| 单词 | sold |
| 例句 | “He wanted to talk about land, he said. Had a few things to say about my land I sold to Ole.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He loaded up the barrow; they’d sold the horse cart for seeds last year. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z It got good reviews yet sold only modestly, but that was okay. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z I could have recovered the hash, cut it into grams and sold it piecemeal, and it would have been worth about five thousand dollars. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He also dealt with a bunch of crack heads who sold stuff to help them get the rent, or some food, or just through the day. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z “She sold it,” Mom said grimly, “not to some ‘nice young guy’ but to the Hells Angel who was hit by the cement truck. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “We got white rice! First we got the butter and sugar, and then Jiichan sold it at the black market!” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z By October 1828, it was finished, Newgate sold, and the prisoners transferred. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “We lost a lot of folks though. Seems they executed a number of prisoners and sold the rest into slavery.” Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z The cry of a girl ready to be forgiven, years after having sold her sibling out to a pair of adults who would, a short time later, die on a distant continent. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z She had money only when Clara gave her some or when she sold one of her creches. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z And then she closed her eyes and he sold it. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z She was known far and wide and supported herself and her young son with the embroidered pieces she sold. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z I handed him the piece of paper, wondering what the owner would think when the University’s Master Archivist showed up to redeem the book a filthy street urchin had sold him. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z I had the driver pull over at a store that sold calling cards. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z I wore clothes far better and more expensive than what was sold in the store. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z And in less than half an hour the whole stock of the Times had been sold. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z “I didn’t want to even be close to her. When Marse Tom sold my babies, I just wanted to lay down and die. Seeing her like she was brought all that back.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He had sold a piece of his land at a fine price and he was in Salinas to celebrate, and celebration meant the whole shebang. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He sold something folks needed, and he went right to the customer. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z On Christmas morning, Mom took us down to a gas station that sold Christmas trees. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Also, there was a Chinese laundry on Eighth Avenue that sold used comics for a nickel, and I bought my share, sneaking them into the house rolled into my sock under a pants leg. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z I trail off, at a loss, but I guess I must have sold it, because tank top guy keeps his foot in the door long enough for me to slip in behind him. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z “Cartier ... he only sold six because he’s been out of school. Appendicitis. He’s been in the hospital . . .” Brother Leon waved his hand, a gesture that said, “I understand, it doesn’t matter.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The Tremont Theater has a little kiosk in front where tickets are sold. The Running Dream 2011-01-11T00:00:00Z Originally I thought Joel sold locally just to keep from burning fossil fuels. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Since then, he has bought and sold more than a dozen New York diners, but none have been more successful than the original 3 Guys, which opened in 1978. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z His daughter, Jean, sold flower bouquets and loaves of fresh-baked bread in her marketplace stall while she flirted, laughing, with the gangly, self-conscious boys who stopped by. Messenger 2004-04-26T00:00:00Z I felt like telling everyone that he sold his dirty underwear. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z If it had sold well he would come home in a moderately good temper and say nothing to Shasta, but if it had sold badly he would find fault with him and perhaps beat him. The Horse and His Boy 1954-09-06T00:00:00Z Eventually they sold almost everything they owned and used the money to buy plane tickets to somewhere else, somewhere better, which to them had always meant the United States. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z “I would not have sold a daughter such as that one,” she told us. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z “If Renault didn’t sell them, then obviously they are not sold. And that’s why there are fifty missing boxes,” Leon said, his voice slow and reasonable, as if Brian were five years old. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Some people even rented out their papers, for a dollar a day; one copy sold for an astounding forty dollars. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z We broke into the college storehouse and lugged out cans of fruit preserves and sold them to restaurants. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Of course, she still sold bolita numbers out of her kitchen. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Part of Zach’s job was going around to deliver fresh supplies of honey and candles to places that sold them on consignment. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “Not even a dung beetle would want to push that old ball of caca around, much less hold on to it. Mamá should have sold it a long time ago.” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z When they captured Jerusalem, they were less hospitable: Christian pilgrims entering Jerusalem could expect to be killed, tortured, or sold into slavery. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “Black-on-black crime” is jargon, violence to language, which vanishes the men who engineered the covenants, who fixed the loans, who planned the projects, who built the streets and sold red ink by the barrel. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Willow said that she used to grow everything that they sold there in her own backyard. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z As for the runaways, they might be shot out of hand, or whipped and sold to the deep South, where they would die anyway. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z He used it for five years and sold it to an insurance man named Rattle. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Typically, men openly sold their votes for alcohol, but he had noticed that it didn’t happen when the women were nearby. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z In fact, within several days it was almost entirely sold out. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z She grew peonies in another garden along the side of the house and sold them to a florist in Seattle. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z The yacht had been sold to MoMo B. ChaCha through various channels because it was a symbol of wicked American excess, which The Peacock publicly disdained. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z The company made nothing and sold nothing: It existed to hold assets and provide a reference for anyone who became skeptical of Holmes’s promissory notes. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “She has sold everything she had that was worth selling, and now she is enjoying herself. The flower table is always attractive, you know, ‘especially to gentlemen’.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “There is no such thing as freedom, Amari. I tried to escape several times. Each time I was caught by their dogs, beaten, and then sold. You will be caught as well.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Tuma sold this grinning couple two African hats for thirty bucks apiece. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z And when the tobacco was sold at auction, Jeremiah took the money and disappeared, returning only after most of it was gone. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z A less courageous woman would almost certainly have sold the house and packed her bags and headed straight back to Norway with the children. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z They were struck dumb with surprise when Napoleon announced that he had sold the pile of timber to Frederick. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z “We should have Mr. Greene print up a request to start a Protect Norvelt fund and collect money to buy what empty houses there are and keep this town from being sold or burned down.” Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z “It’s no use pretending. This business needs to be sold for Mattie’s dowry, and Eliza here has to find a new job.” Fever 1793 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Having once told me that the Piccadilly house—which throughout our interview he called a “mansion”—was sold, he considered my business as concluded. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Since her marriage, Maria had followed the path of the lady artist, creating decorative works that sold well. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z After college, he had taken a job in the Loop, working in the marketing department of a company that sold office equipment. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The biggest surprise lay in store for the migrants who had sold property and brought cash from the South, expecting to purchase a nice home in their new city. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Besides fortunes there were little balls of sawdust to amuse the children and a special powder that was supposed to cure impotence, which Marcos sold under his breath to passersby afflicted with that malady. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She sold all her textbooks and put away her notebooks. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z I was understandably anxious, because if it turned out I’d been sold bogus data and none of the passwords worked, I would have sold myself into lifelong slavery. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z I told her I didn’t care—it sold papers. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It had a game room, a vending machine that sold glass bottles of pop, and most important to us, a big outdoor swimming pool. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z But the Mexican authorities wouldn't let them cross the border until they paid the tax on their recently sold car. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z All evening long he had sold only fifteen papers and four magazines. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z The Torgerson brothers sold out their supply of tire chains by three o’clock, as well as most of their ice scrapers and antifreeze. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Not that I cared which side we sold them to, but the British were the ones who had money—they had the whole English exchequer behind them. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He wept one whole afternoon in Úrsula’s lap and she would have sold her soul in order to comfort him. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z “I have been sold before,” she replied quietly. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z When Margaret and I split up at the mall so that we could buy presents for each other, I knew that that would be my chance to get to a shop that sold hair grips. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Here’s the returns. Seventy-five boxes sold—one hundred fifty dollars. Count it.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z These were poor men, who could no longer afford to live by the ocean, who had long ago sold their one-story homes for the valuable sand beneath them. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z The Cataclyst had sold to an anonymous bidder for just over a million credits. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z In the Bible, Joseph is cast out by his brothers and sold into slavery and then rises to become the pharaoh’s right-hand man on the strength of his own brilliance and insight. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The store had been sold out of skis and prescription eyewear for three years. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z While many people came to the Salinas Valley penniless, there were others who, having sold out somewhere else, arrived with money to start a new life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z And the people of Eyllwe were being kidnapped in the night and sold into slavery, right along with the rebels that rumor claimed Nehemia supported so fiercely. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Dad saw every piece of scrap as the money it could be sold for, minus the time needed to sort, cut and deliver it. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For perhaps a month I kept the machine gun at Shorty’s before I was broke and sold it. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Feeling persecuted from all sides, the O’Learys eventually sold their property and fled the area. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z She was still not completely sold on my claims of ignorance about that reporter’s death, and as soon as she heard Nazario mention Bodega I sensed she was sure he was one of Bodega’s pawns. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z Rowan didn’t know if he was a man who voted his own conscience or sold his vote to the highest bidder. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “Who was it sold you the gasket?” he asked. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Letting yourself go is an alarming notion; it is said of older women who become frowzy and fat, and of things that are sold cheap. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z “Your Honor, since there is no stipulation that the land be sold in one piece, I’d like to first bid on the section including the spring from the tracks to the stream.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z Anning would spend the next thirty-five years gathering fossils, which she sold to visitors. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z Everyone but Emily hopped around, orange juice splattering the floor, and chanted with her parents, “We sold a book! We sold a book!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z Honeyman sold meat to the British and to the Hessians, so called because they came from the Hesse region in what is now Germany. George Washington, Spymaster 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z Rufus glanced at the door, then said low-voiced, “Neither do I. Her boy Jim was my friend. He taught me how to ride when I was little. But Daddy sold him anyway.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z For some years he lived with a little female called Susie, but then the zoo director sold her to another zoo and Jojo was left alone. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z “Yeah. We used to take the Johnson boat north in summer, but we sold it when we left Minnesota. We’d go ice fishing for winter break, too. Not much of that here, I guess.” Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z According to the master’s will, none of the slaves could be sold outside the state of Maryland. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s already been sold, you see. Somebody else came by this morning. I’m sorry to tell you, Kabuo.” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Food service workers brought them in and sold them to the cafeteria crews, who in turn had friends or relatives mail them the payments. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He called X-Ray to make sure he hadn’t already sold the tickets. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z If they were caught, the eleven runaways would be whipped and sold South, but she—she would probably be hanged. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z X-Ray sold four more tickets to a couple of high school students from Westlake, and just like that, Armpit had another two hundred and seventy dollars. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z Bill says it’s rubbish sold for wizard tourists and isn’t reliable, because it kept lighting up at dinner last night. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I think in the first year we sold a grand total of one grapefruit. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z The pumpkins were about the only color left, and then the boy sold them all. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I was annoyed with the people who had sold me the puzzle. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z “I have a friend in New York who runs a gallery, and she’s sold some of my prints.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “My father was a slave, and they sold him away from her. She said marrying a slave is almost bad as being a slave.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z That night we went out to Bo Road, where street vendors sold food late into the night. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “Look, Brother, the school wanted the chocolates sold. And we got them sold. This w-as the payoff, that’s all. A fight. With rules. Fair and square.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the work broke the crippled—it always did—and those in a state of unreason were sold off cheap or took a knife to their own throats. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z His household effects and all his belongings were sold at public auction. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The only sandwiches now sold were hamburgers or cheeseburgers. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Dad kept imitating the guy who sold him the record player. The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z I ate nothing but bread for a week to save part of the money and, in desperation, sold a skirt from Mrs. Diamants box. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Dear Lucia, Have you completely sold yourself to the materialism of the American society? The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z “Oh, I sold it to that young man.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Eventually he sold his handsomely crafted bowls on the square. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z It was really a barbershop, and the dude who owned the shop, Brother, also sold animals and pet food and stuff like that. When I Was the Greatest 2014-01-07T00:00:00Z But I am useless, one more girl who couldn’t be sold. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z Try to take it back to the man who sold him the shoes? Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Both had sold well, but the two men thought that the Ergon was clumsy—an immature effort. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z People in New York loved art and music so much, she said, that artists sold paintings right on the sidewalk next to string quartets playing Mozart. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z She asked to see another slave—one I didn’t know—and then wept a little when she heard that one had been sold. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It broke on the edge of a little town called Jistann, the needle trembling at H. Milkman sold it to the tow- truck man for twenty dollars and caught the first bus out. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Dray was not the one who sold the drugs. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z Henrietta and Day were lucky if they sold enough tobacco each season to feed the family and plant the next crop. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z He sold everything, even the tame jaguar that teased passersby from the courtyard of his house, and he bought an eternal ticket on a train that never stopped traveling. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z In truth, Duke had already sold his house for a solid profit. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z There were volumes of Afrocentric history like the ones that are sold on the sidewalk in downtown Brooklyn, social science primers, and an academic survey of perceptions of race over the years. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z We also went to Spencer’s, which sold gag gifts. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z They sold all kinds of boat-related stuff in the chandlery, including red paint, of which he bought a small tin and a fine brush to go with it. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When they met, he was thirteen years older than Kathy, so she wasn’t immediately sold on the prospect of marriage, but those eyes, holding the light the way they did, had seized her. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z After that he was sold and resold, first in Savannah, then in Charleston, then in New Orleans. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The first edition of 18,000 copies sold out in the first few months, exceeding expectations. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Indeed, after the war Massachusetts sold more than a thousand Indians into slavery—perhaps one out of every ten native adults in the region. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z He abruptly sold his tack and announced his retirement in disgust over a ride he thought was poor. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z She suffered severe beatings when she was sold, because she did not understand what her English-speaking owner was saying. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z And so, while Eddie V. went off on the chemical taste of soda in plastic bottles, Dell checked out a website that sold bobble-head baseball player dolls at very affordable prices. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z The book said that my people had killed the Hazaras, driven them from their lands, burned their homes, and sold their women. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z “Sorry, but even if no Africans had been sold by other Africans, the transatlantic slave trade would still have happened. It was a European enterprise. It was about Europeans looking for labor for their plantations.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z In fact, his feelings were all in a ball and twisting crazily in his stomach like those bunches of bait worms in cardboard canisters that Nick sold in his store. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “But this photo,” Mrs. Richardson said, “was sold after Pauline’s death. By someone else. It was a photo of a woman holding a baby. Virgin and Child #1, it was called.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Brian and I also collected scrap metal that we sold to the junk dealer for a penny a pound—three cents a pound for copper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z Xaro would have sold the crown too—the Thirteen would see that she had a much finer one, he swore—but Dany forbade it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z I sold our mother s crown to keep you fed. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Each was sold at a year old—you will never see one of them again. Animal Farm: A Fairy Story 1945-08-17T00:00:00Z But Sammy says that ink is probably not sold anywhere in the country, not even at Wimpy’s. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z By the second week we had sold most of the hash and the operation was winding down. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z After Mr. Carter sold out, the company was renamed Olga Coal Company. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z The bidding continued as the last of the women were sold. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z That, and the knowledge they will not be sold, Cora added. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Kwon said that farm managers pay off soldiers, who then turn a blind eye to large-scale theft of food that is later sold in private markets. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Some organs were to be sold, others were dropped in the gutbucket at our feet. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “I sold it to a buddy of mine, but we had a deal worked out, so I could borrow it back for your mom.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z Regarding alcohol as “God’s worst enemy” and “hell’s best friend,” he vowed to defeat anyone who manufactured, sold, or distributed it. