pedlar

How To Use pedlar In A Sentence

• He was the very pedlar they had made fun of and poured beer into a stocking for him to drink; but honesty and industry bring one forward, and now the pedlar was the possessor of the baronial estate. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
• _Dukes-couper_ I take to be a petty dealer in ducks or poultry, and to be used in a reproachful sense, as we find "pedlar," "jockey," &c. Notes and Queries, Number 69, February 22, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
• _Unchanged: _ chaunted [chanted] cotemporary/ies [contemporary/ies] descendent [descendant] devest [divest] monkies [monkeys] mystries [mysteries] pedler [pedlar] surprize [surprise] wo [woe] wonderous [wondrous] then "hear him, hear him," loudly rings, [final comma is unclear] assuage their wrath or heal the wound, [comma is unclear] _Corrected: _ The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810
• Take the look on the face of the young wife whose husband is thinking of the price of the cloth a pedlar is showing her.
• Ay," replied mine host, laughing, "and he who meets him may meet his match -- the pedlar is a tall man. Kenilworth
• He said: ‘A lot of pedlars are unlicenced and you don't know how genuine they are or where the merchandise has come from.
• “Ay,” replied mine host, laughing, “and he who meets him may meet his match — the pedlar is a tall man.” Kenilworth
• I remember also the peripatetic knife grinder and his trundling machine, the muffin man, the pedlar and his wares, the furmity wheat vendor, who trudged along with his welcome cry of Fifty Years of Railway Life in England Scotland and Ireland
• In the long winter evenings the mistress and her maids sat at the spinning-wheel in the large hall; every Sunday the counsellor -- this title the pedlar had obtained, although only in his old days -- read aloud a portion from the Bible. Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen
• 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