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`` They wouldn't have sold me in the first place if there'd been food enough to go around ''.
According to Bakshi, " I sold them a show they already owned, so they just gave me the rights for nothin '!
I was at a garage sale, and this old couple sold me a used pair of sneakers they claimed belonged to Jerry Seinfeld, the comedian.
A year later, Farley's daughters Maria Farley and Rebecca Parke Farley sold their shares to Patrick Henry of Virginia, the man who delivered the " Give me Liberty, or give me Death!
She sold me the navy plans of a submarine.
Thilakavathy Agatheesh, 30, who sold a kidney in May 2005 for 40, 000 rupees said, " I used to earn some money selling fish but now the post-surgery stomach cramps prevent me from going to work.
He told The Guardian: " I always used to use music as a way of moving on and dealing with things, and I sort of felt like that the thing that helped me deal with things had been sold to the highest bidder and I was simply doing its bidding.
After we sold the cars, one guy, Ray Olivaras, split his earnings with me.
I got off a plane and someone asked me about the fact that Glastonbury hadn't sold out for the first time in years, and if it was because of Jay-Z.
It commences abruptly in the first person: " He who brought me up sold me to a certain Rhoda, who was at Rome.
* me Issey Miyake-line of " exclusive one-sized shirts that stretch to fit the wearer " that are sold in plastic tube, named Cauliflower for the non-Asian market.
" After Game 7, when asked about rumors that he may retire if Huizenga sold the franchise, Leyland quipped, " My wife doesn't like me that much.
8 And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much?
" She sold me a Big Mac and I was done.
Watts elected not to join the group because of its closely Democratic affiliation and goals, saying "... they said that I had sold out and me an Uncle Tom.
This, in part, stemmed from the fact that he had not sold the programme to them as two three-part stories —" in case they told me not to do it !".
Close personal friends have taken private snapshots of me in my home and then sold them to magazines.
Cavalier wrote later ( July 10, 1707 ): " The only consolation that remains to me is that the regiment I had the honour to command never looked back, but sold its life dearly on the field of battle.
" Had my father known what I was going to do ," the younger McMahon told Sports Illustrated in 1991, " he never would have sold his stock to me.
The Seigneurie of this Place is vested in merchants residing in England and the Inhabitants of it, people remarkable for their courage and resolution, have distinguished themselves very much by their attachment to the Government even at a time the Rebels were Masters of that Country, in which account I think it would serve the King's interest to bestow some Public mark of favour upon them such as remitting them the Quitrents which they pay for their land, to the Seigneur, and the Seigneurie being to be sold, and the purchase would not exceed 13, 000, having been offered for that sum, I submit to Your Lordship whether it would not be best to give orders to treat immediately with the Proprietors, Messrs. Greenwood and Higgins in London, both for enabling me to effect the purchase ...
In his life Keyes sold or distributed millions of books, lectured to many people, spoke to dignitaries at political gatherings, and knew and moved among the self-help elite, including Wayne Dyer, who said that Keyes " literally got me started on this glorious transformational journey.
* Rabinovich calls Pamyat headquarters, speaking with a characteristic accent :" Tell me, is it true that Jews sold out Russia?

sold and clear
The treaty granted the Hudson's Bay Company navigation rights on the Columbia River for supplying their fur posts, clear titles to their trading post properties allowing them to be sold later if they wanted, and left the British with good anchorages at Vancouver and Victoria, British Columbia.
Schoenewolf later clarified that " No person is better off enslaved, obviously ... What I tried to say, before my words were twisted by that reporter, is that despite the clear and obvious evil of that practice, we tend to forget that many of the enslaved people had been first been sold into bondage by their fellow countrymen ; so coming to America did bring about some eventual good.
Most people relied on the very clear one-volume abridgement of the first six volumes by Somervell, which appeared in 1947 ; it sold over 300, 000 copies in the U. S. The high brow press provided innumerable discussions of Toynbee's work in the press, not to mention countless lectures and seminars.
For many years, Roman Catholics have annually collected a clear liquid from the tomb of Saint Nicholas ; legend attributes the pleasant perfume of this liquid as warding off evil, and it is sold to pilgrims as " the Manna of Saint Nicholas ".
His widow acted to clear Nash's debts ( some £ 15, 000 ), she held a sale of the Castle's contents, including three paintings by J. M. W. Turner painted on the Isle of Wight, two by Benjamin West and several copies of old master paintings by Richard Evans these were sold at Christie's on 11 July 1835 for £ 1, 061.
Raven's Brand jerky is sold throughout the region and easily recognized by its distinctive taste and black raven on a bright yellow background on the otherwise clear bag.
He sold his northern business and hired people to clear land, lay out streets, erect buildings and recruit settlers, most of whom came from upstate New York.
John Peck had purchased land that had previously been sold under the 1795 act and later sold this land to Robert Fletcher who then brought this suit against Peck in 1803, claiming that he did not have clear title to the land when he sold it.
BMG brought back the lightning bolt logo that was last used in 1968 to make clear that RCA Records was no longer co-owned with the other RCA entities which GE sold or closed.
What is clear is that Joseph was sold to serve Potiphar, the captain of Pharaoh's guard.
Produced by Jah Paul Jo and Rasta Li-Mon ( Lee Manning ) and released on their indie Birdcage Records label, the single sold amazingly well and represses featured the seven inch 45 RPM in a rasta rainbow of colors: red ( original ), green, yellow, blue, white and clear vinyl.
It was clear that the band were not expecting so much support, as the merchandise stall was sold out before the gig even got under way.
Popular reception for his Scots work, as evidenced in a number of verse epistles in its praise, helped persuade Ruddiman to publish a first general edition of his poems which appeared in early 1773 and sold around 500 copies, allowing Fergusson to clear a profit.
The Trust argued that the founders went to considerable lengths to make clear that art works and other assets could, and should, be used and sold, at the discretion of the Trustees, to support the activities of the Trust.
In the United States, they were sold for 25 cents a pound in novelty cans with clear glass tops.
Company executives were expecting to receive upwards of $ 150 million for the real estate, but ended up receiving $ 77 million when the bare property ( which cost $ 20 million to clear ) was sold to a development corporation in 2006.
Exceptions may apply for goods sold as damaged or to clear.
However it appears not to be the beer but a liquor since the liquid is clear ( and the bottle wrapped in paper when sold, a possible reference to open container laws ) and Deckard is afterwards shown drinking it from a shot glass.
As American-style muffins are also sold in Commonwealth countries, the term muffin can refer to either product, with the context usually making clear which is meant.
Despite the sale, Māori at Parihaka continued to clear, fence and cultivate the land, regardless of whether it had been surveyed and sold.
Near the end of his life, Maynard's first wife Lydia sold any rights she may have had in Maynard's property to a person who promptly sued Maynard for Lydia's share of Maynard's property in Seattle ( claiming that they had never been divorced ; while he was still married when he built his fortune, the common law is not entirely clear as to her claim ).
By 1907, however, it was clear to Baum and to his publisher, Reilly & Britton, that the Oz books were more popular and sold better than any of Baum's other works.

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