In all these essential and traditional regards the assembled Innocents were as poignantly disappointing as the costers of London had proved themselves.
The costers I saw were barren of pearl buttons and silent of speech; and almost invariably they had left their Donahs at home.
And all the little costers came crowding out of bed in their night-dresses, and you gave Mrs. Coster a sovereign for them in mistake for a shilling.
In the vast obscurities of London there is a neighbourhood known as Golden Lane and Whitecross Street, intimately associated with the progressive improvement of costers and their donkeys.
The costers themselves being improved through different agencies, their animals feel the benefit of the general advance.
The costers with advanced tastes and intelligence seek for more rational recreations than were customary in the past generation.
The name given to these humble street-traders is Costers or Costermongers.
The accounts given of the annual meetings of the costers and their friends are among the curiosities of current literature.
His brother-costers advised Darby to kill the animal at once, as no one had ever heard of a donkey's broken leg being healed.
Costers are people who go to the great London market, called Covent Garden, and buy cheap vegetables and fruits and flowers, and sell them in the poorer parts of the city.
The road ran straight, and although I watched the cart until it was swallowed up in a maze of other vehicles, near a thousand yards away, neither of the costers seemed to find it worth while to look back.
Two costers occupied the seat, but otherwise the cart was empty.
I thought they might have waited with us and been a little late for dinner just that once; but no one waited except a lot of costers outside whom we did not know.
Bob did not often visit The Chequers, for he was a wealthy fellow, and he liked best to fool his time away in flash billiard-rooms; but he knew me well enough, and I was on as easy terms with him as with the costers and Rommany chals.
Nearly all my costers were about, and they cried "Wayo!
With costersand bargemen one can always get on familiarly: it is the pretentious, vulgar men and females who are horrible.
PLANT, a swindle, may be thus described: a coster will join a party of gambling costers that he never saw before, and commence tossing.
The costers are very quick and skilful at this game, and play fairly at it amongst themselves; but should a stranger join in they invariably unite to cheat him.
The costers consider themselves the best players in London.
They are conservative, also, like all the poor, and prefer old acquaintances to new; and the costers and sellers of all sorts realize this, and seldom go beyond an established list.
And as it's turned out it's thecosters are my firmest friends in the great city!
Every character artist must do that, whether he is dealing with Scottish types or costers or whatever.
But here's a bit o' talk I heard between two costersas I was leavin' Gatti's that first nicht.
But the two costers could ha' told them a thing or two.
So, as Lord Shaftesbury had been kind to the costers and taken such interest in their pursuits, they invited him to a special meeting, at which they presented him with a splendid donkey.
Over a thousand costers with their friends were there, when the donkey, profusely decorated with ribbons, was led to the platform.
At one time the costers had used their donkeys and ponies shamefully, had overworked and underfed them; but gradually they were made to see how much better it was to treat their animals well.
The costers used to consider themselves the best players in London, but they have been frequently undeceived.
Three-up~, a gambling game played by costers and others of like grade.
We always stay to the last, because we've paid for it all, or very few costers would see a tragedy out if any money was returned to those leaving after two or three acts.
The men that take charge of the trucks, while the costers visit the market, walk about, with their arms full of whips and sticks.
The sparring among the costersis not for money, but for beer and "a lark"--a convenient word covering much mischief.
As you walk away from this busy scene, you meet in every street barrows and costers hurrying home.
Under the Piazza the costers purchase their flowers (in pots), which they exchange in the streets for old clothes.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "costers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
