Tradesman

Examples

• This neighbour was a tradesman in a large way of business, who lived in a very respectable style of comfort. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• If my aunt's maid and the other woman have spoken the truth, you may depend upon it the tradesman did meet her. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This remark he offers like a most respectable tradesman anxious to execute an order neatly and to the perfect satisfaction of his customer. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I thought the tradesman looked heroic. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• If I, as a honest tradesman, succeed in providing a jinte of meat or two, none of your not touching of it, and sticking to bread. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• There might be medical doctors at the present hour, a picking up their guineas where a honest tradesman don't pick up his fardens--fardens! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Each tradesman or artificer derives his subsistence from the employment, not of one, but of a hundred or a thousand different customers. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• These were a gentleman who would not leave his name and a tradesman of the name of Smith:--both were to return in the evening. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Much better, said Jerry, not unlike a reluctant witness at the establishment in question, than I, as a honest tradesman, wish to know the Bailey. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Even Mrs. Bute Crawley, the Rector's wife, refused to visit her, as she said she would never give the pas to a tradesman's daughter. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• So the printer and his good wife moved to the Zum Jungen, which was more like a castle than a tradesman’s dwelling-house. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Jerry, you honest tradesman, it wouldn't suit _your_ line of business! Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• GAZETTEER, I am an honest tradesman, who never meant harm to anybody. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Those of a tradesman, returned the rector--narrow, selfish, and unpatriotic. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• My grub-worm is always a straitened, struggling, care-worn tradesman. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• And surely these odious tradesmen might be made to understand that, and to wait, if you would make proper representations to them. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The Scape tradesmen, all honourably paid, left their cards, and were eager to supply the new household. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I passed along the tradesmen's path, but found it all trampled down and indistinguishable. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The prejudices of some political writers against shopkeepers and tradesmen are altogether without foundation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• She took the law of every one of her tradesmen; and turned away forty-eight footmen in four year. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Rawdon and his wife generously gave their patronage to all such of Miss Crawley's tradesmen and purveyors as chose to serve them. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The times were very much changed since the period when she drove to Mudbury in the spring-cart and called the small tradesmen Sir. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Shall I continue to suffer thus for what his footmen, tradesmen and valet, enjoy freely every day? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Tradesmen, when they speak against war, always profess to hate it because it is a bloody and barbarous proceeding. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A guinea may be considered as a bill for a certain quantity of necessaries and conveniencies upon all the tradesmen in the neighbourhood. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• All the tradesmen of the town would be bankrupt. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• And, as we said before, under such a constitution the same persons have too many callings--they are husbandmen, tradesmen, warriors, all in one. Plato. The Republic.
• The towns were chiefly inhabited by tradesmen and mechanics, who seem, in those days, to have been of servile, or very nearly of servile condition. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The debts I speak of are--different--not like tradesmen's bills, she began confusedly; but Mrs. Peniston's look made her almost afraid to continue. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Tradesmen's books hunger, and tradesmen's mouths water, for the gold dust of the Golden Dustman. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.

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