bargain-counter
Example Sentences
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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
Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray.
From Time Magazine Archive
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
Then I should have to tell her the real reason: I didn't want to marry her or anybody else on such a bargain-counter basis.
From The Woman-Haters: a yarn of Eastboro twin-lights by Lincoln, Joseph Crosby
That has been done, on Prince Edward Island, and $10,000 per pair is now regarded as a bargain-counter figure.
From Our Vanishing Wild Life Its Extermination and Preservation by Hornaday, William Temple
