Just as nobody really believes that apples and salmon are like that and yet would refuse to buy a can without some such symbol, so Mr. Spokesly would have found his services quite unmarketable if he had discarded the polite fiction that he was, as far as was humanly possible, incapable of improvement.
"Command"
William McFee
The things which cannot be bought cannot be sold, and the keenest valuator would be puzzled to put a price on some of these unmarketable wares.
"Friendship"
Hugh Black
Like thrifty artists, we must paint out the unmarketable picture, and call luckier creations to fill up the same canvas!"
"Ernest Maltravers, Complete"
Edward Bulwer-Lytton