Sentence examples for rich merchants from inspiring English sources

Mecca was an important trading hub, with rich merchants.

His base is among the motalefeh, rich merchants from the bazaars.

Peter hoped to involve the rich merchants and the nobility in economic enterprise and expansion.

Many rich merchants and minority groups in Aleppo, fearful of instability, remained neutral while protests spread through Syria.

Some of the best examples of the architecture are the churches and the palatial riverside mansions, built by rich merchants.

In this land there are rich merchants, and there is much gold and silver and amber and musks and pearls.

Vasily Andreich Brekhunov is a rich merchant focused solely on becoming richer.

There is also a large domus, or home, which may have belonged to a rich merchant.

John Hancock is described as a rich merchant and smuggler, which is a bit of British overstatement.

He was born, in 1886, into a dynasty of immensely rich merchant bankers, originally Iraqi Jews.

In 18th-century China, social status was growing ever more fluid with the rise of a rich merchant class.