The merchant seemed in exceedingly good humor; he grasped De Vlierbeck's hand, expressing his delight at seeing him once more.
Gustave led in the blushing girl, and the elders followed admiringly in their rear, while the merchant shook his finger coquettishly at his gallant nephew.
De Vlierbeck bowed his head to conceal the blush that suffused his aged cheeks; nor did he awake from his painful stupor till the merchant recalled him by the single word,-- "Well?
The merchant was gratified by his deferential civility, and was drawn toward his entertainer by a stronger bond than that of mere social politeness.
For this style of navigation, the arrangements prevalent in the merchant service, at the time, were most ill adapted.
In the summer of 1810, whilst I was on a recreative tour in Scotland, and visiting at the house of a merchant in Greenock, my adventures and experience in the northern whale-fishery became a frequent topic of conversation.
He had heard casual remarks on the respectable City of London merchant from Colney Durance.
The upper stories were used for the rooms of the merchant and his family, and the lower ones were for the storage of the goods.
He was to point it at his friend, the rich Chinese merchant Wung Lu, and record his thoughts for Tao Sing.
He and Wung Lu, the Chinese merchant who, rumor had it, was immensely rich, had become great friends.
The cult of this Asiatic martyr in Amalfi is of course another legacy of the Republic’s close connection with the Levant, whence some relic-hunting admiral or merchant of the state reverently brought Pantaleone’s bones to the Italian coast.
These glorious gates were the gifts to their native city of members of the family of Pantaleone of Amalfi, merchant princes who had amassed an immense fortune by trade in the Levant.
Through the merchant princes of Amalfi, the secrets of astronomy, of mathematics and of scientific navigation were re-introduced into the land that had almost lost its old Roman civilization.
A few miles from the arm of the sea that had sheltered St. Olaf another saint was born, related to himself, Hallward, a worthy merchant of those parts, who got his bane while trying to protect a woman who was being attacked by men.
In the Saga of Olaf we read of a merchant employed by that king to purchase robes in Garthrealm, or Russia, and Gothland is visited on the way, as was doubtless the almost universal custom of the time.
Addicks, without more ado, slipped the suffering young news-merchant a bill which his friends supposed was $2 to replace the lost funds.
The manner in which the ex-flour merchantof Philadelphia managed to slip by the barriers and into the heart of our blue-blooded citadel affords the most unparalleled example of audacity of which I know.
I believe he felt almost as badly as I did over the sad picture he had drawn of the proud old merchant yielding up his children's birthright.
Mr. Lovewell was born at Bath, and apprenticed to a laborious Trade in London, which being too hard for him, he parted with his Master by Consent, and hired himself as a common Servant to a Merchant in the City.
I was locked up in a room, and in half an hour a slave merchant came, and I was sold for a low sum and taken away, remonstrating in vain against the injustice.
At last, being convinced that I was dumb, he exchanged me with a slave-merchant for a beautiful Circassian girl.
He had been a wine-merchant in England, and he informed me that it was the custom there to throw large pieces of raw beef into the wine to feed it; and that some particular wines were very much improved thereby.
As soon as I arrived, I told the merchant all that had passed, and the reason why Ali had parted with me.
As she was evidently a merchant vessel we paid no attention to her running down to us, supposing that she was out of her reckoning, and wished to know her exact position on the chart.
As soon as the bargain was struck, and the merchant had received the money which had been given by Ali to effect the exchange, I was despoiled of my dress and ornaments, and put in a litter, to be conveyed to the house of the slave-merchant.
It came to passe also as a certeinemerchant sailed that way loden with Nitrum, the passengers went to land for to repose themselues, and to take in some store of fresh water into their vessell.
Ottar Birting was killed north in the merchant town (Nidaros), in an assault upon him in the twilight as he was going to the evening song.
The king gave him a merchant vessel: and, as far as we know of this voyage of his, he landed first in Iceland at Austfjord in the southern Alptfjord, and passed the winter in the house of Hal of Sida.
Some of them went up into the town, some on board the merchant ships, and took all the goods they pleased; and then they set fire to the town, and burnt it and the ships.
Earl Svein was at that time far up in the Throndhjem fjord at Steinker, which at that time was a merchant town, and was there preparing for the yule festival (A.
People had heard from merchant vessels that Canute was assembling a great army in England.
Tunsberg at that time was much frequented by merchant vessels, both from Viken and the north country, and also from the south, from Denmark, and Saxland.
They rode through the merchant town of Skara, and down the street to the earl's house.
In King Olaf's time many merchanttowns arose in Norway, and many new ones were founded.
He went often on merchant voyages, and sometimes on viking cruises.
When Erling and his fleet were coming up to the town, they took a merchant vessel, filled it with wood and straw, and set fire to it; and the wind blowing right towards the town, drove the vessel against the piers.
Einar Tambaskelfer and Kalf Arnason had this winter meetings and consultations between themselves in the merchant town (1).
His body was carried north, and came to the merchant town just half a month after he left it.
It was a day of beautiful weather and warm sunshine, and many went out to swim, both from the long-ship and the merchant vessel.
Every operator of a large factory, every merchant is, under normal conditions, able to determine accurately what he will need during the next three months, and how he should regulate his production and purchases.
Scholler, the wife of a rich merchant and one of my admirers, not only possessed the means, but was willing to use them on my behalf.
Her mother, my first cousin, was the daughter and the granddaughter and the sister and the cousin of men who have been captains in the merchant service of Lynn--for many generations.
The merchant wears black velvet with gold buttons, gold buckles, white silk stockings and a gold-laced hat; the shopkeeper substitutes silver for gold and cloth for velvet: the clerk has brown cloth metal buttons and worsted stockings.
He was a ship owner, and general merchant of the town, and was generally reputed to be a man of considerable means.
I suppose she is too rich for a merchant or a simple sailor.
We met Victory, also walking round the room with her beau, a youngmerchant of the town.
Was it nothing to promote the daughter of a plain merchantand make her a countess?
Are you to marry some merchant who distributes casks of turpentine about the country?
The captain says that he must look higher than a merchant or a sailor of Lynn.
My ward is an export and import merchant as well as a shipowner; she fills her ships with wine.
I made the discovery that my patron, by gambling and raking, had become, as regards his affairs, nothing less than what in a merchant would be called a bankrupt.
He is a son of the late Mr. William Schultz, a native of Denmark, who was for many years engaged in business as a merchant at Amherstburgh.
Mr. Robert Cathcart, a merchant who then occupied premises on the south side of King Street, opposite Toronto Street.
Mr. McMaster is probably the most widely known among the merchant princes of Western Canada, and has had a remarkably successful commercial career.
His father, the late Mr. William McMaster, was a linen merchant whose resources were not abundant, but who was able to give his son a good education.
FN#370] Then he treated him as a friend and the merchant acquainted him with the affair of the old woman; whereupon quoth the Wazir, "Needs must the intelligent company with the intelligent.
There is a legend in Marocco of an English merchant who was compelled to forfeit tooth for tooth at the instance of an old woman, but a profitable concession gilded the pill.
The merchant was perplexed and returned him no reply, giving himself up for lost; however, at last he said, "Grant me three days of delay.
The merchant saved himself on a plank and the wind cast him up, naked as he was, on the sea-shore, where stood a town hard by.
The merchant asked, "And when didst thou give me that same?
See the Tale of the Sandal-wood Merchantand the Sharpers: vol.
Now the Wali knew of the theft of the pearls; so he bade throw the merchant into jail.
The merchant was urgent with him, but he repeated his answer to him, saying, "I will not consent to this till thou acquaint me with the cause of thy desire for me.
One day there came a ship and in it a merchant from their own country, who knew them and rejoiced in them with joy exceeding and clad them in goodly clothing.
The king asked, "What is the story of the merchant and how was his luck changed upon him by the sorriness of his doom?
The king asked, "And what is the story of the merchant and his sons?
Accordingly, the merchant embarked in a ship and set sail, intending for his mother-land.
Now this king needed one who should order his affairs and those of his kingdom and seeing the merchant wellbred and intelligent, he required him to abide at court and entreated him honourably.
He had also been fortunate enough to secure some of the police contracts and in the end he had become rich enough to be alluded to in the Dublin newspapers as a merchant prince.
One was in a draper's shop in Glasgow and the other was clerk to a tea-merchant in Belfast.
The ordinary form for a Marine policy, printed and supplied by Government prior to August 1887, is in the main only suitable for merchant shipping; hence clauses have to be added to make that form of service in the case of yachts.
Jacob Barsimson seems to have been the one Jewish merchant then there.
Admiral d'Estaing wrote the same evening to Beaumarchais; his letter reached the scholar-merchant through the medium of the minister of marine.
The two French ships were taken; and a few days afterwards, three hundred merchant vessels, peaceably pursuing their course, were seized by the English navy.
James Smith, a wealthy Baltimore merchant and shipowner, purchased a portion of the Coan Hall estate from a Mottrom heir and erected a brick mansion on a slope there, about 1785.
These stories impressed William Cloberry, a merchant adventurer, and chief man in the Guinea trade.
He was soon apprenticed to a merchant but he hated the counting-house.
This was a merchant tribe that did much of the manufacturing and trading of this country.
These guard-ships were used to convoymerchant vessels to their destination, or to a safe "riding place.
Since her step-mother's marriage Frances had probably been living with her sister, Anne, who had been married for five or six years to Richard Wright, formerly a merchant of London.
London merchant who had taken up lands in the Neck.
He owned partnerships in several ships, he was a tobacco merchant in London with his own warehouse and counting-house.
