| 单词 | sale |
| 例句 | There was really no musical relief for our motley sales crew, either. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z And he tells her about the sale in Brussels of his painting The Red Vineyard to an artist, Anna Boch. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There were still photographs of naked young people for sale back there, too. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Emily, James, and Matthew would split 10 percent of the royalties earned from the sale of the book, to be deposited into a scholarship fund for each of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z “What difference does that make? They still don’t have enough, so let’s get on with the sale.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z She told Dad the zoo did not allow the sale of uncooked meat, because foolish people tried to feed it to the animals. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Under the headline “At 60 M.P.H., Office Work Is High Risk,” the story quoted businesspeople describing the desperate need to respond to client inquiries within seconds, or risk losing a sale. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z “He said he was on his way home and saw the sign for the sale. He told me that he had an anniversary coming up the next week.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z She is the one with all the information: the inventory of similar houses, the recent sales trends, the tremors of the mortgage market, perhaps even a lead on an interested buyer. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Milo and Tock wandered up and down the aisles looking at the wonderful assortment of words for sale. The Phantom Tollbooth 1961-09-01T00:00:00Z Farther on, she passed a woman with bits of rope and string for sale and a man pulling a cart full of carrots and beets to the grocery stores. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z The agent, meanwhile, only lost $300—a small price to pay to ensure that she would quickly and easily lock up the sale, which netted her a commission of $6,450. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Trees and flowers bloomed on the terraced walls above the stalls, while below it seemed as if everything the gods had put into the world was for sale. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “The most beautiful part of the sale, Goubert, is that it’s a project completely by students. The students sell the chocolates. The school merely ad-ministers the project. It’s your sale, your project.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I feel a little funny about my faded Boston Marathon T-shirt even though it was the greatest tag sale find of the summer last year. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z Before the afternoon had ended, the sale of four hundred and seventy-five boxes had been received—cold, cold cash—as the teams returned to school with horns blowing, high with the hilarity of success. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There are cartons of ladybugs for sale on the counter and I decide to buy one. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z Emily, James, and Matthew would split 10 percent of the royalties earned from the sale of the book, to be deposited into a scholarship fund for each of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z "Yes, sir, he put through the sale—though he made it clear that he was buying Soldier Island for a third party, unnamed." And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z The chocolate sale was postponed for a week and Brother Leon, speaking at chapel, gave a weak explanation. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “My son is ill,” Mr. Derby said to the doctor, “so I’ll entrust to you the transactions for the sale of these three.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z His father has a good job in sales but is a heavy drinker. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The problem was that he never associated "quick sale" with "immediate consumption." Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Ms. Byrd said, “They’re all for sale, Bob. Take the whole crate.” Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z But for some reason he kept putting off the sale. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere he went, he wrote down what people were wearing and what was for sale—menswear, women’s wear, children’s wear. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z On a good night, we'd be talking fifteen, twenty sales by now. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z When Carl heard that a hot dog cart was for sale — on Florence Avenue across from the Goodyear factory — he decided to buy it. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z It didn’t look like we were going to make our fortunes in grapefruit sales that year either. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z Laws prohibiting the use and sale of drugs are facially race neutral, but they are enforced in a highly discriminatory fashion. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z That's every single day for the last twenty years, from my first internship out of college all the way up through the ranks to vice president of sales. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z There are lemonade stands, garage sales, and lots of joggers. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “I have to get my stuff ready for the yard sale,” I said. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Gregor didn’t know exactly what they were talking about, but he had the uneasy sense he was for sale. Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She told us to spread word of the sale, and we did. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z “I heard about the yard sale,” his father said. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z They see a sign in the window of the mill: milk for sale, one cent a glass, and also fried eels. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z It might take months of bake sales and car washes, but maybe, just maybe, they could raise the money. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “Why not just give me your sales pitch in a chat room?” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z If the last three digits of the total value of stock sales match your numbers, you get to collect winnings. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z When Mama took us to the bargain basement sales in the Loveman’s and Pizitz department stores, we never asked why we couldn’t try on clothes. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z In fact, he’d helped his mother put her things in boxes for the church rummage sale. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z The bill of sale in his shirt pocket would mean very little to armed patrolmen chasing a trespasser. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z “Are you sure? There are some great clothing sales.” Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z “I will make sure your money from the sale of these three is safely delivered to you by a courier from Charles Town. He will return with your wagon.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Certainly, he never made anywhere near a profit from the Fischer–Spassky match, despite the revenue from admissions fees, the sale of souvenirs, posters, television rights, etc. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Can’t work nohow. We figured we might as well drive on out to the sale.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I talked the car sales dude down to eighty-four hundred dollars from ten thousand, so in a way I actually saved money. You know what the color’s called?” Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z I was nearing the end of a brief seasonal job when I noticed that my favorite town house had been put up for sale. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Quickly we found up for sale in Phoenix the home of the saxophone player, Louis Jordan. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Five of them have a strong positive correlation to the ultimate sale price, and five have a strong negative correlation. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “The mayor’s all charged up. Got to stop all the counterfeit ticket sales! What do you think that does to my business?” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The unfortunate fact that the new third wife of the American millionaire was a bad sailor had led to the subsequent putting up of the house and island for sale. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z His father had bought it at a garage sale, and the remote control was missing, so he had to lean over to change the channel. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z Remarkably effective, the boycott reduced sales between 15 and 20 percent for a total loss to the targeted businesses of around a million dollars. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z The next customer comes in, and Roza shows her my clothes on purpose, going on and on about how perfectly suited they are to this woman's coloring, and makes the sale. What the Night Sings 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After the pigs had been slaughtered and fresh pork was for sale in the market, another wave of British officers moved in and set up their camp beds in the second-floor drawing room. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Below were three pages of trades and sales. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Outside the apartment house, Paul considered his choices: pressing on with the sale despite his luck today or going home. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Make the sale, take the bills, let them bail, and be done. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “He wanted to stop at a yard sale,” Mrs. Morehouse says. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z My house is for sale, and apparently someone is already interested in it. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “My pearl is not for sale here. I will go, perhaps even to the capital.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Women wear dresses covered in products for sale: pearls, perfume bottles, spice pouches, and more. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z When I did, the sales person called security on me and two big guys swooped down and grabbed my arms. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Yes, and Ezekiel here did the sales analysis.” Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z At the end of every winter Momma and Dad would go downtown to Montgomery Ward’s when gloves were going on sale and buy six pairs for us kids. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The worn scraps of fabric felt deliciously soft in my hands as I folded them in neat squares, transformed by my imagination into fine clothes for sale. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The newly married couple picked up an inexpensive painting at a yard sale—a blue-eyed, blond princess standing next to a dark, bearded prince—and hung it in their living room. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z It’s a letter that says something about a small restaurant for sale in Orocovis. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z “Let me see—you have done fine in the sale, David. Eighteen boxes sold. Fine. Fine. Not only are you an excellent scholar but you possess school spirit.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Durant repaid him with GM stock and a generous percentage of gross sales, guaranteed for life. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Grandma said you met her at a tag sale.” From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I gotta be able to judge if someone might be a cop and be able to refuse the sale. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Another fact that the defense did not choose to deal with is the sale of cigarettes. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z But finally, in a drawer she was sure contained nothing of value, she found it, the act of sale for 3015 Dublin. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z Then Circe had made her sales pitch: if Annabeth stayed on the island, she could have magical training and incredible power. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z After all, anyone selling a home can now get online and gather her own information about sales trends and housing inventory and mortgage rates. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z After the farmer shot them, Shin lugged their carcasses out of the woods for slaughter and commercial sale. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z More than double my usual sales in the last week, overall. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z His mother never seemed to know the difference between something cool and something for idiots, because all she cared about was that it was something on sale. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z In the late sixties the Warden quit his sales job and turned to teaching. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z But no such humility marks the booming “weed killer” business of the present day, in which soaring sales and expanding uses mark the production of plant-killing chemicals. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Desdemona would have felt no more ashamed had she herself been for sale, displayed naked on the green sofa, a price tag hanging from her foot. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Right now, it’s all about exposure. Getting your name out there. Getting your songs on the radio. You’ll make more money in CD sales than you’ll ever make on the tour.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The sound of the empty cotton sacks dragging over the floor and the murmurs of waking people were sliced by the cash register as we rang up the five-cent sales. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Three of the five terms correlated with a higher sale price are physical descriptions of the house itself: granite, Corian, and maple. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I’m getting the white liquor because a few weeks ago he ran out and there was none for sale and he had a withdrawal, shaking and screaming at terrifying things only he could see. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z This year, as forehanded as ever, he’d been wavering between the imported perfumes on sale at Norris Drugs and a pair of riding boots. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before the road into the park, there was a small general store, its one plate glass window cluttered with signs for circuses, garage sales, and church suppers. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Sun-bleached for sale signs line the curbs, and paint peels from uninhabited buildings. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z His mother is going to donate them all to the library where she works, for their annual book sale in the spring. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z When I asked her what she meant, she said that in addition to her forty-dollar-a-week salary, she made 10 percent on every sale. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z They all sit together, talk about church things and do charity bake sales and stuff. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z There was a bill of sale in a file in a box somewhere, from what he understood, but that was it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z That was the creepy aspect of the sale, the way the credit was being distributed among all the students. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s to prohibit you from making a profit. You cannot have a giant garage sale when it’s over.” Millionaires for the Month 2020-09-01T00:00:00Z Coke was plunged into crisis, and just a few months later, the company was forced to bring back the original formula as Classic Coke—at which point, sales of New Coke virtually disappeared. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z They’re having a big sale before they close the old doors and open under new management. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Every day they sent her to the roof to record inventory until lunch, at which point Haidar brought her receipts from the morning’s sales and a bowl of yellow split peas for her lunch. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z They had mules loaded down with things to eat, oxcarts with furniture and domestic utensils, pure and simple earthly accessories put on sale without any fuss by peddlers of everyday reality. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “For instance,” Leon said, dropping the pieces and opening the ledger that was so familiar to everyone at Trinity, the ledger in which the daily sales were recorded. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z That the lite of a man is worth the sale of a two-bit paper doll . Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z From the beginning of my travels I had noticed the sale lots where they were sold and traded, but then I began to be aware of the parks where they sit down in uneasy permanence. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z Some shop was having a clearance sale on mobile phones, and they were selling them at such a ridiculous price I knew Sizwe and I could flip them in the hood for a profit. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But the colored part a town, we one big anthill, surrounded by state land that ain’t for sale. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Basically all the clutter that would have been sold off in garage sales if the homeowners association here actually allowed garage sales. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “Their house is up for sale,” she said. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z I sighed as I continued painting, all the while listening to the guy's increasingly extravagant—and desperate—sales pitches. City of the Plague God 2021-01-12T00:00:00Z Burres, as one of the vendors, had set up some folding tables displaying cheap, mostly secondhand goods for sale, and McCandless volunteered to oversee her large inventory of used paperback books. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z But the biggest amenity of all was the free lunch that almost every saloon offered in order to lure customers and increase the sale of beer. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z My mother, who cannot speak English like the rest of us, wanders perplexed through the shops, inspecting the strange foods for sale. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The only workingmen they saw were the drug dealers who were up early to meet their sales quotas, wore the latest gym shoes, and got the girls. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She heads straight for the sale rack at the back and finds a mustard- colored wool coat, several sizes too big for me, with shiny black buttons. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Mom guessed it was because he had lodged his complaint about the property sale but she wasn’t certain. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z On sale today at the drugstore elixir aisle—bottom shelf. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z As her sales skyrocketed and stayed up, the Treasury Department began to notice this new Amazon. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Voldemort was sent to persuade people to part with their treasures for sale by the partners, and he was, by all accounts, unusually gifted at doing this.” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z He presided over all the Osage sales, and his moniker, Colonel, made him sound like a veteran of World War I. In fact, it was part of his christened name: Colonel Ellsworth E. Walters. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There’s no way she was in her thirties when she had a tag sale twelve years earlier. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z Mom and Dad would give us a bag of marbles or a doll or a slingshot that had been marked way down in an after-Christmas sale. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Looking healthier and feeling stronger than they had in a very long time, they were ready for sale. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z A bunch of our things were going to be sold at a yard sale on Sunday, except for important stuff like shoes and mattresses and a few dishes. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z But luggage sales were only a small portion of Peninsula Luggage's cash flow. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “What you want to take home with you and how you want to pay for it. We'll take the package to our sales manager and get his big okay.” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Unlike the majority of the audience, Monroe believed the poem to be rather a brilliant work, so much so that she had hired a printer to produce five thousand copies for sale to the public. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “But he was pondering such a sale anyway?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Selling your stuff at a yard sale is a weird experience. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Regina wasn’t buying his sales pitch and wrote back that Armstrong and his church were feeding Bobby a line of mumbo jumbo and engaging in fear mongering. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z Even, I wonder, if the lies are part of the sales pitch the company has taught you? Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “I promise you, gentlemen, that before this sale is ended each one of you will have the number ‘fifty’ inscribed in that final box, signifying that you have done your part for Trinity . The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I just wanted to take a moment to remind everyone that all proceeds from today’s concession sales are going to benefit the American Schizophrenia Association.” Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z The caption read: Mount Carmel Missionary Circle prepares a bake sale to raise funds for Briggs v. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z “Well,” said the proprietor, “I’d better get my luggage dusted off. I got a feeling there’ll be a rush sale here any time.” The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z “It isn’t practical for the brush, but it was cheap at the sale.” The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z Under one arm she held the silkworm box, which wasn’t for sale. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z My mom and dad agreed that with the money from the sale, they’d be able to build a world-class gymnastics-training center from scratch. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Or they might be showing someone how to get to a farm where a fellow had a mule for sale or some such thing. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Kyril Montana had also helped Bud out of one ticklish situation involving federally controlled interstate land sales in which Bud had become embroiled during his earlier days when he was based in the capital. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z But he knew they’d be eating a lot of it this week; it had been on sale at Save Mart, and his father had bought three heads. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “There’s another official report that says you were stabbed by an innocent girl in the course of extensive black-market operations involving acts of sabotage and the sale of military secrets to the enemy.” Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z Mr. Dubonnet had to back down, and the sale proceeded. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z There were thousands of people there, arguing, selling, and buying; vegetables for sale amongst daggers, and carpets displayed alongside tobacco. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Its customers, in effect, become part of its sales and research and development teams. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z I wouldn’t even put this thing out in a garage sale. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z “This chatlink is part of our sales pitch. We want to give you the same experience you’d have if you came to visit our headquarters in person.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I’m looking through the third section of the vinyl records on sale when Suesetta yells, “Found one!” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He got this idea after delivering for years to one company spread out over three floors—an executive floor on top and two lower floors with sales, service, and administrative employees. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “And increase the sales of your stink bait!” Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z But since no one in their right mind was buying homes there anymore, she couldn’t make a single sale. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I keep my eyes open for tennis shoes, but there don’t seem to be any for sale. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z In 1966, he left a steady sales job in Massachusetts and moved everyone to Birmingham, Alabama, because someone had told him, “Alabama is a sleeping giant.” Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The Moton school office put war stamps on sale, each purchase a small offset against the gargantuan cost of the military production. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z “That little fella’s not for sale. He’s a Manchurian Fire Thrower. They’re ones that shoot upwards of three hundred feet in the air and explode in two different colors.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Would it make them mad, like a sales call or something? The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z I can make out only the first two letters before the remaining letters get lost in curves that look like a sales chart for a business that is rising and failing regularly. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When Harriet heard of the sale of her sisters, she knew that the time had finally come when she must leave the plantation. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z They were still waiting for the tickets to go on sale at seven o'clock. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z Shoba had bought them once when they were on sale, in the event that a visitor decided, at the last minute, to spend the night. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z My dad bought it at a yard sale for almost nothing. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z When Brother Leon arrived, they totaled the sales together and discovered that fifteen thousand and ten boxes of chocolates had been sold thus far. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They’d slaughter the adults for food, keep the young bonobos as pets or for sale, and do who knows what to me. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z They all held the words “For sale!” or “Sold!” along with Ms. Morales’s picture. The Strangers 2019-04-02T00:00:00Z So Grandma, who didn’t take part in community activities, wanted to go to the rummage sale. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z By the time I returned to Lykes Cottage, I had made one hundred fifty dollars in sales, enough for one of the better prizes. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z Harold is the concept man, the chief architect, the designer, the person who makes the final sales presentation to a new client. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dining room, he built an elaborate cabinet system to hold his stereo equipment, much of it scavenged at yard sales. