A costermonger is a street seller of fruit and vegetables.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

She may be the daughter of a duke, or the daughter of a costermonger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Armadale] Reference

"Let them fight it out!" cried a costermonger, seating himself on his barrow.    From Wordnik.com.  [Littlebourne Lock] Reference

Indeed his attire was more like that of a bankrupt costermonger than of a man of letters.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Grub Street] Reference

She stood square on her feet, her hands on her hips, for she was dressed as a costermonger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scenes from a Courtesan's Life] Reference

The costermonger Ewen Keeley used this barrow to sell fruit and vegetables on London's streets.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2008-06-01] Reference

How he killed a mad dog, and nursed a man with smallpox, and knocked down a costermonger for kicking his pony.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference

‘The wretched costermonger that comes to grief has a barrister in a wig and gown to give him his chance of escape.’.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Last Chronicle of Barset] Reference

The daughter of a costermonger, Maisie has risen somewhat above the limitations often encountered by members of her class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear: Questions] Reference

When the running track stopped, he stepped off and said, "You have all the subtlety of a Victorian costermonger, Mr. Lynley.".    From Wordnik.com.  [In the Presence of the Enemy]

Hence the distribution of fish depends almost wholly upon the costermonger or basket-man, who takes his fish round to the public.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

We are as great friends to horses, hackney – coach and otherwise, as the renowned Mr. Martin, of costermonger notoriety, and yet we never ride.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sketches by Boz] Reference

The basket-man, or costermonger, or dealer -- call him what you will -- is an indispensable personage, and what is more, he fills a most useful office.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken] Reference

The basket-man, or costermonger, or dealer — call him what you will — is an indispensable personage, and what is more, he fills a most useful office.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Art of Living in Australia] Reference

There was a certain costermonger richness about her.    From Wordnik.com.  [Women in Love] Reference

After all, the death of that poor costermonger, Lanky.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Secrets] Reference

Range over the whole community -- from the costermonger who says.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yet Again] Reference

London costermonger will turn anything and everything to account.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis] Reference

With his voice blended that of the costermonger, 'Penny a bundill!'.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nether World] Reference

Nitrate of amyl was not a drug which a costermonger would select with.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Secrets] Reference

You get hold of a scavenger, or a costermonger, who enjoyed the Newgate.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing] Reference

And the costermonger will rise to the political position of an important tradesman.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Rough Road] Reference

In this respect, there's no distinction between Cecily and the wife of the costermonger.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Emancipated] Reference

You remember the costermonger whose family quarrelled with him for marrying beneath him?.    From Wordnik.com.  [There & Back] Reference

Rowkins, the costermonger, in the very midst of the negotiation about the three mackerel.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Newcomes] Reference

One Saturday afternoon, while I was at home, a costermonger came to the door with walnuts.    From Wordnik.com.  [Eliza] Reference

In an instant I recollected that the costermonger of the London Road was one of the ruffians.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seven Secrets] Reference

Behold it as the donkey of a tipsy costermonger, obedient to go without the gift of expression.    From Wordnik.com.  [Celt and Saxon — Complete] Reference

Nor is the name Coster to be referred to costermonger, originally a dealer in costards, i.e. apples.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Romance of Names] Reference

It was plainly asking -- Are you a knight grand-cross of some martial order, or a sort of costermonger?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2] Reference

He was an extraordinary old aristocrat, who swore like a costermonger, and had the manners of a farmer.    From Wordnik.com.  [Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories] Reference

Compact, and who nevertheless did not hesitate to perform tasks from which the average costermonger would have shrunk in disgust.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of the Upper Canada Rebellion] Reference

However, Florent now saw Lacaille, the costermonger, and Alexandre, the porter, Claude Lantier's friend, come into the little room.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fat and the Thin] Reference

Too far, in fancy, above the rest of mankind to trouble about their petty distinctions, he is equally at home with duke or costermonger.    From Wordnik.com.  [Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow] Reference

He cannot but think most virtuously, both of me, and the sender, sure, that make the careful costermonger of him in our familiar epistles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Every Man in His Humor] Reference

I settled it in my mind that I was to leave the cells after this costermonger: he is in front of me, therefore the cell behind me is empty.    From Wordnik.com.  [Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas] Reference