It had been at a sale held in the house of one of those frail Parisian beauties who, following a fashion of the moment, had put up her goods to auction.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
"Now," he said reflectively, "anybody can apply for timber rights, and bid for them at public auction, but the man who secures them must cut up so many thousand feet every month.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
For this simple device of placing all taxes on the value of land would be in effect putting up the land at auction to whoever would pay the highest rent to the State.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae