Well, it is commerce still, and I shall have a fair claim to respectability, as the wholesalers say, if I don't give short weight, or false measure, Mattie.
"Mattie:--A Stray (Vol 3 of 3)"
Frederick William Robinson
But a pall of debt hangs over the beautiful land; the merchants are in debt to the wholesalers, the planters are in debt to the merchants, the tenants owe the planters, and laborers bow and bend beneath the burden of it all.
"The Souls of Black Folk"
W. E. B. Du Bois
The news had been sent broadcast by interested citizens, and a fresh influx of people began and heavy orders from the various traders were placed with the wholesalers in the East.
"The Son of his Father"
Ridgwell Cullum