How To Use Peddler In A Sentence
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The interior of Port Rand was a veritable rat race of peasants and merchant peddlers, who constantly roamed the streets.
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The cart, disguised as a kerosene peddler's wagon, was suspicious because it had no spigot to dispense fuel.
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At an age when other kids play with toys, he was a street peddler of peanuts and a shoe-shiner.
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As for the musical's other antique qualities, we're not even going to get into the slightly creepy circumstances of Cable's liaison with gentle, younger-than-springtime Liat, arranged by her vulturous mother, the trinket peddler Bloody Mary.
Smooth sailing
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Workers in this informal sector include tinsmiths, seamstresses, bakers, carpenters, and peddlers.
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The boys were in the habit of filching fruit from the peddler's carts.
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It is difficult to write of the relation of the older and most foreign-looking immigrants to the children of other people – the Italians whose fruit-carts are upset simply because they are "dagoes," or the Russian peddlers who are stoned and sometimes badly injured because it has become a code of honor in a gang of boys to thus express their derision.
Twenty Years at Hull-House, With Autobiographical Notes
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On the other hand, the hereditary dogmatism of their Southern kinsmen, is manifested in the summary disposition these make of all vagabond Yankees -- tinkers and peddlers -- found strolling about without any "local habitation," whenever they suspect them of being abolition emmissaries: for they incontinently ride the poor fellows on rails, and ornament their backs with a coat of tar and feathers, and sometimes administer to them hydropathically, giving them a succession of gentle douses in the nearest mill-pond, or oftener perhaps, in the pond attached to the nearest farmer's goosery.
Social relations in our Southern States,
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Street sellers then drafted a so-called peddler's ordinance that would exempt them from anti-noise restrictions, but in late spring 1911, in a much-anticipated decision, the city council rejected the proposed amendment.
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Police of the monopoly bureau, under the excuse of stopping the illegal sale of cigarettes, began attacking child peddlers and robbing them of their cigarettes.
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He has at one time or another promoted an image of a pimp daddy mack, a dope peddler, a businessman, a political teacher, a gangsta, and a revolutionary.
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In that, I propose an extension to the definition of "peddler.
Adam Foldes: 'Spinster'? What About 'Peddler'? A Gender Inequality in Terms of Commitment
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Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
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The peddler sold his wares cheap.
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The peddler could almost hear him counting the pennies concealed in the bundle he clutched so protectively.
THIS HEART OF MINE
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Meanwhile, for many of the rest of us, so used to devilling the advertising world as peddlers of greed and consumerism, it may be time to applaud and commend the bright spots around that we see.
Avertising and Social Change
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The peddler was a middle-aged woman who is always happy to talk with travellers.
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Luckily, the peddlers of this dangerous message haven't come up with a catchy jingle.
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We have had long experience of that unmemorable felicity which consists in having no history, so far as history is made up of battles, revolutions, and changes of dynasty; but the present generation has never been called upon to learn that deepest lesson of polities which is taught by a common danger, throwing the people back on their national instincts, and superseding party-leaders, the peddlers of chicane, with men adequate to great occasions and dealers in destiny.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays
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Peddlers Cross was an easy winner of the Morebattle Hurdle at Kelso as he limbered up for a run in the Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham.
Peddlers Cross heads for Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham after easy win
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Peddlers and gleemen are welcome," Heirn replied curtly.
The Shadow Rising
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Others dealt with hucksters, peddlers who accepted chestnuts and other goods in exchange for merchandise.
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When the prince who is now king sees me so old with a cartful of bottles and the mirror, he says, what is this peddler woman doing in my castle?
Mirror Mirror
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But there is one thing everyone should be careful about - many peddlers deliberately place some fakes among the low-grade antiques.
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Motkeh, the fish-peddler, is looking for a wife to cook him his eating and take care on his children," she was saying in her shrill, grating voice.
Hungry Hearts
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PANAJI: A non-bailable warrant has been issued against a constable for his alleged involvement in the drug peddler-police nexus case in Panaji, police said on Monday.
The Times of India
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At the base there was the mass of peddlers, hawkers, hucksters, at best shopkeepers.
