peddler

• The Caliph selected something for himself, a handsome present for the Vizier, and another for the Vizier's wife Just as the peddler was putting the things back into his box, the Caliph noticed a small drawer and asked what it contained Only something of no value, which I picked up in a street of Mecca," the peddler replied. —  Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1
• He went to work as a peddler, and when the great rebellion(34) began and the oppressors drove the friends to the extreme of adversity, he too was among the prisoners and was exiled with us to the fortress at Akk He spent a considerable time in the Most Great Prison, after which Bahá’u’lláh desired him to leave for Sidon, where he engaged in trade. —  Memorials of the Faithful
• She didn't make me feel like a peddler, as so many of them do. —  Flower of the Dusk
• But it was not the lank figure of the book-peddler, her betrothed, that darkened the door. —  Lippincott's Magazine, October 1885
• In person, the peddler was a man above the middle height, spare, but full of bone and muscle. —  The Spy

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