While government wages war on drugs, it remains almost silent about these, the biggest drug peddlers of all - the tobacco barons. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
In person, the peddler was a man above the middle height, spare, but full of bone and muscle. From Wordnik.com. [The Spy] Reference
"Where did you see this 'peddler' character?" asked one of the few males permitted a seat on the coven. From Wordnik.com. [Conservative Outpost] Reference
Sales success today demands a radical shift from the "peddler" mentality of merely demonstrating products and expanding on their features. From Wordnik.com. [Jonathan Farrington's Blog] Reference
"What happened to the woman peddler?" asked Mrs. Bobbsey. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island] Reference
Zhou, a former textile peddler, is still seeking higher bids. From Wordnik.com. [Apocalypse When] Reference
I was suspicious of the peddler the very first time I saw him. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
I am not really a peddler of cloth, as I have pretended to be. From Wordnik.com. [Chinese Folk-Lore Tales] Reference
The little lace peddler lay in a crumpled up heap on the floor. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
"Yes, and she said ---- Oh, she said something about a peddler!" cried. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island] Reference
"O, peddler boy, peddler boy," he said to him, "please give me a banana.". From Wordnik.com. [Fairy Tales from Brazil How and Why Tales from Brazilian Folk-Lore] Reference
But the peddler, like every other human "institution," only had "his day.". From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
"No, I didn't see you all's dog chase after de peddler, honey lamb," replied Dinah. From Wordnik.com. [The Bobbsey Twins on Blueberry Island] Reference
There was the matter of Nicko, the chocolate peddler, and the man who looked like him!. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Likewise, the smock, and baggy trousers, like those worn by Nicko the chocolate peddler. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
The disappearance of Nicko, the chocolate peddler, was an act of the military authorities. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
The explosion came suddenly, ripping through Habib's back and decapitating the potato peddler. From Wordnik.com. ['My Hopes Have Turned To Dust'] Reference
"That's what the lame peddler woman always tells you when you buy a paper of needles or pins.". From Wordnik.com. [At the Little Brown House] Reference
For when they reached the hut of Nicko, the chocolate peddler, his place was likewise deserted. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Or the travelling peddler or tinker, who, as he sits by the way-side, patiently wooes the sun with a. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
Bess, and as she paused the murmuring of the voices of Mrs. Kimball and the lace peddler could be heard. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
The peddler, the din of trucks, the honk of automobiles, the clatter of the city -- all these are absent. From Wordnik.com. [Evening Round Up More Good Stuff Like Pep] Reference
He began by trying to bribe our poor Nicko, thinking the chocolate peddler too weak-minded to be patriotic. From Wordnik.com. [Ruth Fielding at the War Front or, The Hunt for the Lost Soldier] Reference
Then, he says, on the day after Halloween, Amy, posing as a candy peddler, knocked on Mary Jo's front door. From Wordnik.com. ['The Long Island Lolita'] Reference
When you go to Boston and ask a peddler or hawker about "apples," he won't know what you are talking about. From Wordnik.com. [Northern Nut Growers Association Report of the Proceedings at the 41st Annual Meeting Pleasant Valley, New York, August 28, 29 and 30, 1950] Reference
And so happy in his race was this poor peddler and so proud of his pedigree that, as Heine says, had the great. From Wordnik.com. [The Menorah Journal, Volume 1, 1915] Reference
Then there are career donors such as old Mr. Sun, a Beijing fruit peddler who has sold blood 22 times since 1984. From Wordnik.com. [Blood And Money] Reference
"It's just a poor Armenian lace peddler, who fainted from lack of food as she was talking to mother," Cora explained. From Wordnik.com. [The Motor Girls on Waters Blue Or the Strange Cruise of the Tartar] Reference
Men gamble, and women gossip and chew betel-nut; the peddler likewise shows his bargain-counter wares at the club-house. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
The only vacant seats in the whole car were where two Assyrian peddler women sat in a double seat with their packs of wares opposite them. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of the Road] Reference
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