Sentence examples for small tradesmen from inspiring English sources

It included artisans and small tradesmen who had been gradually impoverished by the extension of slavery.

Most of them were relatively poor farmers, agricultural labourers, or small tradesmen and hucksters.

Nevertheless, in increasing numbers the children of minor officials, small tradesmen, and especially priests were acquiring education.

"There is nothing tough there at all; all waiters and small tradesmen," lamented Hugh Dalton, the SOE's minister in charge.

Domestic servants understood each other's work, as did the fourth major group in that economy: small tradesmen.

The Quakers and the open-communion Baptists were rivals for the religious allegiance of the "mechanics," or small tradesmen and artificers, in both town and country.

He grew up in a working-class neighborhood of Santiago, where his father was a small tradesman who had not finished high school.

Crainquebille (1903), a comedy in three acts adapted by France from an earlier short story, dramatizes the unjust treatment of a small tradesman and proclaims the hostility toward the bourgeois order that led France eventually to embrace socialism.

At one point, the meeting becomes a flurry of frenzied slip-passing, although I couldn't help observing that they were all getting passed between a small group of tradesmen.

While Schönerer and Pan-Germanism appealed to the educated classes, Karl Lueger transformed the Christian Socialism of Karl, Freiherr (baron) von Voegelsang, into a political organization that appealed to small shopkeepers, artisans, tradesmen, and lower bourgeois circles of Vienna and the surrounding countryside.

By day, Cottrell and his lieutenants were a small band of tradesmen and council workers.