How to use "merchant" in sentences with meaning in English and Hindi

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Example sentences for "merchant" in popular movie and book plots

  • Eighteen years later, Henchard is now a successful grain merchant and Mayor of Casterbridge, known for his staunch sobriety.  - The Mayor of Casterbridge
  • The Organians disguise Kirk as one of them and have Spock pose as a Vulcan merchant of trillium.  - Errand of Mercy
  • By the end of this year, he found service on the East India Company merchant ship "Vagrant Star" to China.  - Tai-Pan (novel)
  • Remi arranges for Sal to take a job as a night watchman at a boarding camp for merchant sailors waiting for their ship.  - On the Road
  • The title character, James Wait, is a dying West Indian black sailor on board the merchant ship Narcissus sailing from Bombay to London.  - The Nigger of the 'Narcissus'
  • Tony marries her second husband, Alois Permaneder, a provincial but honest hops merchant from Munich.  - Buddenbrooks
  • The merchant Gawyn arrives shortly after and the play concludes happily with reconciliation, a prayer and a song.  - Ralph Roister Doister
  • A wealthy, widowed merchant lives in a mansion with his six children, three sons and three daughters.  - Beauty and the Beast
  • Panurge quarrels with the sheep merchant Dingdong, and takes his revenge by drowning him and his flock.  - Gargantua and Pantagruel
  • In the early months of the Second World War, Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine sends out merchant raiders to attack Allied shipping.  - The Battle of the River Plate (film)
  • Sophie is sent to accompany a small convoy of merchant ships in the Mediterranean.  - Master and Commander
  • The box ends up in the hands of the merchant who sold it to Frank, offering it to another prospective customer.  - Hellraiser
  • Murdstone sends David to work for a wine merchant in London – a business of which Murdstone is a joint owner.  - David Copperfield
  • Don Luis lies to Maria's father, wealthy Leghorn-based merchant John Bonnyfeather (Edmund Gwenn), telling him that the infant is also dead.  - Anthony Adverse
  • In one dream, he is quizzed by a very judgmental medical professor; he is also praised by a small-town merchant who remembers him.  - Wild Strawberries (film)
  • In June 1580 he purchased a tenement and seven acres of land near Aldgate in London from the Italian merchant Benedict Spinola for £2,500.  - Edward de Vere, 17th Earl of Oxford

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