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Example sentences for "great merchant"

  • Honesty the Foundation of a Great Merchant’s Career—John Wanamaker 92 VII.

  • VI Honesty, the Foundation of a Great Merchant’s Career THE men who manipulate the levers that move the world, with few exceptions, were once poor boys.

  • Character is as important in a great general as in a great statesman or a great merchant.

  • Know, O my lord, that my father was a great merchant, and he was blest with no child but me.

  • In this city there was a great merchant, named Samudrasura; he was of good family, just, of resolute courage, a lord of much wealth.

  • Yasovarman said to the merchant out of curiosity--"Great merchant, why do you eat so little?

  • In the meanwhile a great merchant, who had come to worship the goddess, named Samudradatta, beheld Govindasvamin in that state.

  • Keep not in your mind the thing I did in my ignorance, but pardon me, O great Merchant!

  • They were told, “You can’t have the goods: a great merchant of such and such a place has already paid deposit for them.

  • Tis I, great Merchant; the Fairy who dwells in the turret over the fourth gate.

  • Look into that stately mansion, the house of a great merchant--what is there?

  • Even when I was sent on a tour through Europe, with a tutor, I regularly corresponded with Hayley, my new rank as Lord Mellent making not the least change in our intimacy, though he had now become a clerk in a great merchant's house.

  • But when he went to Chicago and saw the marvelous examples around him of poor boys who had won success, it aroused his ambition and fired him with the determination to be a great merchant himself.

  • The very first time he swept out the store, he felt within him the ability to become a great merchant, and he determined that he would be.

  • I thought him at one time ambitious to become a rich, man--a great merchant.

  • It would not be safe or wise to disparage the life and aims of a great merchant in your presence, Harry," said Rose, "but one would think the life of a country gentleman preferable in some respects.

  • The garden belonged to Mr Elphinstone, a great man--at least a great merchant in the eyes of the world.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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