costermonger's

In Fatherhood Reclaimed, Adrienne Burgess quotes a London costermonger's poem in 1870.

At least Eve Arnold had the chance to break the mould | Yvonne Roberts 2012

Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son.

Review: The Tea Rose tinylittlelibrarian 2008

Here, by the whispering waters of the Thames, Fiona Finnegan, a worker in a tea factory, hopes to own a shop one day, together with her lifelong love, Joe Bristow, a costermonger's son.

Archive 2008-12-01 tinylittlelibrarian 2008

On the first corner, beside a seller of peppermint water, they had to wait several moments for a lull in traffic before they could cross, dodging between carts, carriages and drays, and a costermonger's barrow being pushed, oblivious of pedestrians.

A Funeral In Blue Perry, Anne, 1938- 2001

The wheels were heavy, cumbrous and ill put together; they were not well adapted for the costermonger's purpose, and will probably fall to pieces before long.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

Dividing that by the number of buttons on a costermonger's waistcoat, and adding to the quotient the number of aspirates picked up in the Old

Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 5, 1890 Various

Shaftsbury's mental processes show the generations of aristocratic breeding even in his costermonger's cart lovingly winning these men, or after midnight searching out the waifs of London's nooks and docks.

Quiet Talks on Power S.D. Gordon

Do I mean the gentleman who wheels about a costermonger's table-cart, whereon he makes a number of unfortunate canaries pull about tiny carriages, with yokes, shaped like those of the Roman chariots, and fire cannons, and appear as if they liked it; while a decrepit white mouse runs up a cane flag-staff, supporting himself finally, and very uncomfortably, on the top?

She and I, Volume 1

And His Majesty laid his hand on the costermonger's shoulder and replied, "Thank God for a good people".

Defence of Liberty—There and Here 1941

Louis Diemschutz was driving his costermonger's barrow to the IWMC building at 40 Berner Street.

Portrait of a Killer Cornwell, Patricia 1930