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z They had had a hard year, and after the sale of part of the hay and corn, the stores of food for the winter were none too plentiful, but the windmill compensated for everything. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z There were fewer than a dozen chess books for sale. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z But this year, with everything that’s happened, I don’t notice the banners and the signs announcing ticket sales. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z It was designed to increase the speed, lower prices, and raise the volume of sales. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Now the question of how to increase sales of margarine was much clearer. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z “I bought some items at a retired veterinarian’s yard sale and the others I made myself.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "No. It's been for sale for, like, a year." Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z They congratulated him on being able to account for every penny of the money earned through sales and expended for their needs. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z He, too, seemed giddy, high, his wet eyes sparkling with the success of the sale. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z ‘Did they have a sale on them or something?’ Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z There was a deli with baskets of fresh fruit for sale outside, a chocolate shop, a coffee shop, and a ton of fancy restaurants. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “You’re welcome. I was so excited when I found it at a tag sale. Doesn’t she remind you of the clown we saw last summer?” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z A sign beside a stream offered fresh eggs for sale, and I drove up a farm road and bought some eggs and asked permission to camp beside the stream and offered to pay. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re sure it’s not just a bunch of junk somebody picked up for like fifty cents at a yard sale?” Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z Mama watched for the sales and then gathered all us children every so often to buy shoes there. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “I think we sold about twenty of ’em in a bag for fifty cents at that garage sale. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z To discuss the sale, he told us, trying to hide the super-kook grin. I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z There are enough antiques for sale along the roads of New England alone to furnish the houses of a population of fifty million. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He was probably halfway back home with the money from my sale in his pocket. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z He’s got documents and ledgers detailing sales from here all through the Confederate states, Cuba, and throughout South America.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Dozens of beady eyes stared back at him from the line of stuffed circus animals on sale. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z They are thinking about going to a yard sale in the neighborhood one Saturday morning, playing Bengali songs on the stereo. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z Later, Archie had to concede that Brother Leon had dramatized the sale too vividly and therefore put himself and The Vigils and the entire school on the spot. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It would explain the change in Julia, certainly, and might even explain Holmes’s sale of the pharmacy—an unstated trade: the store in exchange for Julia. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z He wants the sale of his eggs and meat to help other local businesses, like small shops and restaurants. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z There was no single reason for the sudden turnabout, the surprising upswing, the unexpected rash of sales. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "They all have their mileage cut to under under ten thou before they're offered for sale. And to think I invented that all by myself," he added proudly. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z If a store tried to pull the sales stunt too often, these are the people who would figure it out and complain to management and tell their friends and acquaintances to avoid the store. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Tickets for the showdown at Midland High didn't go on sale until Tuesday afternoon, which explained why the first handful of Permian fans started camping outside the gate of Ratliff Stadium Sunday night. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Her extended family and friends fill up whole sections of the auditorium at shows and account for thousands of dollars in ticket sales. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “I have fresh fish for sale ” Storing live fish to eat later had been a major breakthrough, he thought. Hatchet 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z He had heard earlier that there were rich men in the town who were hoarding food for themselves and for sale to the very rich, but even this ceased to anger him. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Three days later, Seabiscuit was put up for sale, placed in a rock-bottom claiming race for a tag of just $2,500. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z A friend helps Lourdes get work cleaning oil refinery offices and houses by day and ringing up gasoline and cigarette sales at a gas station at night. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “No beer for sale on Sunday,” the man said. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Three weeks later he put the farm up for sale. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z They looked at her as if she were a cow for sale. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z But they were hardly the only wares for sale in the heated marketplace that was ancient Greek cosmological debate. Circumference 2008-11-25T00:00:00Z “In this instance I am not prompted by curiosity; I act on the part of Lord Godalming, who wishes to know something of the property which was, he understood, lately for sale.” Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z There’s a rectangular table—like the kind we set up for bake sales at school, but narrower—pushed against one side of the trailer. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z For weeks an unusually large supply of wild pigeons had been for sale at the market. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z He had the bill of sale from Ulibarri buttoned in his shirt pocket just in case. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z I've never known our father to buy anything not marked reduced for quick sale. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The sale of his sheep had left him with enough money in his pouch, and the boy knew that in money there was magic; whoever has money is never really alone. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z That is, your sales department had to be able to send not just e-mail messages but also documents to your billing department and spreadsheets to your supplier’s inventory department. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z Tickets wouldn’t go on sale until eight o’clock. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He confessed to the assassination of eminent Party members, the distribution of seditious pamphlets, embezzlement of public funds, sale of military secrets, sabotage of every kind. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z While the Missionary Circle truly held a bake sale to raise money for the court case, the correct date was June 9, 1951. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z Polly wondered as she glanced with boredom at the slave sale. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s like a “buy one, get the rest free” sale at the mall. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z Uhmma loves her pennies, collects them like flowers in an old glass vase she found at a garage sale. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z “For sale: Complete set of encyclopedias, never used. Wife knows everything.” The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z After studying the roster for a few minutes, Carter told Brian to credit various students with sales returns. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z We stopped at garage sales and bought knickknacks that people no longer wanted. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I would have christened it, but the sale of alcohol was illegal in Iran, so there was no bottle of champagne to smash upon its blue hull. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z “I want to see the most unusual ring you have for sale,” Immie said. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When I pulled into Cliff’s driveway, he figured I was a Jehovah’s Witness or an insurance sales rep, since the only white people who visited him were usually one or the other. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z There’s a photo of Dad shaking hands with Craig Salt when Dad got made regional sales director for Greenland. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z And after a few awkward seconds, Bit ballooned his chest with bravery, rolled his shoulders back, and said, "Candy for sale." Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z Trout told him that he had never seen a book of his advertised, reviewed, or on sale. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Movie theaters make most of their profits from their snack coun-ters, not from ticket sales. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z But on a checkup visit, he was dismayed to find that the manager was focusing his sales effort not on Buicks but on ponderous Thomas Flyers. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He hoped for an end of all sales of Indigenous lands to settlers to stop their spread into Indigenous lands. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Then they take off in a new-to-us 1967 Chevy Nova, hunting for furniture bargains at garage sales and in thrift shops. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Cuba has become the joke of the Caribbean, a place where everything and everyone is for sale. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Then I got back outside, and the guy shows up, and I told him the tickets were no longer for sale. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Many saloons extended their influence beyond their doors by offering beer for sale that could be taken home in metal pails. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Around 1921. The owner of the castle where he was buried needed money and put him up for sale. And we bought him.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z He couldn’t stop thinking about the money he could make off that sale—almost exactly enough to take care of this date. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z He looked around the apartment as if he were sizing it up for sale. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z I just interrupted the sales pitch he’s memorized, and it seems like he doesn’t know what to do. Marcus Vega Doesn't Speak Spanish 2018-08-21T00:00:00Z They argue all the way home, Matt complaining that barber supply sales have fallen off, and that their savings are dwindling, Rose screeching back that making Charlie normal is more important than anything else. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z Herb was hardheaded, a slow man to make a deal; Johnson had worked over a year to clinch this sale. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Now, as race time approached, sales representatives were trundling the last few radios ordered the night before into Seattle homes and setting them up. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “You awake?” he said again, reaching over and switching on the princess lamp he’d bought for her at a yard sale. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z In those days Aureliano lived off the sale of silverware, candlesticks, and other bric-a-brac from the house. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z She is exhausted from two days of cooking, from her morning of cleaning, from these weeks of packing and dealing with the sale of the house. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z “You know I can’t waste any gas coming back to pick you up, right? The only way I could justify the trip to J & H Supermarket was the sale on beef.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “Here’s the deal. They just added Austin to her tour because of some kind of screwup in San Antonio. Tickets go on sale day after tomorrow. Fifty-five dollars a pop.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z And he suddenly remembered a prayer he had seen on a plaque for sale in the store at the marina. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh. Stopped at a bake sale on the way home,” he lied. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z Again, my chief duty was to stand on the corner and yell at the top of my voice, “Grapefruits! Grapefruits for sale! Get your grapefruits!” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I tilt my head down in shame, look at the worn, shaggy orange rug that was too cheap to pass up at a garage sale. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z Frowning, biting the pencil, he pondered the results of his arithmetic—sales were dropping at an alarming rate. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s your sale in more ways than you realize, Archie,” Leon said, sighing. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A hit meant duplicating the last three figures of the Stock Exchange’s printed daily total of U.S. domestic and foreign sales. