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Example sentences for "traders"

Lexicographically close words:
tractus; trade; traded; tradeing; trader; trades; tradesfolk; tradesman; tradesmen; tradespeople
  1. Most of these were clerks or traders going out to positions at Sierra Leone or the Gold Coast, with one or two Frenchmen and officials of the Congo State.

  2. May find Arabs or English traders to the east or north.

  3. There were Scottish traders united for commerce with India by the ordinary route, and these joined in the cry.

  4. Sir George Rooke returned from Madeira to Cork, which he reached on the 3rd of August, his ships of war and the traders which had followed him for safety numbering fifty vessels.

  5. As the Act did not come into effect till the 1st of May, numbers of traders in both kingdoms were on the alert to reap advantages from it.

  6. In these two regions the traders encountered two quite different branches of the African race, and their human wares in America show that they were derived from different sources.

  7. In 1754 a few English traders built a stockade here, but were driven away by the French.

  8. In 1841 Father Galtier, a French Canadian, induced the settlers, chiefly French Catholic hunters and traders in furs and whiskey, to build a log church which was dedicated to St. Paul.

  9. While the mythical story about Cadmus, taking his sixteen letters from Phœnicia into Greece, must be rejected, the European world owes to this race of traders the alphabetic symbols now in use.

  10. The traders of Berne and Soleure, accordingly, made loud and violent complaints of Hagenbach's exactions.

  11. Those peripatetic traders were civil and assiduous, as their calling required; but the new visitors seemed men who were indifferent to traffic, or at least to such slender gains as could be gathered in Switzerland.

  12. But the little traders who had dealt with the Red Bay settlement for so long, and had bled the people and grown fat upon their labors, were bitterly hostile.

  13. As expected, there was a furore among the little traders when the news was spread that a co-operative store had been opened in Red Bay.

  14. They're set up by traders that has fishin' places.

  15. Ships enough sailed down the coast, to be sure, but if they were not fishing vessels they were traders looking to barter for fish, bearing sharp men who drove hard bargains with the fishermen, as we shall see.

  16. Through the store their furs and fish would be sent to market and they would get just as big a price for their products as the traders got.

  17. They would buy the store supplies at wholesale just as cheaply as the traders could buy them.

  18. All the fish are salted, and, like the furs caught in winter, bartered to traders for tea and flour and pork and other necessities of life.

  19. The big Newfoundland traders and merchants were heartily in favor of it, and even stood ready to give the experiment their support.

  20. If the traders would fight he would give it to them.

  21. Doctor Grenfell had to fight the traders all along the line.

  22. In other words, they would organize a co-operative store and trading system and be their own traders and storekeepers.

  23. They preferred to go somewhere else and try their luck where perhaps the traders would be more liberal.

  24. This meant breaking off from the traders with whom they had always dealt and all hope of ever securing advance of supplies from them again.

  25. In the beginning there were some of the men who were actually afraid to have it known they were interested in the store, such was the fear with which the traders had ruled them.

  26. That, they declared, would make the traders angry, and no one knew to what lengths these former slaveholders might go to have revenge upon them.

  27. The outcry of the planters in St. Kitts, and the traders whose goods had been confiscated, found an echo in England.

  28. As it has little native wealth, the Dutch with their usual good business faculty made a free port of it, hoping that traders glad to be free from the severe colonial trade legislation of those days would use it as an open mart.

  29. I would rather build buildings every day and burn them down at night, than have traders here communing with our enemies outside, and keeping up a hell all the time, and raising devils to keep it going.

  30. In 1853, owing to extortions practised on the emigrants by the merchants and traders at Kanesville, as well as the unhealthfulness of the Missouri bottoms, the principal point of departure from the river was changed to Keokuk, Iowa.

  31. The entrance is by a large gateway into the square, round which are the rooms occupied by the traders and employes of the host.

  32. The traders take furs or money for their goods, which bring prices that seem fabulous to those unaccustomed to the sight or stories of mountain life.

  33. The traders on the plains are charged with conniving at such expeditions of the Indians, and of sharing with them the plunder.

