And it is true that the labourer gives value for his wages-certainly he would not otherwise be employed-but that value is not usually marketable until some time, in many cases years, after the wages have been enjoyed, and therefore cannot have been the source whence these wages came.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Besides this, they were in no sense marketable securities.
"A Prairie Courtship"
Harold Bindloss
One can be out there selling his body one moment and then find his head shaved and a robe on what had been out there as a marketable commodity.
"Corpus of a Siam Mosquito"
Steven Sills