"Trader" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... 1673, Father Jacques Marquette, the missionary priest of St. Ignace, on what is now called the north shore of Michigan, and Louis Jolliet, a trader from Montreal, set out on ...
— Heroes of the Middle West - The French • Mary Hartwell Catherwood
... "Lon Beardsley is not and never has been a trader. He's a smuggler between this country and Cuba. He says himself that he never made a voyage farther away from home than the West Indies. He knows every inch of ...
— Marcy The Blockade Runner • Harry Castlemon
... threatened Lon. 'Ye'd better be askin' that Siwash wife of yours. I'll lave it to her, for the truth I spake.' Bettles flared up in sudden wrath. The Irishman had unwittingly wounded him; for his wife was the half-breed daughter of a Russian fur-trader, married to him in the Greek Mission of Nulato, a thousand miles or so down the Yukon, thus being of much higher caste than the common Siwash, or native, wife. It was a mere Northland nuance, which none but the ...
— The Son of the Wolf • Jack London
... came." Cried the unjust King, "Out on thee! Knowest thou not my fashion of dealing with the people of my realm and how each day I take their monies? How then comest thou to my country? And behold, thou hast been a sojourner here since such a time!" Answered the trader, "The money is not mine, not a mite of it; nay, 'tis a trust in my hands till I bring its equivalent to its owner." But the King said, "I will not let thee take thy livelihood of my land or go out therefrom, except thou ransom thyself with this money all of it."—And Shahrazad perceived ...
— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 9 • Richard F. Burton
... the trader, as if he would have said it before if he had thought of it. But the horse had taken but a few steps ...
— A Christmas Accident and Other Stories • Annie Eliot Trumbull
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