  34. The traders said they had twenty-five hundred horses and as many oxen, in charge of herdsmen in a mountain valley.

  35. Going northward they came up with a party of twenty traders and trappers, upon a branch of the Green River, and all entered winter quarters here together.

  36. Carson now organized a party of seven, and proceeded to a trading post called Brown's Hole, where he joined a company of traders to go to the Navajoe Indians.

  37. A cache is a term common among traders and hunters, to designate a hiding place for provisions and effects.

  38. Here the grape is extensively cultivated, and considerable quantities of light wine and brandy, (called by the traders Pass wine and Pass brandy,) are made.

  39. The house of the traders at the sink was made of logs, with two rooms--the logs having been drawn from the mountains, forty miles distant.

  40. The traders were therefore held in high esteem among the Cherokees, who encouraged their living and even marrying among them.

  41. These traders were an important class in the early history of the country.

  42. Just as the traffickers in fire-water and the squatters led the way in the occupation of North America, so these Roman wine-traders and landlords paved the way for, and beckoned onward, the future conqueror of Gaul.

  43. And here came traders from the far Detroit, To barter white mens wares for Indian peltries.

  44. A brass signet ring was also found which is evidently traders material and may possibly have been brought there by the "monks.

  45. Arab traders had probably borrowed the floating needle from the Chinese, for Bailak Kibdjaki, author of the Merchant's Treasure, written in the thirteenth century, speaks of its use in the Syrian sea.

  46. The French fur-traders placed a mill beside the upper rapids, and the early British settlers built another to saw the timher used in their stockades.

  47. The traders are robbing us mountain men at this market.

  48. On the one hand were the sickening scenes of slaughter and cannibalism; on the other were the evil lives of sailors and traders of his own race.

  49. To understand its purport it is necessary to cast a backward glance over the years since the early days of the mission, when the Ngapuhi were procuring firearms from traders and missionaries.

  50. You see these seas swarm with scoundrels of all kinds, and it is quite safe to assume that all ships that cannot show that they are peaceful traders are engaged in nefarious business of some kind or other.

  51. A party of fur-traders and trappers were just starting from Fort Simpson to carry supplies up to the posts of Liard and Halkett; and along with them our travellers went.

  52. I think they made more money out of the business than all the rest of the traders put together.

  53. He told of the important part the fur traders and trappers had played in Wyoming and the far West; of their exposures and perils, and how they had been the earliest explorers, giving names to the streams and many of the mountains.

  54. The next day Jules started off eastward on some work that he had to do in the Sioux territory, where some of the trappers and traders of his Company were engaged.

  55. As no traders were in the store, there was a free and easy "nothing doing" atmosphere pervading the establishment.

  56. Among the old trappers and traders of early days, there were many young Frenchmen.

  57. One of the traders concluding that a little whiskey, of which the Indians are fond, would help to soften the feeling between them, gave a few warriors who had come into their camp as much of the stuff as they wanted for present use.

  58. It was up and down these tributaries of Green River and into the wilds of Pierre's Hole and Jackson's Hole, between which lie the majestic Tetons, that the fur traders and hunters found the most profitable game in greatest abundance.

  59. When the traders at Fairbanks offered to remove to Chena at the beginning of the camp, if the traders at Chena would provide a site, the offer was scornfully rejected.

  60. During the dance the traders brought corn and watermelons to sell to the Indians.

  61. By this time the traders had taken off their packs and piled them around for protection, and now falling to work with their hands they very soon scratched out a trench deep enough to protect them from the shot of the enemy.

  62. The traders also gave us an account of their ceremonies on returning to camp with their scalps and trophies.

  63. We learn also from this notice that the St Louis traders had already begun to come out to trade with them on the Arkansas, although none were regularly established in their territory until some years later.

  64. The Dakota are represented by the figure of a man's bust, wearing a k`odalpae or necklace bracelet of long shell or bone tubes, popularly known among the traders as Iroquois beads.

  65. This naturally directed the thoughts of travelers and traders to some better means of reaching the river landing than the frozen or muddy roads and impassable creeks and sloughs of winter and spring.


  66. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "traders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.