Pay a trader who is going to England to tell other chapmen to pass the word to his folk where he is.
If these chapmen be absent but two or thrée market daies, then we may perfectlie sée these wares to be more reasonablie sold, and therevnto the crosses sufficientlie furnished of all things.
Petty chapmen and tinkers” (using brazier instead of tinker) are the happiest words that could be used to describe many Gipsies of mixed blood in England to-day.
Neither did the others abide long in the Hall, but went out into the Burg to see the chapmen and their wares.
People began to gather about these chapmen at once when they fell to opening their bales and their packs, and unloading their wains.
Then came out of Burgstead men making semblance of chapmenwith a wain bearing wares, and they made as though they were wending down the Portway westward to go out of the Dale.
They left the chapmen on the hill, And through the eve and through the night They rode to have true tidings still, And were there on the way when the dawn was bright.
The drunkards they are wading, The punks and chapmen trading; Buy any ballads, new ballads?
That these people should be so ignorant to think us chapmen for them!
It is told that in this battle one man was beaten to death by the rib of a whale, and that was one of the chapmen of the wrecked vessel.
Haflid and the rest of the merchants or chapmen who had sailed with him remained at the farm a week, whilst the women were recovering from the cold and exposure and their goods were being dried and sorted.
Said Richard: "Though the Burg be not very far from Whitwall, we hear but little tidings thence; our chapmen but seldom go there, and none cometh to us thence save such of our men as have strayed thither.
As he rode Ralph saw a few of the Strong-thieves at the nether end where the pass widened out, and they let fly some arrows at the chapmen which did no hurt, though some of the shafts rattled on the armour of the companions.
Much people was gathered to see the chapmen enter, yet scarce so many as might be looked for in so goodly a town; yea, and many of the folk were clad foully, and were haggard of countenance, and cried on the chapmen for alms.
Yet was the town more cheerful of aspect than Cheaping Knowe, and the folk who came thronging about the chapmen at the gates not so woe-begone, and goodly enough.
But she said: "Whether thou hast done well or ill, do no worse; but abide till the Chapmen come from Higham, on their way to the Burg of the Four Friths.
For much folk flocketh to his town and live well therein; and there is great recourse of chapmen thither.
But the next morning the chapmen and their folk were up betimes to rummage their loads, and to array their wares for the market; and they gat not to the road before mid-morning.
Therefore take my rede, and abide till the Chapmen wend thither from Higham, who ride many in company.
Of the others, some were but lads, and of the Chapmen were three old men, and more than one blencher besides.
But Jesus will drive such chapmen from his house, when, with condemnation, he shall separate them from the fellowship of his chosen.
The Lord drove the chapmen from the temple, thus saying, "It is written, that my house is a house of prayer, and ye have made it a den for thieves.
The Lord then drove such chapmen from the holy temple, because it was not raised for any trading, but for prayers.
The chapmen within the temple betokened {413} unrighteous teachers in God's church.
The public crier remained in the middle of the bazaar alone with the slave-girl; the chapmen had not only retired into their shops but barred the doors behind them.
Now all the winter long Cormac and Thorgils laid up their ship in Hrutafiord; but in spring the chapmen were off to sea, and so the brothers made up their minds for the voyage.
He rode home to Mel, and stayed there all the winter, taking lodgings for his chapmen near the ship.
But now--is it false what the chapmen have told us, And are thy fair robes all thou hast of a king?
But sore adread do the chapmen ride; Wide round the wood they go; And the judge and the sergeants wander wide, Lest they plead before the bow.
Ther werechapmen y-chose This chaffare to preise, That who so hadde the hood Sholde han amendes of the cloke.
And thanne he chargede chapmen To chastizen hir children, 2540 Late no wynnyng hem for-wanye While thei be yonge, Ne for no poustee of pestilence Plese hem noght out of reson.
As cunning chapmen do by curious wares, [To the audience.
He would be indignant to encounter such petty chapmen interfering with his wholesale operations.
The drunkards they are wading, The punks andchapmen trading: Who'd see the Fair without his lading?
She spoke to the chapmen and the sailors who pressed about her, and much she marvelled how she found herself amongst them.
The gift was so greatly to the Soudan's mind that he served the chapmen to the utmost of his power.
And moreover their women are for ever seeking whatso is fair and goodly, whatso is far-fetched and dear-bought, whereof we chapmenalso thrive, as thou mayst well deem.
Grettir went back north with Thorfinn, and was with him till he gat him to ship with chapmen who were bound out to Iceland: he gave him many fair gifts of raiment, and a fair-stained saddle and a bridle withal.
And in that mind Haflidi bade them abide; and thence-forward the chapmen made far less noise about Grettir's rhymes than before.
Then said the chapmen that he was a man of mighty strokes, and that such should king's men be; and no scathe they deemed it though Thorbiorn were slain, in that he had been both quarrelsome and spiteful.
Then the chapmen went south into the land, and are now out of the tale.
But when day was fully come men saw from the island that the chapmen were brought to great straits.
The next morning the weather was fair; the chapmen woke early and got them ready to depart, and they talked together that now they should meet those who had had the rule of that fire, and wot who they were.
Grettir was at Vogar till the fleet broke up; then he sailed from the north with some chapmen until they came to a harbour at an island before the mouth of Drontheimfirth, called Gartar, where they pitched their tents.
Now the chapmen bade Grettir have the job of sinking the balers, and said that now it should be tried what he could do; he said that the less it was tried the better it would be.
The chapmen said that they were not bettered by what had been, if now there was nought to take to.
He bristled up against Thorgeir, and showed mighty ill-will against him and went about scowling; when the chapmen found this out, they thought it far from safe that both should sail in one ship.
Grettir got such hurt of this, that the chapmen said, wheresoever they came, that Grettir had burned those men.
Half a dozen of the best clad of the other men took boar spears, and so they were ready for a start, for all the world like the chapmen they pretended to be.
Through Chippenham come the western chapmen and tin traders, and so we had news from the court at Exeter that all was well and quiet, and so I deemed that there was no more trouble to be feared.
On the improvement of the turnpike roads waggons were set up, and the pack-horses discontinued; and the chapmen only rode out for orders, carrying with them patterns in their bags.
If these chapmen be absent but two or three market daies, then we may perfectlie see these wares to be more reasonablie sold, and therevnto the crosses sufficientlie furnished of all things.
If these chapmen be absent but two or three market days then we may perfectly see these wares to be more reasonably sold, and thereunto the crosses sufficiently furnished of all things.
The Norse trader of those days, it must be remembered, was none of the cringing and effeminate chapmen who figure in the stories of the Middle Ages.
But the chapmen called out, "Wretch that thou art to speak thus!
Then the Vikings called out to the chapmen and bade them give up, but they said they would never yield.
So the leaders of the chapmen told their names, and asked back who led that host.
The chapmen now sank into silence, and Oliver continued to sup, and to muse over the gossip he had just heard, when his ear caught the tread of horses and the ringing of bridles.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chapmen" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
