1 His wife died of the disclosure, and Mattie, at twenty, was left alone to make her way on the fifty dollars obtained from the sale of her piano.
2 Military orders had been promulgated concerning the schools, sanitation, the kind of buttons one wore on one's suit, the sale of commodities and nearly everything else.
3 At his sale we bought Peter's wheelbarrow and some of his harness.
4 The Black Hawk money-lender who held mortgages on Peter's livestock was there, and he bought in the sale notes at about fifty cents on the dollar.
5 One could go to the cigar factory and chat with the old German who raised canaries for sale, and look at his stuffed birds.
6 HOW WELL I REMEMBER the stiff little parlour where I used to wait for Lena: the hard horsehair furniture, bought at some auction sale, the long mirror, the fashion-plates on the wall.
7 There is also a universal government bulletin, in which are listed and precisely described everything which the commonwealth has for sale.
8 We had been in jail scarcely twenty minutes, when a swarm of slave traders, and agents for slave traders, flocked into jail to look at us, and to ascertain if we were for sale.
9 Mr. Shelby hastily drew the bills of sale towards him, and signed them, like a man that hurries over some disagreeable business, and then pushed them over with the money.
10 The fact is, Emily, the thing's done; the bills of sale are already signed, and in Haley's hands; and you must be thankful it is no worse.
11 I saw my mother put up at sheriff's sale, with her seven children.
12 The stentorian tones of the auctioneer, calling out to clear the way, now announced that the sale was about to commence.
13 The poor victims of the sale, who had been brought up in one place together for years, gathered round the despairing old mother, whose agony was pitiful to see.
14 Why, it's a bill of sale, signed by John Fosdick," said the man, "making over to you the girl Lucy and her child.
15 "All right," said Haley, his face beaming with delight; and pulling out an old inkhorn, he proceeded to fill out a bill of sale, which, in a few moments, he handed to the young man.