Use "merchantable" in a sentence

1. In order to render them what are called merchantable herrings, it is necessary to repack them with an additional quantity of salt ; and in this case, it is reckoned, that three barrels of sea-sticks are usually repacked into two barrels of merchantable herrings

2. The number of barrels of merchantable herrings, therefore, caught during these eleven years, will amount only, according to this account, to 252,231¼

3. upon every barrel of merchantable herrings

4. The price of a barrel of good merchantable herrings runs from seventeen and eighteen to four and five-and-twenty shillings ; about a guinea at an average

5. I must likewise observe, that the accounts I have received of the prices of former times, have been by no means quite uniform and consistent, and an old man of great accuracy and experience has assured me, that, more than fifty years ago, a guinea was the usual price of a barrel of good merchantable herrings; and this, I imagine, may still be looked upon as the average price

6. The bounty of £4 the ton upon tar was afterwards confined to such as had been prepared in a particular manner ; that upon other good, clean, and merchantable tar was reduced to £2:4s