions of two or three brothers who saw a chance of exchanging sundry unsalable possessions for slices in the inheritance. The Lock and Key Library The most interesting stories of all nations: Real life Gobseck haggled for a few francs between the prices, and while they wrangled the goods became unsalable. Gobseck A ticket of series 1000, number 100 is altogether unsalable, for such a number ``can not possibly be sold.'' Criminal Psychology; a manual for judges, practitioners, and students The American Oligarchy was practically in possession of the world-market, and scores of countries were flung out of that market with unconsumable and unsalable surpluses on their hands. The Iron Heel When every country stands with an unconsumed and unsalable surplus on its hands, the capitalist system will break down under the terrific structure of profits that it itself has reared. The Iron Heel |
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