herb-seller

The fishwoman of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer.

Les Miserables 2008

And neither did you, if that was your object, come to me as a philosopher, but as you might have gone to a herb-seller or

The Golden Sayings of Epictetus circa 55-135 AD Epictetus

Notwithstanding the fact that his mother had been an herb-seller, it is probable that his father was a man of some family.

The Tragedies of Euripides, Volume I. 480? BC-406 BC Euripides

And neither did you, if that was your object, come to me as a philosopher, but as you might have gone to a herb-seller or a cobbler.

XCIII Epictetus 1909

AN ASS, belonging to an herb-seller who gave him too little food and too much work made a petition to Jupiter to be released from his present service and provided with another master.

Fables Aesop 1880

Here is a druggist and herb-seller, with huge spectacles on his nose, at the left of the main entrance; a butcher displays his meats in a show-window on the right, serving his customers over the sill; a clothier is in the rear of the shop, while a balcony filled with tailors or cigar-makers hangs half way to the ceiling.

A Bit of Old China Charles Warren Stoddard 1876

The fish-woman of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer.

Les Miserables, Volume III, Marius 1862

The fishwoman of Dumarsais can retort on the herb-seller of Euripides, the discobols Vejanus lives again in the Forioso, the tight-rope dancer.

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

a druggist and herb-seller, with huge spectacles on his nose, at the left of the main entrance; a butcher displays his meats in a show-window on the right, serving his customers over the sill; a clothier is in the rear of the shop, while a balcony filled with tailors or cigar-makers hangs half-way to the ceiling.

In the Footprints of the Padres Charles Warren Stoddard 1876