coal-merchant

It was not done without a deal of opposition — the secret having been whispered that the candidate was a coal-merchant.

The Book of Snobs 2006

From sunrise to sleeping you can always be playing that game — with butcher, baker, coal-merchant, cabman, omnibus man — nay, diamond merchant and stockbroker.

Roundabout Papers 2006

He tried to be a wine-merchant, a coal-merchant, a commission lottery agent,

Vanity Fair 2006

PLATE on the door of his hut (it is little better) is a coal-merchant.

Vanity Fair 2006

However much he might be disposed to hate all parvenus (Mr. Wenham himself was a staunch old True Blue Tory, and his father a small coal-merchant in the north of England), this aide-de-camp of the

Vanity Fair 2006

At twenty he married, left the family roof, and starting life for himself in a nearby metropolis became a successful coal-merchant.

Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness Robert S. Carroll

Just think of our coal-merchant returning such a reply to us when the cellar was getting empty.

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 152, February 21, 1917 Various

Before the war it was a handsome place, built by a rich coal-merchant from Lille.

Adventures of a Despatch Rider William Henry Lowe Watson

Our mutual friend Mr. Smith might then meet his friend the coal-merchant with a smile, and cheer himself with his open fireplace, putting away his stifling but economic stove; he might postpone his retirement from the three-story brick to the wooden two-story in the suburbs, eat his roast beef again on Sunday, and regale himself with black coffee after dinner, without a thought of the slow but sagacious

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 Various

How contemptuously all these people treated her -- Smith, the church-warden, a grocer, and Harris, the coal-merchant.

The Scarlet Feather Houghton Townley