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Example sentences for "tradesmen"

Lexicographically close words:
trader; traders; trades; tradesfolk; tradesman; tradespeople; tradewind; tradidit; trading; tradita
  1. And Harrow tradesmen are at the mercy of the Head Master.

  2. You know, I suppose, that Harrow tradesmen are expressly forbidden to lend boys money?

  3. Two or three tradesmen in Harrow would advance the money if he showed them this letter.

  4. The company consisted principally of reputable tradesmen and their families.

  5. The audience--small tradesmen of the quarter with their wives and daughters-seemed highly enthusiastic: especially the women.

  6. Tradesmen are unfortunate in their Affairs, And few Men are thriving but Courtiers and Play'rs.

  7. By Lynch's order, we launched the dinghy, and, with me at the tiller and two lordly tradesmen at the oars, set out in humane but hopeless quest for the mate and the Nigger.

  8. But near midnight be clumped aft hurriedly, bringing the tradesmen with him.

  9. He needed assistance, too; he had no wind for curses, and bent double nursing the injured spot while he grunted at the tradesmen to pick up the chest and carry it aft.

  10. I expected the mates or the tradesmen would kill me.

  11. But he was already bawling for the watch, and had his eyes fixed straight ahead; and immediately he went forward with the tradesmen at his heels.

  12. The tradesmen stood idle and watchful, one near either door of the foc'sle.

  13. And up the poop ladder tramped Lynch, with the two tradesmen following him.

  14. One of the tradesmen was also friendly, and had brought the lady the tool I was using to cut through the deck.

  15. The second mate left one of his tradesmen aft, and during the remainder of the watch kept us forward of the waist of the ship.

  16. Even the tradesmen were publicly ordered to treat the men with civility.

  17. Even the tradesmen grinned--behind their hands--as they lifted the chest from off their boss, and him to his feet.

  18. The Moors used it as a bazaar, and a good many tradesmen still carry on their business there.

  19. In the same century the Countess d'Aulnoy recorded comical instances of the pride of the tradesmen of Madrid.

  20. And all of them were bitter against the railroads, which were furnishing return accommodations every few hours, giving the tradesmen little chance to make their fortunes, as many of them had confidently expected to do.

  21. It used to be, at least, before the rich tradesmen had built all those palaces at South Kensington.

  22. Tradesmen no doubt knew much of defaulters, and heads of families might find themselves pressed for means; but to the outside west-end eye looking at the outside west-end world it seemed as though wealth was unlimited and money a drug.

  23. A host of tradesmen would come, and then of course they must go.

  24. Some of the tradesmen and a few of the tenants living nearest to the town had suggested a triumphal entry,--green boughs, a bonfire, and fire works.

  25. And I hear from Aunt Betha that they deal with the tradesmen about Elm Fields and Whitelands Road.

  26. Yes; but that does not matter--tradesmen will wait.

  27. Birmingham, indeed, some thirty years ago, was considerably under the influence of men of the unprogressive tradesmen class--many of them worthy men in their way but of limited ideas.

  28. We liked and still like to go to shops kept by tradesmen who have been brought up to certain lines of business, and who know from actual knowledge and experience what they are buying and selling.

  29. There is nothing like the grandeur of trade; and yet we tradesmen are not proud.

  30. We tradesmen are great, but we will sometimes help even a wretched aristocrat.

  31. We tradesmen are infinitely greater than you aristocrats.

  32. From the above announcement, it must not be inferred that these Los Angeles tradesmen brought to this port the whole shipload of merchandise.

  33. So much for the merchants of the city; among such tradesmen in the districts outside of Los Angeles, I can recall but three active in my day and still active in this.

  34. Not only did she accept such costly presents from men of rank and wealth, but she graciously received the donations of tradesmen and menials.

  35. Fashionable tradesmen and caterers for the amusement of the public made their engagements and speculations with reference to the opening of term.

  36. The tradesmen import some of their goods direct from England, but they usually purchase them at Philadelphia; the journey to and from which place occupies three months; and goods are generally about fifty days in arriving.

  37. The tradesmen who kept them sent the produce of the adjacent country to Charleston, but they sometimes stocked themselves with goods from Philadelphia.

  38. The quatrain, if of no other value, gives us an idea of the commodities bartered, and the tradesmen who offered their goods at Irish fairs in English towns during the thirteenth century.

  39. The nobility came thither for society, the tradesmen for protection.

  40. Most tradesmen have a fixed price for every thing, and will not abate.

  41. Callers at Hap House on business were very few, unless when tradesmen in want of money occasionally dropped in upon him.


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