Some articles on bought:
... His first venture into the lumber industry began when he bought a lumber camp, but it failed ... This did not deter him, and, apparently learning from his mistakes, he bought other camps that were successful ... He bought camps and timberland in Canada, then in the upper peninsula of Michigan and finally in Northern California ...
... in Cadeby Road, Sprotborough and Grade II-listed Georgian mansion Cantley Hall which he bought in 1990 from motor dealer John Carnell ... paintings including John Constable's View of the Stour (bought for £6.7m) and Thomas Gainsborough's Peasants Going To Market (bought for £3.5m) ...
... The mail was bought by The Irish Times in its final few years ... Having failed to turn the newspaper around (it had hoped to turn it into its own evening paper to rival the Irish Independent/Evening Herald and the Irish Press/Evening Press relationships, the Irish Times controversially closed the paper on 10 July 1962 ...
... Macmillan bought ITT's publishing division in 1985 ... Reed Publishing bought Marquis and National Register from Macmillan in 1991 ... which owns The Hill, bought Marquis in 2003 ...
... One of his brothers presented him with an old cornet he bought for $5, which Russ taught himself to play ... In 1966, at the height of his career they sold their home and possessions, bought a boat, and on 1 June set sail ... and his wife fell in love with the location and bought a house on the waters edge of Tangitu Bay in the Te Puna Inlet, east of the Purerua Peninsula near Kerikeri ...
Famous quotes containing the word bought:
“You know, what I very well know, that I bought you. And I know, what perhaps you think I don’t know, you are now selling yourselves to somebody else; and I know, what you do not know, that I am buying another borough. May God’s curse light upon you all: may your houses be as open and common to all Excise Officers as your wifes and daughters were to me, when I stood for your scoundrel corporation.”
—Anthony Henley (d. 1745)
“The cherry orchard is now mine!... I bought the estate on which my grandfather and father were slaves, where they were not even permitted in the kitchen.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)
“... the virtue of female slaves is wholly at the mercy of irresponsible tyrants, and women are bought and sold in our slave markets, to gratify the brutal lust of those who bear the name of Christians.”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)