The law has comparatively recently improved these nondescript gentry off the face of the country, and the hawker of the present day is generally a man more sinned against than sinning.
Running stationer~, a hawker of books, ballads, dying speeches, and newspapers.
Pot-faker~, a hawker of crockery and general earthenware.
The hawker shrugged his shoulders and walked away.
There is an unsophisticated note about it, a sound so far removed from the egotistical hawker crying the virtue of his wares as to make the one incomparable with the other.
As we know that itinerant vendors of hawks travelled from castle to castle, it is quite possible that our modernhawker is an extended use of the same name.
Nowadays a hawker is a pedlar, and it has been assumed, without sufficient evidence, that the word is of the same origin as huckster.
Hawker say that it was impossible to produce an assent to the historic credibility of the facts related in the Gospel?
Hawker in his Letter to the Barrister) to show in what manner a covenant can exist without terms or conditions.
Hawker put his objection laxly and weakly enough; but a manly opponent would have been ashamed to seize an hour's victory from what a move of the pen would render impregnable.
But Hawker himself did not know this, as he was totally ignorant of the first principles of geology.
Hawker wrote an account of Daniel Gumb for All the Year Round in 1866, and this has been reprinted in Footsteps of Former Men in Cornwall.
Hawker gives a letter from the giant to Lady Grace Grenville, conveying to her the news of the death of her husband; but it is more than doubtful whether this be genuine.
But Mr. Hawker embroidered facts with so much detail drawn from his own fancy, that his statements have to be taken with a very large pinch of salt.
When he came back a little later, Alyoshka was already a prince, the fish-hawker a soldier, and the coachman a peasant.
Molly, meanwhile, had run off with the bale of silk to a hiding-place prepared for such occasions, and Mrs. Hawker hastened to the door.
So we did middling well, and Jan got one of the men that was a bit of a scollard to write to his mother, and got a hawker to take the letter along for the mending of his shoes.
And in six months the hawker came back to say that mother was dead and that father had sold Loudacott and was gone to live in the town, where he was drinking and doing no good.
Treasurer Hawkerin “Two Ashburton Scholars,” in the Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 1876.
Hawker dedicated his works to Prince Posterity, and the dedication will be accepted by many readers of the new biography, who will find in Robert Hawker one of the knights of his own Sangraal, ‘thorough men.
It is Hawker the poet, in his life more poetic than in his writings, that will live long in the memory of Cornwall and of England.
Go," said he, and with a sudden kick he lifted the hawker half across the road.
The hawker happened to be Charles Wogan, who took a little matter like that with the necessary philosophy.
Chateaudoux found the hawker seated in the middle of the avenue and over against the door of the guarded villa.
They were now at the steps of the villa, and the sentry, lifting the butt of his musket, roughly thrust the hawker back.
The next afternoon the hawker was in the avenue again, only this time on a bench at the opposite end; and again he paid no heed to M.
Bring your basket here," said he; and to Chateaudoux's consternation the hawker immediately offered the purse to the sentinel.
But the hawker was now at his side, whining in execrable German and a strong French accent the remarkable value of his wares.
A hawker with a bundle of papers under his arm and a yellow poster in front of him like an apron, drew his attention; at least the poster did.
Colonel Hawker is here for gout and Major Barstowe for neuritis, got it in India.
Colonel Hawker and Major Barstowe were having an argument in the smoking-room when Hoover and Jones entered.
I want you to go up to Colonel Hawker and take him aside.
Now go and tell Colonel Hawker that Major Barstowe says he's a liar.
You can reckon our astonishment, when the hawker said: 'How is it, boys?
A bit later a native fruit-hawker came round the corner, bowing and scraping towards us.
One time a jay-hawker come and git one of de children in a skiff and den we yelled and de mastah come out with his pistol and hit de jay-hawker over de head.
Early the next morning, about half-way across, Hawker decided that there was no chance to make the land, and began looking through the fog for a chance for a safe landing.
Because the little tramp steamer had no wireless, the world was kept waiting a week, before word was signaled to land that Hawker and Grieve were safe.
Captain Hawker was already on the alert, and prepared to render assistance.
However, they were speedily checked, for Captain Hawker turned a swivel-gun upon them and sent a shot through the bottom of their boat, which began presently to fill, and compelled them to look to their own safety.
Since there is almost a certainty of fine weather, Captain Hawker will weigh anchor at nine o'clock, and fire a gun to let you know when he gets off the castle.
But I have induced Captain Hawker of the Saint Abbs, as the sloop is called, to alter his plan.
The colloquy between her and the hawker had probably lasted for some time, as both parties looked heated and angry.
The hawker shook his head, and shouldered his basket.
About half the crowd surged forward with Hawker in front.
I seen what it was," shoutedHawker to the rest of the crowd.
With a savage curse Hawker sprang forward, and about half the party with him, as if to snatch the prisoner from his captors and take instant vengeance upon him.
And putting forth a long arm he dragged Hawker back into the crowd.
Hawker stopped his cursing and pulled himself together with an effort, as if only now realizing that his followers had gone over completely to the side of the law and Tug Blackstock.
For some moments no one spoke, and even the ravings of Hawker were stilled.
With a scream, Hawker struck at his face, but Blackstock parried the blow, tripped him neatly, and fell on him.
The project of becoming a perambulating bookseller, hawker of his own poetical ware, came upon Clare in a startling manner.
However, in spite of these constant disappointments, Clare did not give up all hope of ultimately prospering as a hawker of books.
The elevated bit of lawn on which they were walking commanded a view of the road that led into the village, and the travelling, vehicle engaged by Mrs. Hawker and her friends, was now seen moving along it at a rapid pace.
Mrs. Hawker is a lady, and there can be no higher term.
Notwithstanding the remark I made concerning my being in favour, the affair lies between Mrs. Hawker and yourself.
Mrs. Hawker declined drinking, in a way to delight the gallant seaman; for so completely had she got the better of all his habits and prejudices, that every thing she did seemed right and gracious in his eyes.
I would not cross the street to invite Mrs. Hawker and all her clan.
In 1865, Members of the Regiment for the first time filled the post of Major, the two senior Captains, Hawker and Du Plat Taylor, being promoted.
Hawker was the prime mover in this proceeding, and he presided at the meeting.
He determined to tell Hurd about the matter, and then the hawker might be found and made to explain why he had left the goor on the counter.
A landing-net should be taken in the boat, as Colonel Hawkerwell advises, to pick up the dead birds as they float on the water, while the boat passes quickly by them.
Colonel Hawker made a contrivance upon wheels which he pushed before him.
Over the town, in these early hours, rampaged the small vendors of the manifold sheets: local papers and papers from greater cities, hawker succeeding hawker with yell upon yell and brain-piercing shrillings in unbearable cadences.
Thus the peregrine falcon lays itself out to catch ducks and naturally goes with them to their breeding grounds, just as the hawker of cheap wares, who preys upon the mem-sahib, follows her to the hills in the summer.
The hawker holds it in his hand and throws it like a javelin in the direction of its quarry.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "hawker" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cadger; duffer; huckster; merchant; monger; peddler; seller; vendor
