I have seen hundreds of bags of excellent potatoes offered on the morning market and taken away unsold because no one would bid a shilling per bag for them.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
If the purchasers are few and slow in buying, she begins to fear that she may have to carry her butter back unsold, and go without the crockery and calico and other things which she intended to buy with the money.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
The last one is unsold.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie