To satisfy this craving, wily Burgundian merchants laced their light-colored, elegant wines with thick red wine from Algeria and the Midi.

Sali Dalib's exclamation of shock came out as so much gibberish, and the wily merchant spun away to flee... only to find a neat hole sliced into the back of his tent and Drizzt Do'Urden standing within it, leaning on one scimitar while the other rested easily on his shoulder.

Hafiz, wily old merchant that he was, said reasonably, "Of course, of course, my dear Acorna, I understand completely now you feel and you may certainly stay behind to look to your heart's content and the blessings of the Three Prophets and the Three Books be upon you.

Rafik, for example, was now the head of the House of Harakamian, the empire founded by his uncle Hafiz Harakamian, an uncommonly wily merchant and wealthy collector.

But a wily merchant named Uther has conned him out of everything he owns and his freedom by a game of cards called "Muggins".

A wily merchant had asked fifty times their worth, and had been left gaping when one thousand times their worth had been pressed into his hands.

The image of the Armenian as a "wily merchant" was already widespread.

The friends were not so quick to be rid of the wily merchant.

Raw cotton came from the American South through Liverpool to the wily Mancunian merchants, who processed it and sold it at a price at the Manchester Royal Exchange.