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z If they’d put it in the annual library sale, it would have gone for ten cents at most. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z There were wonders for sale, and marvels, and miracles; there were things undreamed-of and objects unimagined. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z “An estate sale in Nashville. Let ’er rip!” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I’m surprised to see that it’s still for sale when I walk in. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “If you think that little sale was bad—and Daddy really had already arranged it—you better make sure nothing happens to me.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In a small garage on the dealership property, the detailers used little blue rags to make spotless the used or new cars and ready them for sale. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z He kept thinking that it ought to take the auctioneer about two hours to eat and drink and talk up the afternoon’s sale. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z After training all day, I would come home and review sales for the day and respond to customer emails. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z But I could also imagine this: Margo picking these books up at various garage sales, buying every travel guide she could get her hands on for a quarter or less. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z He spent much of his time in West Baltimore but had decided to try to open up a drug sales operation in East Baltimore as well. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z "Well, don't bother copying that one. Twenty-three barrels of pickled cod, eighteen jars of fish oil, a cask of salt ..." "An inventory," Sam said, "or perhaps a bill of sale." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z Then the Hope Springs middle school principal talked about the problem with bake sales: promoting healthy food choices versus the importance of student-led fundraising. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z “C’est sale,” I said, showing it to her and cracking up. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Meanwhile, Jake scanned the next customer’s items and did the math in his head, remembering to add sales tax to all non-food items. The Smartest Kid in the Universe 2020-12-01T00:00:00Z The Ashida sale, which was considered a success, attracted not quite a hundred customers. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Without the money from the fireworks sale, I could never have convinced the recruitment officer to sign me up underage. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z He held top sales jobs at four different technology companies that were ultimately sold or went public for more than a billion dollars each. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z I told him about the house for sale across the highway. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z What there is for sale, the prices are expensive. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z He found it at a yard sale down the street. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z “We can make homemade dog treats and grow catnip. People who love animals will come to the sale. We’ll raise funds and maybe get people to adopt another pet.” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s move into the side room. Just to be sale.” Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z “I’m sorry, Shady. The statute is clear. As of October first, if the town doesn’t buy the land, it becomes available for public sale.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The Crêperie is one of my favorite restaurants, but we haven’t been there in a while—not since before my parents had to put our house up for sale. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Cooksey witnessed firsthand the conversion of a skeptic into a believer in April 1938, while he was traveling back east on what amounted to a sales mission. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z He began to talk about buying a farm and drove her up and down island roads where property was for sale. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Although Wells had complained earlier about the way his novel was altered for the Mercury broadcast, the resulting publicity increased sales of his books. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z “What’s so weird about it, Cochran? The boy’s obviously a misfit. He tried in his small ineffectual way to damage the sale and he succeeded in doing the opposite. The school rallied against him.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nineteenth-century newspapers intentionally printed fake news stories to entertain readers and increase sales. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z I recognized the simulated wood-grain paneling, the burnt orange carpet, and garish furniture that looked like it had been scavenged from several disco-era yard sales. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Give copies to the newspapers in these cities to comment upon, it will assist the sale....” The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Sometimes, watching the customers file in, the sales ring up, she began to see commerce as part of the stream of life. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Others are bulgy, dumpy, with clamped self-righteous mouths, their arms festooned with shopping bags; these we associate with sales, with bargain basements. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z Shackleton sweet-talked wealthy patrons, took public donations, and raised money as an advance based on future sales of film and photo rights. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z We passed leather workers and pillow shops and booths where brass vases and pots were for sale. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He’d heard, from friends with younger children, that the expensive doll line now had one Asian doll for sale—and a few black ones, too—but he’d never seen it. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z She received twelve hundred dollars from the sale of the book. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And you, The Vigils—yes, I’m saying the name aloud—The Vigils must throw their full weight behind the sale .. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By the roadside were scores of people crying goods for sale or trade. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Sidley & Austin was representing the chemical conglomerate Union Carbide in an antitrust trial involving the sale of one of its business holdings. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The Volstead Act, which banned the manufacture, sale, and transfer of alcoholic beverages, was now the law of the land. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z In her lace cap and apron, she is busily stitching embroidery for sale. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “I don’t have any money to buy anything, but I like browsing the snack stall and looking at the different fabrics for sale.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z I hadn’t told him the details though—especially not the details of Sam’s sale. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Right. I acquired them the day they went on sale.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Elsewhere they saw beautiful bronze daggers for sale, dried squids and carved onyx, a potent magical elixir made of virgin's milk and shade of the evening, even dragon's eggs which looked suspiciously like painted rocks. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z He never had a sale, never reduced a price and never remaindered. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “We have to shout ‘Fuel for sale’ and ‘Yams for sale,’ ” she said. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, first of all, it wasn’t two hundred and fifty dollars. It was on sale.” Leah on the Offbeat 2018-04-24T00:00:00Z “What’s more important—football and your marks or the lousy chocolate sale?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She had not seen hair for sale in the big department stores Mami sometimes took them through on outings "to see this new country." How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z Thousands of copies changed hands across the United States on the first day, and countries around the world reported similar sales. Chasing Vermeer 2004-06-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes those guys try to lay a sales pitch on you, just like the Kings. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Some of the runners are washing cars, some are working the bake sale tables, and some are holding poster-board signs and shouting at cars from the corner. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z They must have been on sale at Food 4 Less, because the freezer was stuffed with them. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Axelroot did pretty well for himself as a pilot in the Congo, transporting perishable goods from the bush into the cities for retail sale, and he was also active in the diamond trade. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Instead of large glass windows plastered with sale signs, these stores had small panes, like house windows. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Anyway, Dr. Newman is onstage looking cheerful, the way he’s supposed to since he’s trying to get us pumped up about the gift-wrap sale this year. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z Public education as to the nature of the chemicals offered for sale is sadly needed. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z “I know. I like her, too, and it’s on sale.” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z You could walk in there and think that everything was for sale, it was so perfect. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z She and I were all for strengthening the character of black youth across America, but we also needed rather desperately to get to Water Tower Place before the K-Swiss sneaker sale ended. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z When they do that, supermarkets find that invariably the sales of the product will go through the roof, the same way they would if the product had actually been put on sale. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I don’t want to bother you guys,” Rachel said, “but we were just having a cheerleader bake sale. Lame, right?” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z In one stroke, Archie had forced Renault to show up here, to become part of the chocolate sale, and he also placed Renault at the mercy of the school, the students. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Wednesday morning the bake sale table is missing from the courtyard, and at lunch there’s only one person staffing it. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “What’re you trying to do,” the white man asked belligerently, “kill this man’s sale?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Its purpose was to keep records: the purchase of grain, the sale of land, the triumphs of the king, the statutes of the priests, the positions of the stars, the prayers to the gods. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z The new highways spurred car sales, truck sales, and the construction of new suburban homes. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z “Is he for sale?” he asked in the Common Tongue of Westeros. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Starting November 1, he became national sales manager for a broader range of the bank’s money management services than he had been selling. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z For three years in a row Ded6 has won a trip, the prize for making the most sales of anyone in her company. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Just before the sale closed, he was approached by a headhunter to become the CEO of a new company called Mosaic Communications, forged by two now-legendary innovators—Jim Clark and Marc Andreessen. The World Is Flat 2005-04-05T00:00:00Z The US Congress was close to enacting a law that would prohibit the manufacture, sale, and distribution of alcoholic beverages. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z She got back to me right away, saying that she never had a garage sale when she lived in Brookline. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z “Yes, I see. However, where Shady makes his alleged concoctions doesn’t change the fact that this land is now up for public sale. So, if you’ll return to your seat...” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z It was the biggest sale of the day. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “Oh, the suitcase isn’t for sale. I’m in the business of utensils.” A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z At Dan’s Supermarket, Mami asks me to translate into Spanish the labels of everything she sees for sale on the shelves. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z Piper limited her sales efforts to the seventh-grade class, but probably they had a friend in the seventh grade send their clothes in. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z An analysis of the language used in real-estate ads shows that certain words are powerfully correlated with the final sale price of a house. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z I’m pretty sure my mom got the mango on sale because she doesn’t usually buy them otherwise. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z She asked him to do the gift wrap as she rang up the sale. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z For the rest of the day she remained in the kitchen, unable to watch the miscellaneous horde of yard sale scavengers pick over her personal possessions. