The function of Hermes as protector of the roads, of merchants and of commerce, explains the number of Hermae that served the purpose of signposts on the roads outside the city.
Several of his ancestors were aldermen andmerchants in that city--e.
In shady places sandal merchants and clothiers were established; while sample tents spotted the whole landscape.
The merchants of London claimed to be quit of toll at the fair of St. Edmund.
Carew tells us how the Cornish gentlemen borrowed money from the merchants of London, giving them tin as security (p.
The merchants of Germany, who formerly, as Æneas Sylvius said, lived more handsomely than the Kings of Scotland, were reduced to small traders.
Grue, proprietors of the Wisconsin Grocery, rank as the foremost merchants of Fairhaven.
The two leading merchants of the city are Norwegians--Louis Foss and N.
Like vanishing stars some were disappearing, for it was closing-time, and the merchants were going home to supper.
Under the board awnings in front of the stores the merchants sat without their coats, fighting the afternoon heat by fanning themselves and sprinkling water on the narrow brick sidewalks.
It was then that John Gladstone rose to the emergency of the occasion, and by his enterprise and energy saved himself and partners from financial failure, to the great surprise and admiration of the merchants of Liverpool.
This sagacious movement not only saved his house, but gave him a name and place among the foremost merchants of his day.
From the bishop down to the humblest of them, they are as good merchants as the most secular and the most skilful tradesmen.
This is because he wished, in all things, to have his clergy preferred, in regard to whom he took sufficient care to importune me for them; although they are all better merchants than students of Latin.
They have loaded themselves with cloths and merchandise in such quantity that their share of the tax is likely to amount to something; and this they would be glad to avoid, like the good merchants they are.
Item: Let them testify whether they know that no ships or merchants have gone or are going to Yndia to buy and sell, or to check their trade.
The clergy "are all better merchants than students of Latin.
Likewise the king ought to be informed that no ships or merchants have gone or are going to Goa or other ports of Yndia to trade or traffic, or to take away their [i.
These stingy merchants can have no idea of the wants of men of honour like us, who have a long journey before us.
By some unlucky chance, just as the evening set in, they were visited by two or three other merchants whom they seemed to know, and who persuaded them to wait for another week, and to join them in their journey up the country.
The council of the merchants was, from all appearances, as far from a decision as ever, if I might judge from their angry debate, and the unsettled and anxious expressions of their countenances.
The merchants saw my action, and again advanced in a body towards me.
The poor Greeks complain much of their cruelty and oppression; but, in points of honour, our merchants tell me no people are stricter than the Turks.
But since our manufactories must be supplied with silk and cotton, our merchants are obliged to employ the Dutch, who land their goods in a Lazaretto in Holland, and after a short quarantine performed there, send them over to us.
The town is well fortified both by sea and land, and, on account of its advantageous situation for trade, and its being a free port, it is filled with merchants of every class and persuasion.
Besides the four in our family, there were three Americans from Ohio, two English merchants from Egypt and an English lady engaged in missionary work in Palestine.
There was a division of opinion as to whether laundry men should be classed as merchants and entitled to clerks.
I had heard of students being subjected to harsh regulations at ports of entry, of travelers humiliated by confinement in uncomfortable sheds and of merchants treated rudely, and I supposed that these things had aroused the resentment.
There is a fourth argument, the force of which was admitted at the Hong Kong dinner by the merchants who had resided in the United States, viz.
There are in every city merchantsof honor and responsibility who are redeeming trade from the stigma which it so long bore.
I questioned several of the Hong Kong merchants in regard to the matter, and found that they desired especially the admission of clerks and skilled laborers.
The merchants of India are a shrewd and persistent class.
I had the privilege of attending a dinner at which a number of the leading Chinese merchants of Hong Kong presented their views, and it may be worth while to give here an abstract of their demands as drawn out by cross-examination.
Even now Japanese, as well as foreigners, complain that the merchants impose upon their customers, but here also a change is taking place and a new order of things being inaugurated.
We heard of instances where one-eighth of the price asked was finally accepted, but either the merchants with whom we dealt were more reasonable or our guide yielded too soon.
There have been merchants of standing and integrity (in fact, integrity is the rule among Chinese merchants.
When questioned as to the number of clerks needed, they estimated that there were about four thousand merchants in the United States and that each merchant would need from six to ten clerks.
So she urged me, and go I did, with a commission from some merchants of Glasgow, to give my visit to the colony more weight.
It would be a somewhat difficult task, we thought, to discover the favors and patronage alluded to; but the young merchants had concluded that this clause gave a dignity and air of reality to the whole.
Even mamma would sometimes come to make purchases; and the boy-merchants found their scheme a very profitable one.
Of course the merchants forwarded the orders at once to New York--and never heard of them again.
The collapse of the furniture company might prelude a local panic, and farmers and country merchants collected in groups along Main Street to discuss the situation.
As he was returning to his duchy, in passing through Italy, he delivered the Roman state from a brigand who plundered the towns and villages, and made war upon all merchants and pilgrims.
They buy some bonds of a milling trust and also of a railroad and street car line and some national bonds and loan on personal security to local merchants and traders.
The one, that the tooth of usury be grinded that it bite not too much; the other, that there be left open a means to invite monied men to lend to the merchants for the continuing and quickening of trade.
It was a sore thing to hear of so many breakings, especially of old respected merchants like him, who had been a Lord Provost, and was far declined into the afternoon of life.
They are unequalled in the whole world, for twenty years the merchants sought them in the days of my father; half of them would buy a satrapy.
The merchants are not so ready to show their goods as those we have just passed, for the reason that the articles may be damaged by much handling, and customers are not very easy to obtain.
Ships of all nations lie at its wharves, and you see English, French, American, and nearly all other foreign names among the merchants established there.
Some of the houses in this suburb are quite good, and we are not surprised to learn that many of the merchants of Damascus make their residence here.
You see these ink-stands very often in the girdles of merchants and accountants in the bazaars, and it is not unusual to see a man standing or squatting on the sidewalk, and engaged in the production of a letter.
The merchantsendeavor to tempt the masculine visitor with dressing-gown and wrappers of Broussa silks, and then with slippers and other articles which would make a sensation at home.
The safest parties to deal with are the Consuls; they are all merchants of antiquities, but even they are not always to be relied upon, as they have families to support and human nature is weak.
At that time the reports from Central Africa showed that the trade was mainly carried on by Egyptian subjects, most of them merchants of Khartoum.
Most of the commerce of the Levant is in the hands of Greeks, and there are many merchants of that nationality established in other countries.
The merchants in the shops find this dimness to their advantage, as it gives to some of their wares the appearance of a fineness which they do not possess.
They were well-known merchants and seamen, and were much respected.
Merchants pay three Mohurs for every porter who brings a load from Hethaura, and five Mohurs from Gar Pasara.
As few merchants are willing to give this price for elephants which have not been seasoned, the Raja generally forces them on such persons as have claims on the court, who sell their elephants in the best manner they can.
Jwalamukhi was a considerable town, where many Gosaing merchants had settled; but during the disturbances it was plundered by the Raja of Gular, who had joined Amar Singha.
The following is the route to Kathmandu, by which I went to that city, and which is the one most frequented by merchants from the low country, especially by those trading to Patna, which is the principal mart for this commerce.
Its nature was as follows: Some merchants of Kasmir carried their manufactures by the way of Ladak to Kutti, and other towns in Thibet, in order to procure the wool produced in these countries by the Shawl goat.
He left the country when very young, but has since made three journeys thither to purchase horses, there being at the place several merchants of this order, who deal to a considerable amount.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "merchants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
