"Unsaleable" Quotes from Famous Books
... requisites are a pocketful of cherry stones and a small screw, not an expensive outfit, for they save the "hogs" when they are permitted to eat cherries, as sometimes, by the indulgence of a kindly fruiterer, they are, for he kindly throws all his rotten or unsaleable fruit into ... — London's Underworld • Thomas Holmes
... a lot of wild land in some out-of-the-way township, by making Mr. B—- believe that he could sell it again very soon, with a handsome profit. Of course his bargain was not a good one. He soon found from its situation that the land was quite unsaleable, there being no settlements in the neighbourhood. Instead of expressing any resentment, he fairly acknowledged that Q—- was his master at a bargain, and gave him full credit for his address and cunning, and quite resolved in his ... — Roughing it in the Bush • Susanna Moodie |