And I remember, on a time, long after the drift when we brought the barley into India, that I came down into India, a horse-trader, with many servants and a long caravan at my back, and that at that time they were worshipping Bodhisatwa. ❋ Unknown (2010)
An expert horse-trader and arm-twister in the tradition of his hometown politics, the jowly, 6-foot-2 lawmaker from Illinois relished Washington gamesmanship. ❋ Unknown (2010)
She weaves together text and argument from sources as diverse as Kipling's "Kim" (Mahbub Ali, remember, Kim's friend and sometime employer, is a horse-trader) and the Hindu epic "Ramayana," in which a horse is sacrificed after Rama, the protagonist god-king, returns from exile. ❋ Unknown (2009)
Jean-Claude Juncker, the Luxembourg Prime Minister, might be an expert horse-trader at European summits, but has he ever addressed a joint session of the US Congress? ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the past, Kim has also run errands for Mahbub Ali, a Pathan horse-trader who works for the British secret service. ❋ Unknown (2008)
He had renounced his criticisms of state and society; he had given up roving as horse-trader, and wearing red mackinaws in lumber-camps; he had gone to work as engineer in Jackson ❋ Unknown (2004)
His partner, Mr. Benoni Stackpole, had been once a stage-driver in Arkansas, and later a horse-trader. ❋ Unknown (2004)
What do you mean by bringing this volume here as though I were some horse-trader? ❋ Mark Gatiss (2004)
Mahbub Ali, the horse-trader, lived when he came in from that mysterious land beyond the Passes of the North. ❋ Unknown (2003)
For a moment she entertained a desperate idea of telling him how rich she was, what big houses she lived in, that really she was a valuable property — for a moment she made herself into her grandfather, Sid Warren, the horse-trader. ❋ Unknown (2003)
Bizan offered to facilitate the sale of our Umaiyyati mounts and the donkeys, his cousin being a horse-trader, and that offer I accepted with gratitude. ❋ Carey, Jacqueline, 1964- (2003)
That old horse-trader, possibly he had something special in mind with all this piety of his — such would not be beneath him! ❋ Unknown (2003)
The horse-trader, his deep, embroidered Bokhariot belt unloosed, was lying on a pair of silk carpet saddle-bags, pulling lazily at an immense silver hookah. ❋ Unknown (2003)
He was the son of Moses Goldsmith, who was a-- a horse-trader. ❋ Unknown (2001)
Gwyna laughed and told him he would never make a horse-trader, and then settled back for a real nap against Kestrel's shoulder as the rain changed to a dismal drizzle. ❋ Lackey, Mercedes (1993)
