How To Use costermonger In A Sentence
- The old fruit and veg market that once echoed with the calls of cockney costermongers is now home to gourmet burger bars and stalls selling Javanese pottery.
- The costermonger Ewen Keeley used this barrow to sell fruit and vegetables on London's streets. Rare Antique Costermonger Barrows For Sale by Trainspotters.uk.com
- Indeed, I could have loaded them all onto a borrowed costermonger's barrow and shifted them myself if I'd needed to.
- A soldier glares at the two Prushim, who suddenly take an interest in the wares of a costermonger. nun vav Evan Eisenberg: Mary Christ (Part 7)
- Even the low-minded costermonger, to whom ‘wellingtons’ are objects of contempt and derision, and who laughs to scorn galligaskins and knickerbockers, evinces the national tendency for leather by stipulating for ‘anklejacks’ with ‘tongues’ ample enough to overlap the lacings by at least three inches.
- Alongside the families of the unskilled labourers who at election times are herded rather unwillingly into cars to be taken to cast their Labour votes, are the costermongers and the junk men who are as staunch in their Conservatism as the backwoodsmen of the House of Lords.
- It is an Act to prevent obstruction, and I think that its whole scheme shows that it is aimed at barrow-boys, costermongers, hawkers or others who expose goods in the street for sale and offer them for sale at that time.
- As varieties of the Apple, mention is made in documents of the twelfth century, of the pearmain, and the costard, from the latter of which has come the word costardmonger, as at first a dealer in this fruit, and now applied to our costermonger. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
- Jacko shouted for help -- to the brass directing traffic, to the washwoman kneeling on marble steps, to the costermonger polishing her apples -- but his shouts wisped in the wind and were lost. Asimov's Science Fiction
- If a cab should be coming through from the Place de Greve while a costermonger-woman was pushing her little truck of apples in from the Rue du Martroi, a third vehicle of any kind produced difficulties. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
