huckstresses

The huckstresses wanted to organize a union, and then lay down the law and fix prices.

The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

A bell rang; the gate was swung open; the various groups dissolved and merged; everybody arose and the women began to walk off, balancing their chairs upon their heads, shouting, shoving one another violently; two or three huckstresses peddled their wares as the tattered crowd issued through the gate in a jam, shrieking as if in escape from some imminent danger.

The Quest P��o Baroja 1914

Ten or fifteen huckstresses, during ordinary times gossips of evil tongue and addicted to unrestrainable swearing, inexhaustible in its verbal diversity, but now, evidently, flattering and tender cronies, had started celebrating even since last evening; had caroused the whole night through and now had carried their noisy merrymaking out to the market.

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

At this moment among the huckstresses, who up to now had been tenderly kissing, certain old, unsettled quarrels and grievances flickered up.

Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904

"On the market-place all the huckstresses talk to me about you, with the idea of flattering me.

The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897

-- This way, doña Leonora! "the huckstresses cried, calling her by name to show greater intimacy.

The Torrent Entre Naranjos Vicente Blasco Ib����ez 1897