How To Use Hawker In A Sentence
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The hawkers, or dragon nymphs are longer and thinner and they patrol up and down looking out for prey on which to swoop.
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Abraham Granish, Winehouse's great-great grandfather, was a Russian immigrant described as a "hawker", selling goods door-to-door, who lived in the Spitalfields area of the capital.
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The municipal officer demands a bribe from a hawker; the bureaucrat refuses to register a land title or a marriage; the traffic cop beats the rickshaw-driver who can't afford to pay his weekly installment, known as hafta.
India's Middle Class Hungers for Undemocratic Change
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Unlike in the case of established shops, these hawkers give them an option for bargaining too.
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Almost from the moment you step off the plane, you will be accosted by touts, hawkers and rogues.
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For diners who simply cannot get enough of Penang's famed hawker delights, check out the nasi pattaya, char koay teow, teo chew mee sua and satay.
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Gradually market traders and hawkers moved in until eventually the tunnel became a seedy backwater.
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Eat sparingly and avoid food sold by hawkers at stations.
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The word, which also occurs in German as Krämer, doesn't show up in English, but it does in Scots as cramer 'one who sells goods at a stall or booth; also a pedlar or hawker'; Scots also has the base noun crame 'booth or stall where goods are sold in a market or fair.'
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Hawker has always enjoyed the great outdoors.
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The partnership built up a country clientele through itinerant trading with a hawker's licence.
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Riley and Griego got cooking nearly three years ago when they became mid-term potluck roommates in Jayhawker Towers.
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Hawker's published version accords him a heroic role in retrieving and burying all the Caledonia's dead and succouring her one survivor.
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During the war, he learned the guerrilla tactics of the bushwhackers, jayhawkers and other insurgency groups who tried, by any means, to halt the progress of Union forces.
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He feigned to be a hawker and fared through the streets, crying out, 'Donne, donne, chi baratta anelli di ferro contra anelli di argento?'
Arabian nights. English
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Hundreds of hawkers line the roads along the perimeter, competing with dozens of shops selling everything from curios to readymade garments and foreign goods to Ayurvedic products.
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Hawker has a poem on the _Sangraal_, but it was never completed.
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Some of them were hawkers from the traffic lights, looking to break up the boredom of their day with a bit of blood-letting.
A DARKENING STAIN
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The market might be saturated, but it matters little for these ubiquitous hawkers, who can't even temporarily suspend or postpone their requirements of daily sustenance.
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Hawkers moved among them, offering bibingka, turon and cassava cakes, as the crowd’s collective heart beat in fervent anticipation of the incredible event.
V. At the Plaza Binondo
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There is unquestionably some truth in that counter argument, which isn't voiced only by hawkers of Hollywood movies and TV shows.
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These were the small fry of the trade, the hawkers, who often reappeared with new stock mere hours after a confrontation.
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The high-pitched cries of a hawker selling beans on the street floated in through the window, further away, cars were nosing against one another in long, exhausted petrol lines, lecturers were gathering to announce another strike, pensioners were raising wilting placards demanding their pensions, and Aunty Uju, freshly graduated from Ibadan, had a job at the military hospital in Victoria Island.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie | Miracle
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Designed by Sydney Camm, the Hunter was one of a long line of successful fighting aircraft from the Hawker stable.
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The final block has a taxi rank, a bus terminus, hawkers' stalls and space for retailers and wholesalers.
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A 'hawker' at the signal light told us that this was the by-pass road, otherwise we would have missed it.
Ajijic via Zacatecas and Aguascalientes route
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The final class covers hawkers who operate haphazardly as individuals from undesignated spaces.
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Hawkers (known as higglers), their bargains purchased overseas, return to set up their wares on the sidewalks, competing with time-honoured merchants who display goods indoors.
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Li H, Meininger CJ, Hawker JR Jr, Haynes TE, Kepka-Lenhart D, et al. (2001) Regulatory role of arginase I and II in nitric oxide, polyamine, and proline syntheses in endothelial cells.
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Hawker has always enjoyed the great outdoors.
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At night, it turns into a massive open air cafe area, with dozens of food hawkers selling a variety of food, from the traditional to the modern.
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Mehmood, their father, is a hawker selling odd food items.
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The tiny Royal Jordanian Air Force consisted of only 24 UK Hawker Hunter fighters.
