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On the outskirts of the bazaar, livestock dealers lead their swarming herds along narrow village paths lined by millet-stalk fences.
The professional informer was a dubious and thoroughly unreliable dealer in information.
Workers and dealers in food and lodging 17.
Thereafter, drugs are usually bought by regular customers at the premises of dealers that may be different from their domestic addresses.
Not only was the public inundated with information, but manufacturers, dealers, artisans, builders, and architects had to be sold on the programme, as well.
The reference to a hurdle was particularly appropriate to food dealers, as it was used in the punishment of bakers who sold short-weight bread.
Smokers have been increasingly regarded as addicts and the tobacco companies portrayed as drug dealers.
For the allegation to stick, the player must attribute to the dealer more than just the ability to fix decks.
The people who worked on the study did not want to do anything about the dealer market.
Workers and dealers in carriages and harnesses 13.
Needless to say the grave was looted and its contents were sold to local dealers.
Workers and dealers in chemicals and compounds 15.
Workers and dealers in tobacco and pipes 16.
It began with a series of widely publicised punishments and assassinations of drug dealers.
Families drew on various sorts of credit - they fell into arrears of rent, they borrowed from shops, dealers, and neighbours.
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