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The peddler approaches the narrator adopting a pidgin English.
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Workers in this informal sector include tinsmiths, seamstresses, bakers, carpenters, and peddlers.
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By 1919, U.S. textile mills churned out more than three hundred million square yards of cotton gingham alone. 3 Much of this fabric was intended for use by the garment industry, but it was also sold by the yard in catalogs, at department and specialty stores, and by peddlers.
"Make It Yourself": Home Sewing, Gender, and Culture, 1890-1930
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Itinerant peddlers took rags and bones from customers in trade for manufactured goods.
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Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
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By the way Lance, I applaud your use of alliteration and assonance; "Teutonic turd peddler" is so much more poetic than "German shit merchant.
10,000 BC IS A CRITICAL DARLING
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Ho, landlord!" cried the Peddler, "bring this good fellow another pot of ale, for truly it is a credit to us all to have one among us who can empty a canakin so lustily.
The Adventures of Robin Hood
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And he looked a peddler just opening his pack.
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Nearly once a month influence peddlers from different worlds gather to gossip, talk business, and schmooze at his Hollywood Hills home.
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Mamma swallowed as if a dry artichoke was in her throat, as she said, slowly, "Why, colonel, you know you had not worn that coat for months, and as you have another one, and a _roquelaure_, and the coat was full of moth-holes, I exchanged it with the peddler for cut glass and plate.
The Wit and Humor of America, Volume II. (of X.)
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Quacks or quack salvers are named from quicksilver ointment peddlers who treated syphilis in the 16th century.
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Look lads, I'm a peddler… not some gleeman or minstrel.
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Pelosi's comment, and Gingrich's forceful comeback, served up a stark view of the potholes the longtime politician-turned-Washington influence peddler he resists the label "lobbyist" faces on his quest to win the GOP nomination.
News
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I thought his favor was excessive; certainly I never thought their powers were any more real than those cheapjack toadstone-peddlers or the granny-wives who claim they can put a bad word on someone's cow.
The Silent Tower
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They came to work in the large industrial cities of the Northeast and Midwest as factory laborers, peddlers, busboys, and bootblacks.
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Peddler" could be just what it takes to get the wheels turning on a rethink of gender expectations in commitment, and also a label toward which some men may not want to steer, so instead, put on the breaks.
Adam Foldes: 'Spinster'? What About 'Peddler'? A Gender Inequality in Terms of Commitment
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When the spirit ration was stopped, illicit trade in the "crathur" was carried on by Jews and peddlers, who hung around the camp a short distance out in the woods.
Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures in the Infantry, Ordnance, Cavalry, Courier, and Hospital Services; With an Exhibition of the Power, Purposes, Earnestness, Military Despotism, and Demoralization of the South
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Scrap firms sometimes employed peddlers and scavengers, but they more frequently relied solely on the skills of the owner to sort and evaluate scrap from refuse.
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In 1929 she had the property covered and the dealers, the clothes traders, the second-hand merchants, the knick-knack sellers, the peddlers, were out of the rain, and so were the customers.
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Some have been forced to find work as street musicians, peddlers and beggars.
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Peddlers and their advocates also drafted a so-called peddler's ordinance to exempt their cries from regulation under the anti-noise ordinance.
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The peddler melammed [teacher], going from door to door with siddur and Humash in hand, teaching boys and girls their aleph-bet, or the Old World rabbi confronting scores of boys in a basement heder, stood in stark contrast to the modern public school, with its imposing building and its corps of well-trained American teachers.
Education of Jewish Girls in the United States.
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The peddler in disguise showed Snow White her beautiful, colorful laces.
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The classic Volkswagen bus is a versatile beast - hippies, surfers, nuns, hot rodders and fruit-peddlers have all used the big, slow veedub as their primary means of conveyance.
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Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
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But these books are short - about twenty pages each - and without a spine, so we can call them chapbooks, which once meant works of popular literature sold for a few pennies, carried around by peddlers or ‘chapmen’.
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That bull was riled plum to a franzy and that tin peddler was yaller as a punkin.