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We find petty traders and hawkers eking out a living by peddling a few ribbons, a pair of galoshes, or low-quality tobacco, and ordinary men and women, who resorted to selling their personal belongings at markets.
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One day soon hawkers will be selling miniature plastic replicas outside.
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Hawkers came to sell their wares in small row boats near the cruise boats.
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In Palmyra, Syria, I once refused to buy a $4 T-shirt from a child hawker, prompting his outraged query: "Why are Americans so cheap?
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The law forbids it, but these street hawkers slaughter animals and sell the meat to the poor.
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City authorities will plan to wipe out the sight of beggars and hawkers selling flowers or newspapers at intersections.
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Hawkers tout their wares, housewives haggle and workmen of Venice's last working boat yard scrub barnacles from the bottoms of slender craft.
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At the resorts, hawkers sell designer replicas and reproductions to a ready eastern European market, as well as the growing number of Germans and British visitors.
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Hester Lockyear of Beacon Bay gets a lick from the Maltese terrier pup she rescued from a roadside hawker in Transkei.
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The Hawkeridge Park facility was reopened last week more than eight months after it was trashed by drunk teenagers.
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Abraham Granish, Winehouse's great-great grandfather, was a Russian immigrant described as a "hawker," selling goods door-to-door, who lived in the Spitalfields area of the capital.
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There was an altercation between the activists and a few hawkers who were selling eatables on the issue of payment.
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Licensed hawkers were circulating, braying the merits of spiced sausages containing only real animal protein - so they claimed.
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The hawkers sell all and sundry: from handkerchiefs to electronic goods.
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Wheat farmers, grape growers, hawkers, wattle growers, charcoal burners, timber cutters and teamsters all needed good roads for their businesses to operate successfully.
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Hawkers were confronted on the streets, distributors challenged in their premises and pubs, and printers raided in their cellars and garrets.
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He attributed his enduring strength to the consumption of jamu, a medicinal drink of magical properties sold by street-hawkers.
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In short, what with undertakers, embalmers, joiners, sextons and your damned elegy hawkers, I got not one wink of sleep.
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It is an Act to prevent obstruction, and I think that its whole scheme shows that it is aimed at barrow-boys, costermongers, hawkers or others who expose goods in the street for sale and offer them for sale at that time.
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Hawker has always enjoyed the great outdoors.
Times, Sunday Times
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The bug had even bitten the hawkers.
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Such men have generally arrived at the dignity of a pack-horse – no unmixed benefit in the eyes of people driving, since most of the country horses are reduced to frenzy by the sight of the lean screw with his immense white pack – the hawker is merciless to his horse – led by the "black" man in flapping clothes and gay turban.
Mates at Billabong
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Scattered remnants of the hawkers' presence littered the darkened scene.
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I came out rotten with fleas, stinking of nautch-oil and cheap perfume and cooking ghee, with my ears full of beggars 'whines and hawkers' jabbering and the clang of the booths - but that was all.
Fiancée
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VAIL VALLEY, Colorado - In many Malaysian cities, food vendors called hawker stalls line the streets at night serving steaming hot noodle bowls, curries and other Asian dishes to hungry passersby.
Vail Daily - Top Stories
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Mr Justice Donal O'Donnell found arbitrator Geoffrey F. Hawker had "misconducted" the arbitration in the technical sense and this required the setting aside of his October 2007 award on the dispute between the Council and Samuel Kingston Construction Company (SKC) arising from a contract of April 5th 2004 for the redevelopment of Eyre Square.
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Take a bumboat from Changi Jetty, which is near the Changi Village Hawker Centre.
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Their successes were rewarded with the arrival of six brand-new Mark I Hawker Hurricanes, a single-engined, highly maneuverable fighter, whose fuselage, though still covered with doped linen, was constructed from modern high-tensile steel rather than the wood of the Gladiators.
Storyteller
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Escaping camel hawkers and un-digging my high heels from small avalanches of sand, I arrived at last at Pyramid Number Two -- the tomb of Khafre -- where a long narrow tunnel slanted into its earthen belly, lined with a metal ladder which served -- I understood, as I peered below -- as a staircase.
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I want no philosopher queen or king, no prophet exuding revealed truth, no mesmerising Pied Piper, no hawker of appealing mirages, no self-absorbed hankerer for power.
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And even then, this detail is often lost, an accent overwhelmed by the loud plastic awnings, hawkers' kerb-spreads and squatters' impedimenta that define the metropolitan street.
