"Vendible" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... future Quarrels of this kind, which too frequently proceed from such Causes, by fixing the Times, Places, and Manner of Payment; together with a Regulation of the Allowances for collecting, pressing, and making Tobacco heavy and convenient; with an Injunction for the Payment of none but good and vendible Tobacco for parochial Dues. Whether the Parish or the Minister be to allow the Expence thereof, it might easily be determined; and if both are to join in it, this might easily be settled, by which Means ...
— The Present State of Virginia • Hugh Jones
... of distrust also prevailed. The bonds of men whose ability to pay their debts was unquestionable, could not be negotiated but at a discount of thirty, forty, and fifty per centum: real property was scarcely vendible; and sales of any article for ready money could be made only at a ruinous loss. The prospect of extricating the country from these embarrassments was by no means flattering. Whilst every thing else fluctuated, some of the causes which produced this calamitous state of things were ...
— The Life of George Washington, Vol. 4 (of 5) • John Marshall
... Spayne may sell them to the stewes, Venyce or any place of Italy; They are everywhere good chaffer. If not these, What saye you to Morocho, Fesse, Algiers? Faith these are wares in all parts vendible, No matter thoughe to Turke and infidell, So itt bringe ...
— A Collection Of Old English Plays, Vol. IV. • Editor: A.H. Bullen
... days. But putting up boughs as a sign of any thing to be sold, was not confined to alehouses; for in old times, such as sold horses were wont to put flowers or boughs upon their heads, to reveal that they were vendible.{1} ...
— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan
... and, above all, their noble confidence in Divine Providence, have gained them the esteem of all who know them. At a village near London, a small community of Carmelites lived for several months, almost without the elements of fire, water, or air. The two first (for water, unfortunately, was there a vendible commodity) they could little afford to buy; and from the last (their dress confining them to their shed) they were excluded. In the midst of this severe distress, which no spectator could behold unmoved, they were happy. Submission to the will of God, fortitude, and cheerfulness, never ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler |