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z After six months of military occupation in Coalwood, Mr. Carter was forced to sign a contract with the union and, soon afterward, sold Coalwood in disgust. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z 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 “But you just sold our house. Don’t you have some extra money from that?” A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z After Napoleon’s defeat the papacy reclaimed the files, but many disappeared on the return journey, probably sold for recycling to cover expenses. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z True, some of them were caught, brought back and sold South, but many of them were not. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Reginald only had to be certain that none of the customers to whom he sold ever saw that he was legitimate. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Someone’s really sold you a bill of goods. Plenty of mortals are better at plenty of stuff than the Folk. Why do you think we steal them away?” The Cruel Prince 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z Earthbound grows 80 percent of the organic lettuce sold in America. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z They sold one sheet to a tribe of people who lived outside the camp in return for some monkey meat. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z He was a natural mimic and his gestures sold the story. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z She sold what she could, disappointed that she could get only seven hundred dollars for a house that was worth twice as much. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z He had sold only three of her children—left her one to live for and protect. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Within fifteen minutes, I’m sold out, and I go home that afternoon with a heavy pocketful of change. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z A million machines were sold that year, and by 1989 two million new machines had gone into operation. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Neither did your grandma. I bet that’s why she never sold the house here. She probably had it in her head that she was coming back to dig up the rest of the city.” The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z We were bannered with all this crazy high-tech fun stuff they sold there. Feed 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have been rained on and I have been sold. It is not the same. No man wants to be owned.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z On a completely unrelated subject, she’d sold her first life-size concrete sculpture, entided The Poker Player, to a collector, through an art gallery in Soho. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z What about the blacks who’d practiced slavery for millennia and sold slaves across the Sahara and then across the sea? Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z In a fistful, he yanked out all of the guts, snapped off the tail, and threw the meaty shell into a plastic tote to be weighed and sold. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z She spotted him coming out of barbershops with windows the color of coal dust, from tiny booths that sold partridges, from battered, open- fronted stores packed with old tires piled from floor to ceiling. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z Now, surveying his handiwork, the crowded bleachers, the frantic comings and goings as the raffle tickets were bought and sold and the directions scrawled on the tickets, Archie exulted quietly. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “He reported to you a concern about how his mother might react if he sold to the defendant? Did 1 hear you say that, Mrs. Heine?” Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I have always suspected that the fence himself sold the rags to the people we stole them from. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Enslaved children would be put to work or sold. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Books, except the Koran, were burned in heaps, the stores that sold them closed down. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z “As far as I’m concerned, you’re on probation until the last chocolate’s sold.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z His novel sold all over the world, and they even made a movie from it too, which my father had never been able to bring himself to watch. 100 Sideways Miles 2014-09-02T00:00:00Z If you didn’t tend the soil, then you bought and sold in the market, and before my father gave himself to the fields, he led the crazy life of a traveling trader. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “That’s not the reason. If she were tight, and she knew it was worth so much, she would never have sold it for $225.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d had no children, and that may have been why she was being sold. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z In March, too, when it was obvious that she was getting better, she learned that she and her brothers were to be sold South, part of the next chain gang. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z The midwife surreptitiously confiscated the caul and later sold it to a sailor from the Brooklyn Navy Yard for two dollars. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In less than an hour, you’d sold all but one necklace and we had earned a small fortune. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z “Ay, and out of it to better things,” said Thambi, with flint in his voice, “but for spawn like yours who have sold themselves cheaper than dirt.” Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z I ate lunch there, from a can on the shelf, opening it with one of the can openers Mr. Klein had sold for forty-nine cents. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z Didn’t they know that if they went back they would be sold, if not tomorrow, then the next day, or the next? Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "Not for that. I was as disgusted as you. But hell, isn't the shooting of an unarmed man of more importance politically than the fact that he sold obscene dolls?" Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z “You sold it? Why? Did you ask me whether I wanted it to be sold? I was very attached to that hat.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “But I wish they sold food. Look, there’s a storeroom through there.” The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z When she returned, the dealer sold her the girl with the finding chant at my mother’s price. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z "Viserys sold my mother's crown, and men called him a beggar. I shall keep this one, so men will call me a queen." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They made kites on the back porch and sold them for a nickel a piece, he and the Patterson boy. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z Having sold my car I realized that the mobility a laptop provides is somewhat unnecessary if you don't go anywhere. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z More were sold to keep the family in food and clothes. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Letters reached her through his mother who had sold the bungalow and moved to another village. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z So were many people from the meeting, to see the young businesswoman, and we sold half our inventory in an afternoon. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Though at first enjoyable, Fwooper song will eventually drive the listener to insanity and the Fwooper is consequently sold with a Silencing Charm upon it, which will need monthly reinforcement. Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He sold them to stores throughout south Florida. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z The man who sold ladies’ products on the side; a familiar figure in just about every building in town. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z They sold for ten dollars apiece, and the profit paid for the gas for the buses. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z For years he sold drugs out of the house where my mom paid rent. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z “When I have sold my pearl I will pay you,” Kino said. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z This merchant directed me to a dealer who sold me a serviceable horse. Ophelia 2006-10-31T00:00:00Z Wherever she went it was sugar and indigo, except for a stint folding tobacco leaves for one week before she was sold again. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z One of the reasons he did not mind if original holders of government securities sold out to speculators was that he preferred to see the money in fewer hands. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z All of the burgers were sold with the same condiments: ketchup, onions, mustard, and two pickles. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z When the slaves learned that they were to be sold, they ran away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z And soon, HeLa cells weren’t the only ones being bought and sold for research—with media and equipment standardization, culturing became easier, and researchers began growing cells of all kinds. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z Losher’s redeemed the stale bread from the dealers and sold it at half price to the poor. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z L. Einstein & Co. sold costume jewelry, and I worked there through the Christmas holidays and into the spring. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z Dragons were outlawed here, and if she sold too many scales, people would begin to wonder where she was getting them. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z Judd would have sold him to me by and by because of Shiloh’s limp. Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He sold me the hat for three dollars. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Powerful currents of distrust collided as immigrants and blacks sold each other out and business owners did their best to capitalize on the divisions. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z What was unique about Alex is that this farmer sold plots of land to some of the black tenants in the time before it was illegal for blacks to own property. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z But the pictures she did keep, and sold, were startling. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z My cousins sold the drugs that killed the white girl. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She engaged in disputes that annoyed the local nobility, and she sold soporific and perhaps hallucinogenic drugs as do contemporary Mexican curanderas. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z They also said that it’s lucky our house sold so fast, and we found an affordable apartment in our same town. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Ken’s father sold a lot of real estate and he could afford expensive stuff like that. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z “I probably would’ve sold some of it back when I was sick.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z Tom pulled ditched cars free with his freshly painted two-ton wrecker; Dave sold gasoline, batteries, and motor oil and advised his customers to go home and stay home. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z Kaiser, debt- ridden after a series of failed management initiatives and a long strike, closed the plant in 2001 and sold the factory carcass for salvage. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z I think of the couple that lived next door: raided, imprisoned, and sold into slavery three weeks ago. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z He was a stray, like her, his parents sold off before he could walk. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I was sorry when Uncle Drum sold that off. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z We found Wojek, the kind gentile who had sold my father's suits, and we connected with a former neighbor on Przemyslowa Street. The Boy on the Wooden Box 2013-08-27T00:00:00Z “You sold our land out from under us, Mrs. Heine. You took advantage of the fact that we were gone. You—” But she’d shut the door so as not to listen. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z He thought of his father standing at the phone last night, haunted by the persistent ringing, and he thought, I should have sold the chocolates, after all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z When I look at him, I don’t see the cowardly young man who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews, and I don’t hear the excuses he gave afterward. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z Another theater employee, named John Peanut for the snack he sold to theater patrons, held the reins of Booth’s restless horse while the actor went inside. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z We had heard of a secret market in town conducted in a yard behind an abandoned house where otherwise unavailable food items were sold to civilians. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z "Wait, that white lady sold candy in Barnaby Terrace?" she asked. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z Just as our bread, mixed and baked, packaged and sold without benefit of accident or human frailty, is uniformly good and uniformly tasteless, so will our speech become one speech. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest she sold, to gather the wealth she had wasted on the Purebom. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z In the store we sold fresh produce my cousins brought in from their truck farm, and also dry goods and a little ammunition. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z You might even see bottles of bright orange soda pop that someone walked here all the way from Léopoldville, I guess, and will walk a long way more before they’re all sold. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Baba had “sold” the house to Rahim Khan shortly before he and I fled Kabul. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z But it was an old house, and she'd sold it, and I didn't know anybody else with a house like that. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z He’d been sold too many times for the proposition to have much weight. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Some of this was sold to beer halls in the Cow’s Guts, and some was given to the vlei people, many of whom were untreated alcoholics. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z Denner resin slowly bleaches your teeth, so if a sweet- eater lives long enough for their teeth to grow fully white, chances are they have already sold everything they have worth selling. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Father found Mr. Bogardus, the man he usually sold his livestock to. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z He made up conspiracy theories by the dozens: a banana vendor who sold fruit outside our house was secretly recording Jagu’s behavior. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z She wanted to visit the Plaza de Armas, where the old men played dominos and the coffee kiosk sold espresso so strong it made your ears pop. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z You didn’t never ought to have a’ sold Bag End, as I always said. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z We thought a bond was something negotiable, something that could be bought and sold and exchanged and converted....But about these bonds, we were wrong. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been counting on making a tidy profit once Kilvin sold it, but now.... The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Or: Not only the table but also the chairs were sold. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z El Patron sold those people’s souls to the Devil! The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z I also had offers from a pizza-delivery chain, a shoe manufacturer, and an online store that sold custom avatar skins. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Illustrations of the Geology of Sussex, published in 1827, sold only fifty copies and left him £300 out of pocket–an uncomfortably substantial sum for the times. A Short History of Nearly Everything 2003-05-06T00:00:00Z “It’s because they sold her boy calf to the butcher. For hamburgers,” Vonetta said to Fern. Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Finally he sold his suit and helmet and pump and went on a hell of a drunk and then he left town. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “You sold him for what you thought he was thinking.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z That’s what the man said who sold him to me, and he sure was right about that.” Shiloh 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z Then, as if nothing had happened, she went back to inspecting pistachios, sold by the pound. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z “Well, she sold it at auction, silly. At an auction you have to sell it to the highest bidder. No one bid higher than $225. It’s that simple.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z On Tuesday and Friday he sold the fish he had caught that morning, the rest of the week he was drunk, loud, obscene, funny and outrageous. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z On this head, are not the afternoons spent playing Corelli with my mother—afternoons defunct, now that her harpsichord was sold—do these not seem like the arts of idleness? The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z Then he sold some to a white boy and then the white boy dropped a dime on him and he dropped it on me. Monster 1999-01-01T00:00:00Z The Indian tribe sold tax-free tobacco products, and smokers came from miles away to stock up. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Since the whites had refrigerators, their butchers bought the meat from commercial slaughterhouses in Texarkana and sold it to the wealthy even in the peak of summer. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Only a month ago, puddles were everywhere when Mrs. Bowman called me over to say her house had been sold to a woman with a twelve- year-old daughter. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She had a smattering of reviews here and there, mostly positive, and in the end her book sold a very respectable 15,000 copies in hardcover. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was sold to a great house so that my parents could return to their home.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Obie himself had only sold sixteen but had called out forty-five. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “If people knew why he sold drugs, they wouldn’t talk about him that way.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “I didn’t read the note until after I’d sold all of his belongings. I had sold the vase. I sold it to your father.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z But when they stopped in at the realty offices and filled out applications, they found that the houses suddenly went off the market, or were sold, or doubled in price. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z She examined the skin above and below her blouse, cut in a style no longer sold in shops. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z These were sold to the gussaks who paid high prices for them, and within a few years the people of Kangik became independent and prosperous. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z “He put Ex- Lax in the pain au chocolat we sold at the French Club bake sale.” Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z And at last she said in a whisper, “My mother did not bind them, since I was sold so young. But the girl’s feet I will bind—the younger girl’s feet I will bind.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z It sat there for months, leaves gathering around its tires again, snow accumulating on its hood, till she finally sold it. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The volume’s first run sold out in days, a handsome edition with Elijah Lander’s name in gold leaf. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z I wondered if Father Aristide knew that his boys sniffed turpentine and that some of them even sold their bodies to foreigners. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z A pregnant mother who sold her body to get another hit. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z One month after moving into his building, Holmes sold the former Holton drugstore and assured the buyer that he would face little competition. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z And he was surprised that DP sold gift certificates. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes he even sold it standing in the field to save himself the trouble of harvesting and threshing to get a little ready cash. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z She had sold quite a few of these, through her friend Anita, a gallery owner in New York—a person Pearl had never met in a place she’d never been. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The nuns sold their best specimens and kept the less perfect ones to eat themselves, though Malcolm thought Sister Fenella’s pies tasted pretty good, whatever the apples looked like. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z I thought I had poked my nose into every bit of conceivable business in the neighborhood; if something was being sold next door, then I certainly wanted to know about it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z After the choice parts were sold, scraps would be thrown. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z As mass media has grown corporatized—with journalism, publishing, moviemaking, and the music business getting sold and merged into fewer and larger monoliths— geeks feel ever more entitled to take whatever intellectual property they want. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z The rest of the men, some in sets of two or three, some singly, were sold as the morning went on. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept having dreams about them, vivid dreams in which she saw them sold and sent away in a chain gang. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z De Roos was supposed to have seen her at a news conference last year on subway crime, held down inside the station where she sold tokens. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z “Afraid if she learns, she might get caught at it, and then be whipped or sold.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z And of a man who sold chickens in a market and was kind to outsiders. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z When pushed, she shoved; sold a bad cut of meat, she’d march down to the butcher, frying pan in hand. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z The National Household Survey on Drug Abuse reported in 2000 that white youth aged 12–17 are more than a third more likely to have sold illegal drugs than African American youth. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z Mrs. Boll was bound to be inside, cooking up the fresh muskrat we’d sold her, so we might have a clean shot at swiping a couple of melons and not being noticed. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “The tickets you sold. Where did you get them? You mentioned standing in line for six hours.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z They sold hot dogs, chili dogs, and tamales for a dime each, soda for a nickel. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z Aimee’s family had already sold their house, so for the weekend of the bat mitzvah they got to stay in the Drake Hotel. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z There were canvas sacks of com—some to be ground for home use, some sold outright to pay for the coffee and sugar, nails, axe-handle, and tobacco that Jenny had written on a list. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z When I got home, Mommy placed the quart of milk he sold me on the table, opened it up, and the smell of sour milk filled the room. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z But when it was nearly all sold, you could get the square end for a nickel if you had a pull with Mr. Sauerwein. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z When their family sold Jasmine to the coppersmith on the other side of town, Ethel knew it was her mother’s doing. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He had a wide, round face, and the other kids teased him that he looked like those grilled rice balls on sticks that old ladies sold from their boats. