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peddler and came
Continuing his work as a peddler, he came to Emond's Field every spring, and loved being the center of attention.
However, most people bought coal by the bucket from a street peddler who came by daily in his horse-drawn carriage.

peddler and wares
::: A peddler praises his needles ( wares ).
The word could derive from an Old Norse word akin to the Icelandic haprtask, which means peddlers ' wares or the sack in which the peddler carried them.
A haberdasher would retail small wares, the goods of the peddler, while a mercer would specialize in " linens, silks, fustian, worsted piece-goods and bedding ".
Peddlers usually travelled on foot, carrying their wares, or by means of a person-or animal-drawn cart or wagon ( making the peddler a hawker ).

peddler and them
The peddler collects ordinary dirt from the ground and insists that it will spread good will throughout the crowd and will make them feel love and sympathy for the man sentenced to be hanged.
First disguised as an old peddler, the Queen offers colourful stay-laces and laces them so tight that Snow White faints, causing the Queen to leave her for dead.
First, she visits the dwarfs ' house as an old peddler woman, and sells Snow White laces for a corset ; but laces them too tightly, to asphyxiate her.
The writer himself cited Cilibi Moise, a Wallachian Jewish peddler and aphorist, as an early influence, recalling how, as a child, he used to read his one-liner jokes, and treasured them as exceptional samples of concise humor.
As he was growing up, Delany and his siblings learned to read and write using The New York Primer and Spelling Book, given to them by a peddler.
Meanwhile Fenton Hardy examines the warning from Henry Zatta, the blind peddler, and declares that it must be warning them to keep away from the Goggler Gang.

peddler and had
They went shopping in the neighborhood, and bought two loaves of bread with the ration coupons they had been given in Blois, and some cheese, and a dozen eggs, and a bag of oranges from a peddler in the Place Redoute -- the first oranges they had seen since they landed.
Raphael Dreyfus was a prosperous, self-made, Jewish textile manufacturer who had started as a peddler.
His father had a shoemaker's shop, and kept riding horses for hire ; but having fallen into difficulties was reduced to the status of hawking peddler.
On that date, Kate and Margaret Fox, of Hydesville, New York, reported that they had made contact with the spirit of a murdered peddler.
Captain Noah Phelps, a member of the " Committee of War for the Expedition against Ticonderoga and Crown Point ", had reconnoitered the fort disguised as a peddler seeking a shave.
" You will cry at a peddler much easier than you would cry at a woman dressed in ermine who had just lost her whole family.
Later, the alleged " entity " creating the sounds claimed to be the spirit of a peddler named Charles B. Rosma, who had been murdered five years earlier and buried in the cellar.
J. Frank Chase of the Watch and Ward Society, which monitored material sold in Boston, Mass., for obscenity, decided " Hatrack " was immoral and had a Harvard Square magazine peddler arrested for selling a copy of the issue.
On 1 January 1878, Josef Rodenstock ( 32 ), a peddler of self-designed measuring instruments and spectacle frames from Thuringia, began business operations together with his brother Michael of the company " G. Rodenstock " which had been founded in Würzburg in 1877.
He had come to California from Bavaria during the Gold Rush, spending time as an itinerant peddler in southern Oregon.
Western frontiersman Luke L. Short ( 1854-September 8, 1893 ) was a gunfighter, who had worked as a farmer, cowboy, whiskey peddler, army scout, dispatch rider, gambler and saloon keeper at various times during the four decades of his life.

peddler and formed
The partnership that formed between the peddler, the jeweller and the attorney became known as the Brillo Manufacturing Company, with headquarters and production operations in New York City.

peddler and new
The method worked, and the peddler added this new product, soap with steel wool, into his line of goods for sale.
In the modern economy a new breed of peddler, generally encouraged to dress respectably to inspire confidence with the general public, has been sent into the field as an aggressive form of direct marketing by companies pushing their specific products, sometimes to help launch novelties, sometimes on a permanent basis.
He speaks with Joe Fletcher, a street peddler, and talks about his new wife, Margaret, and their new baby, Lucy.

peddler and government
When demand increased they took apprentices into the shop and engaged peddlers to travel throughout the Colonies selling the shiny, useful articles ( the seal of the government of the Town of Berlin shows such a " Yankee peddler ", in eighteenth-century dress with a basket under his arm, a pack on his back full of tinware ).

peddler and by
The snake oil peddler became a stock character in Western movies: a travelling " doctor " with dubious credentials, selling fake medicines with boisterous marketing hype, often supported by pseudo-scientific evidence.
He entitled it " Shakespeare at the Funambules ", and in it Gautier summarized and analyzed an unnamed pantomime of unusually somber events: Pierrot murders an old-clothes man for garments to court a duchess, then is skewered in turn by the sword with which he stabbed the peddler when the latter's ghost lures him into a dance at his wedding.
The sculpture was carved by a traveling pack peddler, Granville Johnson, in the 1930s.
The road between Pittsburgh and Freeport was filled by farmers driving cattle to market in Pittsburgh, peddler wagons taking goods to country housewives, businessmen going to Pittsburgh, and officials going to court for the day.
As father and son walk home, the peddler discovers that he is also affected by the " magic " after throwing his gold pieces from the sale of the dust to the poor children of the town, laughing about it afterward.
On a dreary, cold and snowy day a peddler named Hannah Parmalee ( played by Bainter ) appears at the door of a kind couple, Paul Ward ( played by Rains ) and his wife, Marcia ( played by Johnson ), selling apple peelers.
The warlord Saitō Dōsan, who started out in various occupations, was a peddler of this type of oil, rather than the more familiar rapeseed oil, according to a story by historical novelist Ryōtarō Shiba.
* Arabian Nights Reprise: Sung by the peddler seen in the beginning of Aladdin Originally meant for the first movie.
Another time she entered as an Irish peddler woman by the name of Bridget O ' Shea, claiming that she was selling apples and soap to the soldiers.
Employed as a fish peddler and running a morning's catch, he is hit by a car driven by Mitsurugi Hanagata, an acquaintance, spoiling his merchandise and sparking a fight the two agree to take elsewhere.
* Chabrier's L ' Etoile: " Lazuli " the peddler is portrayed by a soprano
Dora is traveling west with an unsavory peddler, played by John Carradine, who is selling guns to the Indians.
He left the factory, becoming a raznoschik, a peddler ; his memoir hints at back-door assignations with " servant girls and chambermaids "; by his own description, his life at this point was just a step from a life of crime.
While leaving the baseball field the Hardy boys are approached by a blind peddler with a warning for their father Fenton Hardy.
After receiving a quiet-but nonetheless deadly-dressing-down from Reichsfuehrer Himmler personally, Kappler attempts to end the Monsignor's activities and destroy the group, but is increasingly frustrated by O ' Flaherty's repeated successes, due to a combination of his clever plans, numerous disguises ( a coalman, a peddler of religious souvenirs, a dustman, a postman, a nun and even an SS-Sturmbannführer ) and stressing the very limits of international law.
He is a martial artist and earns a living as a medicine peddler by performing martial arts and physical feats on the streets to promote the drugs he sells.

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