Blyth purchased a couple, as they were very tame and seemed well-mannered.

Another teacher, Adam Hastilow, had purchased a couple of fans for his classroom.

They purchased a couple of toads from an exotic pet store and licked them hoping for euphoria.

He purchased a couple of shirts, a piece of framed stain-glass window and a piece of art.

While she was in the gallery, she'd purchased a couple of other paintings, one of them for Rowe.

Mutimer purchased a couple of bottles of claret on the way home, that the first evening might be wholly cheerful.

He bought meat, and a loaf of bread, candles, chips, and from a little retail yard he purchased a couple of hundredweights of coals.

There he leaned over the splendid bar and swallowed a glass of plain whiskey and purchased a couple of cigars, one of which he lighted.

At last with a little remnant of his property he purchased a couple of young bulls with a yoke for training them (to agricultural labour).