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z By 1941, some sixty-four million pairs of nylon stockings had been sold—more stockings than there were adult women in the United States. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Bite back your tongue,” scolded my mother when I cried loudly, yanking her hand toward the store that sold bags of salted plums. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z I thought with longing of the house my grandmother had before she sold it to come and live with us, and then with my Aunt Libby. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z Vincent had traded many of his paintings already, and had sold at least one to Julien Tanguy, a paint and art dealer in Paris, whose portrait he painted. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Because he valued her work, the shopkeeper had sold the sari to Maa for a good price. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z To be sold, each piece had to measure less than four feet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Two for one, us being sold like bolts of faded cloth or chipped porridge bowls. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “Why the hell not? She sold me to this outfit when I was fourteen.” Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z Perhaps he worked an adjoining field, or he sold her the cloth for the dress she sewed and wore. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z At the table next to the games, an older man sold hand-painted greeting cards for all occasions to raise money for the Jaycees, one of Sing Sing’s “approved inmate organizations.” Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the center, a grocery store sold vegetables and takeaway meals wrapped in banana leaves. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z They passed one beach after another, and the shacks, now locked up, that sold frozen lemonade and quahogs in summer. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Every day, she sold fresh soups straight out of the pots on our stove. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z He sold shears and needles, copper pots and small bottles that wives hid quickly after buying them. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z If it didn’t start raining soon, all the livestock would have to be sold, like in the thirties, when buyers came from Albuquerque and Gallup and bought the cattle and sheep for almost nothing. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z But even so, by closing time they had sold out completely. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Desperate for low-cost housing to replace their demolished units, blacks moved in and the lower-class whites who could afford to leave sold their property at a loss and fled to the suburbs. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z Thus they would say, “It was two years before we sold the pearl,” or, “It was six weeks after we sold the pearl.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z One shop sold strange bolts of silk whose patterns looked like spun moonbeams and ribbons of rushing water. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z 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 You fished out the necklace we hadn’t yet sold and let it dangle from your fingers. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z To them, the land was a commodity to be acquired and sold for the benefit of individuals. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z It was gonna tell ’bout a father getting sick or a brother getting whupped bad or a mother’s children getting sold away. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z “One year I actually sold it for ten dollars and ten cents,” Mr. Warren told the class. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Fair enough, you’ve sold me. There was a hill fort here. What now?” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z "Car number three cost one hundred and eleven pounds and sold for nine hundred and ninety-nine pounds and fifty pence." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Then, they said, the Preacher rode the other white stallion to Toronto and sold it and the second pistol in the market there. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z A pair of gray high-tops dangle by their laces from the utility line in front of the house, telling everybody who can decipher the code that drugs are sold here. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z “You have had your fun raising a baby pig, but Wilbur is not a baby any longer and he has got to be sold.” Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z In the fall of 2004 one waterfront residence, with its own elevator, wine cellar, theaters, and separate guesthouse, sold for $16 million, the year’s record. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z We have sold Benjy’s He lay on the ground under the window, bellowing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z How could a store that seemed so un-busy be sold out of all the good stuff? The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z She sold the house and moved into an apartment, and they lived together for a while. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z She might tell this buyer about a house nearby that just sold for $25,000 above the asking price, or another house that is currently the subject of a bidding war. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z The family earned its fortune manufacturing rebar—the metal rods used to strengthen concrete—which it sold across Jordan. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z These were sold to the fishermen, along with fresh vegetables and roasting ears. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d said it was where he kept money after he sold his vegetables in town. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “Read the others. There are many students who sold over forty. Read those names...” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The jury was shown the murder weapon and heard testimony from the store owner who sold it to Guiteau. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Her husband’s parents could have sold her, mortgaged her, stoned her. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z But most interesting to me were the men who sold their products from the stalls on the street. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I recognize it instantly as the current generation of Warcross glasses that are being sold in stores—much more powerful than the old rentals I’ve been using up until now. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We had sold nearly all of our valuables. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z The rest of the land was taken by the National Forest and by the state which later sold it to white ranchers who came from Texas in the early 1900s. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The slave sailors off the Selaesori Qhoran, sold singly, had gone for prices ranging from five hundred, to nine hundred pieces of silver. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z All the managers could be dismissed and all its shares sold, but the company itself would remain intact. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z I was excited, especially since by the day's end I had sold two boxes' worth and had only a few juices left. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z It reminds him of the spun-sugar flowers sold by vendors in the courtyard. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z "We have here that you sailed a boat with one ton of hashish into New York City and sold it. We want to know where the money is." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z "We don't print stamps of living people. So we stopped the run immediately and recalled the stamps, but thousands were already sold." The Martian 2011-01-01T00:00:00Z She sold everything in California— her old Ford, a chest of drawers, a television, the bed she shares with her daughter. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z We used to have a car, but we sold it when Jamie started kindergarten at Beecher Prep. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z “If you sold your owl,” he said to the girl Rachael Rosen, “how much would you want for it, and how much of that down?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z We had sold him a hundred pounds of hash. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z “They stole my hair and sold it to the gypsies,” Felicia complains. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z Dewey Dell says it wont be sold because it belongs to Santa Claus and he taken it back with him until next Christmas. As I Lay Dying 1930-01-01T00:00:00Z Then you will be taken to a place called Charles Town, where you will be sold to the highest bidder.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z You could only do this on Wednesdays because that was the only day they sold old apples in the cafeteria. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z “Don’t tell me you’ve sold them before I could see them.” The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z They’d run out of rice yesterday, even though Papa had sold the “stolen” wheat. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The bakery sometimes sold us day-old bread at a discount, but it was hit-or-miss based on what was available. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z So this means that for every 1 cup of lemonade sold, we earn about 32 ȼ. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “I’m just wondering,” said Mrs. Richardson, “if you could give me the name of the person who sold the photograph.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z We sold a pair of emerald earrings that day. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Eventually the schools reopened, farm shops sold food, distribution networks sprang up and the black market offered everything from imported drugs to new shoes if you could afford to pay. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a fella who sold flopping fish straight out of a wheelbarrow. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z Within minutes, the first printing of ten thousand copies of the newspaper sold out. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “Like I said,” Alec spoke with an exaggerated sigh, “you sold me. Come on, let’s start looking over there.” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z In his first two weeks, all he sold was some Quaker Oats and penny candy. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z She heard later that the man had sold his nursery and one hundred thousand plants for five hundred dollars. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The Farish Street store say they done sold about a dozen, which is good. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z His owner grew bored and sold the boy south. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then, one day, without warning, he sold off all his stock and disappeared. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z After all, the Stasi was defunct, its infamous archives looted—many of them sold off, he suspected, to the CIA itself. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Which was true—back then Randall rarely sold the little ones. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z "Theo's doing fine. The first novel sold about six copies, but it got great reviews. He's just about finished with his second book." The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Holt consolidated the parcels and sold them to the federal government for the flying field and laboratory. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z Because of those laws, not much foreign beer gets exported to Germany, and because of inefficiency and high prices much less of that wonderful German beer than you would otherwise expect gets sold abroad. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z “Hollis hasn't sold this land," she complained, “because everybody likes it." An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z “You had him eating out of your hand. That bit about cars losing value but art always gaining. You could have sold him Gloucestershire.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Carpenter and his wife had six children; when two of them passed from yellow fever, he sold them for anatomical study. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “Cape Coast Castle. It is a prison for our people. We will be held here until they have captured enough of us, then we will be sold and sent into the sea.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z And G’ma certainly didn’t consult Dad before she sold it with all his memories inside. Clean Getaway 2020-01-07T00:00:00Z "She had a kid when she was in ninth grade and sold it to a neighbor." Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z He sold his share of the farm to Charles, for less than it was worth, and with that and his half of his father’s money he was free and rich. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “You not take us to town to be sold?” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z In what amounted to a carnival-like atmosphere, vendors sold all types of food, printers sold postcards of the lynching and the corpse, and photographers took souvenir pictures of the smiling eyewitnesses. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z They would have learned that Henrietta’s cells were still alive, that they’d been taken, bought, sold, and used in research without her knowledge or theirs. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The news was that Harriet and her brothers had been sold to the Georgia trader, and that they were to be sent South with the chain gang that very night. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Ishmael walked beside his father past the concession booths where shortcake, bagged popcorn, and caramel apples were sold and down toward the displays of strawberries. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z These—as I was to discover—were emblems to inform passersby of the nature of the business or goods made or sold therein. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He had already sold three boxes—six dollars—but that wasn’t enough, of course. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z By contrast, the plantation had only one purpose: to create a single product that could be grown, ground, boiled, dried, and sold to distant markets. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z A few months after being put on the market, the building was sold and painted hot pink with tangerine trim. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z But our behinds were so sore by Kalamazoo that he sold it for a twenty-dollar bill to a man with twin grandkids. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z “I’m glad Mrs. Bowman sold you her house,” I say. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z If it was wet, he sold matches because the rain would have washed away his pictures if he had painted them. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z One of Francie’s favorite stores was the one which sold nothing but tea, coffee and spices. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The old wooden structure had been empty of mules since Mr. Carter had sold the company to the steel mill. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z From time to time, she wondered why she was working so hard, now that the farm was sold and Rachel and Charlie lost to her. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z For users, crack meant poverty—whole lives stripped down like a stolen car, the parts sold off to pay for their next hit. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z The house was sold, and she was here in New England, and perhaps Nat had never really meant his offer at all. The Witch of Blackbird Pond 1958-12-01T00:00:00Z The shaved-ice guy would stroll through, pushing his cart and ringing his bell right next to the mango lady, who sold peeled mangoes on sticks. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z “I sold it to the British consul. He told me he would put it in a museum in London.” The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Bearded vendors draped in thin blankets sold animal- skin lampshades, carpets, embroidered shawls, and copper goods from rows of small, tightly jammed stalls. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z My mother sold jugs of water from the public fountain, charcoal, and grilled peanuts to get us something to eat. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Luma decided to start her own business, a café that sold ice cream and sandwiches, a place where people could spend the day and relax without being hassled. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z Then old man Ricks got fed up and sold the place along with our debt to a man called Clayton Bede. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z “The South Vietnamese people will assume that we have been sold out by the United States,” he complained to Kissinger, “and that North Vietnam has won the war.” Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z We would bust in using crowbars and steal beer and whisky bottles, which we sold and used the proceeds to go to King’s Bioscope. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z I talked enough and stole enough and sold enough to buy a steamship ticket, and I joined the multitudes going to America. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z If prices were too high, the government sold some of the grain from its storehouses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The boss had just about made up his mind to have him sold, when he got an idea. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z The doll was sold two weeks later to a grandmother who was purchasing her for a grandchild. The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane 2006-03-30T00:00:00Z By then the house had been on the market and was being sold. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z They sold their Victorian house and moved, bringing their birds and animals with them. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z The Georgia trader paid high prices, and if the masters were in debt, or a crop had failed, or they had been gambling heavily and losing, they sold off another lot of slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, but her arm broke and didn’t heal right. It withered and hung useless, so Madam sold her.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z "Don't tell me,” Uncle Brian sniffed, "you got it MOT'ed at the very same place that sold you your mobile pagoda in the first place?” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Still another sold eggs from a basket, and another sold coconuts. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a bakery store to one side of it which sold beautiful charlotte russes with red candied cherries on their whipped cream tops for those who were rich enough to buy. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Then there were rackets like the Klan’s Death Benefit Association, which sold insurance policies to Klan members and accepted only cash or personal checks made out to the Grand Dragon himself. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z What we did was get around the law by charging the legal two shillings for the nails, or whatever it was, and then charge a shilling more for the bag we sold them in. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They sold the farm and picked up stakes. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Or had one of us, one of his neighbors, gone to the Gestapo and sold eight lives? The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z It sold a mix of used and new books. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z Was Pauline a free woman, a bride of Christ, or an item to be bought, sold, and warehoused when she was not in use? Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He remembered ruefully the time Mack sold him fifteen tom cats and by night the owners came and got every one. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z His late father's friends helped Houseman get jobs in companies that bought and sold grain throughout the world. Spooked! 2018-08-07T00:00:00Z They sold loose teas in all sorts of interesting flavors. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z "Hard to lose a big jute farm that's been in the family for generations. And to get nothing for it! Happened to my family, too, but at least they sold it for something." You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z He sold three thousand frindl.es the first week, and they sold so fast that stores all over Westfield couldn’t keep them in stock. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z The college didn't want a farm, so it sold all the surrounding land to a developer who put in roads, sidewalks, and sewers, divided it up into lots, and sold it to builders. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Tobacco grew well in Virginia and sold well in England, and finally there was hope that the colony would make a profit for the Virginia Company of London. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z “We will be sold once more—perhaps many times. We no longer belong to ourselves, Amari.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “I used to. After...everything happened with my dad, we had to sell a bunch of stuff, so we sold it and my amp. It’s okay. I don’t have anywhere I can play it anymore.” The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z She sold fifty vials of the stuff to the Scythedom posthumously. Scythe 2016-11-22T00:00:00Z “As a matter of fact, I sold three shawls today. ” Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z “This stands for Insolence, sir. When my mistress sold my little sister, I tried to run away. She is five years old, sir. My sister, not my mistress.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He began work on a series of rules for thinking which would help him establish the truth; he sold some property so that he could be self-sufficient and concentrate on his great enterprise. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z Members of the church sold homemade goods there as well. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z “We were sure we could work something out, but even with her wedding jewelry, the tractor, the television...Even if we sold them all, it wouldn’t be enough. Not even close.” Amal Unbound 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z “There was a mistake at the pawnshop. They accidentally sold your boombox.” Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z Because he was to be sold on the day after Christmas. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As much as we needed the money, I never sold the camera. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Her husband dead, three children sold, the fourth defective, and her having to thank God for the defect. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Sharp introduced the first low- priced fax machine in 1984, and sold about 80,000 of those machines in the United States in that first year. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He sold them to us for two bits. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z These five candy bars may be anywhere—in any shop in any street in any town in any country in the world—upon any counter where Wonka’s candies are sold. Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 1964-09-12T00:00:00Z His memoir had flopped, about five hundred copies sold from a printing of three thousand. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z All that was left was the furniture that was absolutely necessary, the silver candelabra and table service, for the everyday utensils had been sold one by one to underwrite the costs of her education. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z He was a compliant Catholic schoolboy who sold furniture at a department store to help pay for college before taking a job at a suburban high school. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z Others sold live chickens, so there were crates piled as tall as a grown man filled with rustling feathers and frantic clucks. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Perhaps he had been stolen, or maybe he had been sold for some much- needed money. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z In the dream they were about to be sold. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z "The way I look at it, there's nothing wrong with making things. Or selling things you make. Right? I made up a story and sold it. You think storytellers are liars?" Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z Some people sold all the clothes they had and were left naked and starving. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z Sure, I was sold on the whole private-school thing, but now that I know that he works hard for his money, I don't mind this cab ride at all. