piemen

The pavement is already strewed with decayed cabbage – leaves, broken hay – bands, and all the indescribable litter of a vegetable market; men are shouting, carts backing, horses neighing, boys fighting, basket – women talking, piemen expatiating on the excellence of their pastry, and donkeys braying.

Sketches by Boz 2007

And-let me see-add something like this: In the event Ira Weatheral fails to qualify for inheritance, then all my worldly wealth of which I die possessed shall go to, uh, to-to found a home for indigent and superannuated pickpockets, prostitutes, panhandlers, piemen, priggers, and other unworthy poor starting with 'P'.

Time Enough For Love Heinlein, Robert A. 1973

'A dook, in course, 'said Grattles loftily;' but we don't, in consequence of 'er Nibs bein' mixed up with the old man's mother, reweal the family skeletons to low piemen, 'then, with a fresh grimace, he darted along the street as quickly as his bandy legs could carry him.

Madame Midas Fergus Hume 1895

Talking of piemen, humble-pie before proud-cake for me.

The Confidence-Man 1857

Talking of piemen, humble-pie before proud-cake for me.

The Confidence-Man Herman Melville 1855

The pavement is already strewed with decayed cabbage-leaves, broken hay-bands, and all the indescribable litter of a vegetable market; men are shouting, carts backing, horses neighing, boys fighting, basket - women talking, piemen expatiating on the excellence of their pastry, and donkeys braying.

Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Charles Dickens 1841

'Wery good thing is weal pie, when you know the lady as made it, and is quite sure it ain't kittens; and arter all though, where's the odds, when they're so like weal that the wery piemen themselves don't know the difference?'

The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

And in the corners of the streets steamed the itinerant kitchens of the piemen, and rose the sharp cry, "All hot! all hot!" in the ear of infant and ragged hunger.

Night and Morning, Complete Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

And in the corners of the streets steamed the itinerant kitchens of the piemen, and rose the sharp cry, "All hot! all hot!" in the ear of infant and ragged hunger.

Night and Morning, Volume 5 Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton 1838

Shoeblack-boys tumbled over each other for the privilege of blacking his honour's boots; nosegay-women and flying fruiterers plied Mr. Gumbo with their wares; piemen, pads, tramps, strollers of every variety, hung round the battle-ground.

The Virginians William Makepeace Thackeray 1837