costermonger

• Tommy needs to be aware that, when he's in an enclosed space with a small number of people, he doesn't need to talk like a costermonger calling attention to his bananas and blood oranges. —  Splintered Sunrise
• The daughter of a costermonger, Maisie managed to pull herself up in a society where a woman, particularly one of the servant class (which is where Maisie humbly began), had few choices. —  A Work in Progress
• They seemed happy enough; good-natured; sometimes even with a word of chaff for the costermonger whom they ordered to move on, him and his barrow These not very anxious experiments, and quite idle speculations about the uses of various forms of labour, might have gone on indefinitely but for the very certain fact that Douglas's small stock of money was being slowly but surely exhausted. —  The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols
• The father of one of my boys was a costermonger, and had a horse that he had obtained very cheap because it had a disease of the legs.
• Barrows with towering piles of luggage are pushed through the human mass by two porters, who allow their engine to make its own way with much confidence, condescending only at a time to shout, "A' say, hey, oot o' there," and treating any testy complaint with the silent contempt of a drayman for a costermonger. —  Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers

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