bargain-counter
Example Sentences
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The bargain-counter symphony was the idea of Nicholas Johnston, a wealthy photographer whose portraits of the carriage trade fetch the fanciest prices in northern California.
From Time Magazine Archive
Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray.
From Time Magazine Archive
Close behind them came a bargain-counter rush in medieval halberds and maces, paneled Tudor interiors, stained-glass windows, Louis XIV chairs, a heterogeneous collection of like knickknacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
The effect was somewhat that given by twenty dollar sets of ermine furs, or ropes of pearls at bargain-counter prices.
From The Brute by Kummer, Frederic Arnold
The Library of old Charleston was composed chiefly of English classics and the literature of France in the olden time when Europe furnished us with something more than anarchy, clothes, and bargain-counter titles.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell
