Synonyms

1. merchandiser

Sentence Examples

1. We at once gave the renegade five hundred crowns to buy the vessel, and with eight hundred I ransomed myself, giving the money to a Valencian merchant who happened to be in Algiers at the time, and who had me released on his word, pledging it that on the arrival of the first ship from Valencia he would pay my ransom for if he had given the money at once it would have made the king suspect that my ransom money had been for a long time in Algiers, and that the merchant had for his own advantage kept it secret.
2. But fate decreed that a few glimmers of sunshine were to illumine his life, for the little fellow was adopted by John Allan, a wealthy merchant of Richmond, Va.
3. He certainly was not a manufacturer nor was he a merchant or a gentleman farmer.
4. He almost dropped his prize, but even the odd little merchant was smart enough to know that it was more valuable than his discomfort at that moment.
5. The slave merchant shoots a dark smile at his Cossack henchman.
6. This having been done, steps were taken to ransom our three comrades, so as to enable them to quit the baño, and lest, seeing me ransomed and themselves not, though the money was forthcoming, they should make a disturbance about it and the devil should prompt them to do something that might injure Zoraida for though their position might be sufficient to relieve me from this apprehension, nevertheless I was unwilling to run any risk in the matter and so I had them ransomed in the same way as I was, handing over all the money to the merchant so that he might with safety and confidence give security without, however, confiding our arrangement and secret to him, which might have been dangerous.
7. In short, he ended by saying that what could and ought to be done was to give the money intended for the ransom of one of us Christians to him, so that he might with it buy a vessel there in Algiers under the pretence of becoming a merchant and trader at Tetuan and along the coast and when master of the vessel, it would be easy for him to hit on some way of getting us all out of the baño and putting us on board especially if the Moorish lady gave, as she said, money enough to ransom all, because once free it would be the easiest thing in the world for us to embark even in open day but the greatest difficulty was that the Moors do not allow any renegade to buy or own any craft, unless it be a large vessel for going on roving expeditions, because they are afraid that anyone who buys a small vessel, especially if he be a Spaniard, only wants it for the purpose of escaping to Christian territory.
8. The worthy Indian then gave some account of the victim, who, he said, was a celebrated beauty of the Parsee race, and the daughter of a wealthy Bombay merchant.
9. Fogg repaired to the Exchange, where, he did not doubt, every one would know so wealthy and considerable a personage as the Parsee merchant.