barkers

If you're one of the "barkers", you're stuck with that too.

Archive 2009-06-01

If you're one of the "barkers", you're stuck with that too.

Doggy Intuition

As the village was too small to supply the entire gang of fifty, I had recourse to the neighboring settlements, where my "barkers," or agents, did their work in a masterly manner.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Mr. Ormond, Ahmah-de-Bellah, and myself, locked the doors of the warehouse, and traded through a window, while our "barkers" distributed the goods to the Africans, often using their whips to keep the chattering and disputatious scamps in order.

Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver

Always out of sympathy with such displays, but now more than ever repelled by them, Grace and Gregory hurried away to find themselves penned in a court, surrounded on all sides by strident cries of "barkers", cracking reports from target-practice, fusillades at the "doll-babies", clanging jars from strength-testers and the like; while from this horrid field of misguided energy, there was no outlet save the narrow entrance they had unwittingly used.

Fran

At this time of day the Bowery, always a busy thoroughfare, was swarming with people, and the numerous "barkers" for the clothing stores, photograph establishments, and the like, were doing their best to make trade come to them.

The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle Or, The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht

At this time of day the Bowery, always a busy thoroughfare, was swarming with people, and the numerous "barkers" for the clothing stores, photograph establishments, and the like, were doing their best to make trade come to them.

The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht.

They yelled at me and I felt as if I were in the clutches of the "barkers" of a downtown clothing-house.

Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques

“Sixthly: the prisoners called barkers, who summon the other prisoners to the parlor, force the prisoner to pay them two sous to call his name distinctly.

Les Miserables

Normally there's a couple of "barkers" trying to get you into one of the smaller restaurants that shoot off from even smaller passages.

Prague Monitor