"Eight thousand!" indignantly exclaimed the mercer. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
When I came into the room the mercer was surprised. From Wordnik.com. [Moll Flanders] Reference
That amateur was a worthy silk-mercer of the Rue des. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
Philpot, a mercer of London, after his naval feat of 1378. From Wordnik.com. [A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance] Reference
“Hang him, foul scroyle, let him pass,” said the mercer. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Cesar; Monsieur Camusot, the richest silk mercer in the Rue des. From Wordnik.com. [At the Sign of the Cat and Racket] Reference
“I would I might trade thither,” said the mercer, chuckling. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
“To the devil with thy conscience!” said the dismayed mercer. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Ah! jolly mercer, they who have good wares are fond to show them! —. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
“Not till he comes, if you please,” said the mercer, interfering. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
“Haro and help, and hue and cry, every true man!” said the mercer. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
‘I think I need not; you are rude enough already,’ says the mercer. From Wordnik.com. [Moll Flanders] Reference
John Rudyard, a silk-mercer of Ludgate-Hill, was engaged as the architect. From Wordnik.com. [Grace Darling Heroine of the Farne Islands] Reference
He therefore gave his former occupation -- a mercer of the city of London. From Wordnik.com. [Hayslope Grange A Tale of the Civil War] Reference
“Nay, now the pottle-pot is uppermost, with a witness!” said the mercer. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
Down Chepe they went, past the fine shops of goldsmith, silversmith, and mercer. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
"Indeed, and I hope so," muttered the mercer, who was getting very ill-tempered. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
‘No, not I,’ says the mercer; ‘I tell you I have nothing to say to her.’. From Wordnik.com. [Moll Flanders] Reference
Those who sought an explanation from the new mercer were still more unsuccessful. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
Monsieur Camusot, a silk mercer in the Rue des Bourdonnais, to live with Rubempre. From Wordnik.com. [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference
"To meet that difficulty," quickly replied the mercer, "we can reduce the interest.". From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
Western States, the mercer, the long red, or merino, the orange, and the Western red. From Wordnik.com. [The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c.] Reference
Away went the mercer, confounded in his mind, and wondering where this affair would end. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
The mercer gave him a stealthy glance, which the old man's keen look immediately detected. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
"Monsieur Bonelle," said the mercer, in a hollow tone; "may I ask where are your rheumatics?". From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
Miss Harty brushed the debris away, and an inscription emerged: john herndon mercer (johnny). From Wordnik.com. [Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil]
“Ay, sir, what would you do?” said the mercer, bustling up on the other side of the table. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
“And looks grave, and holds his head high, and scorns his old companions,” said the mercer. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
The mercer glanced at the thin fragile frame, and exclaimed to himself, "Deluded old gentleman!". From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
The mercer left Monsieur Bonelle in the act of protesting that he felt as strong as a man of forty. From Wordnik.com. [International Weekly Miscellany - Volume 1, No. 8, August 19, 1850] Reference
Matifat was in the ground-floor box exactly opposite with a friend of his, a silk-mercer named Camusot. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
The boots stared the honest silk-mercer out of countenance, and, it must be added, they pained his heart. From Wordnik.com. [A Distinguished Provincial at Paris] Reference
Master Three-pile the mercer, for some four suits of peach-coloured satin, which now peaches him a beggar. From Wordnik.com. [Measure for Measure] Reference
On one occasion, it is related, when still a mercer at Oswestry, he drove over to a Welsh border market town to sell his wares. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of the Cambrian A Biography of a Railway] Reference
The prisoners of no account -- the scrivener's clerk, the poor shopkeeper, the small mercer -- got the benefit of plea and quibble!. From Wordnik.com. [Orrain A Romance] Reference
“I can say a hundred d — d lies besides, mercer,” answered Lambourne; “what, one must not stand upon a good word for a friend!”. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
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