purveyors

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The beauty of it for the purveyors is the results of what they do are impossible to quantify.

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  • At some distance from the cordon was the camp of the purveyors, the merchants who supplied the soldiers with all kinds of necessaries. —  In Those Days
  • The beauty of it for the purveyors is the results of what they do are impossible to quantify. —  Charlottesville Blogs » Arts and Entertainment
  • The price offered by the purveyors was always much below the real value of what was taken, and frequently even that was not paid. —  The Leading Facts of English History
  • The most controversial claims, all of which come without names attached because the purveyors are apparently determined to stick around to undermine future campaigns and candidates, are that Palin didn't know that Africa was a continent as opposed to a country, and that she didn't know who the members of NAFTA were. —  Latest Articles
  • Words straight as shot-purveyors of precision -- —  VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol III No 2
 

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