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z 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 parents, after all, had not much cared for him, and certainly, if there was any profit in it, they would have sold him. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z They pulped her paper and sold it at the marketplace for a considerable sum. The Girl Who Drank the Moon 2016-08-09T00:00:00Z There was a world of trouble waiting for a man who sold his neighbor some sickly hobble, but what was the harm of swindling one of the filthy, thieving Ruh? The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Three years after launching their paper, Anthony and Stanton sold it for one dollar, and it was turned into a literary journal. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z It wasn’t so bad, watching our things get sold. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z These people were all stuck in the past, setting up their booths at the art fair and thinking themselves successful because they'd sold a silk screen of a footprint in the sand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z There was no cast net and the boy remembered when they had sold it. The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z After we sold our house, we were officially homeless. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Everybody thinks a trout is hard to catch because of all the fancy gear and flies and lines sold for trout fishing, but, honestly, they are easier to catch than any other fish. My Side of the Mountain 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z “One of Brown’s ships brought up a load r S of rum and slaves from the islands. They must have sold thirty-five, forty people in two hours’ time.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She used to own a building big as a whale, but her brother sold it. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z “Actually, I think they sold that one,” said Francis, sitting in a leather armchair and lighting a cigarette. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He couldn’t let a wave devour her, any more than he could let her be sold on the black market. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z They grew vegetables, had cattle, made whiskey, and sold a little tobacco. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z On the last night, with my trunk packed and my car sold to the grocer, I went over and looked at that huge incoherent failure of a house once more. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Nathan had returned too, having sold the pots and pans, the food and the bullocks. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z Maps are sold in which the conquered land is still part of Bolivia. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Nobody knew, so it was sold to a junkman and hauled off to be broken up for scrap metal. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Strict controls would limit what visitors could be charged for everything—from rooms at luxury hotels like the Adlon to the bratwurst sold by street vendors all over town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z With no means to pay off their “debts,” people in prisons were sold as forced laborers to lumber camps, brickyards, railroads, farms, plantations, and dozens of corporations throughout the South. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z We raised rabbits, but sold them to whites. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “You tried to buy it with eighty-four days at sea. They nearly sold it to you too.” The Old Man and The Sea 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z The DVD shops that sold Bollywood films and children’s movies pulled down their shutters and went out of business. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z “There is a devil in this pearl. You should have sold it and passed on the devil. Perhaps you can still sell it and buy peace for yourself.” The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Now I would be sold into slavery because I didn’t have the stomach to defend myself in the most effective way. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It was a sold house, one of the first, and Dad looked at it and wiped his mouth as if he were throwing away the words he wanted to say. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z Were there really shops that sold spell books and broomsticks? Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z The following week I sold almost my whole basket to him, keeping only a little for Old Granny. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z So von Linden sold my clothes back to me piece by piece. Code Name Verity 2012-05-15T00:00:00Z But I don’t think he kilt it I think he sold it to a man an his wife over Monticello. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z They look at it as a commodity, something to be bought and sold. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z And they soothed him and they said over and over, the elder son and the second son, “Rest assured, our father, rest assured. The land is not to be sold.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z For the next two days, they gathered items to be sold. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z It’s not hair dye being sold in these bottles, it’s happiness. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z When an auction for Osage oil leases was held in Tulsa in 2012, three leases sold for less than $15,000 in total. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Wandering water carriers were proclaiming what they sold. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z He’s sold five of the other six diners on the fried chicken. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z They had sold their junk and already squandered the pennies. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z He had never acted, never painted a set, never worked on a stage crew, never ushered or as much as sold a ticket. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z He sold them nickel things for three cents. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I nearly jumped—I did not know the basket was full of live snails that Mama Joe sold. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z I sold less than before because having to be so careful consumed so much time. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandma sold her sweet potato pies and her shortbread, as well as the crocheted doilies she made. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I wondered whether the two little boys who had preceded them had been sold or sent to the fields. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Do you promise to take care of Madge if the house gets sold while I’m at school?” The Marvels 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z Then he folded the paper and put it back on the stack to be sold. The Cricket in Times Square 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, her mother had sold some of the beds. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z “You sold your life for twenty-three dollars a month.” Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z And on Saturdays, when Mama sold the sweetgrass baskets she made along with our extra vegetables at the stall, me and Jay spent all day with Gran. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z “The Royal Fleet is fast approaching and is eager for battle and spoils. If you sailed now, you’d likely be captured and sold to the islands.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z He grabbed my hand and led me to the woman who sold soft drinks down the road. I Will Always Write Back 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z Fisk had sold all of his size D batteries and all but one of his snow shovels. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z “We sold a lot of these at lunch today.” Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z Jennifer had an order form pad from when her school had sold wrapping paper and her mother was the head of the PTA. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z The man sold provisions, dry goods, and farming tools. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The larger theaters offer a bit more, but it's still mainly candy and ice cream sold by a vendor with a tray around his neck. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z My friend Kurt wanted to attend a soccer match with the rest of our group, but all tickets had been sold. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z “Some development company does own Garland. I should know. I sold it to them.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z That is why he sold the vast Louisiana Territory to Jefferson for the bargain price of just fifteen million dollars. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z “Surely my ancestors had slaves, but it is possible that yours caught them and sold them to us.” Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z For our move to Georgia, Dad and Uncle loaded up the truck with all the bags of rice that we hadn’t sold at the store. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z If he hoarded grain, or sold books, or taught children to read, I'd understand. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z We sold our house and we’ll be moving in about ten days. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z He -bought grain when it was plentiful and sold bread when it was scarce. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “I can probably haggle pretty well. But Barbarossa is crafty. I was there last time when Mosca sold him the other stuff.” The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z The dark web is where hackers congregate, drugs are trafficked, sex is sold, and assassins are hired. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z A body does not like being bought and sold like a basket of eggs, even if the person who cracks the shells is kind. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They ran down the stairs to a kiosk that sold the early edition of Sunday’s New York Times. Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z It’s sold like two million copies; it’s one of these psychology books that people everywhere buy to get through break-ups. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Items whose very name was unheard of began to be sold in stores, along with things that only the rich had previously been able to buy as contraband. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z She sold the place off to Ole Jurgensen, sent their equity on down to them in California, didn’t try to hold back their money. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z I sold my watch and scouted for cheaper rooms; I found a rotting building and rented an apartment in it. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He permanently borrowed about a dollar, enough to grab a few quarter waters—the colored sugar water sold in small plastic bottles at the corner store. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z In the early morning peasants sold vegetables I had never seen or eaten before in my life—and my mother assured me I would find them so sweet, so tender, so fresh. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z “Mamma left me some timber and I sold it. Put up this shop here.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “Listen, I don’t know what you’ve already decided about what you think my life is like, but I’m not about to be sold off by my parents for a pile of goats, okay?” A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z Once more, she was looking into the eyes of the woman who had beaten her, threatened her, bought her once, and then sold her again and again. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Nearly 3 million copies have been sold worldwide. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z He and Bo had already sold any toys they had with them when they ran away, and his brother didn't even have a stuffed animal, apart from the sorry-looking lion that Riccio had given him. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z Johnny knew that by law any cargo that was not unloaded within twenty days might be seized by the custom-house and sold at auction. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Again our household was torn apart; belongings were sold, given away, or simply left behind, and we were off for another long train ride. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z But the docks echoed with the cries of enslaved Africans bought, sold, and branded in the burning sun. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In the spring of 1996, Quotesmith.com became the first of several websites that enabled a customer to compare, within seconds, the price of term life insurance sold by dozens of different companies. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z Looking at the posters and seeing his own name there, Archie plotted how his own fifty boxes would be sold. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “That was stupid. We could have sold that computer to help pay down your debt.” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z “The thing I can’t figure out, Libby, is why Anthony hasn’t sold me out.” Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z The next year, Volpe did Bye Bye Birdie and again nearly sold the performances out. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z "It's good to know my son's life was not sold cheaply," Catelyn said bitterly. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z I knew Lelia herself wasn’t fully sold on the idea, but she kept making the argument that for her it was getting to be now or never. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z Ralph felt as though he had a cardboard tube down his throat as he described how Grover had bought the land, built anyway, then sold it. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z “Okay, boy, you can quit going on about it.You sold me. But... what’s your point?” The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin) 2012-08-14T00:00:00Z To get money for the dowry, Maa sold three brass vases and a brass wedding lamp that had been a part of her own dowry. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Bread sold here for five cents a loaf, but across the “line” where white folks lived, it sold for four. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Prosper and Bo, as the Thief Lord's most recent charges, had so far only been allowed to tag along when the loot was sold or, like today, to do some shopping. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z “All right, I’ll accept your offer, but you have to get it done by sunset. If you fail, your friends get sold, and I get rich.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z Gebu sold her at the common slave market to pay for funerary arrangements. The Golden Goblet 1961-04-24T00:00:00Z She felt like an animal on display, almost as bad as the day she was sold at the market. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of them starved, froze to death, or were sold into slavery. Good Masters! Sweet Ladies!: Voices from a Medieval Village 2007-07-24T00:00:00Z “It is sold, sir,” was again his laconic reply. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z Merrill Bobbs, the man who sold fishing bait by the river, had somehow rolled a huge barrel of drinking water all the way from his house and was struggling to right it. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z Pattie always bought chicken feet from the man who sold organic eggs. Counting by 7s 2013-08-29T00:00:00Z “I’m Tel’s friend,” he said, naming the girl who sold the tickets at the movie. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z First, the game sold millions of copies, and there are estimates that up to 3 million teenagers played it. Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z The Austin Police Department had better things to do than investigate who had sold counterfeit tickets to an African American teenager who lived on the wrong side of I-35. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z “Matt says he hasn’t sold secrets to the Kremlin for at least a year, Bull.” The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z By this, I took it to mean that boots and shoes were made and sold there. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z While Frightful was watching the young peregrines learn to hunt, Mole’s run-down farm had been sold. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z That was probably overkill, but apparently I had sold it. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z “Okay. I’m sold. I am shipping you with the boy you met when you were supposed to be shipping relationship relics to your last boy.” What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z Stripped of family and identity, fed meager rations, consigned to hard wooden seats until we are to be, as Slobbery Jack suggested, sold into slavery—our mere existence is punishment enough. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z Reluctantly, the developer sold his houses to Africans. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z His uncle, Foncey, sold linoleum there for years and made enough money to start his own shop in Dublin, where he has his three sons selling linoleum. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z In fact, I hate the idea of things being sold—uprooted from their natural homes, whisked off to some closet that’s in God- knows-what state of disorder. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z His shop sold all kinds of stuff, from hair-care products to body oils to bootleg clothes to African statues. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z Taking a man as thrall or a woman as a salt wife, that was right and proper, but men were not goats or fowl to be bought and sold for gold. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z And if Tom Weylin was any example, the people would be sold without regard for family ties. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Yes, we've sold quite a few. Some of our newer models have wait lists.” The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z The store had a great small-paneled bay window behind which a dignified man sat at a table and made cigars—long thin dark-brown ones which sold four for a nickel. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa sold my hides to fur buyers who came to his store all through the fur season. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z The Light Market was stocked with every color except Gold, which was sold only on the West Side. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z For instance, he was working on a technology to burn coal more efficiently, so that even the lowest-grade coal could be mined and sold. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z I was on one of our archaic computers, checking to see if BJ’s online had an item we had sold out of in the store, a forty-dollar piece of junk chiminea. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z We never butchered or sold a hog that didn’t belong to us or marked a pig following a sow that didn’t wear our mark. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z The bookstore is narrow and dark, a wall of magazines on one side, shelves of books, a table and chairs, an empty counter where coffee and sweet things are sold during working hours. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z And it was healthier too, what with the temptation of the ice cream that the cafeteria sold for dessert. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z A call like Otto had made back when he was being sold on that dusty road. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z I knew there were confectioners there, too, who sold candies I’d always wanted to taste. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z You would have thought Cora’s grandmother cursed, so many times was she sold and swapped and resold over the next few years. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “So you sold my three thousand shares for four dollars?” Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The day before that, sold in a tavern. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Near the entrances, vendors sold treats from small kiosks. Spies: The Secret Showdown Between America and Russia 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z Francie had been told that he had one vat from which he sold only to Gentiles. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z In the small towns, there are open-air markets: chickens and geese in elaborate bamboo baskets, vegetables laid out in rows on the ground, slabs of pork on tables, tobacco being sold in big clumps. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z The salon was in the middle, between a Chinese restaurant called Happy Joy and a convenience store that sold lottery tickets. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I don’t think so. She said she worked at a horrible night-club and that everyone there thought that some creepy guy kidnapped her and sold her overseas into white slavery. But really she escaped.” Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z She never sold anything she wrote, but from time to time she received an encouraging rejection letter, and she thumbtacked those to the wall. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “As I once helped you. She sold my sister. Please, sir, I’ll do anything, just find Ruth, she’s so small and-” The door behind us opened. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They never asked me if I was Indian; sold me as much beer as I could drink. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z Not content to use the list only for himself, he sold it for $150,000 to the governor of Louisiana. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z “Two or three thousand dollars, sometimes,” Pearl told him with pride, and Moody did quick mental math: if Mia sold ten pictures a year... Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They had drawn level with the only shop in Knockturn Alley that Harry had ever visited, Borgin and Burkes, which sold a wide variety of sinister objects. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z 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 The same rule applies when subjects are paired with not only and but also: Not only the chairs but also the table was sold. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “Oh well, he d sold off them medals and give the money to war widows and orphans. ’ A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z Porter hadn’t sold ten boxes, if any at all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They sold two loaves for a nickel, and when it was dumped out, a pushing crowd fought for the privilege of buying it. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z A few years in a row we sold grapefruit on the corner. Ugly 2013-08-20T00:00:00Z I knew I could not bear to see the book that meant so much to Sassur sold. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z Francie read them all avidly, then sold them at half price to the neighborhood stationery store and put the money in Mama’s tin-can bank. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z They sold old oranges on Fridays, but they weren’t as good because they don’t make much noise when you roll them. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z It regulated the junk food that got sold to children via vending machines on school property while also giving funding to schools to establish gardens and use locally grown produce. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z “In Philadelphia two front-row seats sold for seven hundred fifty dollars. Each.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z She answered his look saying, “So I called when I was a child and so I was fed. In such a year as this I was sold a slave.” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z If sold individually—there were thousands of games, according to Bobby—or as one large cache to a collector, the value of these score sheets alone would have totaled somewhere around $100,000. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z The man who sold the tackle was out, and we had to wait for him to come back. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z “I need a hat, Tuma. A black-and-white African hat like the one you sold them.” The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “The child’s curse will poison us all. I want her sold, Elihu, sold today.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z "I've heard it said that's why Will Kempe left the company. They say he made off with the book of As You Like It, and sold it to a touring company in Leicester." The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z It was put into the big wooden icebox in the back of the store and sold by the chunk or into smaller pieces that sold for fifteen cents each. