chandler

• Like the retired tallow-chandler, I might wish to go back "on melting days." —  James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
• He opened the campaign at Birmingham upon a Calvinist tallow-chandler, who, after listening to half an hour's harangue, extending from “the captivity of the nations” to “the near approach of the millennium,” and winding up with a quotation describing the latter “glorious state” out of the Religious Musings , inquired what might be the cost of the new publication. —  English Men of Letters: Coleridge
• Mrs. Graham used to repeat with pleasure an anecdote of her friends Mr. and Mrs. Douglas. Mr. Douglas was a tallow-chandler, and furnished candles for Lady Glenorchy's chapel. —  The Power of Faith
• He could break up Nerissa, sell her platinum and precious stones to pay the chandler--and she would be gone completely, and he would have only a worthless hull without a drive. —  F ;SF - vol 104 issue 06 - June 2003
• And she usually left behind her such bitter memories of her visit as placed the last port at the bottom of her list of markets No ship-chandler or provision-dealer ever showed her receipted bills, and not a few of them openly averred that certain burglaries of their goods had plausible connection with her presence in port. —  "Where Angels Fear to Tread" and Other Stories of the Sea

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