Why do you think publishers find these stories so "unsalable"?. From Wordnik.com. [Bookslut] Reference
However, unsalable though it be, it's awful purty. From Wordnik.com. [the lark sings first and the thrush sings best] Reference
In some seasons the fruit is made almost unsalable. From Wordnik.com. [Apple Growing] Reference
I still like those stories, even though I find them unsalable. From Wordnik.com. [The Spectre of Efficiency in Writing] Reference
Bankers succumbed beneath the burden of their unsalable issues. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference
It also probably includes boughs, and other unsalable parts of the tree. From Wordnik.com. [Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation] Reference
This avoids the unsalable proposition that everyone should eat low carb. From Wordnik.com. [The low-carb movement needs your help | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference
It's a car that will be unsalable without multiple handouts from government. From Wordnik.com. [Obama's Car Puzzle] Reference
But his lands were unsalable at any price, and he saw no means of support at Geneva. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
Stories you haven't been able to sell might not be unsalable stories in the long run. From Wordnik.com. [Take All Chances] Reference
After I finished it, four good U.S. agents said its anachonistic tone made it unsalable. From Wordnik.com. [Stephen Marlowe] Reference
Usually, broken pots rejected as unsalable lie nearby, but here, oddly, there is nothing. From Wordnik.com. [Mission to La Corona] Reference
Why else would anyone hoard a quantity of objects that were not merely unsalable but useless?. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret and the Loner]
He evidently considered her a very big and unsalable elephant, and repudiated the part of showman. From Wordnik.com. [The Narrative of a Blockade-Runner] Reference
If the instrument does not conform to the measurement it is unsalable and that is sanction enough. From Wordnik.com. [New York Times Current History: The European War, Vol 2, No. 1, April, 1915 April-September, 1915] Reference
It was abandoned now and unsalable, having been designed by a set director instead of an architect. From Wordnik.com. [Fleur De Leigh’s Life of Crime] Reference
However, such goods must be truly valueless -- meaning cut, marked, torn, or otherwise made unsalable. From Wordnik.com. [Common questions asked Mexican customs] Reference
The goods were not to be “so inferior as to be unsalable among merchants” who dealt in the article. From Wordnik.com. [A History of American Law] Reference
Property continued almost unsalable, and prices were less than a half of what they had been in 1853-'54. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
This allows cash to be gotten in exchange for unsalable and heavily devalued structured financial products. From Wordnik.com. [Max Fraad Wolff: Lain Bear] Reference
Two hundred million dollars 'worth of her property has become unsalable, if not worthless, within two months. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 45, July, 1861] Reference
Oxidizer disposal was resolved through temporary storage, sale to manufacturers, and burning of unsalable lots. From Wordnik.com. [Strategic Air Command: People Aircraft and Missiles 2nd Edition]
Each farm must have its fountain; and where no such supply of water exists, the government lands are unsalable. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
It was impossible to obtain any credit from the banks, and all securities were unsalable, unless at ruinous rates. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference
At one time there were people dying of actual starvation in India, while men were burning unsalable wheat in America. From Wordnik.com. [In the Days of the Comet] Reference
A drop in property prices meant that Lionberg's multimillion-dollar estate was unsalable in the late-nineties market. From Wordnik.com. [Beard] Reference
Then it was essentially unsalable, staying in Beijing's hands because it was burdened by bad loans and poor management. From Wordnik.com. [Beijing's Bloated IPO] Reference
Alternatively: it doesn't matter how unsalable your idea is if your writing is limpidly beautiful and lyrically whatever. From Wordnik.com. [Publishing Myths: General Guidelines and Good Advice] Reference
Each rehandling will certainly discolor and perhaps break a good many of them, rendering them unsalable, if not worthless. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference
The London Exchange was flooded with unsalable paper, an occurrence which had also taken place on a smaller scale in 1837. From Wordnik.com. [A Brief History of Panics and Their Periodical Occurrence in the United States] Reference
It dammed up vast unsalable surpluses, helping to bring about unemployment and suffering in the United States and everywhere else. From Wordnik.com. [State of the Union Address (1790-2001)] Reference
Scab and other diseases caused a large proportion of the fruit set to drop, and the remainder was unsalable in unsprayed orchards. From Wordnik.com. [Trees, Fruits and Flowers of Minnesota, 1916 Embracing the Transactions of the Minnesota State Horticultural Society,Volume 44, from December 1, 1915, to December 1, 1916, Including the Twelve Numbers of "The Minnesota Horticulturist" for 1916] Reference
John said it was merchandise, and must be stored; it was unsalable now, and it was best to keep it until there was a market for it. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Baba's Last Drink and Other Sketches] Reference
Those which the farmer leaves out as unsalable, and unpalatable to those who frequent the markets, are choicest fruit to the walker. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862] Reference
Ted tells Alex that this is a recipe for an unsalable business. From Wordnik.com. [American Chronicle] Reference
It's a counterintuitive fact, and therefore another one that's politically unsalable, but it's. From Wordnik.com. [Freep.com - RSS] Reference
Publishers are likely to end up with books that are unsalable anywhere but in Texas and a few other, mostly rural, states. From Wordnik.com. [The Mahablog] Reference
Eventually, Mr. Van Slyke came to the realization that he had created an "idiosyncratic, unsystematic, unsalable" business. From Wordnik.com. [InvestmentNews.com Latest Headlines]
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