My old friend is tremendously proud of his shop, which, as he says, he has made what it is by strict honesty (and really for an enterprising tradesman he is fairly honest) and attention to business principles.
So, then, thetradesman gives you something which he possesses; and you give the tradesman in return something which you possess.
She was of North of England blood, her father having been a hard-fisted small tradesman in an unimportant town, who had been daring enough to emigrate when emigration meant the facing of unknown dangers in a half-savage land.
Reuben Vanderpoel's daughters had never encountered an indignant tradesman in their lives.
And when on the next day the astonished tradesman assured him that he had been the recipient of no such title, De Brissac exclaimed with elegant impertinence: ‘Can this be possible?
The tradesman being engaged at the moment on matters more important, took down two volumes from the shelves and handed them to me without ceremony.
Would any workman, artisan, or tradesman give up a certainty, however slight it may be, to yield to a passion which would be surely regarded as a mania?
There was only one other bed in the room, and in it lay a tradesman of the town, swollen with dropsy, who was obviously almost dying; he could be no hindrance to their conversation.
Paul Ivanovitch, I have been looking for you everywhere," Lienitsin's voice said from behind him, while again the tradesman hastened to remove his cap.
Paying the tradesmanfor the cloth, he left the shop.
Sir, I beg of you to inspect my goods," said a tradesman as Chichikov was passing his establishment.
Unfolding the garment, the tradesman thrust it close to Chichikov's nose in order that he might not only handle, but also smell it.
I answer that, A tradesman is one whose business consists in the exchange of things.
The greedy tradesman blasphemes over his losses; he lies and perjures himself over the price of his wares.
Her purchases were all promptly paid in new Austrian bank-notes, and tradesman vied with tradesman as to who should have the privilege of her custom.
I have lived too long, since I must chaffer with a base-born tradesman for the jewels that were the royal gift of John Sobieski to my lady's noble ancestors.
He appears to have been a tradesman in Bond Street; and he surveyed the character of Collins (with whom he was familiar) with a tradesman's eye.
He was the son of a tradesman in the city of Chichester, I think a hatter; and being sent very young to Winchester school, was soon distinguished for his early proficiency, and his turn for elegant composition.
It did not come from one of the rustic population, but from a tradesman in quite a good way of business--a considerable proportion of it in canned provisions into the bargain.
It was at this juncture that an enterprising tradesman from Brindlington, who was on the look out for "branches," came upon the half-dismantled house.
After all, it is safer for a tradesman to use his own imagination in the preparation of his wares than to ask his customers to use theirs.
The district woke up to the fact that a Town Councillor, a figure in the world, an honest tradesman of unspotted character, was cooped solitary in a little cell at Stafford, waiting to be hanged by the neck till he was dead.
The Stipendiary, recently appointed, was a young man, from the southern part of the county; and a Town Councillor of Bursley was no more to him than a petty tradesman to a man of fashion.
He was too much of an artist, too much above the average tradesman in intellect and refinement, ever to make a fortune.
He had a client who wanted to lend money on land near London, a rich City tradesman who hardly believed in the validity of any estate that was not within fifty miles of the metropolis.
I accosted this tradesman in the usual way, by informing him of our business, requesting him to read the requisition, and desiring to know if he had any objection to sign it.
A tradesman in the town had given a dinner to four old people, whose united ages amounted to 368 years.
Johnson had been appointed a “tradesman to Her Most Gracious Majesty.
Then the stout tradesman on the other side of the Convent sneezed suddenly, and W.
There is evidently in all this a little of the ostentation of newly-acquired consequence; the tradesman is gradually swelling into the aristocrat; and he begins to grow excessively intolerant of every thing that is not genteel.
Indeed, Mr. Whistler, so far from being the critic's enemy, is on the contrary the best friend thattradesman has ever had.
As they were without the means required to mourn and bury Cave in the elaborate style the dignity of an old Seven Dials inhabitant demands, they had appealed to a friendly fellow-tradesman in Great Portland Street.
He turned to this astonishing tradesman with mingled confidence and respect.
For instance, a Court tradesman may receive a decoration in lieu of immediate payment of a long-standing bill.
The tradesman welcomes his customers with effusive politeness--shakes hands as he invites them to sit down, and chats with these perhaps titled ladies without any affectation or assumption.
Mary's humble friend, the farmer's daughter, had married a young tradesman in the village of Kemberling, a mile and a half from the Towers.
Mother says that there is not a tradesman in Richmond who would not be pleased to have us on his books for any amount.
Well, you know, Mr. Viner, a tradesman like myself generally knows a good deal about the people of his neighbourhood.
Now-a-days every tradesmanreads one of whom will be her husband and every tradesman's wife.
