Why would any publisher produce an unsaleable novel?. From Wordnik.com. [Susan Hill finds needle] Reference
LITERATURE: Designation applied to titles judged unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [A look at an author's world...] Reference
Undaunted, she decided to turn the unsaleable oranges into marmalade. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2007-01-01] Reference
Some cars may be unsaleable because there are NOT supporting documents. From Wordnik.com. [Buying a car in Mexico] Reference
There was a good deal of unsaleable literary stock on the dusty shelves. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
In the third place the Foundation does not attempt to sell the unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [reich12] Reference
On the other hand, I'm starting to think this story is thoroughly unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [rejection] Reference
How many publishers will you send to before the book is considered unsaleable?. From Wordnik.com. [The circus act!] Reference
There is no demand for it, and it is about the most unsaleable lace of the day. From Wordnik.com. [Chats on Old Lace and Needlework] Reference
But inventory can go "bad," become out-dated, unsaleable, time - or weather-worn. From Wordnik.com. [5 tips for money management; questions for your accountant] Reference
The quantity of rice, which is of the small, broken, unsaleable kind, is one peck. From Wordnik.com. [The Anti-Slavery Examiner, Omnibus] Reference
This IQ issue is implausible and unsaleable politically. let's stick to what we know. From Wordnik.com. [Reality Re Income Inequality] Reference
Sometimes, when manufactured goods are unsaleable here, the merchant ships them on board. From Wordnik.com. [Journal of a Voyage to Brazil And Residence There During Part of the Years 1821, 1822, 1823] Reference
Of the unsaleable nature of this publication, he himself relates an amusing illustration. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes Historical, Literary, and Humorous—A New Selection] Reference
The result is that the securities become unsaleable illiquid, not that they become worthless. From Wordnik.com. [Thomas Frank wants a class war.] Reference
The market has become so glutted with them that they are, in a great many instances, unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
But times are mending, and this stock, like every other, is not likely to be again so unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China.] Reference
Of the unsaleable nature of my writings I had an amusing memento one morning from our servant girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1838] Reference
This means a high selling risk for the seller as the produce becomes unsaleable after a short time. From Wordnik.com. [5 Cassava] Reference
I've certainly been told that the Jean Plaidy-type historical novel is hopelessly unsaleable nowadays. From Wordnik.com. [Misleading book covers] Reference
Consequently, I took two different cans of spray-on primer paint and made my bike unique and unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [Deterring Thieves By Clever Use of Paint] Reference
Part of it was very good; but it was unequal in its general character, and unsaleable in English markets. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon"] Reference
But now, GM is on the hook for billions of loans backed by depreciating hordes of unsaleable gas-guzzlers. From Wordnik.com. [Taxpayer money to GMAC finances past failures] Reference
I recently queried an agent who claimed to like my writing but said my 48, 500 word novella was unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2006-01-15] Reference
I should write some more, though right now I'm wasting a lot of time on what is probably an unsaleable novel. From Wordnik.com. [Nick Mamatas' Journal] Reference
SERWER: Well, you know, I think it's unsaleable at this point, Carol, that the housing market is slowing down. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 8, 2005] Reference
And we had started renovating our house just long enough to demolish half and make it unlivable and unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [(No) Money Changes Everything] Reference
Is a short story just too costly to print? are they unpopular/unsaleable? or are they trying to let me down easy?. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-11-01] Reference
I wouldn't want the sort of customers who had Rembrandts or Faberges or anything well-known and unsaleable like that. From Wordnik.com. [In The Frame]
I asked about it, and was told it had some injury to its foot, and was unsaleable, as the woman feared it would not live. From Wordnik.com. [Wild Nature Won By Kindness] Reference
She made an effort to look past the rock-steady length of steel to his face, that interesting and unsaleable face of his. From Wordnik.com. [The Beekeeper's Apprentice]
Social landlords should be given the freedom to buy unsaleable properties at a deep discount to meet local housing needs. From Wordnik.com. [Todays Round Up] Reference
The New York Times is concerned about the cars Americans are not buying and the recycled cardboard that is now unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [A Sea of Unwanted Imports « Stephen Rees’s blog] Reference
Other deposits, again, are largely admixed with sand, which has been blown in upon them to such an extent as to make them unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [Manures and the principles of manuring] Reference
This was because when I got the books from the printer, it included nearly a box's worth of said dinged books which make them unsaleable. From Wordnik.com. [NOTA BENE: THREE LEFT!] Reference
When it was finally taken down it was unsaleable as a musical instrument, and had to go for what it would fetch as so much wood and metal. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See] Reference
The dead man's debts amounted to £3000, and his assets consisted chiefly of unsaleable pictures, on most of which his creditors had liens. From Wordnik.com. [Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century] Reference
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