At the mouth of a cave which commands a view of the approach from the westward, are seated two men, in one of whom we may recognize Shallum, the quondam wine-seller of Jerusalem.
Lycon taunted the wine-seller with the quality of his wines; that did not affect him, for he was used to such complaints from his customers, and took them as part of his day's work.
Shallum, the wine-seller of Jerusalem, had been consumed with remorse for the part which he had taken on the day when he followed "Bacchus and his reeling train.
Conceding that it has been done by every scribbler from tyro to best seller expert, you will acknowledge that there is the possibility of a fresh viewpoint--twist--what is it the sporting editors call it?
They know it's a good seller and that's just what they can't stand.
Of course you picked out my best seller for your argument; but look at The Bread of Idleness.
The healer of Violins, taking it into his hands, was agreeably astonished to recognise in it the missing headpiece, and eagerly demanded of the seller whence she had obtained it, and what might be its price.
Standing in an angle of two house walls was a little seller of sweetened water, holding his big red amphora by one ear, his gaudy little yellow-red-blue stand bright with clinking bottles and glasses.
Yet, when I questioned the egg-seller he declared that no one ever broke an egg.
We see him no more till we meet in the station on the other side of the river, where we hear him bargaining long and earnestly with the ticket-seller for a third-class passage to Bologna.
The sausage–seller follows to countermine him, and the stage is left clear for the Parabasis, or customary address of the Chorus to the audience.
Suppose a turbot Should suit your palate, straight the sprat–seller Next stall exclaims, “Why, this is tyranny!
The sausage–seller proposes a new test of affection.
At the close of it, the sausage–seller returns, to acquaint his anxious friends with his success.
The sausage–seller has the advantage of his rival for some time in his presents, till Cleon awakens his fears by talking of a dish of hare, which he has exclusively to present.
While the sausage–seller piously refers the suggestion of this little theft to Minerva, and modestly takes the execution only to himself, Cleon resents the surprise very warmly.
The doleful ticket-seller was annoyed at the tautology of passing him a nickel and saying, "One!
The bean-seller opposite shut his shop, the dyer took no notice but smoked his pipe.
The seller remained firm in demanding six cents for the padlock.
Not easily shall I forget a dramatic scene witnessed at the “Rag Fair” at the Porte Maillot in Paris between a prosperous householder and a “rag” seller over a second-hand padlock.
Only the sellerand the buyer know, but I fancy some gilt-edged securities had to be parted with.
The 'Consolation of Philosophy' was the best sellerfor a thousand years or so.
Here is the "Ship of Fools," another bestseller of a bygone age.
From an unpublished letter, which I was fortunate enough to secure quite recently from a book-seller in New York, Gabriel Wells, we may follow Boswell in his negotiations.
Turning towards the seller he ordered-- “Remove his clothes.
The seller of the slaves, alarmed, advanced with suppliant arms.
A seller at once came forward and cried-- “She is the most beautiful one offered for sale, my lord.
Is not that enough for you, a penniless seller of curios?
Quoth she, "When the flower-seller passeth I will buy thee a basketful of jessamine.
If the tincture be perfectly transparent, and has a good colour, the conscience of the seller and the stomach of the consumer are alike satisfied.
Similarly the Roman measure for firewood is a tightly packed cart-load, but the wood-seller is an adept at making a cart look full when it is not, and your only resource is to buy wood by the weight.
The parrot-seller gave a pull at a bulbul-seller's pipe as if it were his own.
A dexterous slipping of the cord would leave her captive free, and she herself at liberty to go round to some poultry-seller and borrow a poor fowl under sentence of death, with which she would return to unflinching execution.
Every seller of goods is a buyer of money, and the goods he brings with him constitute his demand.
Most taxes on expenditure are indirect, but some are direct, being imposed, not on the producer or seller of an article, but immediately on the consumer.
This seller has obtained for his commodity only the accustomed quantity of money, while there are already some things of which that money will no longer purchase as much as before.
If the fingers were even on each side, the seller had the price he pleased; if they were odd, the buyer gave his own price.
In this manner, the buyer andseller will know the weight of the meat on sale, and each will find this method to his advantage.
The buyer shut one of his hands; the seller did the same; each of them suddenly opened the whole or a few of his fingers.
III THE RISE AND FALL OF SILAS WEGG The wooden-legged ballad seller whom Mr. Boffin had hired to read to him was a sly, dishonest rascal named Silas Wegg, who soon made up his mind to get all the money he could out of his employer.
Joe had an uncle named Pumblechook, who was a corn seller in the next town and a pompous old hypocrite.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seller" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: clerk; floorwalker; merchant; salesman; seller; trader