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z The mill owners sold their holdings and left the island behind. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z When princes defaulted on their debts to lesser banks, ruined bankers sold their wives and children into slavery and opened their own veins. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Soon as they sold some cars, she was going to order sirens, hill holders, auto robes—“wind, water, dust, and oil proof”—and chain pulls for getting out of mud or sand. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Once the ship arrived in Surinam, the slaves were sold at auction to plantation owners. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z “My mom says you guys sold your house.” Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z Many bug boys were sold without their knowledge. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The debris was shoved into the Bay and the good oysters forward until they could be sold to a buy boat, which would take them to market. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I think it would give him pleasure to see us sold.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She met Papa early one summer morning at a wholesale market where her family sold produce. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z The only thing that my father and his brother had in common was the land that fed us, sheltered us, and provided the rice, palm wine, and shea butter that we sold at the market. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z He’d been a decent coder, back before he sold his soul. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Most of the antibiotics sold in America today are for animal feed, not for humans. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Instead he saved it and sold it when the snow came on the ground or at the New Year when people in the towns will pay well for food at any price. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z Ole Jurgensen told everything—the way the politeness had gone out of the Japanese man, the unreadable Japanese expression on his face when he heard that the land he coveted had been sold. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z We’d sold our house in Eden Park to invest in Abel’s new garage. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z He’d had rotten luck this afternoon, hadn’t sold a single box. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a vast open-air hall with wooden benches, a velvet curtain with Greek masks, and three box offices in the shape of lions' heads, through whose mouths the tickets were sold. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z The presents of jewelry he gave her disappeared, and although she said she had lost them he knew they had been sold. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Others said that the children were kept and sold as slaves to rich Tartars....And so on. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z The small shop sold newspapers, magazines, toys, games, ice cream, sundries, and of course, candy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z By the time Dad came back to help pack up shop and go home, I’d sold over my goal of forty cups. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z Genie asked, because he figured a man who could dress like that, and buy roller skates and twenty pairs of white socks, might also be a guy who sold vintage model car parts. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z “Sucks for you that your boyfriend sold you out to save himself.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z He would have sold his body to science to spend the most memorable night of our lives together. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Nailer said, “Maybe we can get her people to pay for her without knowing who sold her. She’s still secret, right?” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z A few years later when he was in Rome, he sought out a shop which sold measuring sticks and acquired a Florentine braccio. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “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 One was of the strange man who’d sold us the ticket. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z I’ve seen my own brothers buy snacks they’d never usually eat from a pretty girl while avoiding delicious food sold by homely girls. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “What do you mean sold you?” says Camel. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z “Why he sold drugs. He was trying to help Ms. Brenda pay a debt to King.” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z Some days we rode our bikes to nowhere in particular, and once in a while we sold vegetables and bread-and-butter pickles out of a wagon at the end of our driveway. Wish 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z “Tall found Blue. SueSue said some of the folks over in Kilgore still have the photos they sold down at Longhorn Drugs. Souvenirs.” Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z I also sold at the back doors of the wealthier clients in town, trying to remember what my father had told me and learning a few new tricks as well. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “We sold the apple cart,” Bobby Gene said. The Season of Styx Malone 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z A million of them sold in less than three months. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z She had to get back to the reserve before she was killed and skinned, with each of her body parts sold on the black market to line that rich man’s pockets with even more rupees. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z I realized suddenly that the slaves in the cookhouse had not been speculating idly about the possibility of being sold. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z They called me “Kimbo,” which is the name of a brand of cooking oil sold in East Africa. Facing the Lion 2003-01-01T00:00:00Z Blanca was raising a Brazilian rubber tree, a shy, squalid little bush whose one attraction was its price: it was sold by the leaf. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Last night I sold out of carnation and wildflower bundles well before dark. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z ‘No, Mr. Baggins has gone away. Went this morning, and my Sam went with him: anyway all his stuff went. Yes, sold out and gone, I tell ’ee. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Among the first ones sold were two of Harriet Tubman’s sisters. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z On Easter, having learned that The Greatest Story Ever Told was sold out, I just crossed the street and saw Superfly; the second-greatest story ever told. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z Folk shoe their horses badly, saddle them improperly, feed them poorly, then complain that they were sold a half-lame, sway- back, ill-tempered hack. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Guided by my parents and my new agent, Janey, I’d recently signed endorsement deals with several companies that sold products I loved and could relate to. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z Then there was the lady who sold lottery tickets for a turkey raffle. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z A woman sold popcorn and candied nuts on my left, and a band played under the rotunda to my right. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Because the runaway slave had been caught, would be whipped, and finally sold to the chain gang. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I recently sold my car to buy a laptop. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In the case of Hush Puppies, the great mystery is how those shoes went from something worn by a few fashion- forward downtown Manhattan hipsters to being sold in malls across the country. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “It’s not yours. I thought he had sold it.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Ted Bell sold advertisements for the paper, and he had a daughter in fourth grade at Lincoln Elementary. Frindle 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Everyone but Emily hopped around, orange juice splattering the floor, and chanted with her parents, “We sold a book! We sold a book!” Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z His father sold the house and they moved to a garden apartment where no memories lurked around corners. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Even though it was highly controversial for all the reasons Charles knew that his would be, it sold extremely well. Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z The dead man held a red-and-yellow cane with a tassel like the ones sold at the hamburger booth at the show. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z That student council sold the yummiest strawberry cupcakes to raise money for a new sign. P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z The event had been planned for weeks and was sold out long before the match was over. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “Well, he still hasn’t sold his chocolates. And it’s weird, really weird.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I took Betsy and ran all the way home, glad that I had not sold her. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He sold his tuxedo to a secondhand store for five dollars. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z As the debris, bricks, and metal cooled, enterprising youngsters dug out melted candleholders, blackened plates and teapots, fused- together pieces of silverware, and sold them to tourists. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He used to teach at the university, too, but then his family sold some patent or something, for some kind of waterproof material, and he got rich and quit. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z “You could toboggan very well. Excellent Canadian toboggans are sold in Montreux. Ochs Brothers sell toboggans. They import their own toboggans.” A Farewell To Arms 1929-09-02T00:00:00Z Only now it sold pizza instead of groceries. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I was borned here, chile. I tolt you my mama was a African like you be, but they sold her off when I was ’bout your age.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z The knowledge that she would be sold terrified her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As usual, there was a discrepancy between the amount of chocolates reported as sold and the actual money received. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Chris would often take me to a little kiosk down the street, where a man sold things like matches, candles, and candy. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z She bought preroasted chickens from the supermarket and served them with potato salad prepared who knew when, sold in little plastic containers. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z That was right after Daisy the cook got sold because she tried to poison Massa Derby. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z Giants and other portents on the borders of the Shire were forgotten for more important matters: Mr. Frodo was selling Bag End, indeed he had already sold it — to the Sackville-Bagginses! The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z Her name was Carrie Nation, and although she was a member of the WCTU, she spent years staging a one-woman crusade against liquor and those who sold it and drank it. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z By this time we were treating her the way people used to treat those with no legs who sold pencils on street corners. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z If someone says, “Yo’ mama’s so dumb she sold her car for gas money,” you don’t say, “Yeah, but why? Was she properly aware of the long-term consequences?” Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z I think he sold it to a man an his wife over Monticello. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z His place is sold, and I haven’t heard anything of him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z Stuff getting sold, like the silver teapot my grandma gave my mom and our laptop computer. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z I wonder this: If Uncle Drum had not sold some of our land for lots, where would the new houses be? The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z I asked them where he got it from, and they told me that some guy sold it to him. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Using today’s standards, it is easy to conclude that Washington had simply sold out to white society. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z After we redeemed the bottles or sold the scrap metal, we walked into town, to the drugstore next door to the Owl Club. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z These weed-killing chemicals are sold under brand names that never suggest their identity or nature. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z They stood in line without even knowing what was being sold, just so they would not lose a chance to buy something, even if they did not need it. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I held forth the spoon, and answered, “Because Slant of our Company is dead; and Jocko of our Company is dead; and Pomp of our Company is gone. And John of our Company is sold.” The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z For the high school paper, Adina had covered a student council scandal in which the student body president had sold test answers in order to buy himself a new SUV. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z It was the only book he had been able to save from being sold. Shooting Kabul 2010-06-22T00:00:00Z He wanted to find a “novel” item, something that people would wear that was not being sold in the stores. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z Snuffy had contracted to make the Smokeys for a buck and a half apiece, and Buddy sold them for three dollars. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jonathan had a memory too that some prisoners were sold into slavery, or sent to distant places, never allowed to come home. The Fighting Ground 1984-04-01T00:00:00Z “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 He’d stolen a case of bottles from a shop at Winter sector’s edge earlier in the evening and sold all but this one for a grand total of 650 Notes. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The girl replied, “She didn’t sell it for the money. She would have shown her evidence if she really wanted a big price. She sold it for the fun of it. For excitement.” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It was a terrible day when he arrived with constables and informed Caesar and his parents that they were to be sold. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “But do you know if he sold them?” she asks. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z "How much do you think we could make if we sold it all?" asked Scott. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Liquor stores sold out their stock, marketplaces sold their last fresh fish, and bakeries worked double shifts to meet the demand for cakes and pastries. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The boys made their way to the back, where the smaller motors for sleek water taxis were being sold and repaired. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Her first master got swindled by a man who sold a device that cleaned cotton twice as fast as Whitney’s gin. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On August 20, two weeks after the president signed the act, Gager Lee, whose father had been sold in a slave market, registered to vote. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Others are sold under the banner of “convenience.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mother’s products were being sold by nearly every midwife and natural healer in the Mountain West. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They sold the CDs that I copied in exchange for a cut. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z At the end of the week, he had a lot of toothpaste and other items that he sold at an outdoor market farther away from the center. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z Stanton weeded out unfit and incompetent officers; battled dishonest government contractors who sold the army low-quality uniforms, rotting equipment, and defective weapons; and endured an epidemic of officers who would not fight. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z I had sold myself to the Devil and there could be no escape. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Park thought of the Tina who sold him out in the garage and made fun of people on the bus. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z If I’d wanted to, I could have sold my slot, but I preferred to take the extra time to study. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z Being sold down south had drastically altered his attitude toward whites. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “What you think they call my girl when they sold her? What kind of baby they call her from up on the block?” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z They would have seen that her eyebrows were drawn on as though by Magic Marker, and that her face, owing to the Princess Borghese makeup she sold on commission, was the color of a brick. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “What do you meanr “They sold the last of it five months ago.” Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z “With that money she got when she sold the store.” Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z Until a few years ago, she’d run a shop that sold paper and pencils. The City of Ember 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z Grandpa sold a car while Miss Love and I were on the Ferris wheel. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He makes up a set of books, for the business end of my painting: what has sold, and for how much. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z "Car number one was bought by me for two hundred and seventy-eight pounds and sold for one thousand four hundred and twenty-five. Got that?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z On the track, bug boys were like any other commodity, to be leased, sold, swapped for horses, put up as collateral, and staked in card games. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Whereupon Carpenter sold the body again to another school. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The resin was sold wrapped in waxy paper, like a sucking candy or a toffee. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z His mom was a beautician who sold Avon. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z “Listen to this here. Mah New York Yankees have been sold to a sny-dee-kat for two million and eight hundred thousand dollahs. That there’s about enough to buy the whole state of Georgia.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Uncle Kufa made them in the shapes of snakes, animals, and people, and sold them at the trading post. A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I could have sold that information,” she told me. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z In parts of Africa little boys were still stolen away by adult slave traders and sold for money to men who disemboweled them and ate them. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z "Car number four cost eighty-six pounds—a real wreck that was—and sold for six hundred and ninety-nine pounds fifty." Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z The Bahamas, Belize, and the islands of Saint Pierre and Miquelon sold them millions of gallons of liquor. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Textbooks talk about the Triangle Trade: Ships set out from Europe carrying fabrics, clothes, and simple manufactured goods to Africa, where they sold their cargoes and bought people. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Until they get home tomorrow and find that their younger son was sold into child slavery in New York City. Better Nate Than Ever 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z Do these laces come with the sneakers, or are those sold separately?” As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z One had been sold by her older brother to pay off his gambling debts. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z And in The Hague the paintings he sent have not moved; only one of the Monticellis sold. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Grudgingly I sold him one, ruefully concluding that, as always, work was interfering at a crucial moment. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z Then the ships brought sugar to North America, to be sold or turned into rum—which the captains brought back to Europe. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z When she went lame and lagged behind the other elephants, the circus sold her to Mack. The One and Only Ivan 2012-01-17T00:00:00Z “Well, if you all hadn’t sold us, we wouldn’t be talking about any of this,” the gravelly-voiced African-American girl said, in a lowered tone that was, nonetheless, audible. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z “I had to make a decision. Couldn’t farm the place myself, could I? I sold to Ole and that’s that,” she said. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z At the end of the corridor near the elevators, a little storelike affair had been set up; it sold prints and art books, and Luba halted there, tarrying. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z Like, last year, some old witch died and her tea set was sold to an antiques shop. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z He sold little, but the weekly trip was a small, if bitter, reminder of his life in the north. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Then, in the summer, the ice was sold to the iceman. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z We discovered that a man named Bill sold fresh fish on Prospect Street, and that a shop in Harvard Square called Cardullo’s sold bay leaves and cloves. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z I sold back all of last semester's textbooks two days ago, and I don't really want her to see the book on solitude. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z She went to a flour mill for flour sacks, bleached them, and made them into dish towels that she sold around town. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z If some drug dealer hadn’t sold my mom her first hit, she could’ve gotten her degree already and would have a good job. On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z In the beginning she may not have known, but when I sold her, week after week, one small pumpkin or half a dozen brinjals she must have guessed the truth. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z In that shop he sometimes made skinning knives out of cracked buzz saw blades and sold them to hunters in the fall for five or six bucks. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z "Some trifling affront. He sold some poachers to a Tyroshi slaver instead of giving them to the Night's Watch. Ab-surd law. A man should be able to do as he likes with his own chattel." A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z Down past where Old Fishfoot’s trident pointed was an alley where they sold fried cod, crisp and golden brown outside and flaky white within. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Rose began to smell like the intestines after they hadn’t sold for a few days. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z But he had been making risky bets ever since the day he had sold his sheep to pursue his Personal Legend. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z Everything we sold was enriched with antioxidants or enhanced with natural super-fruit extracts or formulated for health and beauty. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z He and Arletta made some healthy treats together that could be sold along with braided key chains and bracelets in school colors. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z Her mother had just sold Hazel’s first precious stone: a small diamond. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z The paper cost fifteen cents, and I sold it myself, going from class to class and standing in the hallways, hawking it like a newsboy. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z It sold the best ice cream on the island. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a harvest festival there every year at the end of the summer, and Mama sold a lot of onions. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z It was an idea, I felt, that sold us all short, assuming that the differences were all anyone saw. