bargain-counter
Example Sentences
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Everywhere, hundred-dollar handbags were stacked in bargain-counter disarray.
From Time Magazine Archive
The bargain-counter symphony was the idea of Nicholas Johnston, a wealthy photographer whose portraits of the carriage trade fetch the fanciest prices in northern California.
From Time Magazine Archive
Close behind them came a bargain-counter rush in medieval halberds and maces, paneled Tudor interiors, stained-glass windows, Louis XIV chairs, a heterogeneous collection of like knickknacks.
From Time Magazine Archive
I was about to offer her the traditional bargain-counter price for her thoughts, when my attention was commanded by Jim’s voice, answering some remark of Antonia’s.
From Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic by Quick, Herbert
The Library of old Charleston was composed chiefly of English classics and the literature of France in the olden time when Europe furnished us with something more than anarchy, clothes, and bargain-counter titles.
From Literary Hearthstones of Dixie by Pickett, La Salle Corbell