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Along its dirt-swept streets, grocers stood posted beside stalls of fresh fruit, haggling down their final sales as shops prepared to close. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z “They had their chance to buy the property. Now it’s up for public sale.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The girl had a sullen look on her face, and she seemed to be the only person not interested in what was going on at the slave sale. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Everyone else seems to know when the khaki pants the boys need are on sale at JCPenney,” she said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z So he began making the rounds of garage and moving sales where he would linger and chat, and at those driveway gatherings he kept hearing an unfamiliar word: “relo.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z There are blue and yellow balloons punching around in the wind, and two bake sale tables set up with blue and yellow tablecloths, and about twenty-five or thirty people in blue-and-gold track uniforms. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z They bought one ad, opposite the contents page of the New Yorker magazine, and in the space of a month sales doubled to 60,000. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z What had once been dedicated to the soul was now dedicated to the sale. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z His sweet moment of triumph spoiled by this nut and his ridiculous chocolate sale! The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By early summer, total paperback sales had reached 30,000, and both Wells and her editor began to get the sense that something strange and wonderful was about to happen. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The other was a good sale at Weatherbee & Crotch, which, by this time, I had probably missed. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Ben was dressed in a dark blue suit that Lillian had bought at a PX sale for ten dollars the year before. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z My father told me that some of them were advertisements, offering a heavy winter coat for sale, or somebody’s services in writing a letter home, or perhaps a request to buy a demon watch. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z It had been shortly after Pauline’s death, and there had been much excitement in the art world when this previously unknown photograph had been put up for sale. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z How many kids got to say their cupcake recipe was for sale in a real bakery? From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z There’s no point in arguing with her; plus I see a cute bag on sale in the back of the store. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z The Warden found enough sales work to afford to rent a house in Birmingham, manage the bills, and keep his family happy. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z The hay was sale and the corn would be ripe in a week. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z Don’t they have a Tiffany sale to go to or something? Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z The drugs became scarce, which prompted state correctional authorities to obtain them illegally, without complying with FDA rules that regulate the interstate sale and transfer of drugs. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z It wasn't just the idea of the feet-less fowl that was causing her distress; she now saw sunflowers for sale in tubs in almost all of the stalls. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z My mother goes to garage sales every Saturday morning. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z But there were probably more North Enders who could not imagine an existence without beer or wine or hard liquor, or the economic benefits of its sale. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The round face, swollen and grim, was framed between hand-printed window signs advertising the week's special sales. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here’s what to do. Arrange to have Renault appear before The Vigils. Check up on the sale—get the totals, facts and figures.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They were always for sale, but I didn't dare cop. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z Clothes, kitchenware, and electronics were also on sale. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z If he put them on in the garage, they must be part of his sales gimmick. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Stanton wasn’t upset by the sale of the newspaper. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Then they’d all walked to the bank that held the funds from the sale of the farm and Jordie signed them over. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Robin found a green dress on the sale rack. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Gauguin’s impending arrival is making him think even more than usual about sales. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Then I came to some baby clothes, maybe Dad’s, nothing too likely even for a rummage sale. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z When he ran out of the sales in the forties, he continued into the thirties and Brother Leon did not tell him to halt. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I got some clothes from a penny sale, cut them up, and rubbed them with dirt like I crawled out of a grave. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Learning that the house he coveted was un available for rent but up for sale, he bought it on the spot. Big Science 2015-07-07T00:00:00Z Sometimes, a book from the library’s used book sale or new pencils with fresh erasers. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z When we get to Mr. Dimming’s class, he strides in wearing another brand-new suit—there must have been a two-for-one sale—and a brand-new smile. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The kennels were still there, and they had dogs for sale. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z “I thought we might go out and take a look at an estate sale on the Old Quarry Road,” said Henry, unperturbed. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z We’ve cleaned up there as much as we could, held a garage sale, given away much of the rest, and the house stands nearly empty. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The boy was being paid more money than he deserved, because the merchant, thinking that sales wouldn’t amount to much, had offered the boy a high commission rate. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z "How did I end up in this situation? I'm the district sales manager of a napkin factory. Why is my daughter in space?" The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z Zach was spending the day delivering honey to her selling places all over town and picking up money from the previous month’s sales. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z The very next weekend, she had found the denim bag at a yard sale for a quarter. George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z “Actually, I’m the only Sally-Q Tool sales representative in eastern Montana. I’m a hub!” The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z What grocery store wouldn't have costumes for sale just four days before Halloween? Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Hazleton Research Products is a division of Coming, Inc. Coming’s Hazleton unit is involved with the importation and sale of laboratory animals. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z “The World’s Fair is, of course, of great interest to our readers. Have you seen an increase in meat sales since the Fair began?” The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z I decided the best form of advertising was to stand on the corner of our street and yell at the top of my voice, “Grapefruits for sale!” Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z We keep prices low, and lower them even more with sales every week and coupons in the paper. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Pre-eminent among the pigs were two young boars named Snowball and Napoleon, whom Mr. Jones was breeding up for sale. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “It’s a sale. There’s a man they call the ’auctioneer.’ Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He had one thousand five hundred pages and managed to convince his father and brother Jaime to pay for it, against whatever profits its sale might bring. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I covered an old sign with a yard of rough linen and then used rickrack, buttons, old zippers, and fabric tape to spell out sale. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z It had been picked, packed, and chilled on Monday, flown by jet to Los Angeles Tuesday, trucked north and put on sale in Berkeley by Thursday, and steamed, by me, Sunday night. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “Bought at garage sales and now probably destined for another one.” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z “Is any of your work for sale?” she asked. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Eight minutes later, a new edition of The Hourly Radio was on sale in the streets of London. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z Styx did himself proud through the sales pitch. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Suburban homemakers could have been placed under surveillance and subjected to undercover operations designed to catch them violating laws regulating the use and sale of prescription “uppers.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z They had not bothered to brand the cattle because they had a bill of sale which acknowledged their Mexican brands. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z "You already have sales experience working at the luggage store." Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z “Can you imagine that, Cochran? A Trinity boy who has refused to sell the chocolates? Do you know what’s happened, Cochran? Do you know why the sales have fallen off?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I wormed my way up to the auto-mobile and tugged on Granddaddy’s coat as the owner shouted “Sorry! She’s not for sale!” and climbed out of the machine. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z In town to bid on the yearling sales on behalf of Bing Crosby, they had stopped by the track to take in a few races. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z “Speaking of spirit, Goubert, you realize, don’t you, how this chocolate sale goes beyond a mere sale or routine project, don’t you?” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z One day she bought a small plant, an African violet in a plastic pot on sale for ninety- nine cents at a drugstore. Stargirl 2000-08-08T00:00:00Z Like when a store advertises their biggest sale ever, and they mean their best. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z It was, she thought, like refusing to hand over maintenance records at the sale of a secondhand car. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Do you have pencils for sale?” she asked. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Lourdes caught her pocketing fifty cents from the sale of two crullers, and threw her out. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “He was at a tag sale,” Grandma said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z In it was eleven hundred afghanis, or about half of the money she’d stashed over the past year plus the sale of the ring. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Seemed like everybody was having a sale on ketchup, which was a good thing because ketchup always made cafeteria food taste better. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “But there’s a really good sale. Buy one, get one half off. So it’s really like I have only...not as many.” How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z “Your Honor. These shysters have been deceiving everyone long enough. Producing illegal alcohol, or their so-called elixir, to raise funds to buy the land. I’d say it’s time to put that land up for sale.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Hanako wasn’t exactly sure why some of these sales had to be made late, but she didn’t ask, because the words “black market” scared her a little. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “But I must see the Abbot! I come in peace. I have important information for sale.” Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z Charles helped them choose dishes and knickknacks, and clean them for sale. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z They are sold for profit; the rebels inform us that the sale shall reimburse owners and fund commissions and weaponry for the rebel army, that the criminals might more efficiently defeat us. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z “I told the guy they were no longer for sale, and he offered two hundred a ticket.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z For example, the fraction demanded that the Daily Worker and the New Masses, official periodicals of the Communist party, be put on sale at all meetings. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You’re the only holdout. Pick someone and then the three of us can bag our boys before the dance tickets go on sale.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Between brass bookends, each a miniature bust of Shakespeare, are the novels she collects at yard sales. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z I noticed a house for sale, which I plan to tell him about. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I’m convinced, Archie, that he’s become a symbol to those who would like to see the sale defeated. