trading

The prisoner himself is named Edmond Dantès, mate on board the three-master the Pharaon, trading in cotton with Alexandria and Smyrna, and belonging to Morrel & Son, of Marseilles.”

Dantès examined the various articles shown to him with the same attention that he had bestowed on the curiosities and strange tools exhibited in the shops at Marseilles as the works of the savages in the South Seas from whence they had been brought by the different trading vessels.

under pretext of trading along the coast, these men, who are in reality smugglers, will prefer selling me to doing a good action.

We sought an expansive horizon, trading the suffocating traditions of post-war Britain for the sprawling, eucalyptus-scented promise of New South Wales.