vendible

Example Sentences

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He had no use for white or gray birches, for they were neither timber nor vendible firewood.

From Confessions of Boyhood by Albee, John

The New Land fish is a principal and rich and everywhere vendible merchandise; and by the gain thereof shipping, victual, munition, and the transporting of five or six thousand soldiers may be defrayed.'

From Elizabethan Sea Dogs by Wood, William Charles Henry

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 Overton, William Hassell

The most doubtful circumstance attendant on their office, that of its being vendible, contributed, however, to this independency of character.

From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund

The scaffolding of much highly-prized sentiment would collapse, and the world of poetry and pageantry—particularly that of the tawdrier and more vendible poetry and pageantry—would be poorer by so much.

From An Inquiry Into The Nature Of Peace And The Terms Of Its Perpetuation by Veblen, Thorstein