Word: market
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...clients. As a worthy example of this style of lawyer reference was made to Sumner, "who was true to his own convictions, unawed by popular clamor, or undismayed by private ill-will. If corruption was rife around him, it never stained his garments. If others were in the market, there was no price which could purchase him." Such was his greatest and an all-sufficient distinction...
Another point in which many publishers fail, nay, to use a plain Anglo-Saxon word, cheat, is in the binding. It ought to be a point of honor among bookmakers to put in the market books that will stand at least one perusal without coming to pieces. But such is often not the case. One New York house, in particular, seems to do no more than throw the leaves of their books together. I picked up a book in the Library today which, though quite new, already showed signs of disintegration, and guessed at first glance from what house...