cattle-dealer

A fine manner is not the invariable outcome of noble feeling; and while no man at court had a nobler air than Racine, Corneille looked very much like a cattle-dealer, and Descartes might have been taken for an honest Dutch merchant; and visitors to La Brede, meeting Montesquieu in a cotton nightcap, carrying a rake over his shoulder, mistook him for a gardener.

Two Poets 2007

A fine manner is not the invariable outcome of noble feeling; and while no man at court had a nobler air than Racine, Corneille looked very much like a cattle-dealer, and Descartes might have been taken for an honest Dutch merchant; and visitors to La Brede, meeting Montesquieu in a cotton nightcap, carrying a rake over his shoulder, mistook him for a gardener.

Two Poets 2007

Madame Cornu, the widow of a Norman cattle-dealer and farmer-general, with a dropsy and two hundred thousand livres a year.

The Memoires of Barry Lyndon 2006

Here, too, Mahbub Ali rented a room, much more securely locked than his bulkhead at Lahore, in the house of a Mohammedan cattle-dealer.

Kim 2003

Next morning the cattle-dealer came, and the woman had no need to say many words to him.

Household Tales 2003

The cattle-dealer, Leon, lay in a pool of blood, his throat torn open.

The Hawk Eternal Gemmell, David 1995

De Grammont tells us how he cheated the greasy cattle-dealer;

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 Various

Presently the rider appeared, who proved to be a cattle-dealer, he told us he had some cattle out at the foot of the glen, and said the inn was seven miles away in the direction in which he was going.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

It was on the left-hand side, but we could not yet have walked the distance named by the cattle-dealer; so we knocked at the door, which was opened by a queer-looking old man, who told us it was not the inn, but the shepherd's house, and that the forms and tables in front were for the use of passengers by the coach, who called there for milk and light refreshments.

From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor

A cattle-dealer, named Ward, turned some cattle into a lot, adjoining which several others were grazing.

Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure Robert Jennings