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He prays that the sale to Bague is the start of something. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z If we charge $15 a ticket and there are a thousand seats in the auditorium here, that’s fifteen thousand right there.Then we have a bake sale set up in the lobby. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh, no, not him. He says anything from the sale is rightly his for taking care of Ma and the babies all this time. No. This here is a letter.” Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z “Let me put it this way, Carter. Before the sale is over, Renault will be wishing with all his heart that he had sold the chocolates. And the school will be glad he didn’t.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z If profits are 12 percent, for example, is this 12 percent of costs, of sales, of last year’s profits, or of what? Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z She wore a uniform and held a box of goods for sale. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z “We’ll probably make some bucks at the sale,” my dad said. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Then one September he came back to the Keys and put his skiff up for sale. Flush 2005-09-13T00:00:00Z He hopes to use the money from that sale to go to Paris to visit Theo and meet Jo and the baby. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Let’s back up just a moment. If the law, as you say, prevented the Miyamotos from owning land, what was the point of this sale agreement?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We may be sure, however, that this exportation is transacted not simply for the emoluments of sale, but for the instruction of awful example. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This is so, even when they have been imprisoned for minor offenses, such as possession and sale of a small amount of drugs. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z “Well, get out the accounts and I’ll make you a bill of sale on that place.” Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He had a car, and had set up a two-hundred-and-fifty-pound sale. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “I do. From the sale of my father’s farm.” Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z The caption read “Ah don’t give up, Pop. Maybe ya didn’t make a sale all week, but it ain’t as if I didn’t have my paper route.” The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z “This year, our goal is to have all of you involved in the gift-wrap sale,” Dr. Newman tells us. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z He realized that the artisan who carved it probably received only a fraction of the sale price for his labor. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z He let go of my neck, but before I could react, he reached behind a nearby sales desk and brought out a huge double-bladed brass axe. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z And they saw the moon’s reflection displayed in a pail of water—never mind that it was daytime—and it wasn’t for sale but “free” for whoever was able to catch it. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z “I want to see the most unusual ring you have for sale,” she’d said to the shopkeeper. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Some had prices written in marker on the covers, like the library had gotten rid of them in a clearance sale. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z He and Ginny waited out front for X-Ray to bring the money from the ticket sales. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Dad took my trash can to sell at the yard sale.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z There being few provisions for sale, the bustle of commerce had given way to the scurried agitations of scarcity and the angry chafferings of need. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z This would guarantee sales for the drug companies and motivate them to produce the drugs at cheap prices. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Was he going to make a ridiculous pitch for the chocolate sale to be a success in honor of the sick Headmaster? The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Cool in that he had his own rockery style, procured from thrift stores and garage sales, not from Urban Outfitters knockoffs. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of what we got were things that had gone on sale after Christmas last year. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z They were concerned only with their sale of produce. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything is for sale here, everything but your freedom. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z It was not polite; nor strictly true, for the sale of Bag End did not take effect until midnight. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The country was about to go “dry,” and that included the manufacture and sale of rum, one of whose main ingredients was molasses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z The mayor grasps my chin, turning my face this way and that like he’s inspecting a horse for sale. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z In the evenings, after dinner, they set out in their car, Gogol in the back seat, to look at houses for sale. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z At the bake sale he had never seen so many pies at once, more pies on the endless table than soldiers buried in his backyard. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z It was a good night; between tips and sales, I have about twenty bucks in ones and change denting my mattress. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z For example, sometimes when a supermarket wants to increase sales of a given product, they’ll put a promotion sticker in front of it, saying something like “Everyday Low Price!” The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z When I found an old ceramic one at a tag sale, I knew it was the perfect present. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The government owed the tribe annuity payments for the sale of its Kansas land but refused to distribute them until able-bodied men like Ne-kah-e-se-y took up farming. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Minli, used to the spare harvests of her village, couldn’t help gaping at the tall mounds of food for sale at the Market of Green Abundance. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Because as soon as they went on sale in the headquarters, people from town began stealing them off the counter. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I glance at the price tag on a ridiculous pink sweater and see that it’s on sale for ninety-nine dollars. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z People came into his shop to have things fixed, or to buy records or tapes or whatever else he had for sale. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “Who knows? Sunday at the yard sale somebody might give us a million bucks for Robin’s old high chair.” Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z “The sales slip. I charged the pizza. I’m in the phone book.” Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Facing me when I entered was the old portrait of Patriarch Athenagoras that Desdemona had saved from the yard sale years ago. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Thinking about it. Tickets go on sale in two weeks.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z “Well, papers and account books and bills of sale, notes, figuring— well, we went through Father’s things and there wasn’t none of that.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Her account book showed her six most recent sales, all shipments to the Underworld to decorate Hades and Persephone’s garden. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “It’s too soon. Tickets aren’t even on sale yet. We’re not even sure he likes me like that. Besides, it would be more romantic if he asked me.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z Evan hadn't kept track of the sales, so he couldn't be sure. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “But I’ll be putting it up for sale. My family and I couldn’t imagine living here anymore.” Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z In New York, of course, the papers stated that society had never been so gay; that the sale of jewels and fine fabrics and sundry baubles of high fashion had never been so great. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Already the bake sales and the raffle ticket sales have started. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z The public-address system blared the usual Monday- morning announcements about bake sales and soccer practice. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z The list prices, naturally, appeared in italics; like Percheron horses, none existed on the market for sale at any figure. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z The sale of my writings may bring some profit. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z It was 13 years ago, and he came to your house in Brookline to buy some stuff at your tag sale. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z When, as a prank, someone put our school up for sale, covering it with signs and posting a listing on eBay, suspicious eyes turned to Nelson Baker and Jenna McLaughlin, not to us. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We finally settled on a dark green and brown checked coat that was on sale. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z All God’s creatures have names, whether they slither across our path or show up for sale at our front stoop: bushbuck, mongoose, tarantula, cobra, the red-and-black monkey called ngonndo, geckos scurrying up the walls. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Thanks to him, I now controlled production, sales, distribution—I had everything I needed to lock down the bootleg business. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Sometimes he even visited his regular customers before a sale began to let them know what was coming. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Saved from the block in some cases or purchased at estate sales. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It’s all very world-class down here, where I used to buy cheap nighties in high school with my tiny clothes allowance, on sale at that and a size too large. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z But I remember once when I was doing yard work, there was a lady getting ready for a garage sale the next day. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z But for some reason, he couldn’t let the sale go. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z I had made plenty of sales on my own when Mr. Becker was busy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I looked at the bulletin board behind Crusty’s sales desk. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “Never mind. But no, he’s not for sale.” The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z But with a gang war, sales plummet because customers are so scared of the violence that they won’t come out in the open to buy their crack. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Acromantula eggs are defined as Class A Non-Tradeable Goods By the Department for the Regulation and Control of Magical Creatures, meaning that severe penalties are attached to their importation or sale. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z In fact they looked like they’d been shopping at a King Midas clearance sale. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z Granddaddy had read about it in the Austin papers and had bought it from an estate sale, the bird having outlived its previous owner. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z “So it’s for sale, then? It isn’t being...kept for anyone?” Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z And then she tinned back around and started to sing a song that was about trailers being for sale or rent. Raymie Nightingale 2016-04-12T00:00:00Z In keeping with his love of lost causes, Howard bought only the worst-looking horses at the sale, animals who lingered in the ring, attracting few, if any, bids. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Before Prohibition, many states relied heavily on taxes from liquor sales to help fund their programs and expenses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z “Oh, I don’t know. Any old rummage for the church sale.” A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I think sales is the word he wants but no one can figure out how to help him. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The only fat doll I had was a white baby doll that I got from a sidewalk sale. Watch Us Rise 2019-02-12T00:00:00Z Eventually his efforts led to the introduction of the Clean Air Act of 1970 and finally to the removal from sale of all leaded gasoline in the United States in 1986. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z One building had a row of giant oil lamps over the entrance to promote a sale on until October 31. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “I just did some research and you will not believe what’s for sale down by the marina.” I'll Give You the Sun 2014-09-16T00:00:00Z And just below this display, there are several crowded rows of used books for sale. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z A week before the party, I find one—red with white flowers—on sale. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “The school holds fund-raising dances twice a year. I’m on the Fall Ball committee, so I have all the inside scoop! Tickets will go on sale in a month.” Keep It Together, Keiko Carter 2020-05-05T00:00:00Z I glanced at the sales tag on the valentine-shaped Honeymoon Special. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “It’s still for sale, but I think they want too much.” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z A pressing deadline was looming, for a story on the Nature Center’s annual plant sale. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z This time Lola’s sewing, I’m making sets, and Mom’s organizing the rummage sale. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z By the time the sun had begun to shine brightly, the sale had started. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Mount Carmel Missionary Circle prepares a bake sale to raise funds for Briggs v. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z I saw the slave-weavers of the Sudan; the child-warriors of the Moroccan sultan; Efik musketeers scampering at dawn into Ibo villages while women screamed alarm; forest wars declared simply to render up captives for sale. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z With so many thieves around anxious to get rid of stolen good-quality merchandise cheaply, many Harlemites, purely because of this conditioning, jumped to pay hot prices for inferior goods whose sale was perfectly legitimate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your grammy would be proud of you getting all worked up over tag sales.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The sale had gone through quickly, and Immie and her friends had shopped in the Portobello Road market for antiques and in Harrods for textiles. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Logos: “Buy my old car because yours is broken and mine is the only one on sale.” Words Like Loaded Pistols 2011-10-20T00:00:00Z The Securities and Exchange Commission later said that those figures were “false and misleading,” in part because the sale price for the headquarters had been overvalued by as much as $40 million. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look,” she says, leaning toward me, “it’s either used or it isn’t. They don’t sell new stuff at tag sales.” Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z “I know you said he wasn’t for sale, but as Praha’s taken a liking to him...” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Maybe we could have a bake sale for pets,” I say. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z Mr. Talk-a-lot spends the entire ride chatting about stuff like "sales projections" and "the satellite team in Dallas" and "quarterly reports." The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Sure, I was anxious to get out of there as fast as I could, but I’d expected him to start with the usual sales pitch to stay in Greenwood. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z But there was no peace in Brother Leon’s room in the morning as he called the roll of chocolate sales. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A quick investigation of other neighborhoods around the city turned up all sorts of apartments and houses for rent or sale. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z As it turned out, the film was a box office dud, bringing in only $40,000; it did make additional revenue from DVD sales and television licensing. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z No, not on the creative end, she said, but would he want to help with ticket sales and other administrative tasks? Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The sales had been made by the teams of fellows who went out every afternoon. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z As Gal- lay has documented, indigenous societies cooperated fully with the slave-trading system, sending war captives to colonists for sale overseas. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Because it might turn out that the fellow across the aisle was the guy you’d nearly blindsided at the freeway exit yesterday in order to beat him to a promising garage sale. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z We manage to produce a little extra palm oil for sale in Luanda, but most of what we grow is consumed here. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z The sale was over and his job as treasurer was over. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Gimpy had really made a mistake in ringing up the sale, and the half-dollar was a tip. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z My friend Glen Martin's dad was a sales rep for Van Heusen shirts. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z And besides, in sales you not only have to believe in your product, but live by it. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Her biggest sales went to Americans from Pennsylvania. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of Gogol’s toys come from yard sales, as does most of the furniture, and the curtains, and the toaster, and a set of pots and pans. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z She went over to Mrs. Singer, who was now in the middle of a conversation with Phyllis, the other sales girl. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z Angelos, a twenty-four-year-old record producer, possessed a weapon—which he did not use or threaten to use—at the time of the sales. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z I can never forget the first time I saw one of these pathetic infants for sale in the tourist market of a Central African town. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z In the inevitable chain of cause and effect, as soon as the first black family had moved onto the block, the white neighbors immediately put their houses up for sale. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “Well, I understand that the sale is going lousy. Nobody wants to sell the chocolates in the first place and it’s turned into a kind of farce in some classes.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The letter ended with one last piece of information: “Germany has actually stopped the sale of uranium from the Czechoslovakian mines, which she has taken over.” Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z Once Grammy leaves for work, I run up the stairs and get the Strong Shoulder jar I got at the tag sale and unscrew the top. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z She takes me to Roche’s Stores and buys me a shirt, a gansey, a pair of short pants, two pairs of stockings and a pair of summer shoes on sale. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z There is a sign on the mill, next to the door, milk for sale. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Tori never met a sale she didn’t like.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z The bank used the alleged profits from the sale to show a profit in 1982 of $11.9 million instead of a loss. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z He made arrangements for the sale of his office equipment, broke his lease, and settled the matter of refunds to clients very simply by saying, “Let ’em sue me.” A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The auction letter is on top, and under it are a notice of sale of tax-defaulted property, a notice to parties of interest, redemption amounts, rights of parties of interest after sale... The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z However, he’d seen some of the more prominent Vigil members waylaying kids in the corridors, checking on their sales, whispering menacingly to those who had sold only a few boxes. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She found a loaf of bread on sale for fifteen cents and a jar of peanut butter for seventy-one cents. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Ever since we had to put our house up for sale, they’ve been fighting more and more. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z “Look, this sale is something my father arranged before he died. You can’t do anything about it, so just stay out of the way!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z I tried not to be too disappointed—surely our bead sales would pick up again once we had a bigger stock of necklaces to show. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z The booming sales of chemical crabgrass killers are another example of how readily unsound methods catch on. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z It had irked Cole, watching his sports gear, including his dirt bike, snowmobile, bicycle, skis, and even his helmet, all sold through a newspaper ad Hke some junk at a cheap garage sale. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z “His job? Oh, I don’t know about that. And besides, just because his place is for sale doesn’t mean he’s leaving Kalbro.” Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “I’ve had a few tag sales over the years,” Professor Thomas said. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z I didn’t see any roads connecting the villages and at the smallest patch of level ground, someone would flag the train down and get on carrying bundles of firewood, lemonade, or tamales for sale. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He said to the sales agent, “We want to buy two of them.” Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Archie squirmed uncomfortably in his seat, thinking of the Vigil meeting at which he had announced that Brother Leon had asked support for the sale and how he’d pledged the backing of The Vigils. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “Let’s just have a bake sale, raise some money, and get it over with,” Levi says. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “I’m in charge, don’t you see? This entire school is now my responsibility. The chocolate sale is ready to start and you pull something like this.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In the bottom of his sock drawer was Kaira’s letter and the money from the ticket sales, almost a thousand dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Suddenly, police departments were capable of increasing the size of their budgets, quite substantially, simply by taking the cash, cars, and homes of people suspected of drug use or sales. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Dr. Alfred Lanning viewed the proceedings with faint scorn—his usual reaction to the doings of the vastly better-paid business and sales divisions. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z As he dressed, I scanned the classifieds in the local papers and circled the garage sale ads. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z At her job, she had the highest sales record in the company for six years straight. The Skin I'm In 1998-10-16T00:00:00Z The auction had started that morning with the sale of prime field hands. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z But Ashoke points out that even his chairman shops at yard sales, that in spite of living in a mansion an American is not above wearing a pair of secondhand pants, bought for fifty cents. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z In 2005, for example, four out of five drug arrests were for possession, and only one out of five was for sales. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z A man with dry, graying skin and a mop of white hair came in with a plastic tray of herbal potions for sale. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z One way that high school theater bears some similarity to professional theater, or any kind of show business, is that ticket sales matter. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z “You know what a good guard dog goes for these days? I’ll tell you. There’s a German shepherd on the internet on sale for fifty-five thousand dollars. For one dog! Fifty-five K!” Dog Squad 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Austin Wood- folk, the slave trader, was in Cambridge, and Brodas had arranged for her sale. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Any creatures she gathered she quickly prepared for sale. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Without any one of those contributions, he said, the cultured cells wouldn’t exist, and neither would any money resulting from their sale. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He offers to carry her shopping bags, and though they weigh nothing at all she allows him to, telling him she’d been to a sample sale in SoHo just before they’d met. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z You shouldn’t look at him as if he were a racehorse for sale. Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry,” the woman said, shutting the door in his face, still shaking her head in wonder at his sales pitch. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have one that’s for sale, too,” my mom added quickly. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We made our garage sale treks on Saturdays, Baba the driver and me the navigator, and set up our display on Sundays. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z And if any cop stopped Reginald, he had in his pocket both the peddler’s license and the manufacturers’ outlet bills of sale. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z When a restaurant across the street from the Heinz farm went on sale, Carl decided to buy it. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z After word had gotten out that the coveted Manchurian Fire Throwers were for sale, Jinx and Ned knew they could sell as many as they could make. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I pictured them elbowing each other as if at a church rummage sale. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “We split all the profits, fifty-fifty. He was there with me for every sale.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “After we harvest the plankton, the brine is evaporated and the salt is processed for sale. These are the highest salt mountains in the world. People come from all over to admire them.” The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Harry watched nervously as Draco drew nearer and nearer to his hiding place, examining the objects for sale. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z She made the sale to support her relapse. