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Example sentences for "rich merchant"

  • Down in Dumbarton there wonnd a rich merchant, Down in Dumbarton there wond a rich merchant, And he had nae family but ae only dochter.

  • The Genoese, not obtaining the beautiful daughter of a rich merchant on demand, plants a garden.

  • 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.

  • He is the son of a rich merchant in New York.

  • My father is a rich merchant in New York.

  • I don't think he is the son of a rich merchant in New York.

  • The first of them is Jewish, [38] which runs as follows: The son of a rich merchant of Jerusalem sets off after his father's death to see the world.

  • Jean, the son of a rich merchant at Calais, while on a journey, comes to the city of Palmanie on the island of Orimanie.

  • In the former [138] Jean is the son of a rich merchant, and has wasted much money.

  • And the rich merchant, the proud, rich merchant?

  • The proud, rich merchant had to obey and dug and dug.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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