vendible
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The scaffolding of much highly-prized sentiment would collapse, and the world of poetry and pageantry—particularly that of the tawdrier and more vendible poetry and pageantry—would be poorer by so much.
From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Thorstein Veblen
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 William Hassell Overton
The most doubtful circumstance attendant on their office, that of its being vendible, contributed however to this independency of character.
From Selections from the Speeches and Writings of Edmund Burke by Edmund Burke
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 Henry M. (Henry Morton) Stanley
Their lien upon the State may have its origin in horses, or anything else; for the State buys anything vendible, from Abdul Rahman's most promising importations to a patent, self-acting corkscrew.
From From Sea to Sea Letters of Travel by Rudyard Kipling
