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All the other travellers, both pedlers and carters, had withdrawn a little, and had ceased singing.

Les Miserables 2008

It was also observed, that though the strangers were sufficiently courteous in their demeanor, they did not evince that studious anxiety to please, displayed by the travelling pedlers or merchants of Lombardy or

Anne of Geierstein 2008

All at once one of the pedlers who lodged in the hostelry entered, and said in a harsh voice: — “My horse has not been watered.”

Les Miserables 2008

Thy father is besotted with these two English pedlers, and will listen to no other counsel and thou and I know, dearest

Anne of Geierstein 2008

Are there pedlers and hawkers still, or are rustics and children grown too sharp to deal with them?

Roundabout Papers 2006

The people consume a vast deal of snuff and tobacco, for which they must pay ready money; and pedlers, who come about selling goods, as there is not a shop in the island, carry away the cash.

Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

I wonder whether those little silver pencil-cases with a movable almanac at the butt-end are still favorite implements with boys, and whether pedlers still hawk them about the country?

Roundabout Papers 2006

That's quite correct, I write my blog to attract the smut pedlers of the blogosphere.

russian political porn daveberta 2005

Usowa; there were the canoe-makers from Ugoma and Urundi; there were the cheap-Jack pedlers from Zanzibar, selling flimsy prints, and brokers exchanging blue mutunda beads for sami-sami, and sungomazzi, and sofi.

How I Found Livingstone Henry Morton 2004

Republican ticket straight; that it is not a universal custom to wear scratchy flannels next the skin in winter; that a violin is not inherently more immoral than a chapel organ; that some poets do not have long hair; and that Jews are not always pedlers or pants - makers.

Main Street 2004