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Shopfronts and stalls were open, with hawkers shouting and displaying their wares for the crowds.
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Hawkers must be given 48-hours notice to vacate their site before any action is taken against them.
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In the park, the rides and the midway are quiet, the carnies and hawkers sleep the fitful sleep of those who have no permanent home.
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The crowd swelled as the day progressed, to the great pleasure of hawkers selling eatables and tea.
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The Municipality is not happy with hawkers who sell on street corners in the industrial area.
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Mr McCann started his own business in 1988 as a 'hawker' of cars.
ANC Daily News Briefing
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Frankly, some of these hawkers would try to palm you off with a tracksuit full of holes and call it aerated leisurewear.
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Fantastically beautiful place, once you plough through the hawkers outside desperately trying to flog you the little red book (which is, obviously, both red and little).
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If you wish to set up business in food court, hawker centre, fast food outlet, or restaurant, we provide relevant training and Food and Beverage consultancy.
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There are no hawkers on the beach; no deafening discos; no drunken louts and no noise of jet skis.
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At the entrances to subway stations, hawkers who used to sell city maps have shifted their focus to the rain business.
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Dodge the hawkers and enjoy the azure waters lapping against your bare feet.
The Sun
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Tong Fong Fatt Hainanese Boneless Chicken Rice - Chickalicious! it's no secret that singaporeans love hainanese chicken rice. in fact we love it so much, we introduce it everywhere. it's almost impossible to go to a hawker centre or a food court and not find a chicken rice stall. the humble plate of hainanese chicken rice has even found its way onto the menus of luxurious hotel restaurants, singapore airlines flights and also the
Singapore Food Blog » Sparklette
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Wearing sheepskin leggings dyed red, these men had become the offspring of the notorious ‘Jay-hawkers’, whose exploits as professional thieves, robbers, murders and arsonist, attacking anyone who had sympathy for the South
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From breakfast until dinner, hawkers sell an infinite variety of some of the world's most scrumptious snacks.
MOON PASSAGE
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A mixer held in the auditorium lobby preceded the main event, between long tables loaded with promotional material and association hawkers.
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The reports in STOMP about these food courts and fast food restaurants would usually be followed up quickly by the relevant owners of these outlets, but we dont see such swift action when it comes to public facilities such as hawker centres and wet markets. nothing less can be expected of yabob to say. the pap govt will forever try to appear flawless. this has always been their way to fool people into thinking they are really great and continue to vote for them. (& their million $ salary) luckily in this age of internet, there are alternative source of news & discussion. no … … … … it's the rats 'fault!!
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Wrong found political meaning in her encounters with legless street hawkers and Versace-donning nightclub dandies.
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The small group then began to clamber up the stepsnearly 500 of them, the lower few rows of massive foot-high granite setts muddy and slimy with the daily rise and fall of the river; the upper ones hot and dusty, and alive with hawkers and beggars and confidence men eager to trick any newcomers panting up from the riverside. next »
Excerpt: The Man Who Loved China by Simon Winchester
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The women squatting with their merchandise along the kerbsides become more numerous, the number of hawkers and loiterers crowding the pavements grows larger with every passing step.
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To meet the family's financial needs, his 19 year-old son quit school and now works as a hawker selling vegetables.
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And before long Hawker Siddeley's board of directors agreed to approach Unimation for a licence to make its robot in Britain.
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Nowadays a hawker is a pedlar, and it has been assumed, without sufficient evidence, that the word is of the same origin as huckster.
The Romance of Names
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Designed by Sydney Camm, the Hunter was one of a long line of successful fighting aircraft from the Hawker stable.
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Hawker has always enjoyed the great outdoors.
Times, Sunday Times
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Tickets were sold in advance for $45, but street hawkers were selling them for about $200.
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The curses of the camel-drivers beating the animals; the cries of the hawkers who sold amulets against leprosy and the evil eye; the psalmody of the monks reciting verses of the Bible; the shrieking of the women who were prophesying; the shouting of the beggars singing old songs of the harem; the bleating of sheep; the braying of asses; the sailors calling tardy passengers; all these confused noises caused a deafening uproar, over which dominated the strident voices of the little naked negro boys, running about everywhere selling fresh dates.
Thais
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A wide range of commodities ranging from fruits to light bulbs are sold by enterprising hawkers.
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The 'Hurricane' described by the idiot who gave us the false 'gen' was, of course, the Hawker Typhoon.
