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Examples
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Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
Sole Music 2010
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Fleet Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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Nothing on wheels penetrated the unlovely quarter save a coster's barrow of fruit; unwholesome little yellow pears and cruelly green apples of the lowest type of apple-kind being the wares of the moment.
The Captain's Bunk A Story for Boys M. B. Manwell
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She arrived late, having come on from a coster's wedding in the East
Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, February 26, 1919 Various
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Street was choked with red-headed folk, and Pope's Court looked like a coster's orange barrow.
Short Stories of Various Types Various
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The horse stands thirteen hands if an inch; the van is a converted coster's barrow.
Try Anything Twice 1938
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As he left the bridge he had to pass a coster's barrow which was drawn up beside the curb.
The Kingdom Round the Corner A Novel Coningsby Dawson 1921
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Crowds of people of every class -- the poor in their working - clothes, the well-to-do in their Sunday best -- all carrying in bundles all they could carry away of their property, and wedged in amongst them every kind of vehicle imaginable, from a luxurious limousine to coster's carts and wheelbarrows.
A Surgeon in Belgium Henry Sessions Souttar 1919
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So she stood by the window trying not to cry, and a little donkey drawing a coster's cart moved out in front of the traffic and was caught by a motor bus.
The Amazing Interlude Mary Roberts Rinehart 1917
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"Scarcely a lady's pad, Peregrine!" grinned Anthony, as I came perilously near upsetting a coster's barrow, to its owner's vociferous indignation.
Peregrine's Progress Jeffery Farnol 1915
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