1 The air was thick with rumors of wholesale hangings by the Yankees should the guilty parties be found and of a concerted uprising against the whites by the negroes.
2 All that prevented a wholesale exodus was India's whispered message: "Captain Butler says not to run."
3 She learned, in brief, that this was the one Logical Location for factories and wholesale houses.
4 Thoughtful Afro-Americans with the strong arm of the government withdrawn and with the hope to stop such wholesale massacres urged the race to sacrifice its political rights for sake of peace.
5 He met some neighbors with whom Elzbieta had made friends in her neighborhood, and he set out to make Socialists of them by wholesale, and several times he all but got into a fight.
6 Well, sir, every day, ay, and twice and thrice in the same day, there have been orders and complaints, and I have been sent flying to all the wholesale chemists in town.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde By Robert Louis StevensonContext Highlight In CHAPTER THE LAST NIGHT 7 He had virtually retired from the wholesale hardware trade before he built Stone Lodge, and was now looking about for a suitable opportunity of making an arithmetical figure in Parliament.
8 Their wholesale price was six shillings, but the retailer would get twelve or more.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 9 We have seen both the retailers and also the wholesale manufacturers.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VIII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE SIX NAPOLEONS 10 , was a nursery of all the worst crimes, the slightest occasion giving rise to wholesale rapine and murder.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER XXIX. 11 But this poetry done into solemn prose meant either wholesale confiscation of private property in the South, or vast appropriations.
12 Hard tales of cruelty and mistreatment of the chained freemen are told, but the county authorities were deaf until the free-labor market was nearly ruined by wholesale migration.
13 Payne, wholesale merchant; and many others.
Up From Slavery: An Autobiography By Booker T. WashingtonContext Highlight In Chapter XVI. 14 For instance, had pepper represented the nearest article within reach, she had added pepper wholesale.
15 "Yes, wholesale," replied the old man.