flour-trade

Updated: June 9, 2025

You are not thinking of the flour-trade with its profits and losses, but that every year in the swamps of La Plata and the river Amazon that fearful specter walks the yellow fever which, like the tiger, lies in ambush for the new-comer. Of every hundred, sixty fall victims to it. It is that of which the prospect gives you pleasure. You are a murderer!"

Mór Jókai - Timar's Two Worlds

"And where are we to get the money?" said the priest. "And why are we to ruin the merchants?" said O'Leary, whose brother was in the flour-trade, in Cork. "And shut up all the small shopkeepers," said Father Columb, whose mother was established in that line in the neighbourhood of Castleisland. "We could not do it," said Somers.

Anthony Trollope - Castle Richmond