Costermonger boys and girls, from eight or nine to fourteen years old, and errand boys and girls employed at factories.
Nothing that I could say would add force to the argument of mycostermonger friend, as set forth in his parable of the “barrer.
But to the readers of newspapers the poisoning of a costermonger at Shadwell is of little interest as compared with a similar catastrophe in that quarter of London vaguely known as "the West End.
Nitrate of amyl was not a drug which a costermongerwould select with a view to committing suicide.
In an instant I recollected that the costermonger of the London Road was one of the ruffians.
Could there ever have existed in the London of the mid-Victorian period a real flesh and blood costermonger so rich in humour that her very name sheds a glow of laughter over every page in which it appears?
But, of course, this interestingcostermonger could have only suggested our unique Mrs. Gudgeon.
If this state of things went on Susy hoped that in a few years she might have saved enough either to marry a respectable costermonger or to start a barrow, or even a shop for herself.
Outside the house she was met by a tall fair-haired young costermonger who took her basket from her, and turned to walk by her side.
Yes, yes; you must know him for sure--that 'ansome young costermonger as allers goes in good time to the market.
The reader will see from these specimens how alien the costermonger race is in sympathy and life from the respectable and the well-to-do.
There are but few buyers seen here, and they are generally women belonging to the costermonger class, for the men rather disdain the shell-fish trade.
Now and then a costermonger would disappear with the barrow, for the loan of which my father never required any security, as the poor souls had none to give; and then my father offered a reward for the apprehension of the absentee.
The poor dupe who gives twopence for a pound of cherries of a costermonger in the street, only obtains half a pound; and the housewife who thinks that she can save a hundred per cent.
But I am not a costermonger, Mr Toogood,--though more wretched perhaps than any costermonger now in existence.
The wretchedest costermonger that comes to grief has a barrister in a wig and gown to give him his chance of escape.
I find it impossible to separate these two headings; for the habits of the costermonger are not domestic.
To serve out a policeman is the bravest act by which a costermonger can distinguish himself.
From L1 to L7 is spent in drink at a hop; the youngest men or lads present spend the most, especially in that act of costermonger politeness--"treating the gals.
Among the in-door amusements of the costermonger is card-playing, at which many of them are adepts.
And the costermonger will rise to the political position of an important tradesman.
A duke will be a duke, and a costermonger a costermonger.
One day, however, I watched a costermonger steering a boat-load of flowers under a bridge, and no words of mine can describe the loveliness of their reflection.
A score of humanitarian societies would spring into being to prevent it: possibly with some reason, for one has little faith in the considerateness of the average English costermonger or barrow-pusher.
In 1872 a costermonger named Darby, plying his itinerant trade in the densely packed and comfortless region immediately eastward of the City of London, was one day driving his donkey-cart, laden with cheap fish from Billingsgate.
The kind-hearted costermonger became known as 'Darby, the donkey's friend.
A costermonger driving his donkey and habitually taking orders for carrots or turnips as he passes the doors of anticipated customers, is in his way a great man.
I miss almost all the women who were there an hour ago, and most of the costermonger class have disappeared, though a few still linger on.
Accordingly, in the most casual fashion possible, he asked the costermongerif he would come and have some lunch.
The costermonger looked Teddy up and down in astonishment, and then looked round at the woman and jerked his head sideways in a very curious fashion; drew the back of his hand slowly and elaborately across his mouth, and looked at Teddy again.
But the costermonger evidently still had his doubts.
The speaker was the wife of a costermonger who lived in a neighbouring court.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "costermonger" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cadger; huckster; peddler; vendor