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z As Englewood gained population, Holmes’s sales of tonics and lotions increased. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z In the past few days, the volume of sales had risen staggeringly. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The whole town, practically, had raised the money, quietly and not so quietly, through bake sales and donations and gifts, and so when they presented the trip to Will’s mom, what could she say? Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z The man offered for sale silks and other yard goods, and he identified himself as “a brother from the East.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “The sales are down. Below last year’s. And last year, the quota was half of what has to be sold this year.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At J. T.’s direction, the ledgers had been rigorously compiled: sales, wages, dues, even the death benefits paid out to the families of murdered members. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z He was only interested in the results of the sale, knowing that his previous nineteen thousand, nine hundred fifty boxes had been sold and he was off the hook. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The first two tag sales are filled with a lot of glass and stuff I wouldn’t want. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z The stuff on sale looked really good: heaping boxes of bloodred cherries and apples, walnuts and apricots, jugs of cider in a claw-foot tub full of ice. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z Just, my boss wasn’t at work today and I waited on four customers and made three sales. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z “Had good luck with my shopping, too. Wasn’t a thing I bought that wasn’t on sale.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Dog for sale: Eats anything and is fond of children. The Sense of Style 2014-09-04T00:00:00Z Siddhartha looked at the roll, on which a sales agreement was written, and began to read the contents. Siddhartha 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z “Will you 2 give up on the bake sale?” The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z “By who? Estate sale people? Because that’s who it’s going to be, you know. Vivian will probably never set foot up there again.” Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Billboards advertise lots for sale, where blackberry bushes and shrubs run wild. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z He pulled out a fancy leather wallet and asked my dad if his guitar was for sale. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z Usually we waited for the holiday sales to buy stuff like that, but Mom said that this year we’d be too busy changing diapers. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d kept it in the back of her closet till recently and felt sad, after the estate sale, that it was gone forever. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z They had a white sale, a remnant sale, an aluminum sale, and a crockery sale all going at the same time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z They had known that there was a sale coming. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “I saw them at CVS on sale for fifty cents each the other day, so I bought a bunch to help Miss Pearson out.” Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z Rumors indicated that The Vigils had adopted the sale as a special crusade. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Nothing for sale in the market except from the farmers, and it’s too early in the season for there to be much of that. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z There were so many items for sale in the department store that I just wanted to touch one of them. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z The other man took the piece of paper and pinned it on the corkboard, where the notices of dances, auction sales, whist drives, and so on were displayed. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Even before the dealership opened, it had made about seventeen sales for its line of cars, which ranged in price from $85,000 to $200,000. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s a glass counter at the side with lots of different piercings for sale, and some rubber models of blank mannequin faces with silver studs in the ears, nostrils, eyebrows, and lips. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z At one of the large markets, Dicey bought a pie on sale and four bananas. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z Just then, the lights blinked: Annette and Renee were at the door, bringing glad tidings of box office and bake sales. Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z In any case, a new general superintendent was being sent to Coalwood to make sure the sale of the houses and the churches and the utilities stayed on track. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z That’s why when he saw this house for sale, on the corner of American Street and Joy Road, he insisted on buying it with the cash from his ransacked and burned-to-the-ground car dealership in Port-au-Prince. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z He complained about seniority, but my sales record made them placate him some other way. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z The sales slowed down, and Bud Lawrence started thinking about other projects. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z There were odd things for sale in baskets on the counter. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z “No candy sales in the library,” Mr. Shephard says with a smile. Isaiah Dunn Is My Hero 2020-08-18T00:00:00Z In between sales, some of the young market workers sniff glue. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z Carriages, carts, and wagons carrying merchants, goods for sale, and travelers—the outside world—passed by the parsonage every day. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z My fingers brush over the soft fabric scraps— my pretend clothes for sale, which I used to sell to my cousins for leaves. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “They’re having a sale,” my mom says without batting an eye, “on ground beef.” The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z “A woman who came back from São Tomé had some good children’s clothes for sale.” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z As a matter of fact, I never see anything sold, since sales take place out of my sight, at the cash registers at the front of the store. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, just when I think we’re done, Mom finds a rack of jeans that are on sale and forces me to take two pairs to the dressing room. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z This, the old man says shutting the lid, this ain’t for sale. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “So wait, was the crazy guy who sits at the table next to Grandma there? The one with the roller skates and all the teeth for sale?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “They can write anything they want. It doesn’t mean squat. This is America. Everything’s for sale.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The notion that most illegal drug use and sales happens in the ghetto is pure fiction. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Another owner expired from dropsy, whereupon his widow held an estate sale to fund a return to her native Europe, where it was clean. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His mother never seemed to know the difference between something cool and something for idiots, because all she cared about was that it was something on sale. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z I kept an eye on all of the black-market data sites, because you never knew what might be up for sale on them. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z An old VHS cassette tape that his mom had bought at a garage sale. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z The sofa bed is never folded up, the desk came from a yard sale. Wintergirls 2009-03-19T00:00:00Z All this talk of exams and teachers getting tired and making mistakes and now the chocolate sale . . . and the two pieces of broken chalk abandoned on the desk, like white bones, dead men’s bones. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Five minutes later, I am ringing up a sale for four ties and the woman is thanking me for all my help. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z Everywhere there were stalls with items for sale. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Daughters of the American Revolution will be sponsoring a blanket drive, a bake sale, a letter-writing campaign, and much more. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The next day and all throughout the week Rik worked the telephone and kept records of sales and contacts. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “Tell your friends to buy tickets. They’re now on sale in the student activities room. The price is seventy-five cents for students and one dollar for adults.” Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z We waved them over our heads, chanting a chant: “Newspapers for sale. Buy a newspaper.” The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z This 1640 painting by Jacob Marrel is from a catalog used by flower merchants to advertise newly cultivated varieties for sale. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “Wait. I thought you were on the bake sale committee.” The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z “It’s not for sale,” Armpit said firmly as he shot a glance at X-Ray. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Even more so when the electricity came on two hours after her last sale. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z “Look! This ground beef is on sale for a dollar!” she says. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Malloran . . . the roll call went on, the voices shouting out their sales and the teacher checking the names off on the sheet. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “The Mothers’ Club at school did a rummage sale every year, and there was always the question of what the money would go to,” Gates remembers. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Dede, left alone to mind the store, complained there were more deliveries than sales being made. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His brother, once in car sales, had become a CO, too; and many family members lived nearby. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The dining-room was bare except for a table and chairs, but the food was good, and there was good wine: Frodo’s wine had not been included in the sale to the Sackville-Bagginses. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z A few weeks later, however, while walking with his mother past a drugstore, she pointed out an identical pen for sale in the window. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z She went to end-of-summer sales and bought everything in a size four; six months later she would be forced to donate it all to a thrift shop. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z "A peperomia. I got it at a plant sale on campus and I've kept it alive for three months. Impressive, right?" We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z But I did not really like the Senegalese I met in the market They were concerned only with their sale of produce. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The train rolled past scrap and recycling yards, men and women’s backs sheened mirror bright with sweat as they stacked hand carts with purchased scrap and moved it to weighing platforms for sale. Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z Peninsula Luggage was a sales and repair shop in San Mateo, a town about thirty miles north of where we lived. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The issue turned out to be the most successful ever in terms of newsstand sales. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “She always made me take store-bought treats for the bake sales in middle school.” We Are the Ants 2016-01-19T00:00:00Z Then there are farmers in India who have protested the sale of patented seeds by agribusiness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In 1943, the family settled in Monroe, the seat of Union County, Noah’s assigned sales territory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z The message must say something about souvenirs for sale. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z All around, there’s rows and rows of junk for sale. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z That very afternoon, while Adria and I were moping in the church parking lot, my mom called some brokers and arranged to see a few plots of land for sale nearby. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Despite the sun bearing down like a branding iron, the market was crowded that day and sales had been strong—it was only 12:30 but we’d already made $160. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z During this period, total sales of The Autobiography of Malcolm X reached record numbers. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “I’m not for sale!” she said, stamping her foot. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z But here, on the sales floor, doubt rushes in. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z C.P. was anxious about finding another job, but during a conversation with the owner of one of the stores on his route, he learned that a nearby service station was for sale. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z He halted the sale of new tickets and ordered his men to reel in the balloon. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z |
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