1 But that's my character: if I want a thing I'm willing to pay: I don't go up to the counter, and then wonder if the article's worth the price.
2 She knew from some lost magazine article that in Dublin were innovators called The Irish Players.
3 As for Bildad, he carried about with him a long list of the articles needed, and at every fresh arrival, down went his mark opposite that article upon the paper.
4 It yields the article commonly known as whalebone or baleen; and the oil specially known as "whale oil," an inferior article in commerce.
5 He wrote a furious article, attacking the musical taste of the town, and asked me to do him a great service by taking it to the editor of the morning paper.
6 Jokubas had recently been reading a newspaper article which was full of statistics such as that, and he was very proud as he repeated them and made his guests cry out with wonder.
7 In the beginning he had been fresh and strong, and he had gotten a job the first day; but now he was second-hand, a damaged article, so to speak, and they did not want him.
8 But, alas, it was again the case of the honest merchant, who finds that the genuine and unadulterated article is driven to the wall by the artistic counterfeit.
9 The woman, more in terror than through love of the ornament, wrapped her child in the coveted article, and folded both more closely to her bosom.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 17 10 "Well, Tom's got the real article, if ever a fellow had," rejoined the other.
11 "Now for the cake," said Mas'r George, when the activity of the griddle department had somewhat subsided; and, with that, the youngster flourished a large knife over the article in question.
12 He was listening, with a good-humored, negligent air, half comic, half contemptuous, to Haley, who was very volubly expatiating on the quality of the article for which they were bargaining.
13 The dealers in the human article make scrupulous and systematic efforts to promote noisy mirth among them, as a means of drowning reflection, and rendering them insensible to their condition.
14 With a deadly sickness at her heart, she remembered how he had looked at Emmeline's hands, and lifted up her curly hair, and pronounced her a first-rate article.
15 "Why, this article," I said, pointing at it with my egg spoon as I sat down to my breakfast.
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