vendible
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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
This was a small adobe building, of only one room, in which were liquors, ``dry-goods,'' West India goods, shoes, bread, fruits, and everything which is vendible in California.
From Two Years Before the Mast by Richard Henry Dana
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
Speaking broadly, the judicial office, under the monarchy, was vendible.
From The Theory of Social Revolutions by Brooks Adams
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 Richard Garnett
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