bagmen

“To her great surprise and mortification he was not alone; but brought with him a couple of friends, whom he begged to introduce as Mr. Jeremiah Jackson, and Mr. Solomon Smith, chapmen, (or what in modern vulgar parlance would be termed bagmen) travelling to procure orders for the house of an eminent cloth manufacturer in Manchester.”

Jack Sheppard A Romance

“There's nothing on the right, I think, but here on the left is something like our cut -- D-o-l dol, p-h-i-n phin, Dolphin Inn. It's long since I went the circuit, as the commercial gentlemen (or what were called bagmen in my days) term it, but I haven't forgot the experience I gained in my travels, and I whiles turn it to werry good account now.”

Jorrocks' Jaunts and Jollities

“It's an arena where only powerful interests have a say and well paid lobbyists (aka influence-peddling "bagmen") "grease the wheels" of big government to make it work for big business in a "snatch and grab" all you can enterprise that leaves the public largely out in the cold.”

Comments On David Sirota's New Book - Hostile Takeover

“Also there was a small handcase, such as bagmen carry on their rounds.”

Mr. Standfast

“His hatred of Protestant missionaries in the East is phenomenal: he calls them "bagmen," ascribes all mischief and infamy to them, and his hatred is only exceeded by his credulity.”

A History of the warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom

“I have found these so-called 'bagmen' to be among the most pleasant-mannered, agreeable, and intelligent people whom I have met while roaming in provincial”

Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine

“bagmen" that happened to be in the hotel dine at a common table, as a family, and take up a penny collection for the waiter, had its rise in the brain of Cobden.”

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great - Volume 09 Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers

“Are we then reduced to haggling with the Butcher of Tripoli (or his bagmen) for the safety of our citizens in lieu of action that would extract our citizens and impress upon the regime (and others in the region) that we will defend and advance our interests?”

The Washington Post: What will Obama do?

“The City of Chicago, led by Mayor Daley and a vast and tumorous army of aldermen and bagmen and yesmen and opportunists and spineless, parasitic political-machine halfwits of forms never seen outside the roiling cesspool of governmental slop-trough greed, has proven itself unworthy of something as potentially delicious and fulfilling as the 2016 Olympic Games.”

Archive 2009-06-01