Tell Mr Beaujou, the slopseller, to come here directly with some clothes for him. From Wordnik.com. [The King's Own] Reference
So home, and late at my office, then home and there found a couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each to about L6 a piece, from Burrows the slopseller. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
Hither comes to me young Captain Beckford, the slopseller, and there presents me a little purse with gold in it, it being, as he told me, for his present to me, at the end of the last year. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete] Reference
Coningsby's coat was made by Stultz; almost every fellow in the sixth form had his coats made by Stultz; yet Coningsby fancied that his own garment looked as if it had been furnished by some rustic slopseller. From Wordnik.com. [Coningsby] Reference
The purser, Simon Cheeseparings -- that isn't his real name -- was a slopseller in Wapping, but outran his creditors and had to come to sea to escape from Newgate; and the doctor's a Scotchman whose name begins with Mac, and for brevity's sake Mac he is always called. From Wordnik.com. [The Missing Ship The Log of the "Ouzel" Galley] Reference
A couple of state cups, very large, coming, I suppose, each to about L6 a piece, from Burrows the slopseller. From Wordnik.com. [Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 34: March/April 1664-65] Reference
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