vendible

Example Sentences

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This palanquin was property, vendible and to be attained in the simplest and least embarrassing fashion.

From Soldier Stories by Kipling, Rudyard

When an estate is leased, the owner has, in his demand for rent, a vendible plus; but the lessee no corresponding minus.

From Principles Of Political Economy by Lalor, John J. (John Joseph)

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

For Bill Day's sister was a "maid not vendible," as Shakespeare has it.

From The End of the World A Love Story by Eggleston, Edward

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 Dana, Richard Henry