How To Use Pedlar In A Sentence
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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
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_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.
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The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor Vol I, No. 2, February 1810
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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.
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Ay," replied mine host, laughing, "and he who meets him may meet his match -- the pedlar is a tall man.
Kenilworth
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He said: ‘A lot of pedlars are unlicenced and you don't know how genuine they are or where the merchandise has come from.
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“Ay,” replied mine host, laughing, “and he who meets him may meet his match — the pedlar is a tall man.”
Kenilworth
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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
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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
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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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They were in the tradition of colportage, hawked by street pedlars who entered bars and workshops, or sold by tobacconists, newsagents, or at railway kiosks.
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At the corner of the lane, Rawnose the pedlar was standing with his tray slung around his neck by a tattered red ribbon.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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The boy and the dog relish the scamper, but the pedlar fingers his rosary to ward off the threat of a drenching.
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From the alleyway outside came the " tock - tock ! " of a dumpling - pedlar striking his bamboo tube.
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Sacco, a factory worker, and Vanzetti, a fish pedlar, were arrested for the murder.
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The roads were thronged with petty chapmen, with their news-sheets, tracts, almanacs, cautionary tales, pamphlets full of homespun wisdom; pedlars with trinkets of all sorts; and travelling entertainers.
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A substantial number of Italians who came to Britain as entertainers in the early part of the nineteenth century, especially the Punch and Judy showmen, organ grinders and pedlars of the 1840s.
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And smaller books were not just available from bookshops: all cities and towns would have had pedlars or chapmen selling pamphlets from trays or baskets hanging from their necks.
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Dear, brave Cherry-Cheeks sent it home by the hands of a vagrom pedlar, laboriously and exactly writing on the package the inscription she found on the fly leaf:
The Yeoman Adventurer
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The rogueries of Autolycus, the pedlar, add amusement to the later scenes of the play.
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a gilt head in his hand, and a bundle in a handkerchief over his shoulder, exciting the cupidity of every Irish raparee who passes him, by his resemblance to a Jew pedlar who has sent forward his pack -- Linton, tired of trailing his long legs, exalted in state upon an Irish garron, without stirrups, and a halter on its head, tempting every one to ask --
Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume I (of 10)
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One could hardly say that he was to blame for that, either, as the photographer who paid for the item didn't say the pedlar was a woman, and the boy was no clairvoyant.
In Our Town
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir
Waverley — Volume 2
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It had not before occurred to me that a pedlar was a great man in a labourer's alehouse; but now that I had to enact the part for an evening I found that so it was.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 1 (of 25)
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The pedlar had clambered out from behind the stall to look.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir Bawty.'
Waverley
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A pedlar, too, who has got through a portion of the Excursion before the sun has illumed the mountain-tops, is mortifying, with his piled pack and ellwand.
Recreations of Christopher North, Volume 2
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The pedlar louted to Master William with obsequious respect, said his goodday, and made off to his lodging.
A Rare Benedictine
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At the corner of the lane, Rawnose the pedlar was standing with his tray slung around his neck by a tattered red ribbon.
A SHRINE OF MURDERS
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The pedlar had clambered out from behind the stall to look.
SKORPION'S DEATH
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Trapeze artists, clowns, and ragamuffins were his companions in this enclosed universe of painted horses and pedlars with their orientalist wares.
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Even as late as the second half of the nineteenth century, glasses were provided by itinerant pedlars.
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The pedlar cast the scale slightly.
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir Bawty,'
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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The family had given shelter to an old pedlar.
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Is it that different from the travelling pedlar who hawked his wares warning that he wouldn't be there tomorrow?
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That was not so bad, but it turned out that the pedlar was a woman, and she came with a rawhide and camped in the office for two days waiting for Jimmy, while he came in and out of the back door, stuck his copy on the hook by stealth, and travelled only in the alleys to get his news.
In Our Town
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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.'
Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
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Can it be right to demand so much of such a young child, however great his talent appears and however wretched a life sold by his poverty-stricken mother to a pedlar who beat him he had led before?
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The escutcheons of the proud old knights are still carved over the doors, whence issue these miserable greasy hucksters and pedlars.
Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo
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I'll be hanged, said she," if Sawney Waddle, the pedlar, has not got up in a dream and done it, for I heard him very obstropulous in his sleep, Sure I put a chamberpot under his bed!
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Waddle, the pedlar, has not got up in a dream and done it, for I heard him very obstropulous in his sleep, Sure I put a chamberpot under his bed!
The Adventures of Roderick Random
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Absurd were the number and variety of offices embraced by the Test Ac:; non-commissioned officers as well as officers - excisemen, tidewaiters, and even pedlars.
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Writing in 1929, Paynter recalled an itinerant pedlar who had visited fairs around East Cornwall almost two decades previously.
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There came to light about the yeare of Christ 1561, a very deformed impe, begotten by a certain Pedlar of Germany: namely a booke of German rimes of al that euer were read the most filthy and most slanderous against the nation of Island.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
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Before then, buying and selling occurred through fairs, market-stalls, artisans' workshops, or itinerant pedlars.
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`This is one of the original pedlar dolls made in London in the nineteenth century.
THE CLUE IN THE OLD ALBUM
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Fiercely independent, many Indians preferred to set up their own businesses, as street pedlars, entertainers and fortune-tellers.
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir Bawty,'
Waverley: or, 'Tis sixty years since
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir Bawty.'
Waverley
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Power, pipelines, pandying to warlords who may or may not be Muslim but are thieves, murderers, rapists, poppypedlars and all round blackguards.
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The pedlar cast the scale slightly.
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She did quite a wholesale trade with pedlars who used to retail the goods door to door in the surrounding villages.
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They came as sailors, pedlars, traders of all sorts, cloth merchants, spice dealers, preachers, teachers and sometimes all of the above in a single lifetime.
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'Very likely,' answered the pedlar, with great composure; 'but ne'ertheless, I shall take leave to whistle again upon puir
Waverley — Volume 2
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The boy and the dog relish the scamper, but the pedlar fingers his rosary to ward off the threat of a drenching.
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I got a chanter from a Chinese pedlar in the street in the morning -- heard the unmistakeable reedy notes coming along the street as I did business in the the cool office of
From Edinburgh to India & Burmah
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A few pedlar still contend for move and her to sign have exclusive selling rights contract.
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Between these two extremes there are several mediate varieties - consisting of pedlars, showmen, harvest-men, and all that large class who live by either selling, showing, or doing something through the country.
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`This is one of the original pedlar dolls made in London in the nineteenth century.
THE CLUE IN THE OLD ALBUM
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Then there is a quilted calamanco coat, and a pair of stockings I bought of the pedlar, and my straw-hat with blue strings; and a remnant of Scots cloth, which will make two shirts and two shifts, the same I have on, for my poor father and mother.
Pamela
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Then there is a quilted calamanco coat, and a pair of stockings I bought of the pedlar, and my straw-hat with blue strings; and a remnant of Scots cloth, which will make two shirts and two shifts, the same I have on, for my poor father and mother.
Pamela
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The roads were thronged with petty chapmen, with their news-sheets, tracts, almanacs, cautionary tales, pamphlets full of homespun wisdom; pedlars with trinkets of all sorts; and travelling entertainers.
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It had not before occurred to me that a pedlar was a great man in a labourer's ale-house; but now that I had to enact the part for an evening, I found that so it was.
An Inland Voyage
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Disguised as a travelling pedlar or tailor and his wife, they eventually reach Germany.
