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)

It is not any private respect of 97gain," he affirms; "for the slightest pamphlet is nowadays more vendible than the works of learnedest men, but it is the love I bear to our own language....

From Life of John Milton by Garnett, Richard

The commodities most vendible in these islands are Coromandel cheremallays, but fine, Siam girdles or sashes, salalos, but fine, ballachos and chelleys, are in most request.

From A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels — Volume 08 by Kerr, Robert

For Bill Day's sister was a "maid not vendible," as Shakespeare has it.

From The End of the World A Love Story by Eggleston, Edward

Hers was not a case of vendible charms, it was le bon appetit merely, an Epicurean virtue.

From Life, Letters, and Epicurean Philosophy of Ninon de L'Enclos The Celebrated Beauty of the Seventeenth Century by Overton, William Hassell