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“All such proofs of a ready mind and skilful handiwork were highly acceptable to the aristocratic hucksteress, so long as she could murmur to herself with a grim smile, and a half-natural sigh, and a sentiment of mixed wonder, pity, and growing affection, --”
“Now, in that very house, to be the hucksteress of a cent-shop.”
“All such proofs of a ready mind, and skilful handiwork, were highly acceptable to the aristocratic hucksteress, so long as she could murmur to herself, with a grim smile, and a half-natural sigh, and a sentiment of mixed wonder, pity, and growing affection, --”
“When therefore Howell and others employ ‘hucksteress’, they fall into the same barbarous excess of expression, whereof we are all guilty, when we use”
“Some of the rabble began to chaffer with this ancient hucksteress.”
“All such proofs of a ready mind and skilful handiwork were highly acceptable to the aristocratic hucksteress, so long as she could murmur to herself with a grim smile, and a half-natural sigh, and a sentiment of mixed wonder, pity, and growing affection: --”
“‘detractress’ (Addison); ‘hucksteress’ (Howell); ‘tutoress’”
“Ha, hucksteress! thou mournest for the traders more than for”
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 55, No. 340, February, 1844
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