patterer

So the patterer is a gentleman with the rest of them, and shuts up shop at the same time A.T. Stewart and H.B. Claflin do their marble and sandstone palaces.

The Secrets of the Great City

And taking it as it stands, and from where it emanated, rather a creditable performance, particularly when we take into consideration—as duly announced by the street-patterer, that it was "just printed and pub—lish—ed, all for the low charge of twopence."

Jemmy Catnach: proto-comic publisher

Even when it becomes clear that the police have nabbed the wrong man, a veteran forger named William Ryan, Whitty's motives remain financial: both he and a patterer, Henry Owler, see Ryan's narrative as a profitable goldmine.

The Fiend in Human

The few bystanders who had no urgent business were listening to the running patterer whose entertainment value was far higher.

A Funeral In Blue

Since the highwayman wandered, fur-coated, into the City, the patterer has lost his occupation.

A Book of Scoundrels

And the climax is reached, when you find yourself eclipsed by some minion, some dancing - master, some vile Alexandrian patterer of Ionic lays.

Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02

The harp is the travelling patterer for the Universe's Insurance Company, recommending its laws, and our little goodness is all the assessment that we pay.

Walden~ Chapter 11 (historical)

I have written a purely flash song, of which the great and peculiar merit consists in its being utterly incomprehensible to the uninformed understanding, while its meaning must be perfectly clear and perspicuous to the practised _patterer_ of

Rookwood

But to place upon the throne yon monk-puppet, and to call on brave hearts to worship a patterer of aves and a counter of beads; to fix the succession of

The Last of the Barons — Volume 11

Duport, sister of Pique-Vinaigre, the patterer of La Force.

Mysteries of Paris, V3