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Inside the walls were the rest, the ones who fell into the middle, the lower merchants, traders, dealers, hawkers, along with business of all kinds crammed into the walls.
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The crowd swelled as the day progressed, to the great pleasure of hawkers selling eatables and tea.
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You can tolerate the hawkers for trying to earn an honest living.
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You ought to have instructed your attorney to bring an action against the hawker for criminal conversation with your wife.
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The bridge is frequented by bootleggers and hawkers who are always on the look out for the carabinieri.
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Much the same advice applies as in Spain; avoid leather goods and wooden trinkets, especially those peddled by hawkers who wander the beaches of the Algarve interrupting your sunbathing.
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The city of Johannesburg is developing a programme to assist hawkers who sell food on the streets of the city.
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Recently, both Peter Hawker, chairman of the Consultants and Specialists Committee, and John Hutton, health minister, have said that the contract is not renegotiable if the vote is negative.
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Visitors are battered by a cacophony of cries by hawkers trying to flog a variety of the ubiquitous plastic trinkets and squeaking toys.
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Hawkers of such chicanery have made claims that youth and restored body functions could be brought about through nerve tonics and elixirs of life.
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Goldsmith said the company has considered winglets, but he noted that on the Hawker 700 the aileron extends all the way to the wingtip, and a rams-horn extension forward from the aileron makes mounting a winglet a technical challenge.
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The Hindu hawker is still a figure to be met frequently in the Bush – where he is, indeed, something of an institution.
Mates at Billabong
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Sam: sir, My grandparents was a street hawker, my father is a teacher.
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This is the best term to use for touts - street hawkers who approach you at every tourist stop to ask you to buy things.
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Despite the lights and the trains and the noise, it is quite easy to imagine the cries of the hawkers in a different age.
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Nearly 25 per cent of the collected waste was sold to hawkers.
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In fact, it's just the colorful markings on the "frons," or frontal head and mouth parts, of the female Southern Hawker Aeshna cyanea that makes it look that way, experts told The Daily Telegraph Saturday.
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Hawker's published version accords him a heroic role in retrieving and burying all the Caledonia's dead and succouring her one survivor.
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Brown needs a trained officer if he's to take that arsenal - why, the man's but a peasant, half-crazy, half-iggerant, leadin 'a crew of jayhawkers an' farmers, scrimmagin 'in backyards an' rob-bin 'widder women.
THE NUMBERS
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A common demand by the residents of the Lake Area is that the pavement around the monument be cleared of encroachments and hawkers.
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She was unable to carry out the simplest everyday chores and had had to abandon her previous job as a food hawker.
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Bowring was released from the straps that held him in and was lowered to the ground completely unhurt and thereupon issued an unsolicited testi - monial to the Hawker Hurricane.
The HurricaneStory
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Street corners are dotted with hawkers selling their pies hot from portable ovens.
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The unit has only ever operated one type of manned aircraft and that is the venerable Hawker Hunter.
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He said intelligence agents and police informers had infiltrated villages in the area and worked as drivers, masons and hawkers for months to gather information.
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I went up to the busy hawker and she asked me gruffly what I wanted.
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Ban pushcarts and animal carts from the main roads and ban hawkers from footpaths.
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I also had the privilidge of seeing Linstead Market twice, and also hearing the song performed in the correct time in which it was written, and experiencing the dissapointment of a woman (hawker) who did not sell any akee all day (Saturday) to buy foor for a children for the next week.
Barbados Underground
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On the way out of the chamber afterwards several different party journals were being sold by hawkers.
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At the base there was the mass of peddlers, hawkers, hucksters, at best shopkeepers.
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It is common practice among local traders to exact a rent from street hawkers for using the road or pavement in front of their shops.
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Savvy hawkers quickly responded to the demand for mementoes of the dead king.
Times, Sunday Times
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A 24-year-old hawker, formerly living in lodgings in Byron Street, Bradford and now of Salford, was found not guilty of silvering 24 pennies and nine halfpennies with intent to make them resemble florins and shillings.
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You have sun, sea, sand, and that's about it: no traffic noise, no pollution, no beach hawkers and nothing to interrupt your view of the horizon.
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On the commons and in the fields outside the town, wandering folk of all descriptions - gypsies, ‘hawkers, tinkers, fortune-tellers, horse-copers, and ragamuffins - took up their abode.
