In a very graphic and truthful scene, the "vendue" is depicted.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 75, January, 1864] Reference

Jean de Luxembourg, g閚閞al des troupes du duc, puis vendue par.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation] Reference

Here are you all got together at this vendue of fineries knick-knacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

Here are you all got together at this vendue of fineries and knick-knacks.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference

If he puts it up to vendue, believe that will be the best chance for obtaining it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 15 April 1780] Reference

En d'autres termes, l'oeuvre qui est vendue doit avoir plus de valeur que sa copie.    From Wordnik.com.  [Entretiens / Interviews / Entrevistas] Reference

I stopped my horse lately where a great number of people were collected at a vendue of merchant's goods.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

But I never could, and I never shall, abide the sight of the red and ruthless flag of the vendue-master.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference

There are four auctioneers, or vendue masters, in the settlements; two at Sydney, one at Parramatta, and one at.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Present Picture of New South Wales (1811)] Reference

For the vendue opened and they began to buy extravagantly, notwithstanding all his cautions and their own fear of taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 6] Reference

For the vendue opened, and they began to buy extravagantly, notwithstanding all his cautions, and their own fear of taxes.    From Wordnik.com.  [One Thousand Secrets of Wise and Rich Men Revealed] Reference

I have some thoughts of selling at vendue part of the house furniture, as I suppose I could purchase new for what this would fetch.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 3 January 1784] Reference

We were thankful, however, that no more lives were lost during the vendue, which was commenced with the stock; this occupied two days.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twenty-Two Years a Slave, and Forty Years a Freeman Embracing a Correspondence of Several Years, While President of Wilberforce Colony, London, Canada West] Reference

I was up to the Widow Pope's vendue the day he bid it off.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five Hundred Dollars First published in the "Century Magazine"] Reference

A vendue was called, and three thousand dollars in cash realized.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finger Posts on the Way of Life] Reference

Hingham accidently at a vendue, of a House, Barns, out houses &c.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letter from Abigail Adams to John Adams, 9 December 1796] Reference

The collectors took several long trips, after the vendue in Westchester.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polly's Business Venture] Reference

The vendue system auctioned off paupers to people who would care for them.    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Even while the grand vendue was still in progress the duchess died of grief.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lost Lady of Lone] Reference

Things were mostly sold at a vendue, for the two boys were going in the army.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Girl in Old Salem] Reference

En effet, moins de travail, moins de monnaie vendue aux entreprises pour les salaires.    From Wordnik.com.  [Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com] Reference

To sell them at vendue, is to give them to the bidders of the day, be they many or few.    From Wordnik.com.  [Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1] Reference

In the end, the majority voted for the vendue system (although I was for the poor farm).    From Wordnik.com.  [TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com] Reference

Most of my father's tools were sold at public vendue, which brought in a little ready money.    From Wordnik.com.  [Confessions of Boyhood] Reference

Also in this same year it is named as the place of public vendue of land situated on Broadway.    From Wordnik.com.  [All About Coffee] Reference

I cannot refrain from thinking that they are like articles set up at vendue -- the highest bidder takes them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America. Chiefly Drawn from the Diary, Letters, Manuscripts, Documents, and Original Tracts of the Rev. Ezekiel Cooper.] Reference

This cent business -- and at Hubbell's vendue, some of you'se even bid half a cent at a time -- makes me tired!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polly's Business Venture] Reference

Philip bought it in at the vendue, for a song, for no one cared to even undertake the mortgage on it except himself.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gilded Age A tale of today] Reference

Next day I was put up by the vendue master to know how much I was worth, and I was valued at one hundred pounds currency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African.] Reference

New York as a prize, and that all the men had been condemned as slaves, in the Court of Admiralty, and were sold at vendue.    From Wordnik.com.  [The colored patriots of the American Revolution : with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans,] Reference

"Then I should say, ignorance on the part of the buyers at this vendue, exonerates the dealer from all blame," said Eleanor.    From Wordnik.com.  [Polly's Business Venture] Reference

At length the vendue master, who was to offer us for sale like sheep or cattle, arrived, and asked my mother which was the eldest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African.] Reference