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Pedlar   Listen
noun
Peddler  n.  (Written also pedlar and pedler)  One who peddles; a traveling trader; one who travels about, retailing small wares; a hawker. "Some vagabond huckster or peddler."



Pedler, Pedlar  n.  See Peddler.






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"Pedlar" Quotes from Famous Books



... pedlar and I are social outcasts. And there is Dagmar in England, weeping her eyes out because of divorce courts and more public washing of dirty linen. You love her. I don't! Why not carry this fellow to the rochers, to-night ...
— O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 • Various

... a hundred and fifty years ago,' Mr. Heywood began, 'on a cold, stormy night, there came to the hall-door a poor pedlar,'—a travelling merchant, you know, my leddy—'with his pack on his back, and would fain have parted with some of his goods to the folk of the hall. The butler, who must have been a rough sort of man—they were rough times those—told him they wanted nothing he could give them, ...
— Donal Grant • George MacDonald

... stranger, who might be a cut-throat, and was avowedly next to a mendicant, charged him with quantities of interjectory matter, that he caught himself firing to the foreign people on the highway. Hundreds of thousands a year, and tramping it like a pedlar, with a beggar for his friend! He would have given something to have an English ear near him as he watched them rounding under the mountain they were about ...
— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... scholar. He was a lean, emaciated, sickly young man, but his eyes had the fire of a lion's, and his glance was as a god's. When he spoke his voice pierced you, and when he was silent his presence filled the room. From Eliphaz the Pedlar (who knew everything but the Law) I learnt at last that he was an emissary of Rabbi Baer, the celebrated chief of the ...
— Dreamers of the Ghetto • I. Zangwill

... farther." The above passage from Bunyan is altogether in the manner of Luther when describing the rapacity and avarice of Rome. hath removed them. And these seeds has antichrist sown where the kingdom of Christ should stand.] as the pedlar cries, "broken or whole," is the sinews of their religion; and it is for that they set kingdoms, crowns, principalities, places, preferments, sacraments, pardons, prayers, indulgences, liberty, yea, ...
— The Riches of Bunyan • Jeremiah Rev. Chaplin


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