Beside Alcaren, the merchant nodded, quickly and jerkily.

The merchant nodded, rubbing uncalloused fingers over the wood of his pole.

The merchant nodded and edged back from the fire, secreting the Roman coins in some hidden fold in his robes.

'Ah,' the merchant nodded sagely, and Murdo could not tell whether he thought this a good thing or not.

The merchant nodded his head with a conspiratorial wink.

The merchant never looked up but nodded and muttered something to himself.

The merchant nodded and dropped the pouch into his palm.

Slowly, still unwilling, the merchant nodded, but his eyes were drawn again and again to the glittering chest of gold.

The merchant nodded, and, turning to a great chest, produced the unemblazoned trappings of a slave.

The merchants nodded and murmured.