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I have sold out all my candy, and I want a lot more!" exclaimed she, as she rushed into the room, full of excitement and enthusiasm. "Be calm, child; you will throw yourself into a fever," replied Mrs. Redburn. "You must learn to take things more easily." "O dear! I have only twenty sticks left. I wish I had a hundred, for I am sure I could sell them." "Perhaps it is fortunate you have no more."

"The answer to that question is easy," said Agrius. "You should sell the farm for what you can get for it: and if you can't sell it, give it away." Scrofa resumed: "Take care to avoid having the steading face the direction from which disagreeable winds blow, yet you should not build in a hollow.

That, before license shall be granted to any one to keep a family grocery, porter-house, oyster-house, eating-house, or restaurant in this city, the person or persons so applying shall execute a bond in the penal sum of $500, with one or more securities, payable to the mayor of the city of Vicksburg and his successors in office, conditioned that he, she, or they will keep an orderly and well-conducted house, and will not permit any riotous or disorderly conduct, or any gaming in or about the same, and will not sell any vinous or spirituous liquors to any one in less quantity than one gallon during the continuance of his or her license.

If you fail there you can sell your shares to someone else provided you can find a purchaser acceptable to the board and get out. The Big Idea is that the community the company in this case shall control the individual, and the individual shall exert his proper measure of control over the community.

"I am grateful to your ladyship for permitting me to see you." "Well, you can see me if that's all you have come for." "No!" he said. "If if I " He paused. "Oh, sit down!" said Lady Linden. "Well, now what is it you want? Have you something to sell? "No, no!" He waved a deprecating hand. "I am come on a matter that interests me greatly. I am a financier, I have offices in London.

They sold the pupil's work as their own, just as people do now who take apprentices. When people can sell a pupil's work, they will teach the pupil all they know and will see he learns it. This is the secret of the whole matter. The modern schoolmaster does not aim at learning from his pupils, he hardly can, but the old masters did.

We have been here six months now, and my lord was saying but a few days since that as soon as the rest of the crops were gathered he should send those who are not fit to travel to El Bahr Nile, and should leave you there and should start with the camels to Khartoum, sell our crops there, and then carry merchandise to El-Obeid or some other distant place.

The King asked him for it, and when he would not give it, offered to buy it. But Naboth refused to sell it. In those days it was considered a sort of crime to part with one's inheritance at any price and even if a man did part with it, it reverted to himself or his heirs again at the next jubilee year.

Yet you go in search of a bookseller in some quite different direction, and sell him in a mass what does not belong to you." "They gave me a thousand grounds for dissatisfaction." "Quelle défaite! There are no small things between friends. Everything weighs, because friendship is a commerce of purity and delicacy; but are the booksellers your friends? Then your behaviour to them is horrible.

A covetous farmer, well known at Erfurt, said Luther, carried his corn to sell there in the market; but holding it at too dear a rate, no man would buy of him nor give him his price; he being thereby moved to anger, said, "I will not sell it cheaper, but will rather carry it home again and give it to the mice."