"Vendue" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... a system which leaves the chastity of one million females without any protection! which condemns more than two millions of human beings to remediless bondage! which authorises their sale at public vendue in company with horses, sheep and hogs, or in a private manner, at the pleasure of their owners! which, under penalty of imprisonment, and even death, forbids their being taught the lowest rudiments of knowledge! ...
— Thoughts on African Colonization • William Lloyd Garrison
... said Uncle Silas, "do you remember that high shay that David's father hed? I was up to the Widow Pope's vendue the day he bid it off. He managed to spunk up so fur's to hitch the shaffs under his team and fetch the vehicle home, and then he hed n't no place to put it up out o' the weather,—and so he druv it along under that ...
— Five Hundred Dollars - First published in the "Century Magazine" • Heman White Chaplin
... souper, M. Eyssette nous annona solennellement que la fabrique tait vendue, et que, dans un mois, nous partirions tous pour Lyon, o ...
— Le Petit Chose (part 1) - Histoire d'un Enfant • Alphonse Daudet |
