vendible

Example Sentences

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This was unnecessary in Ugogo, where the people voluntarily brought every vendible they possessed to the camp.

From How I Found Livingstone; travels, adventures, and discoveres in Central Africa, including an account of four months' residence with Dr. Livingstone, by Henry M. Stanley by Stanley, Henry M. (Henry Morton)

This palanquin was property, vendible and to be attained in the simplest and least embarrassing fashion.

From Soldier Stories by Kipling, Rudyard

I allude to the vacant territory, the extent of which is so vast, and the vendible value of which is so well ascertained.

From The Journal of Negro History, Volume 6, 1921 by Various

And the commodities there vendible are all sorts of kersies, but the most part blewes, and of clothes all colours except mingled colours and blacks.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 11 by Hakluyt, Richard

Puns were barely vendible, and even comic pictures could only be sold at a great sacrifice of decency.

From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel