pig-market

‘Perhaps he really does want to study the Irish pig-market.’

Spotted Hemlock Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1958

The markets seemed entirely in the hands of the women, and lively scenes they presented to unaccustomed eyes, especially the pig-market, held every week, in the square before Madame C. 's house.

Short Stories and Selections for Use in the Secondary Schools Emilie Kip Baker

Finally, beyond the Louvre, among the meadows, stretched the Faubourg Saint-Honorè, already a considerable suburb, and the verdant pastures of Petite-Bretagne and the Marché-aux-Porceaux or pig-market, in the middle of which stood the horrible furnace where they seethed the false coiners.

II. A Bird’s-Eye View of Paris. Book III 1917

We might boil him in the pig-market, and we should get no word out of him.

V. The Two Men in Black. Book VII 1917

Albany was burnt at the pig-market for having sown Lutheran errors in

The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893

Coiners of false money were boiled alive at the pig-market; robbers and assassins were broken on the wheel and left to linger in slow agony (_tant qu'ils pourraient languir_).

The Story of Paris Thomas Okey 1893

The markets seemed entirely in the hands of the women, and lively scenes they presented to unaccustomed eyes, especially the pig-market, held every week, in the square before Madame C. 's house.

Shawl-Straps A Second Series of Aunt Jo's Scrap-Bag Louisa May Alcott 1860

Accordingly, the pig-market is held on Sabbath; and it is customary to drive the animals into the back courts of the English meeting-house before carrying them to market.

Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849

Walsall is celebrated for its pig-market, a celebrity which railroads have not destroyed, as was expected, but rather increased.

Rides on Railways Samuel Sidney 1848

Addition to the picture came in a letter of the 24th of July: with a droll glimpse of Shakespeare at the theatre, and of the Saturday's pig-market.

The Life of Charles Dickens, Vol. I-III, Complete John Forster 1844