The purveyors of news in those days could use without fear of detection a licence which would not be tolerated now.
On the other hand, the war means the impoverishment of European nations, who are our main purveyors and customers, and eventually the losses suffered by combatants must be shared to some extent by us who are non-combatants.
Moreover, the war by destroying established connections between neutral countries and their natural purveyors of manufactured goods in Europe has opened the way to a future extension of American export.
Shipping leads the van of prosperity owing to phenomenal freight rates, while iron and steel and shipbuilding, as direct and established purveyors of armaments, are close behind.
His duty was to see that all military rules were obeyed; that all sutlers and purveyors were licensed, and to confiscate all rebel property that was fortunate enough to fall into our hands.
All surplus baggage was now sent to the rear, as instructions for a general movement of the armies operating against Richmond were issued, and all sutlers, purveyors and citizens were ordered to leave within twenty-four hours.
Hastings was seized, and the purveyors for the Protector soon brought him the avant gout which he had required as a provocative to his appetite.
The king’s purveyors had been accustomed to seize the carriages, victuals and merchandise of citizens without offering payment for the same, in direct contravention of the king’s first charter to the city.
A few days later I was on my way to Vienna, glad to get away from the loud-mouthed warpurveyors at the German capital.
Within two days I had established that the war purveyors at Vienna were more rapacious than those at Berlin.
You are to examine with the most vigilant attention all the railway trains, all the carriages destined for Paris, and you will send back to the purveyors all the provisions you may discover.
It was composed of fifteen members, purveyors of the Mixed Commission of 1852, great proprietors, inveterate Royalists.
They arrested, too, the purveyors of the Commune, and even the musicians, who had never crossed the ramparts.
His dealings with the purveyors who procured the metal for him, were not more upright.
For all the federate hosts of Erin were Purveyors to Ferdiah, with the hope That he would beat Cuchullin from the Ford.
But only the inhabitants of Mag Breg ('the Plain of Breg') were purveyors to Cuchulain.
All the men of Erin were purveyors to Ferdiad, to the end that he might keep [W.
Those who were purveyorsto the court had, in former times, the first pickings of the market; not a single fish was allowed to be sold until they had been served.
He had promised his people, when he left them in the preceding autumn, that for any wrongs done, or goods taken, by his officers or purveyors for the service of the war, he would make them full amends.
Under the skillful directions of Dubarry, a host of pimps and purveyors searched France for young girls to suit the king's fancy.
Away accordingly they set, with no more knowledge of the secrets of the art than what they could get from the regular purveyors of the class, but provided with the necessary instrument.
Mammon, through the medium of the leaders of the purveyors of science, extended his charm to the hearts of relations and friends, changing the soft glance of love and pity into the fiery glare of sordid rapacity.
Here also are the stores, usually kept by Jews, who are not indifferent to the economic movements of the people whose purveyors they are.
The street venders and purveyors of small pleasures recognized this, and appealed to his newly awakened generosity by charging him twice as much for everything as they charged when he was outward bound.
We may judge of the great grievance of purveyance by this circumstance, that the purveyors often gave but sixpence for a dozen of pigeons, and twopence for a fowl.
The whole kingdom sensibly felt the burden of those impositions; and it was regarded as a great privilege conferred on Oxford and Cambridge, to prohibit the purveyors from taking any commodities within five miles of these universities.
It was they who became in England as elsewhere the purveyors of charms and the organisers of pious frauds, while the learning for which their Order had been famous was withering away into the yellow leaf of scholasticism.
These purveyors of panic eat into the vitals of the nation.
Hotels and food-purveyors are constantly inventing new palate-tickling dishes to tempt your appetite.
The same purveyors often took corn and other agricultural produce, for which they paid little or nothing.
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