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  • Logan [A Pedlar's Pack of Ballads and Songs, 1869 -- T], p. 82, from a broadside of about 1760.

    The Battle of Almanza 1997

  • These lines are of little interest apart from the fact of being the earliest known example of the Canting speech or Pedlar's French in

    Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896] John S. Farmer

  • Each of these stories has the sharp impact of an emotional crisis -- the compressed quality of one of Margaret Pedlar's widely read novels.

    Glory of Youth Temple Bailey 1912

  • He clapped the boy on the back, and after referring to a clasp-knive which he remembered to have left on the grass opposite the Pedlar's Rest, announced his intention of going back for it.

    Salthaven 1903

  • Pedlar's Rest, began to hatch schemes of deliverance.

    Salthaven 1903

  • Pedlar's Prophecy_, were either Burbage's or Admiral's properties.

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

  • Pedlar's Prophecy_, _The Three Ladies of London_, and _The Three Lords and Three Ladies_, and certain parallels between the two latter and

    Shakespeare's Lost Years in London, 1586-1592 Arthur Acheson 1897

  • He handled slang as one who knew its limits and possibilities, employing it not for the sake of eccentricity, but to give the proper colour and sparkle to his page; indeed, his intimate acquaintance with the vagabonds of speech enabled him to compile a dictionary of Pedlar's French, which has been pilfered by a whole battalion of imitators.

    A Book of Scoundrels 1896

  • Brodie, the amateur, courted the society of all cross coves, and would rather express himself in Pedlar's French than in his choicest Scots.

    A Book of Scoundrels 1896

  • Brodie, the amateur, courted the society of all cross coves, and would rather express himself in Pedlar's French than in his choicest Scots.

    A Book of Scoundrels Charles Whibley 1894

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