street-cries

There she heard the loudspeaker begin to bellow, in an idiotically velveteen-genteel sort of voice, something about a series of street-cries, the very cream of genteel affectation imitating old criers.

Lady Chatterley's Lover 2004

You may hear boys and men imitating the most inharmonious and vociferous street-cries solely for the purpose of exercising their lungs and making a noise.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 100, April, 1876 Various

In the finest residence portions of some American cities we have been frequently disturbed by the street-cries of hucksters during divine service on Sunday mornings, while the ear-piercing shouts of newspaper venders disturb all the peace of the early morning hours.

In and Around Berlin Minerva Brace Norton

But the street-cries of this city are countless; from the man who brings round the daily broccoli to the one who has a wild boar for sale, not one but is determined that you shall hear all about it.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 4, April, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

London, with its crowded, busy thoroughfares, its thronged markets, and its discordant street-cries, must have seemed a strange place to the little travellers after their experience of Continental cities.

Story-Lives of Great Musicians Francis Jameson Rowbotham

Old clothes men are permitted a string of bells on their carts, which all jangle out of tune and at once, while street-cries of all descriptions abound in such numbers and of such a quality that I often wonder that the very babies trundled by in their perambulators do not go into spasms with the confusion of it.

At Home with the Jardines Lilian Bell

He would gladly have seen all street-cries abolished: the "elfin note of the milkman" had no charm for him.

Mr. Punch`s history of modern England, Volume I -- 1841-1857 Charles Larcom 1921

First, the quiet of the great house and courtyard, the flower-pricked grass, the “still-faced babies”; then the sudden clash of the street-cries!

Writer's Recollections Ward, Mrs Humphry 1918

Here I pace up and down, rejoicing in the spacious sunlit prospect, and endeavouring to disentangle from one another the multitudinous street-cries that climb to this hanging garden in confused waves of sound.

Alone Norman Douglas 1910

Uniacke thought of the street-cries of London to which he was going, and that this cry was like one of them.

Tongues of Conscience Robert Smythe Hichens 1907