The newsagent's clerk, when arranging his wares that morning, had had what he felt to be an unusually bright idea.
"Jane Oglander"
Marie Belloc Lowndes
The trade in those wares had ceased almost entirely.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
In more primitive days, wealth was a store of means of life produced and preserved for the supply of the producer's future wants, but now it "appears as a huge collection of wares," made for other people's wants, made for sale in the market, made for its own increase.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae