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"Barter" Quotes from Famous Books

... most striking feature in this dislocation was the transition from direct barter to exchange through the medium of money, and the consequent suddenly increased importance of the role played by usury in the social life of the time. The scarcity of money is a perennial theme of complaint for which the new large capitalist-monopolists ...

— German Culture Past and Present • Ernest Belfort Bax

... connection with these savages; and fresh in my remembrance was the adventure of the master of the Katherine, who only a few months previous, imprudently venturing into this bay in an armed boat for the purpose of barter, was seized by the natives, carried back a little distance into their valley, and was only saved from a cruel death by the intervention of a young girl, who facilitated his escape by night ...

— Typee - A Romance of the South Sea • Herman Melville

... all with him? Are you all apostates from God? Are you all given over to the superstitions of Rome? Are you all here to barter ...

— Simon Dale • Anthony Hope

... activities of primitive man and even those of his more civilized successors may be broadly traced to the impulsion of two elemental appetites. The first drove him to the search for food, the hunt developing into war with neighboring tribes and finally broadening into barter and modern commerce; the second urged him to secure and protect a mate, developing into domestic life, widening into the building of homes and cities, into the cultivation of the arts and a ...

— The Spirit of Youth and the City Streets • Jane Addams

... I have thee barter fates with me,— Lone loiterer where the shells like jewels be, Hung on the fringe and frayed hem of the sea. But no,—'twere cruel, ...

— The Poems of William Watson • William Watson

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