I have sometimes, when living as an honoured guest in a rich merchant's house, found it difficult to obtain anything simpler than sterlet, sturgeon, and champagne.
I beheld her in a splendid ballroom: she was the beautiful bride of a rich merchant.
He was a rich merchant established in London, and had been commended to her husband by a Knight of Malta.
This Miss Nancy, who seemed to me almost divine, was the daughter of a rich merchant.
A rich merchant, who had been in love with the mother eighteen years before, seeing her a widow and still pretty, felt his early flames revive, and offered his hand and was accepted.
He seems to be a rich merchant now, but I am almost quite sure that I saw him in Naples.
He had received as good an education as any young nobleman or rich merchant's son in Venice, but writing was always irksome to him, and he generally employed a scribe rather than take the pen himself.
Of the gang represented in the illustration as robbing a rich merchant's house, one or two probably are lonins, the rest being thieves in disguise.
There was in a certain city a rich merchant's son.
In a certain city there lived the son of a rich merchant, who was an incarnation of a portion of a Bodhisattva.
And I grew up as the son of a rich merchant in a city named Vallabhi, and my name was Vasudatta.
And he took his daughter to Magadha and married her to a rich merchant, named Devasena.
A rich merchant, burgess of Edinburgh, overhears a lady making moan for Christopher White, who is banished from England.
In a Russian ballad the only sister of nine [seven] brothers is given in marriage to a rich merchant, who lives at a distance from her home.
At the end of the wood she tells him she is daughter of a rich merchant, proprietor of many farms.
I fell into the hands of a rich merchant, who, as soon as he bought me, carried me to his house, treated me well, and clad me handsomely for a slave.
You must know that I am a native of Bagdad, the son of a rich merchant, the most eminent in that city for rank and opulence.
Gobert, a rich merchant, who treated me with the greatest, kindness.
He went accordingly; and when he had spent near a fortnight walking backwards and forwards on the bridge, a rich merchant came up to him wondering what he was doing here every day, and asked him what he was looking for.
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