Blue Ridge Country
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The only outsiders that came here was the occasional peddler and once a gleeman came through the village and stayed at the Inn his father owned.
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` sir, master, 'a word borrowed by Hindi from Arabic; boxwallah ` peddler' combines English box and Hindi wallah ` person in charge of a particular thing '; chotapeg ` half-sized drink' unites Hindi chota
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
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Those Luddites who once argued that we should protect jobs by resisting advances in labor-saving technology are rightly regarded as fools by today's peddlers of standard economic wisdom.
The High Cost of a Cheap Pound
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There was a lot of freight switching for the local peddler to do here at White Sulphur, as there was everywhere, with stock pens in the early years, and LCL freight in box cars, and coal hoppers.
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Those were two of the things Aiel did to those who came into the Waste uninvited; only gleemen, peddlers, and Tinkers had safe passage, though Aiel avoided the Tinkers as if they carried fever.
The Fires of Heaven
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I thought there were three kinds of people you Aiel let come out here in the Waste; peddlers, gleemen, and the Traveling People.
The Shadow Rising
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I thought his favor was excessive; certainly I never thought their powers were any more real than those cheapjack toadstone-peddlers or the granny-wives who claim they can put a bad word on someone's cow.
The Silent Tower
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Workers in this informal sector include tinsmiths, seamstresses, bakers, carpenters, and peddlers.
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Peddlers also performed an ecological function as consummate street scavengers, collectors, and recycling artists.
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Slave-Power; such apologists and supporters of Wrong; such pusillanimous, weak-hearted advocates of the unpopular Right; such slaves to Cotton and its threats, that we had almost lost the God-given independence of American freemen, and seemed -- thank God! events have proved only _seemed_ -- to be entirely given up to money and mechanics, to have become, indeed, a nation of peddlers.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 1, July, 1862
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Sometimes women worked as cooks or as itinerant peddlers of small goods on the street.
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Even as the cordon of anti-noise ordinances tightened around peddlers, evidence also suggested that opinions differed on the subject of reasonable enforcement.
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Most people who visit Fun Town expect to be able to sit quietly at an outside beer boozer and be pestered around 800 times an hour by the forlorn multitude of watch sellers, shoe shiners, cigarette floggers, carpet baggers, flower peddlers, photo snappers and others too numerous to mention.
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Nearby Silas's cottage, they find a tinderbox, which makes a townsman recall that a peddler who'd come to town recently carried a tinderbox.
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The streets, once bustling with peddlers, coca farmers and shady profiteers are now quiet at night.
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Elkin does not wonder what it would be like if he were an elderly ragman, a peddler trundling a cart down the street and crying ‘Regs, all cloze.’
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And so an alternative solution to hymenorrhaphy, many street peddlers in China now offer artificial hymens or maidenheads that inflate inside a woman's vagina, after which it can be
Today.Az
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vintner" and "peddler" of his objurgations, and meekly whispers into his ear with the air of a conspirator reporting a plot to his chief.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
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First-generation Greeks who were fruit and vegetable peddlers became owners of grocery stores; flower vendors opened florist shops.
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She flushed bright red and looked attentively at the two books Cermit had bought from a peddler who'd come through Whitherby.
A PLAGUE OF ANGELS
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That morning, a peddler on Broad Street had extended a constellation of needle marks into her path, hand holding a fake plastic flower.
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In 1880, the Federal census reported 2,690 commercial travelers, hucksters, and peddlers based in Chicago - 98 percent of whom were men.
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The peddler melammed [teacher], going from door to door with siddur and Humash in hand, teaching boys and girls their aleph-bet, or the Old World rabbi confronting scores of boys in a basement heder, stood in stark contrast to the modern public school, with its imposing building and its corps of well-trained American teachers.
Education of Jewish Girls in the United States.
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Prices were partly determined by the efficiency of merchants, traders, and peddlers, as we will see in the next section.
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But not all of the critics who have attacked the President for being dishonest are peddlers of these way-out notions.
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The city streets were filled with peddlers and merchants shouting and trying to attract customers.
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Classical philosophers refer to them with contempt, as peddlers of absolution for a modest fee.
