39 Metaphors for merchant

An unworthy merchant is a kind of pedlar, who (with the help of a broker) gets more by his wit than by his honesty.

Now, however, instead of the ruddy, coarse, self-confident merchant there was a pallid, trembling jelly-fish.

The merchants were d of the risk.

The spider was merely looking over our paper to see which merchant is not advertising, so that he can go to that store, spin his web across the door and lead a life of undisturbed peace ever afterward.

It happened that the principal merchant and shipowner in the town, Mr. Singleton by name, was an intimate friend and old school-fellow of Captain Ellice, so Fred went boldly to him and proposed that a vessel should be fitted out immediately, and sent off to search for his father's brig.

Thomas Aquinas directly stigmatises trade as a disgraceful means of gain, because the exchange of wares does not necessitate labour or the satisfaction of necessary wants: Muhammedan tradition says, "The pious merchant is a pioneer on the road of God.

"Yes, and he's a first-rate boy," said Ida, with whom the young apple merchant was evidently a favorite.

Once again came to him the thought that the merchant more than the soldier was the builder of a great nation.

" The old merchant, dazed by Piero's hot words, was a pitiful figure, standing, desolate, behind the closed bars of his gate, the night wind lifting his long beard and parting the thin gray locks that flowed from under his cap, while he called and beckoned impotently to Piero to return, repeating meanwhile mechanically, with no perception of their meaning, those strange words of Piero's"In Venice she hath no peace."

Thus, a glass house is a house made of glass, but a glasshouse is a house in which glass is made; so a negro merchant is a coloured trader, but a negro-merchant is a man who buys and sells negroes.

The merchants of Irak or Persia, who trade to Canfu, are no way dissatisfied with the conduct of this judge in the administration of his office, because his decisions are just and equitable, and conformable to the Koran.

A worthy merchant is the heir of adventure, whose hopes hang much upon wind.

The merchants were plantation factors; the lawyers and doctors had country patrons; the wealthiest planters were town residents from time to time; and many prospering townsmen looked toward plantation retirement, carrying as it did in some degree the badge of gentility, as the crown of their careers.

Loti wrote nearly fifty years ago, a decade after their influx: "The Chinese merchants of Papeete were objects of disgust and horror to the natives.

The retired merchants were of a pattern not altogether extinct in New York, who, at the ages of sixty years and upward, had cleared their skirts of business, and settled down to a calm retrospect of the past, and serene anticipations of the future.

'An English Merchant is a new species of gentleman,' i. 491, n. 3. MERIT.

A broad-gauged merchant is a good deal like our friend Doc Graver, who'd cut out the washerwoman's appendix for five dollars, but would charge a thousand for showing me minehe wants all the money that's coming to him, but he really doesn't give a cuss how much it is, just so he gets the appendix.

"Veil, vat you need now," said the dog merchant, "is a leedle dog to vake up the big dog.

And still, would Wolfort were an honest man, Under the Rose, I speak it: but this Merchant Is a brave boy: he lives so, i'the Town here, We know not what to think on him: at some times We fear he will be Bankrupt; he do's stretch Tenter his credit so; embraces all, And to't, the winds have been contrary long.

'An English Merchant is a new species of gentleman,' i. 491, n. 3. MERIT.

All Germany, yes, even Holland and England, are familiar with his name, and the Prussian merchant is as much a hero on "'Change' as the Prussian king is on the battle-field.

The white merchants were coatless, listless men who sat in chairs on the brick pavements before their stores and who moved slowly when a customer entered their doors.

Can two merchants who have the same goods to sell become good neighbors?

Lima (200), the capital, is 8 m. inland from its port Callao (35); has an old cathedral, and is the chief centre of commerce; its principal merchants are Germans.

A great merchant is the real Kris Kringle.

39 Metaphors for  merchant