One can
not buy and pay for two cents' worth of clams without trouble and a quarrel.
The Innocents Abroad
Yet all his millions could
not buy him this one day.
Burning Daylight
"At the same time," declared the Tin Woodman, "you must acknowledge that a good heart is a thing that brains can not create, and that money can
not buy. Perhaps, after all, it is I who am the richest man in all the world."
The Marvelous Land of Oz
Those which did not please him failed commercially: he would
not buy them, or sell them, or countenance them; and except through him, as "master of the industrial situation," nothing could be bought, or sold, or countenanced.
Unsocial Socialist
So it was that he entered abruptly upon a lean period, wherein he continued selling his earlier efforts to publications that would not pay and submitting his later work to magazines that would
not buy. Also, he resumed his trips to the pawn-broker down in Oakland.
Martin Eden
you seem so happy at your work.' 'Yes,' said the other, 'mine is a golden trade; a good grinder never puts his hand into his pocket without finding money in it--but where did you get that beautiful goose?' 'I did
not buy it, I gave a pig for it.' 'And where did you get the pig?' 'I gave a cow for it.' 'And the cow?' 'I gave a horse for it.' 'And the horse?' 'I gave a lump of silver as big as my head for it.' 'And the silver?' 'Oh!
Fairy Tales
He had never been so poor that he could
not buy canvas and paint, and really he needed nothing else.
Moon and Sixpence
Nor are the poets who write them to be blamed for this; for some there are among them who are perfectly well aware of their faults, and know what they ought to do; but as plays have become a salable commodity, they say, and with truth, that the actors will
not buy them unless they are after this fashion; and so the poet tries to adapt himself to the requirements of the actor who is to pay him for his work.
Don Quixote
If revolutionized Paris would
not buy as the jour de l'an approached, Paris must have a new dynasty.
Autobiography of a Pocket Handkerchief
Even money could
not buy them now; everything must come out, and everybody must know all.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
We did
not buy any wooden images of the Lion, nor any ivory or ebony or marble or chalk or sugar or chocolate ones, or even any photographic slanders of him.
Tramp Abroad
Miserable women, whose faces never smile, haunt the butchers' shops in such London localities as these, with relics of the men's wages saved from the public-house clutched fast in their hands, with eyes that devour the meat they dare
not buy, with eager fingers that touch it covetously, as the fingers of their richer sisters touch a precious stone.
No Name
Never has it been said that animal life may
not buy animal life."
Jerry of the Islands
Are there painters in New York?" asked Beaufort, in a tone implying that there could be none since he did
not buy their pictures; and Madame Olenska said to Archer, with her grave smile: "That would be charming.
The Age of Innocence
If these countries do
not buy oil from Iran, Iran will
not buy their products either, he added.
Former Iranian rep in OPEC: All oil refineries worldwide need Iran's crude oil