...Before an exquisite blonde piece of lace, centuries old, picked up at auction, she made a wry face, saying, “I would much rather have had a new dress costing three hundred francs... 
Vicente Blasco Ibanez Charlotte Brewster Jordan 「The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse」
...After that we'll send the rest to auction...
Rafael Sabatini 「Captain Blood」
...Livingstone's library was wantonly destroyed, not carried away; his stock of medicines was smashed, and his furniture and clothing sold at auction to defray the expenses of the foray...
David Livingstone 「Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa」
...He evidently loved them very tenderly, but saw no way by which he could aid them, as long as he was daily liable to be put on the auction block and sold far South...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...They barely escaped the auction block, as their mistress, Mrs...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...So the very day Julia and her husband escaped, arrangements had been made to put her up at auction a third time...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...In this instance the interference of the Uncle of Harriet's master saved her from the auction block...
William Still 「The Underground Railroad」
...McCoy, and sold atpublic auction...
William Wells Brown 「The Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave」
...But the creditorspleaded that they were an "extra article," and would sell for more thancommon slaves, and must therefore be sold at auction...
William Wells Brown 「Clotelle: a Tale of the Southern States」
...In 1901, the Grand Champion carload of fat cattle was two-year-oldstock, weighing an average of 1,497 pounds, and sold in the auction ringat $12 per hundredweight...
William Carter Stubbs 「Louisiana Beef Cattle」
...In 1916, the Grand Champion Steer was one year old, weighed 1,120pounds, and sold in the auction ring at $1...
William Carter Stubbs 「Louisiana Beef Cattle」
...11,322 trees for the navy, and2,938 sold by auction...
H. G. Nicholls 「The Forest of Dean」
...Subscriptions poured in,and at the auction, held in the town, the Abbey House Estate wasbought for £10,500, and became once more, after 344 years, theproperty of the church...
H. J. L. J. Massé 「Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury」
...The earl put us up and sold us at auction...
Mark Twain (Samuel Clemens) 「A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, Complete」
... “Let him sell his rubbish by auction, and go and live abroad, in Germany or Jerusalem if he likes, the farther the better for me...
Marcus Clarke 「For the Term of His Natural Life」
...On the 8th a farm of twenty-five acres of ground in the district of Concord was sold by public auction for thirteen pounds...
David Collins 「An Account of the English Colony in New South Wales, Vol. 1」
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