How To Use touter In A Sentence
- But it could not be so gloomy in the kind sunlight as it was when lashed by the savage storm which we had seen it cowering under before; and at the station we lost all feeling of friendlessness in the welcome of the thronging guides and hotel touters. Familiar Spanish Travels
- The world number one, stout Rod Harrington was pitted against the even stouter hopeful, Ronnie Baxter.
- Tom's evil genius did not lead him into the dens of any of those preparers of cannibalic pastry, who are represented in many standard country legends as doing a lively retail business in the Metropolis; nor did it mark him out as the prey of ring-droppers, pea and thimble-riggers, duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers, who are, perhaps, a little better known to the Police. Martin Chuzzlewit
- The introduction of heavy guns for naval warfare and the need to transport larger cargoes faster led to stouter hulls and more masts for more sails.
- Railway: Atlantic and Pacific, _see Atlantic_; to Castlemaine, 79; carriage, American, 251; smash, 289; touters at S. Francisco, 247. A Boy's Voyage Round the World
- With that dead weight gone I could just keep my grip, and with a mighty heave hauled myself into the thicket, catching a stouter branch and getting a leg over it — and suddenly there was an appalling crack, the branch gave way, and down I went, entangled in a mesh of leaves and withies, under the surface, helpless in the grip of the current which swept me away. Flashman on the March
- Carcharodon is actually quite heterodont: the upper jaw teeth are wider and stouter than the lower jaw teeth, the teeth decrease markedly in size towards the corners of the mouth, and the crown of the third upper jaw tooth is short compared to its neighbours, and has ScienceBlogs Channel : Life Science
- To build one, you will need three to six poles - thin ones for flowers or lightweight plants, stouter ones for heavily fruited crops.
- The toes are protected by numberless little strings of curled untearable paper, which, when webbed, make the sole, heel, and back of the sandal, and this is joined to the point of the shoe by a stouter cord going right round, which is also made of the same kind of twisted paper. Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm
- It has, however, proportionally a stouter stem than Lycopodium; its leaves, when seen in profile, seem more rectilinear and thin; and none of its branches yet found bear the fructiferous stalk or spike. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
