The tradespeople will refuse to trust us soon.

T. Westwood has passed a retired life in this hamlet of thirty or forty years, living upon the minimum which is consistent with gentility, yet a star among the minor gentry, receiving the bows of the tradespeople and courtesies of the alms-women daily.

If the mistress be a young wife, and not accustomed to order "things for the house," a little practice and experience will soon teach her who are the best tradespeople to deal with, and what are the best provisions to buy.

There are some respectable registry-offices, where good servants may sometimes be hired; but the plan rather to be recommended is, for the mistress to make inquiry amongst her circle of friends and acquaintances, and her tradespeople.

I foresaw this experience at the end of the month, but I preferred to wait and see how we came out rather than interfere with the proceedings; and another thing, Patty, which may comfort you some, is the fact that I quite believe that some of these tradespeople have taken advantage of your youth and inexperience and padded their bills a little bit in consequence.

I had been a broker in Pompeii, and these were the records of moneys I had loaned, on interest, to various merchants and tradespeople.

"I come, you must remember, Mr. Hebblethwaite," she observed, "from long generations of soldiers, and you, as you have reminded me, from a long race of yeomen and tradespeople.

"With regard to the old charwoman, Mr. Knopf certainly knew nothing about her, beyond the fact that she had been recommended to him by one of the tradespeople in the neighbourhood, and seemed perfectly honest, respectable, and sober.

Merchant N. merchant, trader, dealer, monger, chandler, salesman; changer; regrater^; shopkeeper, shopman^; tradesman, tradespeople, tradesfolk.

T. Westwood has passed a retired life in this hamlet of thirty or forty years, living upon the minimum which is consistent with gentility, yet a star among the minor gentry, receiving the bows of the tradespeople and courtesies of the alms' women daily.

In the two other parts the tradespeople and the gentry reside; they have an incomparably better aspect.

I'm sure I hate shopping, I hate tradespeople, I hate" She was going to say "I hate everything", but stopped herself in time.

Tradespeople, idlers, roomers and landlady in the house accepted him at once and felt as if they had known him all their lives.

"About four or five thousandin allincluding the tailors and other tradespeople.

Somehow, he did not like that word "tradespeople," though it seemed harmless enough.

Then I saw no more of her; and my wonder was aroused on hearing some of the tradespeople say that Mrs. Dornham had not been in town for some weeks.

"'This struck me as very strange, because he had always managed his business and paid the tradespeople himself.

He frankly forgave the weeping woman all her sins against him; and with generous hand removed the mountain of debt her extravagance had heaped updebts amounting to more than two million francs, one million two hundred thousand of which she owed to tradespeople alone.

At Hanover, she wrote, the tradespeople had been for many weeks in full employ, framing and mounting the embroideries of the ladies and girls of all classes; of all classes, for not a folly or extravagancy existed among the great but it was imitated by the little.

She never screwed down a dependent; never kept small tradespeople waiting for their money; never refused a reasonable request.

And of course he had not, if it was to be at the expense of his tradespeople.

Now us tradespeople, we're learned from the first to look arter number one, and not on no account to forget which is number one.

" "Would there be any harm in ordering a few things from the tradespeople?" asked Dorothy.

Business letters or letters to her tradespeople should be written on plain paper, and enclosed either in an adhesive envelope, or sealed with red wax.

But it is in the real middle-class more than any other, that is, among tradespeople and small shop-keepers, that there is the most veneration for Lafayette.