Which preposition to use with buyers
" In no proper sense am I a buyer of old books.
They are the buyers in the working class and in the professional class.
"If Ellen found a buyer at a number of shillings less, she would be lucky!
And I presume that it is not proposed to end this war in a wild scramble of buyers for such food as remains in the world.
This brought the diamond-buyer to his feet in a moment.
Those bony, big-knuckled fingers had handed keys to potentates, and pork-packers, and millinery buyers from Seattle; and to princes incognito, and paupers much the samethe difference being that the princes dressed down to the part, while the paupers dressed up to it.
To be had GRATIS, and can be sent POSTAGE FREE to any book-buyer on receipt of an address.
West had no doubt sent word to him that he would shortly bring a buyer with him to the rendezvous.
The sellers and the buyers, for all commodities taken together, must, by the metaphysical necessity of the case, be an exact equipoise to each other; and if there be more sellers than buyers of one thing, there must be more buyers than sellers for another.
Of course, I judged a good deal of the buyers by their manners to myself.
The populace were joyous, though some old wholesale buyers like Lovaina questioned the wisdom of the governor's edict and the effect on themselves.
TALLY, a notched stick used in commercial and Exchequer transactions when writing was yet a rare accomplishment; the marks, of varying breadth, indicated sums paid by a purchaser; the stick was split longitudinally, and one-half retained by the seller and one by the buyer as a receipt.
"Then, there's to be a full hour at luncheon," continued the buyer after a minute, "and the best of all is that we are to have a new lunch-room.
tacere,"It is one thing to conceal, another to be silent;" silence is not necessarily deceptive concealment; and on the other hand in such a statement as this, in Benjamin's great work on Sales: "The nondisclosure of hidden facts [to a party in interest] is the more objectionable when any artifice is employed to throw the buyer off his guard; as by telling half the truth."
Not one bale in twenty is ever seen by the buyers until after its purchase.