sell

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As Barron's subtly headlined its April 30 cover story on the agency: SELL!

From Time Magazine Archive

"Not think they'd SHAVE!" quoth Hodge, with wond'ring eyes,   And voice not much unlike an Indian yell; "What were they made for then, you dog?" he cries: "Made!" quoth the fellow, with a smile—"to SELL."

From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by Parton, James

"Get out of here, Tell him he is to SELL!"

From The Red Cross Girl by Davis, Richard Harding

To SELL; to sell at the right time; to sell dear,—is the only object in view; to manufacture is only to prepare for a sale.

From System of Economical Contradictions; or, the Philosophy of Misery by Proudhon, P.-J. (Pierre-Joseph)

Twenty points cold profit on the vast venture, now, and Aleck's imaginary brokers were shouting frantically by imaginary long-distance, "Sell! sell! for Heaven's sake SELL!"

From The 30,000 Dollar Bequest and Other Stories by Twain, Mark