How To Use Vendue In A Sentence
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In a very graphic and truthful scene, the "vendue" is depicted.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864
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I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at a vendue of merchant goods.
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Unable to distinguish in quality, and knowing that certain stones have brought such and such prices, they refuse to sell any for a smaller price, but retain them until the next _festa_, when they carry them in succession to all the _mercanti di pietre_ in Rome, to see which will offer the highest price, -- a kind of vendue which evinces greater trade-cleverness than the Italians get credit for, and which has the effect of bringing the dealers at once to their best terms.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866
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If he puts it up to vendue, believe that will be the best chance for obtaining it.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 April 1780
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The nine-day sale reached gross receipts of $89,622,495, up 13.5% from last year, and the second-highest aggregate in the history of the vendue.

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The Hong Kong international sale is conducted by Keeneland's experienced crew, but with a theatrical flair not seen at the Lexington vendue.
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With toasts for a pleasant voyage and prayers for a sure and swift recovery, he was bidden farewell shortly before the vendue at Alexandria.
Washington
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Next day I was put up by the vendue master to know how much I was worth, and I was valued at one hundred pounds currency.
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The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Many of the white people in those provinces take little or no care of negro marriages; and when negroes marry after their own way, some make so little account of those marriages that with views of outward interest they often part men from their wives by selling them far asunder, which is common when estates are sold by executors at vendue.
IV. 1757, 1758
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George William Fairfax was gone, gone permanently; the contents of Belvoir were for sale; Washington had to assume some of the direction of this sad vendue.
Washington
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I have some thoughts of selling at vendue part of the house furniture, as I suppose I could purchase new for what this would fetch.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 3 January 1784
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There are several persons very eager to purchase it, which has determined the owner to put it up to vendue, if he does shall endeavour to buy it.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 April 1780
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But this week 5 acres of wood, upon Ruggles'es homestead was sold at vendue at a hundred and fifty dollors per acre, for the wood only; and purchased by persons able to pay for it.
Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 27 December 1783
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Evidently, there was no "vendue" at the Barton farmhouse; neither a funeral, nor a wedding, since male guests seemed to have been exclusively bidden.
The Story of Kennett