fishmonger

• Then I heard the gate go again and I looked out to see if it was the fishmonger, and I saw that it was Mr Potter. —  Death of a Ghost - Margery Allingham - Campion 06
• She spoke fluently and loudly but not very pertinently, whereupon the fishmonger, affronted at hearing himself described as a “futile little bourgeois,” an epithet of which he only perfectly comprehended the tone and the initial letters, turned savagely upon her and called her “a bloodstained Bolshevik conscientious objector” to her face. —  The Tiger In The Smoke - Allingham, Margery - Albert Campion 15
• To be under the shadow of the fishmonger was greatness itself. —  The Reminiscences Of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)
• In his simple cotton robes, this newcomer could have easily passed for a fishmonger or merchant in textiles, thin wisps of mustaches drooping over his thick lips, his eyes half-lidded as though he were just waking from a long slumber. —  Asimov's SF, July 2007
• The baskets of the fishmonger are covered in flies, but that doesn't deter the buyers from examining the offerings, poking their fingers into the gray mass to extract the item of their choice.

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