Tradesmen

Examples

• 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.
• Graunt was a shop-keeper of London, and Charles said that if they found any more such tradesmen, they should be su re to admit them all without more ado. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• I've been accustomed to live with gentlemen, and men of the world and fashion, Emmy, not with a parcel of turtle-fed tradesmen. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

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