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
You can buy pleasure, you can acquire content, you can become satisfied, – but Nature never put real happiness on the bargain-counter.
From The Majesty of Calmness; individual problems and posibilities by Jordan, William George
It offers no spectacular inducements, no bargain-counter attractions in the shape of new arrivals among the birds or flowers.
From The Jonathan Papers by Morris, Elisabeth Woodbridge
