The same
dealer heard of me, and said he thought he knew one place where I should do well.
He at once told me that I could get from any
dealer more for it than he could afford to give me; but he told me too that I had no right to make a profit out of his work, and that he would give me the original price of thirty pounds.
The
dealer appearing at the appointed hour, Khacan found the slave beautiful beyond his expectations, and immediately gave her the name of "The Fair Persian.
He all in confusion made answer, "Sirs, I am a poor pig
dealer, and this morning I left the village to sell (saving your presence) four pigs, and between dues and cribbings they got out of me little less than the worth of them.
An enterprising sweet-stuff
dealer in the Chobham Road had sent up his son with a barrow-load of green apples and ginger beer.
Thus the
dealer to whom D'Artagnan sold him for the nine livres did not conceal from the young man that he only gave that enormous sum for him on the account of the originality of his color.
I could extend my occupation as a fisherman, might get a place as clerk in a warehouse, and become in time a
dealer myself.
Every Monday morning, the
dealer in second-hand goods, who lived under the alley-way, spread out his wares on the sidewalk.
At first more was demanded than would have been asked of me in a shop; but afterwards--though not without a great deal of trouble on my part, and several feints at departing--I induced the
dealer to lower his price, and to limit his demands to ten roubles in silver.
D'Artagnan went instantly to the hay
dealer and bargained with him for a hundred and fifty trusses of straw, which he obtained, at the rate of three pistoles each.
We have nothing to do with David until we find him, at the age of twenty, on the high road from his native place to the city of Boston, where his uncle, a small
dealer in the grocery line, was to take him behind the counter.
This is deemed a fortunate circumstance in the contingencies of this species of trade, since it enables the
dealer to offer his uncalled-for wares in the least suspicious and most natural manner.
This was a professed
dealer in lawsuits—a man whose name appeared in every calendar—whose substance, gained in the multifarious expedients of a settler’s change able habits, was wasted in feeding the harpies of the courts.
Lindsey, it is important to say, was an excellent but exceedingly matter-of-fact sort of man, a
dealer in hardware, and was sturdily accustomed to take what is called the common-sense view of all matters that came under his consideration.
The Sahib is a little hot and angry after riding,' the horse-
dealer returned, with the leer of a privileged jester.
