pedlar's

In his experience, a lad "Who thinks with love to fix a woman's will" is "simple" because "keep [ing] his pockets bare" by "spend [ing] half his wages on pedlar's ware" is the only way to keep a lover (63).

'[S]hak[ing] the dwellings of the great': Liberation in Joanna Baillie’s Poems (1790) 2008

From the moment you heard of the pedlar's arrest you began a hunt for some manor where the woman might have found a shelter through the winter, where someone might be able to testify to her being alive well after she parted from Britric.

The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989

You should have seen the pedlar's face when I brought her into his cell, and he took one long look at the decent, respectable shape of her, and then at her face closely, and his mouth fell open, he found her so hard to believe.

The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989

It held bottles of all kinds marked "Cold Cures, " "Cures for Warts, " "Lotion for Chilblains, " and all kinds of weird concoctions that Fatty had invented himself for his pedlar's pack!

The Mystery of the Vanished Prince Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1966

'Fancy you coming along in a pedlar's van-all dressed up as a Tauri-Hessian-really, it's too queer to be true.'

The Circus of Adventure Blyton, Enid, 1898?-1968 1952

"O prince of philosophers in pedlar's disguise!" murmured the hakeem.

Tales of Destiny Edmund Mitchell

I am told that children do not now find them in a pedlar's pack as we once found them, accompanied by buns and peddled like them at recess time.

A Mother's List of Books for Children Gertrude Weld Arnold

A long while elapsed, however, before he espied Hsüeh P'an in the distance, hurrying along astride of a high steed, with gaping mouth, staring eyes, and his head, banging from side to side like a pedlar's drum.

Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

Lecour remained, and shouldering a pedlar's pack, plodded about the country selling red handkerchiefs, sashes, and jack-knives to the peasantry.

The False Chevalier or, The Lifeguard of Marie Antoinette William Douw Lighthall

The end soon came, for, raising his stout ash pole high up in the air, De la Zouch brought it down with, tremendous force, and easily breaking through the pedlar's guard, it alighted heavily upon his head.

Heiress of Haddon William E. Doubleday