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Example sentences for "hawkers"

Lexicographically close words:
hawing; hawk; hawkbill; hawked; hawker; hawking; hawklike; hawks; hawksbill; hawkweed
  1. When the enemy attacked, my fellow-hawkers waited with grim anticipation for my replies.

  2. The hawkers of water through the town amused us vastly, especially as we were not obliged to pay a dollar a gallon, except as it swelled our hotel-bill.

  3. She was delighted with all she saw, and on her return her description of it, mingled with imitations of the voices of the hawkers and the performers, was so incoherent that it presented only a confused jumble to my ears.

  4. It grieved me to the heart, when I saw my Labours, which had cost me so much thought and watching, bawled about by the common hawkers of Grub street, which I only intended for the weighty consideration of the gravest persons.

  5. The crowd was jolly and perhaps a little cynical; picture-postcard hawkers made most of the noise, and for some reason or other a forlorn peasant took this opportunity to offer for sale two equally forlorn hedgehogs.

  6. An account is there given from the Stamp-Office of the gross produce of duties on Hawkers and Peddlers for four years of peace and four of war.

  7. The tobacconists and street-hawkers of cigars were deprived of their livelihood, and the misery and consequent ill-will created amongst the poor of Rome by keeping up the prohibition would have been serious.

  8. At every entrance, cries, hoarse and shrill, were heard of hawkers selling "The Trial of Charles I.

  9. Even if they had not done so, they would have been sure to look with some suspicion at two hawkers arriving at such an out-of-the-way village at such a time.

  10. Then we bought peasants' clothes, and a parcel of goods such as travelling hawkers carry.

  11. These low hawkers seem to be of much the same origin as the Chorodies, and are almost equally brutal and repulsive in their manners.

  12. Hawkers and ballad singers have been libelous, so are to be whipped as common rogues and then dismissed.

  13. Later, there was a penalty of imprisonment in a House of Correction up to three months for sellers or hawkers of pamphlets or newspapers, and the apprehender received a reward of 20s.

  14. We hear already in the fourteenth century of German hawkers of glass, and of the skill of the Germans in making glass mirrors.

  15. The cab turned into a street where, in spite of the drizzle, hawkers with their push-carts under flaring, spitting gasoline banjoes were doing a thriving business.

  16. Presently it turned into a hiving, narrow street, where hawkers with their push-carts in the light of flaring, spitting gasoline banjoes were doing a thriving business.

  17. The noises of the day are all there, the street-hawkers have gained a hundredfold in volume of lung, in number, and in activity, the cathedral bells seem twice as loud.

  18. Howling vendors of thirst-quenching fruits climbed over our blistering knees; between the barriers circulated hawkers of everything that may be sold to the festive-humored.

  19. Mayhew obtained his information from two tramps, who stated that hawkers employ these signs as well as beggars.

  20. These hawkers were not of the ordinary, but of the tramp, class, who carried goods more as a blind to their real designs than for the purposes of sale.

  21. Above her, three beggars or hawkers have reckoned their day's earnings, amounting to 13s.

  22. Sweet Lavender," however, still has a familiar autumn sound, and the flower-hawkers of spring are still discordant.

  23. And these announcements, set in huge type, could be read on the copies of the paper, which the hawkers flourished like banners.

  24. A flock of newspaper hawkers came out of a side street, and darted through the crowd shouting the titles of the evening journals.

  25. Before her trouble she and her husband were costermongers and hawkers of fruit.

  26. The crowd thins as closing-time comes, and the hawkers pack up what is left of their stock, strike their naphtha-lamps, and wheel off the ground.

  27. Sharpers who obtain Licence as Hawkers and Pedlars.

  28. Everywhere the hawkers dinned, and everywhere was heard the plaintive squawk of the toy balloon.

  29. Those who sell the productions of others are either fixed residents in one city, or hawkers travelling about from city to city.

  30. On the Christmas evening several carters and hawkers were sitting to drink, round four or five candles, in Thénardier's tap-room.


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