How To Use Costermonger In A Sentence
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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.
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The costermonger Ewen Keeley used this barrow to sell fruit and vegetables on London's streets.
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Indeed, I could have loaded them all onto a borrowed costermonger's barrow and shifted them myself if I'd needed to.
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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)
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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
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A Cockney costermonger is revealed as the new Earl of Hareford to the consternation of his aristocratic relations.
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Donkeys were the typical animals of costermongers, and were cheaper than horses.
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Market barrows, or costermongers, originated in the East End of London and remain a popular scene in places like Victoria Station, Covent Garden and Leather Lane in Holborn.
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So the sham costermonger could easily and quickly run her truck down to the bottom of the quay, and hide it there till the real owner — who was, in fact, drinking the price of her wares, sold bodily to Asie, in one of the abominable taverns in the Rue de la
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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The ladies were in their pokiest old head-gear and most dingy gowns, when they perceived the carriage approaching; and considering, of course, that the visit of the Park people was intended for them, dashed into the rectory to change their clothes, leaving Rowkins, the costermonger, in the very midst of the negotiation about the three mackerel.
The Newcomes
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Granpa - who was a costermonger by trade - worked the pitch on the corner of Whitechapel Road.
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We are as great friends to horses, hackney – coach and otherwise, as the renowned Mr. Martin, of costermonger notoriety, and yet we never ride.
Sketches by Boz
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Indeed, I could have loaded them all onto a borrowed costermonger's barrow and shifted them myself if I'd needed to.
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A costermonger is a street seller of fruit and vegetables.
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The daughter of a costermonger, Maisie has risen somewhat above the limitations often encountered by members of her class.
Pardonable Lies by Jacqueline Winspear: Questions
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She stood square on her feet, her hands on her hips, for she was dressed as a costermonger.
Scenes from a Courtesan's Life
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One key arrest comes after a manic broken-field chase through the pushcarts and costermongers of New York's Fulton Fish Market.
