bagman

• There were always bundles of patches to give away, so useful to poor mothers; strips of rag for hurts; old flannel, and often new; a little collection of rubbish now and then for the bagman, though very rarely, the breakage being small where there were so few hands used, and they so careful They gave their time, too; for they were the nurses of all the sick, the comforters of all the sorrowful, the advisers of all in difficulty--without parade. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 455 Volume 18, New Series, September 18, 1852
• The retired nabob holds you by the button, to hear his wearisome diatribes on Indian economics; the half-pay officer is too fluent on his worn-out recollections of the Peninsular War, and becomes savage if you broach a new theme, or move to adjourn the debate; the university pedant distracts you with his theories on philology and scansion--with his amended translation of a hexameter in Persius, and his new reading of a line in Theocritus; the bagman is all for 'the shop;' the policeman is redolent of the 'lock-up house 'and 'your wertchup;' the tailor is profoundly knowing on the 'sweating system; 'the son of Crispin vows and protests there's 'nothing like leather.' —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 451 Volume 18, New Series, August 21, 1852
• Then the bagman--I have acquired a positive love for the bagman The what?" —  Sunrise
• 'Go and release the bagman,' he said Tisn't my garage,' I pleaded. —  A Diversity of Creatures
• Without him large sections of the public would probably remain ignorant for years of new brands of cigarettes, and dyspeptic people might never come across the foods which Americans prepare for their use Also the individual bagman is often not without his charm. —  Hyacinth

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