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1  When they ventured to hint at this, the agent's reply was that the purchasers would be moving in shortly.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
2  What the hog thought of it, and what he suffered, were not considered; and no more was it with labor, and no more with the purchaser of meat.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 29
3  The agent explained that the houses were built that way, as the purchasers generally preferred to finish the basements to suit their own taste.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
4  They had talked about looking at more houses before they made the purchase; but then they did not know where any more were, and they did not know any way of finding out.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
5  The customer had desired to purchase an alarm clock, and the boss had shown him two exactly similar, telling him that the price of one was a dollar and of the other a dollar seventy-five.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 7
6  Seeing Teta Elzbieta's evident grief at this news, he added, after some hesitation, that if they really intended to make a purchase, he would send a telephone message at his own expense, and have one of the houses kept.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 4
7  As soon as the birth agony was over, and the wounds of society had been healed, there would be established a simple system whereby each man was credited with his labor and debited with his purchases; and after that the processes of production, exchange, and consumption would go on automatically, and without our being conscious of them, any more than a man is conscious of the beating of his heart.
The Jungle By Upton Sinclair
ContextHighlight   In Chapter 31