rag-fair

Our orators and writers are of the same poverty, and, in this rag-fair, neither the Imagination, the great awakening power, nor the Morals, creative of genius and of men, are addressed.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 01, No. 03, January, 1858 Various

And another specialty of the Roman Ghetto is that it is not altogether easy to obtain a sight of the miscellaneous treasures of this rag-fair.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Various

We went to the Lung Fu-Ssu, a sort of rag-fair held every ten days in the grounds of an old temple in the East City.

Peking Dust Ellen Newbold La Motte 1917

The Jewish quarter in Prague is the same as the rag-fair in Vienna and the Temple in Paris.

The History of a Lie 'The Protocols of the Wise Men of Zion' Herman Bernstein 1905

I don't mean merely poor in fortune, in ragged draggled clothes, the sweepings of those rag-fair quarters, but poor in wretched, ill-grown, ill, dull, stupid bodies and souls, draggle-tailed like their clothes, only two savage-looking peasants having dignity or grace.

The Spirit of Rome Vernon Lee 1895

This litter, this dust-heap (for it is after all not much better, few great or precious or perfect things remaining), dust-heap or rag-fair symbolised by its own most barbarous and vilest and most venerable parts along the Tiber and under the Capitoline, -- this

The Spirit of Rome Vernon Lee 1895

In that sort of rag-fair, witch-burning ground limited only by the island and the belfries of Trastevere which

The Spirit of Rome Vernon Lee 1895

You look out of a window and behold, close by, the unspeakable rag-fair of that foul quarter, with its yells and cries rising up and stench of cheap cooking.

The Spirit of Rome Vernon Lee 1895

And her sweet and honest eyes have never looked upon that rag-fair of nonsense we call

The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches Marie Corelli 1889

What a rag-fair your closet was -- and you did not tell me!

Memories of Hawthorne Rose Hawthorne Lathrop 1888