peddler

How To Use peddler In A Sentence

• I thought his favor was excessive; certainly I never thought their powers were any more real than those cheapjack toadstone-peddlers or the granny-wives who claim they can put a bad word on someone's cow. The Silent Tower
• vintner" and "peddler" of his objurgations, and meekly whispers into his ear with the air of a conspirator reporting a plot to his chief. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875
• I thought there were three kinds of people you Aiel let come out here in the Waste; peddlers, gleemen, and the Traveling People. The Shadow Rising
• Those were two of the things Aiel did to those who came into the Waste uninvited; only gleemen, peddlers, and Tinkers had safe passage, though Aiel avoided the Tinkers as if they carried fever. The Fires of Heaven
• There was a lot of freight switching for the local peddler to do here at White Sulphur, as there was everywhere, with stock pens in the early years, and LCL freight in box cars, and coal hoppers.
• Those Luddites who once argued that we should protect jobs by resisting advances in labor-saving technology are rightly regarded as fools by today's peddlers of standard economic wisdom. The High Cost of a Cheap Pound
• ` sir, master, 'a word borrowed by Hindi from Arabic; boxwallah ` peddler' combines English box and Hindi wallah ` person in charge of a particular thing '; chotapeg ` half-sized drink' unites Hindi chota VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1
• The only outsiders that came here was the occasional peddler and once a gleeman came through the village and stayed at the Inn his father owned.
• That bull was riled plum to a franzy and that tin peddler was yaller as a punkin. Blue Ridge Country
• But these books are short - about twenty pages each - and without a spine, so we can call them chapbooks, which once meant works of popular literature sold for a few pennies, carried around by peddlers or ‘chapmen’.