pedlary

His traffick is a kind of pedlary-ware, scutchions, and pennons, and little daggers and lions, such as children esteem and gentlemen; but his penny-worths are rampant, for you may buy three whole brawns cheaper than three boar's heads of him painted.

Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters John Earle

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Aracelis Girmay reads “Dream-Pedlary” by Thomas Lovell Beddoes 2010

I shall send this, as my former, by a poor man, who travels every day with pedlary matters.

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

They do say there's a good living to be made in pedlary, if you're willing to work at it.

The Potter's Field Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1989

On the door being opened, the Jew, after a few words, probably relating to pedlary, demanded who the child was, sitting in the sun; the maid replied that I was her mistress's youngest son, a child weak _here_, pointing to her forehead.

Lavengro The Scholar, the Gypsy, the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

On the door being opened, the Jew, after a few words, probably relating to pedlary, demanded who the child was, sitting in the sun; the maid replied that I was her mistress's youngest son, a child weak _here_, pointing to her forehead.

Lavengro The Scholar - The Gypsy - The Priest, Vol. 1 (of 2) George Henry Borrow 1842

On the door being opened, the Jew, after a few words, probably relating to pedlary, demanded who the child was, sitting in the sun; the maid replied that I was her mistress's youngest son, a child weak _here_, pointing to her forehead.

Lavengro the Scholar - the Gypsy - the Priest George Henry Borrow 1842

I was not in haste to conclude the match, but was so much awed by my parents, that I durst not dismiss him, and might, perhaps, have been doomed for ever to the grossness of pedlary, and the jargon of usury, had not a fraud been discovered in the settlement, which set me free from the persecution of grovelling pride, and pecuniary impudence.

The Works of Samuel Johnson, Volume 03 The Rambler, Volume II Samuel Johnson 1746

I shall send this, as my former, by a poor man, who travels every day with pedlary matters.

Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 3 Samuel Richardson 1725