"Ay," replied mine host, laughing, "and he who meets him may meet his match -- the pedlar is a tall man.". From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
“Ay,” replied mine host, laughing, “and he who meets him may meet his match — the pedlar is a tall man.”. From Wordnik.com. [Kenilworth] Reference
'"I will add this too, lady," said the pedlar' 337. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
And he looked like a pedlar just opening his pack. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
And off strolled the pedlar, whistling as he went. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
Cuiller says it was that pedlar who took my money. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
"A common want!" quoth the pedlar, grinning broadly. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
A pedlar was next me whose features I have forgotten. From Wordnik.com. [The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making] Reference
Source: This story came from a Welsh pedlar -- a woman. From Wordnik.com. [Welsh Fairy-Tales and Other Stories] Reference
"You don't mean the pedlar, surely?" inquired Lady Vernon. From Wordnik.com. [Heiress of Haddon] Reference
On the Plain, going towards Devizes, he overtook a Scotch pedlar. From Wordnik.com. [Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences] Reference
The immovable pedlar was by no means put out of countenance by this discovery. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
There, the business of Yankee pedlar having failed, he found himself stranded. From Wordnik.com. [Forty-one Thieves A Tale of California] Reference
"Then you will have none," said the pedlar, dropping the soul in his pack again. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
Millicent gazed thoughtfully at the pedlar, and he met her eyes with a meaning look. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
Highland scenery, which he visited with his father, who followed the calling of a pedlar. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
"Nay, forsooth," cried the pedlar, clapping his hands upon the shoulders of the nobleman. From Wordnik.com. [Heiress of Haddon] Reference
The pedlar Mobei had never left the house of Toémon; never escaped from the hospitality of. From Wordnik.com. [The Yotsuya Kwaidan or O'Iwa Inari Tales of the Tokugawa, Volume 1 (of 2)] Reference
A few minutes more and she had overtaken the pedlar, who was walking slowly through the park. From Wordnik.com. [Chatterbox, 1905.] Reference
No pedlar before a doorful of girls 'sidelong heads could more deftly have marketed his wares. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
Disguising himself as a pedlar he comes to the palace calling out the familiar "New lamps for old.". From Wordnik.com. [A History of Pantomime] Reference
And at that moment he was aware of a ragged pedlar coming along the forest glades, and whistling as he came. From Wordnik.com. [Drolls From Shadowland] Reference
"All no use your callin 'out!" screamed the pedlar, as he stuck the salved rag upon the ebony hide of the patient. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844] Reference
"Square Peasley seen a light, and heerd a gugglin 'groan where the pedlar had his throat cut in Cloverdale, you know.". From Wordnik.com. [Summerfield or, Life on a Farm] Reference
Clare gave the pedlar project a fair trial, but it brought him little beyond fatigue, mortification, and disappointment. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
And Marmaduke hoped that red coat would get soaked and soaked and run like the stockings Mother had bought from the pedlar. From Wordnik.com. [Half-Past Seven Stories] Reference
Disqualified by his imperfect vision from engaging in manual labour, he chose the business of pedlar or travelling merchant. From Wordnik.com. [The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century] Reference
In the case of the chartered accountant, or the stockbroker, or the pedlar, this special knowledge is not so damning a thing. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
Walter Wadsworth on the methods to be followed to attain success as a pedlar of refreshments in the stands of a baseball park. From Wordnik.com. [William Adolphus Turnpike] Reference
Captain Waverley was asserted to have effected this through the medium of a pedlar named Will Ruthven, or Wily Will -- whose very name. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
Once, an inquisitive pedlar, noticing his intelligence, and his garrulous disposition, asked him jokingly if he ever intended to marry. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
Churches of England and Scotland, when a stray pedlar joined his party and asked of "his Honour" the favour of his protection as far as. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
But in spite of his protests the pedlar persisted in his whistling, and presently, out of a copse close to the path, six or eight stout. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
The pedlar, by agreeing with all that was said, and desiring further information upon spiritual matters, soon took the attention of Captain. From Wordnik.com. [Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North] Reference
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