Sentence examples for timber merchant from inspiring English sources

After his retirement in the 1950s, he worked as a bookie and a timber merchant.

Read more:   Her father David was a timber merchant, and her mother Katherine a dancer who performed in Diaghilev's Ballets Russe company.

A 46-year-old local timber merchant who became a Ukip councillor in 2013, Huntman revels in a self-identified "outsider" status.

The son of a wealthy timber merchant, Liberman attended boarding school in London and studied painting and architecture in Paris at the École des Beaux-Arts.

(A pledge somewhat compromised when Barker is seen, admittedly on-screen, charming a timber merchant into giving her some stuff for free).

Brett Taylor, 49, a timber merchant from Sydney, Australia, had been staying at one of the besieged hotels, the Oberoi, and was confirmed dead.

Yosemite Valley was crawling with prospectors and timber merchants when Carleton Watkins visited in 1859-61.

But the doctrine of responsible control had to fight a hard battle against timber merchants who sought quick profits.

Each bole, branchless to 40 or 50 feet, is the object of critical scrutiny by timber merchants and barrel makers.

In the east and in the region of Trøndelag, therefore, the countryside was characterized by a class of wealthy timber merchants and farmers and a large rural proletariat.

The other was the small but important group of timber merchants in eastern Norway who wanted independence from Copenhagen for their trade with western Europe.