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z He opened a stable and sold horse rides to tourists. Into the Wild 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z I sold sandwiches, coffee, candy, cake, and ice cream as fast as the railroad’s commissary department could supply them. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z I was learning that even where and how he sold his products was an extension of his worldview. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z I bought in secondhand shops and sold to other secondhand shops for a few coins more. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z Outside the fight ring, a few women sold iced drinks and tickets to the Dominican lottery. Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z Her parents had been in an assisted-living home for some time by then, and the house she had grown up in had already been sold. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z There came a time when my grandmother’s brothers sold my grandfather and four of his colored children into the very cotton fields he freed himself from.” Gone Crazy in Alabama 2015-04-21T00:00:00Z Or maybe the city had shut it down, or sold the lot. Seedfolks 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z You see the cruelty required to produce eggs that can be sold for seventy-nine cents a dozen. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “As usual, Archie. A day off from school when every chocolate has been sold.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z At the fairs, merchants could trust the weights and measures, and a strict order prevailed for how things were to be sold. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z Eventually, upon Lawson’s death, the score sheet was purchased by a collector, sold again, and for the last number of years it has rested with yet another collector. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z “But we didn’t, and now I just want to get the things sold.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z When the goods are sold or the project is finished, the joint venture ends. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z “When 1 left 1 sold it to Devine. 1 needed the dough.” The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z It sold quickly, and Mammachi found that she had more orders than she could cope with. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z I knew Sam’s was one of the main sponsors, because Stan and I had sold shirts for Hank there last year, and Sam’s logo had been plastered everywhere. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z “It’s nice and all. With the sun on your back. But the dough’s going-going-gone. And after we’ve sold the car, what have we got left?” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “The land is to be sold,” he said. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z He eventually sold it to a farmer he didn’t like. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z You made bamboo baskets or hats and sold them in the market. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “That if I had let Rufus die, everyone would have been sold. More families would have been separated. She has three children now.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Josh Wolf says the drugs in his jacket were sold to him by your brother,” my father prods. Every Day 2012-08-28T00:00:00Z “We wouldn’t have sold the woods if we hadn’t had to,” she said, ladling out thick tomatoey soup. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z The vuvv happily sold their knowledge to captains of industry in exchange for rights to the Earth’s electromagnetic energy fields and some invisible quantum events. Landscape with Invisible Hand 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z “Hold on, Mama. I’m still not one hundred percent sold on the ceremony,” Uncle Jet said. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z And then she was off on a tale about her mother taking Jen shopping in a city ten hours away, just because she’d heard a store sold good purses there. Among the Hidden 1998-03-01T00:00:00Z Course, we only sold setups, never the hard stuff itself. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Finally, the girl remarked to the other, “Why do you suppose she sold Angel in the first place? Why didn’t she just donate it to the museum?” From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe we would be blown off course and land in a country without New York or people who bought and sold children. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Her granddaughter describes the handicraft exports from the Sundarbans region, where tigers are in danger of extinction and girls are in danger of being sold for money. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z They were considered to be property and could be m bought or sold. An Indigenous People’s History of the United States 2019-07-01T00:00:00Z Plantagenet sold the photos to a distributor downtown and gave Lefty a percentage of the take. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z Samuel sold the equipment and sent Adam the money. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z She had known personally but one Mexican, who made and sold excellent tamales, and whom she would have trusted implicitly, so soft- spoken was he. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z The butcher had sold her during his previous stretch of bad luck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “You kissed me. I never said you could, but you did. You sold me to my enemies, but you meant it when you kissed me.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “What?! That ain’t fair! The guy who sold it to me didn’t say nothing about that!” Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z To the slaves those words, sold South, sold down the river, carried the sound of doom. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “Tried to run once. Followed the Star. If not for Marse Rufe, I would have been sold South when they caught me.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Their family home was gone, sold shortly after Baba’s death. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z The pharmacist sold me blister packs of pills to soothe pain, bring down fever, and help you sleep. The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z It was a luxury hotel in the heart of New York City's garment district, where a plethora of Jewish-owned department stores sold their wares. Nazi Saboteurs 2019-12-03T00:00:00Z “But my friends and I are going to get sold to the Titans if I don’t clean those stables by sunset. And I don’t know how.” The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z “Jaja of Opobo was no saint, anyway. He sold his people into slavery, and besides, the British won in the end. So much for the defiance.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z When he was five weeks old, Mr. Arable said he was now big enough to sell, and would have to be sold. Charlotte's Web 1952-10-15T00:00:00Z “Besides,” she went on, her eyes twinkling, “some incredible things have been happening in the real estate market since the sixties. I just sold Garland for seventeen million dollars.” Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z Welch High had about twelve hundred students, but we sold only a couple hundred copies of the paper. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z “She is a baby, and you sold her away from me.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Vendors on bicycle carts sold shaved ice that sparkled like gems under the orbs. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z Esteban gave her the fifty pesos because that morning he had sold five bulls and his pockets were full of bills, and also because the exhaustion of pleasure made him rather sentimental. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z Holmes thanked him, paid him, and promptly sold the skeleton to Hahneman Medical College—the Chicago school, not the Philadelphia school of the same name—for many times the amount he had paid Chappell. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “If he sold his company, where does he work now?” The Adoration of Jenna Fox 2008-04-29T00:00:00Z Many shebeens sold brandy, whisky and cartoons—a fermented sorghum brew made by the government, especially for black taste- buds. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z When prices were higher, farmers sold their grain and repaid the government. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Ma sold her pies, Mrs. Charles played cards with neighbors, while Monday and I ran around, eating hot dogs, dancing by the DJ booth, and playing in the bouncy house with August. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z They were anything but describable, having been conceived, manufactured, shipped, and sold in various states of thoughtlessness, greed, and indifference. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The story was the same at every girl's house: The lemonade had sold out quickly and the money just kept rolling in. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Along with selling cartoons, shebeen owners sold illegal concoctions brewed in the backyards, often under unsanitary conditions. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z "Three weeks later, he...um...he sold my medal for a twenty-dollar high. And that was his last high. He overdosed, right over there on those steps." Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z Downing homemade hooch and bathtub gin, they also turned to smugglers who sold them rum, brandy, and other drinks. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z This book sold better than any of his others! Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z Maybe they are sold or thrown out, but you can’t buy them say in June. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z He had always assumed the toy had been sold a long time ago. The Invention of Hugo Cabret 2007-01-30T00:00:00Z Cora’s grandmother was sold a few times on the trek to the fort, passed between slavers for cowrie shells and glass beads. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z And we were also close to little shops that sold only one kind of thing: only tea, or only fabric, or only soap. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z "Car number two," the father went on, "cost me one hundred and eighteen pounds and sold for seven hundred and sixty. Got it?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z We were sold once before, back when Ruth was a tiny baby, not even baptized yet. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z She sold my dad’s car and most of our furniture to pay the bills my dad left behind when he went back to Mexico. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z Paradoxically, it took the English to challenge the idea that a person could be bought and sold. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z He had sold the liquor license and closed the bar. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z The enslaved people were shipped across the Atlantic to the islands, where they were sold for sugar. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z They sold all of us from the plantation when old Mister Malbone run up his debts too high. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “The master had sold about as many slaves as he could sell without having to shut down his farming,” Miss Pat said. 145th Street: Short Stories 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z On September 20th two covered carts went off laden to Buckland, conveying the furniture and goods that Frodo had not sold to his new home, by way of the Brandywine Bridge. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z The slaves, learning that they were about to be sold, would run away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When you are sold that many times, the world is teaching you to pay attention. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Cartoons were still fermenting when sold, and because of the pressure, sometimes exploded in the hands of some careless drinker. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z “Don’t look. She has none, you didn’t notice? She’s on a liquid diet. Just gums. I wonder if she sold ’em, tooth by tooth....” It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z Monroe County is a "dry county" where no alcoholic beverages can be sold; for the convenience of its thirsty citizens, several package stores marked the boundary with Conecuh County. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z “The fact that he may have sold drugs?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z They were not financially able to abandon their potatoes, so they cheerfully set up camp right on the state line, where they ate potatoes, sold potatoes, bartered potatoes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z He had no need for horses, so he sold the ones that had value and set the rest loose. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z In turn, Onofre sold the crystals to Nick Rael and other commercial entrepreneurs for fifty cents, and the entrepreneurs unloaded them to tourists for a buck apiece, maybe even more. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “But your genes—” “If genes are destiny, then Nailer should have sold you to your enemies and spent the bounty on red rippers and Black Ling whiskey.” Ship Breaker 2010-05-01T00:00:00Z 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 bought this concession from the cemetery officials and sold the wire frames to the florists who used them over and over again. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z Each time the trader came to Maryland, came to Cambridge, the master sold another group of slaves. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z She was sure about the place: McClellanville, South Carolina, where her mama had woven sweet-grass baskets and sold them on the roadside. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z When basketball season began, there was an inexplicable discrepancy between the number of ten-cent tickets sold and the considerably larger number of kids in the bleachers. Unbroken 2010-11-16T00:00:00Z People said that she tanned hides so soft that they felt to the skin like the slippery velvet that the traders sold. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z Faust, as portrayed by Goethe, was an intellectual who sold his soul to the devil for worldly knowledge, power and pleasure. The Story of Music 2012-12-25T00:00:00Z “The sweet milk Madam made up? I figure it contained a sleep potion, knocked you out cold so they could spirit her away. I am dreadful, powerful sorry, but they sold her away from you.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z They sold great amounts of liquor to Indians, and in those years when liquor was illegal for Indians, they made a lot more money because they bootlegged it. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He couldn’t bear to tell her he was taking off, couldn’t bear to tell her that he had been sold. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z “In town, once, I heard a man brag how he and his friends had caught a free black, tore up his papers, and sold him to a trader.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “We could’ve worked on it some more and made a bunch of copies in the library and sold it around the school.” King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z Then she got sold to Rhode Island, and the ghosts of her parents couldn’t follow and protect her neither. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Two years later, in 1803, France sold its North American territory to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z Lady Gin was ultimately towed into port and its engine sold. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Ashima has been consuming this concoction throughout her pregnancy, a humble approximation of the snack sold for pennies on Calcutta sidewalks and on railway platforms throughout India, spilling from newspaper cones. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z We loaded the supplies in plastic bags, and six of us went to the nearest market, where we sold them to a vendor. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z “A guy sold it to Carl for a dime and he remembered you saying you lost it. He gave it to me but you got to drop by his place with the dime.” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z How amazing that Weylin had sold her children and still kept her to cook his meals. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z He actually sold the picture for five grand, over the phone, from right there in the Starbucks parking lot. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z Most of it is processed and sold by the same industrial food chain as the corn from George Naylor’s farm. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Mrs. Diamant went with me to the market the next morning to use some of my savings and buy something that could be sold for profit in the shop. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z We have men sold to build churches, women sold to support the gospel, and babes sold to purchase Bibles for the Poor Heathen! Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z Kwang, though, kept pushing, adding to his wholesale stores by eventually leasing plants in North Carolina to assemble in part the machines he sold for the Italian and German manufacturers. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z "I've already sold the jewels," he explained as the others stepped forward reverently. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z She couldn’t ’bide having nothing so common in her home and sold the curtains to George’s cousin for next to nothing. The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z I remembered he had sold for a barber supply company in New York. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z They sold the items at twice the regular price, but the trip seemed worth the risk and expense. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z The store sold matches, and bug spray, and aluminum foil. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z On Estha’s side of the road was a tea shack that sold tea and stale glucose biscuits in dim glass cases with flies. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z Even if he sold everything we owned, it would never be enough. Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z The news came to the shopkeepers, and they looked at men’s clothes that had not sold so well. The Pearl 1947-01-01T00:00:00Z Mabel was fourteen when Grayson arrived on the southern half, sold down south by a drunken indigo farmer in North Carolina. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z The next time Cora’s grandmother was sold was after a month in the pest house on Sullivan’s Island, once the physicians certified her and the rest of the Nanny's cargo clear of illness. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z In order to stay alive black people sold each other to the white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z Most of the organic food sold in America comes from farms like Greenways. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The housemen also resupplied the ground soldiers if they sold their allocated amount. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z The wooden parts were going to be sold. Crenshaw 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z The reason for the soliloquy here is that Morgenstern's previous book had gotten bombed by the critics and also hadn’t sold beans. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z In México, men sold ice out of carts they attached to bicycles. The Book of Unknown Americans 2014-06-03T00:00:00Z Spats in front of appliance repair shops with former members of my dad’s church who think I sold my dad to the Romans. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z I thought of Kat, out there, somewhere in the city, under the growing cumulus cloud, on the trail of the strange man who sold us the ticket. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z Inside there were rows of vending machines that sold everything under the sun. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z He had, those many months, been collecting offers for children sold cheap, requests for aid in running down families who had fled their masters. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z He had learned that his family was to be sold. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z When everything had been sold or given away, Milton drove my grandparents’ remaining belongings in a rented truck the twelve blocks to Seminole. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z “You’d be tired, too, if you hadn’t sold a house since the Pilgrims came over.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z It skirted around the edges of a shop that sold laptops and computer wiring. Aru Shah and the End of Time 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z "Birds are lost, messages stolen or sold ... it was Varys, there are things I might tell you of that eunuch that would chill your blood . . ." "My lady prefers my blood hot." A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z There were men in long narrow stalls set against the sides of buildings who sold toys and different candies— one a type of sweet but hot-tasting, candied ginger that was a bright orange-red in color. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z I would have to be careful, all right, and be ready to run if I seemed to be in any danger of being sold. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t make sense that he sold drugs. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z His children sold his house with the black wreath still on the door. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z Our house outside London had been sold, so we went to stay for a while in the lovely old manor house where my father had grown up. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z At two o'clock Westing Paper Products sold at fifty-two dollars a share, its highest price in fifteen years. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z Garlick was a hawker who sold clothing, and had a small boxlike house. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z Stores that sold kettles, yeasts, grains, and other supplies that permitted a person to distill his own liquor or brew his own beer sprang up in every town and city. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z He crossed the street and began to help Toomer load the back of the wagon with the potted herbs, plants, and jars of honey he had not sold. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z She knew people sold wheat and rice on the black market, because she had seen it on the tables. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z “I sold three shirts in the market,” I say. The Light in Hidden Places 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z This is where I really got the money for the goat, but I tell Peeta I sold an old silver locket of my mother's. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z “Beauvais, Beauvais. You can do better than that. Only one? Why, last year you set a record for the number of boxes sold in a week.” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z In any dispute or conflict she invariably sold secrets to both sides. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z He hath been sold at eight from his mother's side, and now must daily watch another boy enjoy coddling, plaudits, and idleness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z Both the land and the people would be sold. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z But we didn’t need Lourdes after we moved to Bridgeport, because Mom had sold her floral shop and no longer worked full-time. Auggie & Me 2015-07-20T00:00:00Z Or it is a type of tiny potato that turns up in the market now and then, always sold in bunches that clump along the roots like knots on a string. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z Dad’s getting fired has a lot to do with why we sold our house. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z In violation of United Nations resolutions, North Koreans have also sold rockets and nuclear weapons technology to countries including Iran and Syria, according to U.N. officials. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Yet she had successfully sold the notion to her circle in Miami that she was a Barnard girl. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z But it was before Uncle Drum sold that last parcel. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z “From the bomb, of course! My dad used to make geta and sold them in a little shop in front of our house in Hiroshima.” A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was impossible to discern what had once been sold in this shop. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z Up until the mid-1800s, livestock was slaughtered on small farms and the meat was sold locally in towns that dotted the countryside. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z At one shop pilaus were being sold, mounds of saffron rice on buttered plantain leaves, glistening with ghee and garnished with red chillies and curling strips of fried onion. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z “When my great- uncle sold the house, after the war, he traveled back to Saint-Malo, and he salvaged the one remaining recording of my grandfather. It was about the moon.” All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z Though it was the middle of the school year and we would miss classes during the move, he quickly sold our house and found a place in the Irsaal area for us to move to. Tasting the Sky 2007-02-20T00:00:00Z Each time I told her the same thing: I hadn’t sold the book yet, so at that point I was paying for my research with student loans and credit cards. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z But soon, especially with so much labor needed for the tobacco fields, Africans were brought to Virginia and sold as slaves for fife. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z There were stalls that sold food and drink already prepared, and stalls that sold vegetables and fish for cooking at home. A Single Shard 2001-04-23T00:00:00Z “Well, okay. But I'm not just some former ugly girl who sold her soul to date hotties and go to the finest keg parties the Greater Gutshot Area has to offer.” An Abundance of Katherines 2006-09-21T00:00:00Z Since starting in the car business more than a decade ago, Golomb has sold, on average, about twenty cars a month, which is more than double what the average car salesman sells. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z As for food produced and sold within a state, the situation is even worse, for most states have woefully inadequate laws in this field. Silent Spring 1962-09-27T00:00:00Z Even if we sold everything in our apartment, we’d probably only scrape together five hundred dollars. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z I try to remember what this place sold when it was a store, before it was turned into Soul Scrolls. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z Some of Cobbett’s personal possessions were sold, and Rush donated the money to charity. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z A billion of them sold before his second term was over. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z Wow, he thought I just sold the most expensive cup of lemonade in town. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z Mom never sold him, so he stayed in the garage for eight years, until my sixteenth birthday. Turtles All the Way Down 2017-10-10T00:00:00Z Most slaves were prisoners of war, seized in intertribal conflicts and sold by enemy Indian groups to the English in exchange for guns, pots, and axes. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The fact that the Professor sold old and cheap some of the things that Mr. Schmitt sold new and expensive was worth thinking about; but it really didn’t prove anything one way or the other. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z It reported that 80 million smartphones had been sold. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z It was common talk in the cabins that they had been sold and were to go South with the chain gang the day after Christmas. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z I had no desire to teach, so I sold our house and moved into Anne’s store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z When he asked where they sold funeral wreaths they took him from house to house so that he could choose the best ones. One Hundred Years of Solitude 1967-05-30T00:00:00Z But once we officially sold our house and moving day came around, I was inconsolable. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z Yesterday, Evan's smile had told her plenty: He had sold a lot of lemonade. The Lemonade War 2007-04-23T00:00:00Z About halfway through the movie, while I sold tickets for the next show, that girl came tearing out of the theater holding her wrist. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z “Your father sold over three hundred lots today,” the Old Lady said, like she was patting a cocker spaniel on the head. The Pigman 1968-10-12T00:00:00Z Once a year, Luke, Richard and I would help Grandpa round up a dozen or so to take to the auction in town, where they’d be sold for slaughter. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z We could have sold our animals to zoos in India, but American zoos were willing to pay higher prices. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Attachable legs, removable voice box, and swoon-worthy prince accessories sold separately. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z “You sold Lily and James to Voldemort,” said Black, who was shaking too. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z I sold my lodge in Alaska two years ago. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z “I sold Kutti, even though he was more yours than mine. I’m so sorry. I only wanted to save you, Rukku. Get better. Please.” The Bridge Home 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z But I know that the house has been sold, that my parents are no longer there. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z She neatly lines up little bags of beans, sugar, and laundry soap—items a local grocery store donates because the packages are damaged and cannot be sold. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z It was all ridiculous, of course, because Hartnett hadn’t sold any chocolates at all. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Anthony organized events and sold pamphlets about suffrage. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z To avoid getting caught, they used earphones, which were sold at exorbitant prices. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z Even so, when Morrow left GSS, he sold his entire share of the company directly to Halliday, for an undisclosed sum. Ready Player One: A Novel 2011-08-16T00:00:00Z Everybody said Miss Minner had sold her brains to a famous doctor for ten thousand dollars, so that after she was dead he could cut them up and see why she was so smart. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I loved that we lived within rollerblading distance of a local Japanese market that sold candy with edible wrappers. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z The New York Times puzzle is printed in the International Herald Tribune, a paper sold at just about any Paris newsstand. Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000-05-02T00:00:00Z He wondered if he should have sold her the pack of cigarettes and if it were really harmful for kids to smoke. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z He sold towels and tablecloths, without much luck. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She hadn’t had a new dress since they sold the sheep four years ago. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z White tracked down the insurance salesman who had originally sold Roan the policy in 1921. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z 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 Still, his books must have sold, or his printer would have stopped printing them. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z “I don’t mean to spend my life here watching my children grow up as slaves and maybe get sold.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Most of the original Randall slaves were in the ground now or sold, some variety of gone. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Now, she’s the president, and he’s sold his companies to spend his time fulfilling First Gentleman duties. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z The first edition sold out in nine days, and Carey ran off a second. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z She gave copies to every New York legislator and sold the others to cover the printing expenses. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z I looked at her and began to scream, certain Papa had sold me out at last. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z She described the house where he lived, told them about the store where he sold shoes. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z As a teenager he prowled the flea markets of Mountain View, where electronics hobbyists and tinkerers sold spare parts. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z She did not understand the money talk, but she knew people being sold as property when she heard it. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Fortunately, the supermarket sold kids’ underwear and we bought him a three-pack of boys’ size XL briefs with Pokemon characters on them. Winger 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Ana's collages had been shown by famous galleries in San Francisco and New York and Mexico City for years, but in the last few months she'd sold work to three different museums. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z It might also be the first time since then that I’ve seen him as my brother instead of the coward who sold me out to Jeanine Matthews. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z This was, of course, a very risky plan, both because it was dangerous, and because she had made the grappling hook herself, instead of purchasing it at a store that sold such things. The Bad Beginning 1999-08-25T00:00:00Z The cities were abandoned, and shrank to a fraction of their original size, all their considerable wealth sold off to pay for seeds that didn’t grow, for land they couldn’t water. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z And since mothers and fathers couldn’t be sold off and separated, they could even marry then, something they weren’t allowed during slavery. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Mom sold one of her two dresses and an assortment of old pots, and spent all last week taking over shifts from her coworkers. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z The rest of the population, some 170,000 people, were enslaved workers, many of whom had been born in Africa and only recently sold into slavery. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z His book sold more than two million copies and was translated into twenty languages. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z The farm flourished, and the widow Richardson gained a reputation as a hard bargainer, but one whose crop was always good, and who never sold shoddy for better merchandise. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z The runaways that were caught and brought back were immediately sold South, as a punishment for running away. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Having sold some ribbon syrup in town, Papa headed toward the cabin with some store-bought cloth for Mama to make a dress with. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “Your friend sold it to us for a nice guzzle of water.” Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z “I don’t want her being sold South, though,” he whispered. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z When the war finally ended Mother and I sold the tavern and moved out to Pennsylvania where new lands were opening up and surveyors were much in demand. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z “And even if we sold it, you couldn’t possibly pay the price. What kind of animal do you have at home?” Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z They sold buttons, flags, banners, and sashes, and they solicited funds by writing letters and making phone calls. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Was a boat carrying her to the port of Kolkata so she could be smuggled out of the country and sold? Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z A fat man with a red beard, Barbarossa had an antiques shop where he sold cheap trash to the tourists, but he also did secret deals with more valuable, and usually stolen, items. The Thief Lord 2002-09-01T00:00:00Z They are most likely now sold again or executed and an expedition would be the height of absurdness. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z He sold all ten dozen in two days. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Remember, no tracts sold for less than five hundred dollars.” Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Bingham had never before sold to an individual company, let alone a shoestring operation on Sheriff Street. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z “Wanna know why? She sold candy, Dr. Cook. Not drugs. Candy.” On the Come Up 2019-02-05T00:00:00Z After he'd been in office several years, Garfield sold the Ohio house and built one in Washington. Ambushed! 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z Brian heard reports that someone had gotten permission to solicit at one of the local factories—four guys had circulated through the place and sold three hundred boxes in a couple of hours. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z And he told her horrendous tales of what happened to crews that were captured by the Barbary pirates—men put in chains—sold as slaves. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There had been a marketplace that sold potions for forgetting, a wizard who could pull truths from your heart. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z At the end of the year the nuns organized an exhibition and a party, and the dreadful works of art were sold for charity. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z We began to sort the debris into piles—aluminum, iron, steel, copper—so it could be sold. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z Money still had a definite value in hours worked and bushels of grain sold. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z From the two booths were sold drinks and bloody brown hamburgers and cotton candy. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z I no longer sold to Biswas; there were several other shops in the town now where I was paid better, and where I did not have to endure the sly, spiteful observations he made. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z A first-class planned escape, complete with a forged Chinese passport and an air ticket from Beijing to Seoul, sold for ten thousand dollars or more. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z Cleopatra would have been exposed to all sorts of tastes and treasures sold in the shops and stalls lining the streets. Sterling Biographies®: Cleopatra: Egypt's Last and Greatest Queen 2009-02-03T00:00:00Z I once worked at an art supply house that sold paints to artists. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z He knew, of course, that none of the fellows chosen by Carter had sold the chocolates. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The other half got to North Africa where they were sold. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z For two hours, Harriet recounted the story of how she was torn from her family and sold “for her beauty” in the New Orleans market when she was fourteen years old. Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z “That was my mom’s. She sold it a long time ago.” Goodbye Stranger 2015-08-04T00:00:00Z I was only twelve and Arnold had sold twelve thousand shares of Walleye for four dollars a share. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z The concert was four days away and no tickets had been sold. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The traders brought these things up the river from New York and sold them to merchants at towns along the way, like Verplancks Point. My Brother Sam is Dead 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z There were people who bought and sold horses—exactly what I needed. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z When the land next to Jenkins Creek was sold, he had to leave the bayou and sail the Lady Gin farther south, looking for another port. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z Then my mom sold the house and put that money into the business as well. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z It was such bad karma, the company sold it to some other hotel chain, and built a new hotel—a massive green Oz-like gambling cathedral. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z “Yes, that one. He stole his father’s exam papers and sold them to his father’s students.” Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z “I’ve sold one of them, the one with the car. Four hundred dollars. Not a lot, but a start.” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z The man who sold it to her said that the less expensive ones with bogus numbers wouldn’t get past background checks and college applications. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z Not the sort of dress they sold at Old Navy. Maybe He Just Likes You 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z A series of blank rectangles had been drawn beside each name which, Leon explained, would be filled in as each student sold his quota of chocolates. The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I try to remember what was sold in them, once. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z There’s pretty much no ethical qualm you can have anymore once you’ve sold out your own people and stood by to watch them get beaten and disappeared. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z I’d really wanted to see a Japanese horror movie, but it was sold out. The Fourteenth Goldfish 2014-08-26T00:00:00Z My parents, unable to bear the hostility, had sold their home and all their furniture and left for Mexico where they hoped to find a new life. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z Other men who had the talent took Samuel’s tricks and sold them and grew rich, but Samuel barely made wages all his life. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z He says, “So that farm stand out by the road, that was where you sold them?” The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Past the store that sold paper pellets that opened up into flowers when you dropped them in a glass of water. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z I wondered if he understood what “exiled” and “sold his soul for a bit of gunpowder” meant. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z The cattle Ulibarri sold them were exactly what they had been thinking about. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z He bought wool from die north and linen from the south and lace from Lys, stared it, moved it, dyed it, sold it. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z “They sold her cells all over the world! Now I’m gonna have Sister Rebecca Skloot come and talk about what she doing with my wife and them cells.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z I named the newspaper Muhammad Speaks and Muslim brothers sold it on the ghetto sidewalks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z “Told me not to worry about the milk spoiling no more, that Ruth was headed to Nevis, sold to a physician’s family.” Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z “No, it’s mine honestly. I didn’t beg, borrow, or steal it. I earned it, and I don’t think you’ll blame me, for I only sold what was my own.” Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z “Hick came in from King City. Just sold his crop. Bought out the house. Dropped seven hundred not counting what he give the girls.” East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z “Do you find comfort in this cloth that you sold your child for?” The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z This Tommy’s dad was a jovial, beer- bellied veteran of Iwo Jima who sold Mack trucks. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z She would go to school, and then she would get rich, and then she would find a kimono just like the one Baachan had sold, and she would buy it. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z It was not the sort of thing that was sold at the train station. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z Perhaps it referred to the fact that all sorts of strange things—everything from A to Z—were sold in the store. The Egypt Game 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z His sneakers were white and cheap-looking, like the kind they sold in discount stores. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z If he sold those tickets I’m going to kill him, Armpit thought, and then a second later the X-Mobile pulled around the comer. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The Hurds had sold their sloop but kept the tender, and one day, late in May, Turner borrowed it to row his mother over to Malaga Island, carrying with them a pot of violets. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z If I stole them and sold them, I would have enough to tide me over in Memphis until I could get a job, work, save, and go north. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z “Sometimes Daddy sold food stamps to buy clothes for us,” I say. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z With the last of her savings she’d headed over to the photography store on West 17th, where a young man sold her film and paper as she tried not to stare at his yarmulke. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z And on July 23 of that same year, Henry Ford sold Dr. Ernst Pfenning a shiny red Model A, the first of 1,750 that he would sell in the next year and a half. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z He’d left hours ago, headed downtown to pick up money people owed him for some chickens he had sold. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z “See, I have this friend. And he was scalping tickets. We bought twelve tickets for your concert. I paid for the tickets, and he sold them, and we split the profit.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z He sold milk door-to-door to housewives, straight from a cow. Full of Beans 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z She spoke to Abby: “They are not rags. They’re clothes that are still good that people donate to be sold. The proceeds go to the hospital.” Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z He and Boots could have been sold to the rats, and then what? Gregor the Overlander 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z I had seen little of him since the announcement that the houses were to be sold. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z “Oh. Well, Daddy was afraid he’d run off, so he sold him to a trader.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “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 Adam Trask refused to buy in a hurry, and Bordoni was asking a big price and using the selling method of pretending not to care whether he sold or not. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z I weeded our garden, sold eggs from our coop, took odd jobs when I could find them, did every chore they asked of me, and then some. Willodeen 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z From then on, that captain was sold on us code talkers. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Since Microbiological Associates was privately owned and sold many other biological products, there’s no way to know how much of its revenue came specifically from HeLa. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z “Even if he didn’t put the rope on her, he drove her to it. He sold her babies!” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z Mudd introduced Booth to a neighbor, who sold Booth a peculiar one-eyed horse. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z His tobacco fetched a high price each year at the Auction Holdings Limited in Lilongwe, where the farmers sold their hundred-kilogram bales on the auction floor. The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind 2009-09-29T00:00:00Z “Drove straight over to Tewkesbury to have it out with the bloke who’d sold it to him. Problem is, the man’d vanished.” Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z Smith prepared Kayak, the horse Lin Howard had bought in Argentina and sold to his father, for a purse race at Suffolk. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z Neither had the storekeeper who sold it to the boy. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z His contraband entered the house through the service door and exited through the front door on its way to other destinations, where Jean consumed it in secret revels or sold it at exorbitant prices. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The day after Louis and Regina Borgenicht sold out their first lot of forty aprons, Louis made his way to H. B. Claflin and Company. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z I didn’t even have a bedroom in California anymore; in October, my mother had written to say that she had sold the furniture and turned it into a sewing room. