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buy buy in the cheapest market and sell in the dearest traditional commercial advice on making the largest profit possible (sometimes with an implication of sharp practice), recorded from the late 16th century.
you buy land, you buy stones; you buy meat, you buy bones every purchase has its drawbacks. Recorded from the late 17th century, but a late 16th-century source has the related, ‘You shall be sure to have good ale, for that has no bones.’
See also
buy the farm.
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Voysey wallpapers and fabrics.(Design notes)(Charles Francis Annesley Voysey)
Magazine article from: The Magazine Antiques; 6/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...making reproductions of furniture designed by Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, and other British designers...than furniture making. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Voysey began creating wallpaper patterns in 1883, and...
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Property: Voysey original has style.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/21/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...the first popular architect, Charles Francis Annesley Voysey was an innovator, who declined...spring is the chance to acquire a Voysey first, The Cottage at Bishops...Warwickshire. The property is listed as Voysey's first residential commission...
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Arts and Crafts furniture.
Magazine article from: Interior Design; 4/1/1988; ; 700+ words
; ...creativity of another Arts and Crafts designer, Charles Francis Annesley Voysey. Voysey studied architecture at Dulwich College. In 1882...1902, was the only piece of upholstered furniture Voysey ever designed. Antiques dealer David Allan, who...
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Pebbledash power meets gnome man If William Hague is such an expert on pebbledash, where does he stand on kitchen and loft extensions and, most importantly, garden gnomes? We should be told, says NICK FOULKES
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 1/31/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...that, with its "white rough cast and stone trim", it is located in Bedford Park and was built by Charles Francis Annesley Voysey. Voysey is about the closest we get in Britain to Frank Lloyd Wright: very Design Museum, not very New Tory...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 2/12/1994; 700+ words
; ...colonist and writer, 1663; Francis II, Emperor of Austria and last Holy Roman Emperor, 1768; Charles Darwin, naturalist, 1809...Fouques Duparc, composer, 1933; Charles Francis Annesley Voysey, architect, 1941; Tom Keating...
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Magnificent setting in the Malvern Hills; Celebrated house boasts ten acres of woodland.
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 6/26/1998; 700+ words
; ...was the first of CFA Voysey's larger houses and...all hallmarks of the Voysey style, essentially as...celebrated architect, born Charles Francis Annesley in 1857, lived to see...appeared in contrast to Voysey's insistence on simplicity...
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Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey 1857-1941, English decorator and...fenestration and semiopen planning. In 1898, Voysey designed what is considered to be his...main hall rises through two stories. Voysey's designs influenced architects in...
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Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley
Book article from: A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
Voysey, Charles Francis Annesley (1857–1941). English...similar to his English domestic work. Voysey's designs were widely publicized...built in the 1920s and 1930s, although Voysey himself had virtually no commissions...
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