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Example sentences for "purveyor"

Lexicographically close words:
purveyance; purveyaunce; purveyd; purveyed; purveying; purveyors; purview; pus; puscule; push
  1. Him, he means, who told about the purveyor across the road," explained the monk with a wink.

  2. Tethered to the gate over there is a good horse which belongs to a certain purveyor now in the river.

  3. Shall we teach Master Purveyor not to trouble us again?

  4. The abbess and the purveyor were but ill-pleased to hear what the old man said.

  5. On the bank of the river stood the purveyor of the convent, accompanied by the lady abbess herself and a great number of the nuns.

  6. Not so, however, the old fisherman, who overheard the conversation, having approached the abbess with the purveyor to learn her will and pleasure as to the disposal of the fish.

  7. The cure is the purveyor of ideals appointed by the government.

  8. I was purveyor of provisions to the royal household and I reserved a just share for myself.

  9. The disciplined little Englishwoman, sincere and without self-pity, seemed the purveyor of wisdom.

  10. He spoke of an interview with the leader of the party in New York--the purveyor of great positions.

  11. Buddhism was the real purveyor of the foreign learning and became the vehicle by means of which Confucianism, or the Chinese ethical principles, reached the common people of Japan.

  12. The writing Filippo had given was copied into a book wherein the purveyor kept the accounts of the works in wood and marble, together with the obligation into which Filippo had entered as above said.

  13. On hearing the declaration of the Jewish doctor, the chief of police commanded that he should be led to the gallows, and the Sultan's purveyor go free.

  14. Scarcely had they got back to their own house when the purveyor entered his room.

  15. He placed it in the chamber of the purveyor, and the purveyor propped it up in the street, where it was thought to have been killed by the merchant.

  16. Back of a cabin on Plunket's Hill he had private conference with one Gumbo Rollins, by profession a carnival concessionaire and purveyor of amusements in a small way.

  17. Between supply and demand, or perhaps one should say between purveyor and consumer, the boundary mark dividing the sister commonwealths stretched its dead line like a narrow river of despair.

  18. I am a very fair purveyor of good, general invective.

  19. He felt that he must run no risk of not seeing clearly the husband of one who, in his opinion, stood alone in literary circles as a purveyor of sheer bilge.

  20. Purveyor through the Chief Medical Officer, in charge of the Hospital, who will provide you with the necessary funds.

  21. Were the Purveyor here cut in three, we might conceive some hope of having not only water, but food also, and clothing fetched us.

  22. Miss Nightingale showed the Purveyor a letter from the Minister.

  23. Because the Purveyor took it upon himself to override the requisition of the medical officers?

  24. III Miss Nightingale performed the duties, as we have seen, of a Purveyor to the sick and wounded portion of the British army.

  25. Purveyor had failed to get) instead of informing him where they could be got.

  26. But the Purveyor would not let them be used; "he could not unpack them without a Board.

  27. Articles were only supplied to the hospitals by the Purveyor on the requisition of a medical officer.

  28. The second office of the Purveyor now is to furnish, upon requisition, the Hospital with utensils and clothing.

  29. The Purveyor is supposed to do all this, but it is physically impossible.

  30. But the Purveyor is supposed to be only the channel through which the Commissariat stores pass.

  31. Did a purveyor want some special authority from the military to facilitate his task?

  32. In fact, and by force of circumstances, she became a Purveyor to the Hospitals, a Clothier to the British Army, and in many emergencies a Dea ex machina.

  33. Silence, purveyor of gossip, do not spread that report.

  34. Yet for many years Mr. Pentland was the sole purveyor of theatrical entertainments to several English counties, and did not shrink from presenting to his audiences the most important works in the dramatic repertory.

  35. Real water," indeed, had been brought upon the stage by Garrick himself, who owed his prosperity, not more to his genius as an actor than to his ingenuity as a purveyor of pantomime and spectacles.

  36. The Purveyor of Public Supplies in that year purchased cockade eagles in tin (white) for infantry and in brass (yellow) for artillery enlisted men at a cost of one and two cents, respectively.

  37. The Dreadful Griffin was so pleased with the Wicked Witch that he presented her with a pair of fire-bricks and a hot-water tin, and then flew away to the Purveyor of Mice, who lived in a town about seventy miles away.

  38. He bought twelve hundred dozen fat mice of the best quality, all the Purveyor had in stock that were home-grown, and flew on with them to the castle.

  39. This gentleman had doubly derogated from his rightful station; for he had amassed a fortune of nearly a million of francs as purveyor to the armies of the king at the time of the war in Hanover.

  40. He was twenty-five years of age, and had already lived a life of folly with all the young seigneurs of the period; in fact, the old purveyor had been forced more than once to pay his debts.

  41. That mysterious person who was said to be the purveyor of Lord Mowbray's diversions had always inspired him with a vague repulsion.

  42. And after all, was it not better that she should remain a foundling rather than be known as the child of Lebeau, the adventurer, the professor and purveyor of vice to the great?

  43. The first time that a purveyor of amusement spoke of resuscitating masked balls a wag remarked, "He may be going to treat us to an earthquake!

  44. Just then the suspicious purveyor appeared suddenly, as if he had sprung out of the ground.

  45. Without a special permit no purveyor could pass the line of sentries and enter the camp.

  46. On investigation, it turned out that the purveyor was a Pole, who had smuggled himself into the camp in order to assassinate the General.

  47. Without thinking much, Jacob aimed his gun at the purveyor and shot him dead.

  48. The girls fill this for me unknown to my master, and the purveyor brings me on the sly a bottle holding a good gallon, which makes up for the deficiency of the jug.

  49. After the purveyor was gone, old Carrizales went out, locking both doors after him, without having seen what had been done to the lock of one of them, whereat both master and pupil rejoiced not a little.

  50. And the numerous acceptances for large sums which the accommodating purveyor held from many of the members had all been sold to Mr Flatfleece.

  51. Dolly Longestaffe had been robbed more outrageously than any other member of the club, and yet Dolly Longestaffe had said since the departure of the purveyor that London was not worth living in now that Herr Vossner was gone.

  52. He is now seen to be a purveyor of disease--we might say the purveyor of disease.

  53. The flea, as well as the fly, is a valiant and industrious purveyor of disease.

  54. And every home that keeps a kitchen, with its attendant stables, helps to maintain and disseminate this scourge of humanity, this universal purveyor of infectious disease--The Kitchen Fly.

  55. Brock, another purveyor of ranches, declared: I mean business, and do not allow any alfalfa to grow under my feet.

  56. To some extent, Biggs was a maker or, at least, a purveyor of wigs.

  57. Who was more familiar both to the youth of the town and to grown-ups than Nicolas Martinez, in summer the purveyor of cooling ice cream, in winter the vender of hot tamales!


  58. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "purveyor" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    caterer; commissary; donor; merchant; patron; provider; purveyor; quartermaster; retailer; steward; storekeeper; supplier; sutler