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z Food from Silas mostly came in packets, purchased from the kind of places that sold food late at night and asked no questions. The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z “The report says you sold fifteen boxes yesterday, bringing your total to forty-three. Wonderful!” The Chocolate War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z They sold it to private traders, often for dollars or euros, and delivered the goods using government vehicles. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z 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 He saw a little girl pick her way through the snow and stop at a corner newsstand; a man hurried out of a drug store and sold the girl a paper. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z “It is low. They sold for seven hundred and fifty in Philly.” Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z The thought of one of them being sold distressed her in a way she had not thought possible. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z After their father died, crushed beneath a plow with his insides strewn across a field like a trail of damp red blossoms, Jordie had sold the farm. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z Henry Roan was killed on an Osage allotment that hadn’t been sold to whites; moreover, the Osage property owner was under guardianship and considered a ward of the federal government. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “Charlie told me a few years later that was the first time he sold something to him.” Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z Her red-white-and-blue Sweet on America uniform smelled like the best things in the world: chocolate, licorice, and all the other stuff she sold at the candy shop in Grand Central. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z “You sold it,” Marco says, picking up the fragments of memory attached to the ring itself. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z But that didn’t keep them from hauling for Grandpa’s big warehouse—delivering to the mill or depot when farmers who stored their cotton with us finally sold it. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z He clearly had no idea that there was a woman who sold them right around the corner. Look Both Ways 2019-10-08T00:00:00Z You just slid in off the street, and all the items he sold were sitting right there, out in the open. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z “I think he sold a gold locket in there,” I said. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z Mama sold our pigs, leaving the chickens as our only animals. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z In the other comer was a Ye Olde English version of a 7-Eleven, which for some reason was also a post office and a drugstore and sold newspapers out front if all else failed. How I Live Now 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z When the last canister was sold, the boys had taken in a grand total of fifty dollars and seventy-five cents. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z From the truck he sold coffee and pastries, the hot lunches Mami cooked daily, and the bark cider he made by the gallon. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z It was only about a twenty-minute walk into town, so they sold it to Trevor Kingston, who sold it for parts or something. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z Luke’s being sold must have frightened her badly. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z “Just sold a book. I’m getting out of here for good on Friday.” Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z She smiles and says in that same sugary, sympathetic tone, “Now, do you know if Khalil sold narcotics?” The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z She sold few and attributed the debacle to America’s fading love of poetry. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z My mother sold her rabbit fur coat to the wife of a Spanish radio station disc jockey. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z The three surviving fiery fingers had not been sold yet, but they were chattels of the Lord of Light and could count on being bought back by some red temple. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z Vincent had six canvases in the show, one of which sold for four hundred francs. Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z There was a booth that sold bangles and another with bolts of brightly colored cloth for saris. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z He sold the business to one of the many transplants who’d come to South Carolina for a fresh start and Sam now worked at one of the saloons, the Drift. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z On Saturday, a market in Cordoba hands over all the vegetables it hasn’t sold that week. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z So, I sold the lot and used the money to help her. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He sold the bed she bought him for drug money. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z 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 The girl had sold quickly and was being bundled off to her new owner, clutching her clothing to small, pink-tipped breasts. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “Tell her I’m sorry I sold the diamond, eh?” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “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 Rasheed’s watch too was sold, his old transistor radio, his pair of neckties, his shoes, and his wedding ring. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z He and Señor Diaz stepped inside the shop, which sold items that charros might buy such as jackets, ruffled shirts, whips, and elegant riding boots. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z I also think he couldn’t bear the thought that if he sold it, someone might take it to the junkyard. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z Ajarry wasn’t sad to see him disappear down the road when they sold him to a sugarcane estate in Florida. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z We bought a used refrigerator from him once, and Carlos sold a box of magazines for a dollar. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z And then he sold casing pipe during the boom, and that worked out pretty great for a while. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “I only recently sold out and got a cell phone.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z He’d also sold his idea for a nonfiction book about race and identity to a New York publisher, which for someone who worshipped books as he did felt like an enormous and humbling boon. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z The mules, once they entered the mines, seldom ever saw daylight again until they died and were hoisted up to the ground and sold to animal processing factories. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z She was kidnapped in Africa, sold in Boston, and wrote fancy poetry that smart people liked. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only could the material be used to build a prison, the state legislature reasoned, it could be quarried, placed on riverboats, and sold into the indefinite future, helping the prison turn a profit. Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z “They sold for seven hundred and fifty in Philly,” said X-Ray. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z In this way, our grandparents sold their land and then, forever after, paid the mestizos half their harvest to rent what was once theirs. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z “I have borne thirteen children, and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z Kilvin sold the rest of my emitters, and my mood improved as my burns healed. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z This year for the first time he sold his grain as soon as it was harvested, and when he felt the silver upon his palm he gripped it hard in defiance. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z When I called Shawn and asked who he’d sold Bud to, he mumbled something vague about a guy passing through from Tooele. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z They were likely to be attractive, often received no hourly wages, and earned their money through tips and a small commission on every item they sold. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z There vendors sold cheeses and tortillas and cooked pork. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Wang Lung allowed nothing to be bought and sold after the winter came except what he said, and he husbanded carefully all that they had. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z His house is on part of the land that Uncle Drum sold to the developers. The Truth as Told by Mason Buttle 2018-01-23T00:00:00Z Sometimes the photos did not sell—a project Mia did with skeletal leaves sold only one, and for several months she took up a series of odd jobs: housecleaning, flower arranging, cake decorating. Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Wizened old women bent like hunchbacks sold flavored waters and goat's milk from glazed ceramic jugs strapped to their shoulders. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z They did not measure their joy in goods sold, their egos in bank balances, nor their loves in what they cost. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z The raw oysters he sold on the street were bought by poor Mexicans, never by rich yanqui tourists. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z Well, here it was almost two o’clock, and I had sold exactly one hot dog. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t believe how fast you just sold me out,” Ben says. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z She stayed on, watching the land rented and sold piece by piece from around her. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z Years later, Bobby laughed in reminiscing about the incident: “And he sold us the ticket without further talk. He thought there was something wrong with my chest!” Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z This presented no problem, however, because for a very small consideration Joe was more than willing to fix whatever broke in whatever he had sold you. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z On more than one occasion, Carpenter sold a cadaver to an anatomical school, reported the body to the police, and then had his wife, dressed in mourning clothes, claim it as her son. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z Even after Park embraced the idea, Shin’s paranoia was difficult to shake: he had sold out his own mother; why shouldn’t Park sell him out? Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z By this definition, though, going to the ballet is an experiment, while learning that the seats are uncomfortable and the drinks sold in the bar overpriced is a chance experience. The Invention of Science 2015-09-17T00:00:00Z The man had just sold six short stories to the New Yorker and six to Jay Cee. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z It was after 6:00 P.M. when I wandered back to the house from the peach stand, having sold nothing, not one peach, and found Rosaleen in the living room. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Some books were sold like this, with uncolored prints, while others were colored by hand. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z He drove to Las Vegas, sold his junk-heap car, packed his collection of maps, old letters, manuscripts, and books, and bought a ticket for a Greyhound bus. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Earl Wakefield caught a sculpin with two heads and sold it to the museum for eight dollars. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z Most peddlers sold song sheets, two for a penny, and families would buy them and gather about their pianos to sing songs such as "Cherry Ripe" and "In My Father's Garden." Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z If he sold just one of his sheep, he’d have enough to get to the other shore of the strait. The Alchemist 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z In September and October we sold a lot of pumpkins. The View From Saturday 1996-09-01T00:00:00Z Three hundred thousand copies were sold in the first year after its publication. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Not only did the agency let most members of the spy ring escape, but the leading FBI agent sold his side of the story to the newspapers. The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z The hair was sold for wigs, the clothing given to settlement houses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z "Car number five cost six hundred and thirty-seven pounds and sold for sixteen hundred and forty-nine fifty. You got all those figures written down, son?" Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z He established the Campbell-Yates Manufacturing Company, which he billed as a firm that bought and sold everything. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z We sold the zoo, lock, stock and barrel. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z Headmaster stopped at a small shack that sold homemade goodies, this time to guzzle the juice of a coconut. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z Now to see it being sold and hauled off to some better Eleanor Roosevelt town must have hurt her feelings. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z As a nation it fell, when a million of its healthiest citizens were sold into slavery, but its language and traditions did not. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z “My master, a fat white man from this city, grew tired of me and sold me to buyers who brought me here.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z “Didn’t the agent who sold you the tickets tell you it wasn’t necessary to confirm on tickets purchased less than three days in advance?” The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z He glanced around at the people seated nearby, realizing they were the ones to whom X-Ray sold the tickets. Small Steps 2006-01-10T00:00:00Z And Bill sold plates of his spicy, delicious Creole dishes—gumbo, jambalaya. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z There was a man who sold cha siu bao from a tiny cart on weekends, and his papa had taken him there after a morning at the Oakland Museum. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z I had the idea to set up a booth that sold hot cocoa and s’mores fixings, and we lit fires in a couple of the old metal garbage cans. Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z When someone gave him a nice truck, he sold it to pay church utility bills. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z In the real world, some doctors peddled drugs on the black markets, desperate patients sold their antibiotics to buy food, and stupid pharmacists mixed up prescriptions. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z “Where do they come from? Where do they go after they’ve done their bloody deeds? Are they men who sold their souls? Demons? Spirits? No one knows.” The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z A third went to the silversmith and sold back a set of pudding bowls; she intended to have the shutters painted yellow. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z She wanted to see whether the number of jam choices made any difference in the number of jams sold. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z A lone Turk who had roamed into the town years ago and who languished with his family behind the little store where they sold linens claimed passionately to his wife that the mute was Turkish. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z At least they were never sold off, an older woman told Ajarry. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z “You’re lucky you haven’t froze yet. You should go back and like punch out the guy that sold it to you because he’s been like, you know, negligible selling you that.” A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z “Although I am rather hungry, and you have, after all, just sold a memento of my childhood for thirty pieces of silver, so to speak.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z If the ship was on a short journey, between the kingdoms or down the coast, they might be enslaved and sold at the next port. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z Years later I learned that our squash-blossom necklaces and turquoise bracelets, earrings and hair ornaments and silver belts, were sold to white men and women. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Malcolm was seldom tempted by the drinks they sold in the Trout: beer was bitter, and wine was usually sour, and whisky was abominable. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z Soviet stores had never sold much in the way of pretty underwear, and most Soviet women at the time made their own. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z They were supposed to go to the movies, but the one they wanted to see was sold out and they couldn’t agree on anything else. Far from the Tree 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z Turns out 9,308 blankets were sold before it was discovered that some percentage of the controller units had been manufactured with faulty resistors. Things Not Seen 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z 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 The storekeeper who sold it to him identified the knife in court and said it was the only one of its kind he had ever had in stock. Twelve Angry Men 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z There were several things he could tell her, about Lisbon, about the women who sold the fish, and about the legend of Machico. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z Some infant chimps are sold to animal dealers. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z It doesn’t mention the even-bigger-to-me news that last night Shooting Star headlined at a club in Seattle and, according to the text Adam sent me at midnight, sold out the place. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z “I can’t promise you that many hot dogs will be sold in the Quarter. I will probably be kept busy every moment protecting my honor against those fiends who live down there.” A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z While she continued to manage that business until it finally sold, my dad was meeting with architects and contractors daily. Courage to Soar 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z They walked together toward Park Street station, past the kiosks that sold cheap belts and handbags. Interpreter of Maladies 1999-05-22T00:00:00Z Mr. Dye sold far too many black armbands for mourning and kept selling them right into November. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z Her mother, who was divorced, had sold the dining room table, the refrigerator, and the pots and pans to send Gabi to school. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z She had never sold anything in her life beyond an occasional angel cake for the Altar Guild in the basement of the Episcopal church, but she began to sell bonds by the bale. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z Mostly it was stuff he sold to a couple of friends who had tourist-type antique and secondhand stores down in Chamisaville. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I scooped them up and sold them to Lamar for a penny a dozen. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z Worse—sold south, with its fearsome legends of cruelty and abomination. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z He not only sold matches like any ordinary match-man, but he drew pavement pictures as well. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z I wasn’t sold on visiting the school counselor, but Stephanie said seeing Ms. Jacobs was helping her. Here to Stay 2018-09-08T00:00:00Z Merchants sang out the names of what they sold. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z All three bookstores are sold out and the library has a two-month waiting list. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z The stands was full and we sold the last of the lemonade at the seventh-inning stretch. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Florer thought that the liquid smelled like the axle grease sold in his store, and he rushed back and showed the sample to others, who confirmed his suspicions: it was oil. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Would it be okay if I sold them to the feedstore, as long as I didn’t say where they were from? Unusual Chickens for the Exceptional Poultry Farmer 2015-05-12T00:00:00Z Lord, what was he to do if the farm got sold? In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Rice was what you sold at the market to buy the other necessities of life. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z From time to time he came to Burnham for money, although whether he sought outright loans or sold Burnham artwork from his personal collection is unclear. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z She also became known for her excellent paint powders, which she sold to fellow artists. The Girl Who Drew Butterflies: How Maria Merian's Art Changed Science 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z For instance, I saw a bakery that sold bread that was swan white, something I had never seen before. Crispin: The Cross of Lead 2002-06-01T00:00:00Z Hitherto, almost all we grew had been sold to pay the rent of the land; now we were enabled to keep some of our own produce. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z They could be bought and sold, whipped and branded, used for the carnal pleasure of their owners, bred to make more slaves. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z “You sold her a goldfish, and then,” Ma sputtered, “and then she ran away to change our fortune.” Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z Since the 1980s almost all sodas and most of the fruit drinks sold in the supermarket are sweet ened with something called high-fructose corn syrup. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z “So after the fall crop come in, my daddy he sold his plowin’ steer and his piece a-land, and we caught the train to Cold Sassy.” Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z Because Walter's house was closer to the main road, they often sold from his front yard. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z Like me, he was furious when Sam Carraclough sold Lassie and even more furious when the dog was mistreated by Hynes, the evil kennel man. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z I told him I had sold the stores in Kabul and that I was going back to finish up the paperwork. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z For the first time, she felt she had abandoned her principles, and sold out. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z Except how could he work for a man who had sold him a store that was sinking? Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z He regretted this as soon as he found a tourist shop that sold sodas. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z “Massa’s wife hated that chile. Had Massa sell her when she was not much older than your Tidbit—sold her down to New Orleans. Massa sold his own flesh and blood.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z She kept things like soft drinks and milk in the fridge, and sold them along with snacks. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z When she and Lou divorced, they sold their home and each of them moved into a town house—in the same development, across a road and about a three-minute walk from each other. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z After a day of digging up and eating raw daikons, Shin returned to the city center with as many as he could carry, sold them in markets, and bought snacks. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z If Mrs. Janssen sold it so soon after her husband's disappearance, she must already be struggling with money, which I won't allow to be my concern unless it means she can't pay me. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z I sold my property and we lived in a “house car.” In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Parents walked over and smiled indulgently at their children, and by the time the sun disappeared, the goldfish man had sold out of his wares. Where the Mountain Meets the Moon 2009-07-01T00:00:00Z An old man sold roasted peanuts on a corner. Habibi 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z One Sunday in the spring of 1983, I walked into a small bookstore that sold used paperbacks, next to the Indian movie theater just west of where Amtrak crossed Fremont Boulevard. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z |
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