Moreover, there was large and growing competition, in the form of other huckster routes.
He knew the Craigswolders spent money like mud, when it so pleased them--although more than one fellow hucksterwas at times sore put to it to collect from them a bill for fresh vegetables.
On his next huckster trip to Craigswold he pinned a similar sign to the bulletin board of that rarefied resort's post-office.
Dagon grew pale and answered with a calm voice, "What is that huckster saying?
The loud bill-board is but the scream of the huckster transmuted so that it may attack still another sense.
There is no sanctity or silence through which the coarse scream of the huckster may not at any time penetrate.
There was not a lowing cow in the distant barns, nor a chirping swallow on the fence-bushes, that did not seem to include the eager face of the little huckster in their morning greetings.
Somehow, the morbid fancies were gone; she was keenly alive; the homely real life of this huckster had fired her, touched her blood with a more vital stimulus than any tale of crusader.
Even in the cold and quiet of the woman walking by her side the homely power of the poor huckster was not weak to warm or to strengthen.
Since I had grown so rich, he had gone partners with me, and I might lift the lid, open the till and take out my little purse that May bought from the huckster for my last birthday.
Perhaps the artisan who dies at thirty, an old man, his stomach tanned by repeated doses of brandy, will be held, according to certain leisured philosophers, to be happier than the huckster is.
You said you struck a hucksterfor brandy; you have got brandy, then?
Outside the Grand Hotel they were fortunate enough to run across Tidemand, a huckster also, a wholesaler, a big business man, head of a large and well-known business house.
Here is how it originated:--Mary Hewer of our village had been for time out of mind the only huckster who sold salt herrings, sending to Cork for a barrel from time to time, and making good profit.
Miss Grey, a small huckster who kept a little vegetable shop, was one day showing off her rings and bracelets to our servant.
The huckster answered he must first inquire of the matter: for there stood the gentleman of repute that had given him the hare to sell; and he could surely not have stolen it.
The goblin, however, felt very angry that any man should venture to say such things to a huckster who was a householder and sold the best butter.
This was a very rude speech, especially against the cask, but the huckster and the student both laughed, for it was only said in fun.
And when Christmas came again and brought the dish of jam and the great lump of butter, he liked the huckster best of all.
He obtained what he wished, and then the huckster and his wife nodded good evening to him.
The huckster could afford this, and therefore the goblin remained with him--which was very shrewd of the goblin.
The huckster ran to get his business papers, and the servant resolved to save her black silk mantle, which she had managed to buy.
They all had such confidence in him and treated him with so much respect that when, in the evening, the huckster read the criticisms on theatricals and art, they fancied it must all come from the cask.
A goblin lived with the huckster because at Christmas he always had a large dishful of jam, with a great piece of butter in the middle.
Hauskuld will tell them all not to meddle nor make with Huckster Hedinn, saying he is a rude unfriendly fellow.
Thus extolling her merchandise, busy as a bee, and radiant with good humor, stood our old huckster woman, by her vegetable stand in Fulton Market, on the morning after Julia Warren was cast into prison.
The huckster woman sat down upon the bed, and took one of the prisoner's hands in hers.
By this time the forlorn old woman, who came wandering like a ghost up the market, caught a glimpse of the portly figure and radiant countenance, that always made the huckster woman an object of attention.
The huckster woman looked earnestly into that noble young face; and Robert met her glance with a frank, but somewhat regretful smile.
The noble old huckster woman saw that she was giving pain, and did not press the subject.
Was it this energetic rebuke that brought the blood so richly into the young man's cheek, or was it the little word "niece" that fell so affectionately from the old huckster woman's lips?
North and west of this line the huckster is almost unknown.
The huckster wagons may be of the following types: 1--An extension of the local grocery store, trading merchandise for eggs.
As far as the quality of product and advantage to the farmer is concerned, the fourth style of huckster is preferable.
The huckster or peddling wagon which gathers eggs and other produce directly from the farm, prevail east and south of a line drawn from Galveston to Chicago through Texarkana, Ark.
In the more densely populated region with a twice or thrice a week, or even daily service, the huckster egg becomes the finest farm grown egg in the market.
The huckster scheme of gathering eggs would seemingly be a means of obtaining good eggs because of the advantage of regularity of collection, but in reality it does not always work out that way.
From a side view the make-up was that of a typical huckster of these parts, fur cap, with ear lappets, corduroy greatcoat and cowhide boots.
Fur cap, wig and false whiskers were tossed onto the mantelpiece, and the huckster was no more.
I wonder if our huckster friend is in the crowd back there?
I would have married her well, for she was handsome after a fashion, but she thwarted me and chose to wed a lout of a hucksterin the Bredestreet.
He stopped with the air of a huckster crying his wares.
In a contemptuous sense, huckster is used of any one who barters, or makes gain or profit in underhand or mean ways, or who over-reaches another, to get advantage for himself.
As far as that huckster account is concerned, that paltry five-sixteenths of beggar-man's cheese, I can happily dub it so.
What the devil was it to me if it was the wages of sin, or well-earned Norwegian hucksterpieces of silver from Kongsberg?
It wasn't quite so mean as he imagined it to be, in his huckster head.
This violent preliminary takes him aback; his littlehuckster brain fails him.
It did not require any particularly shrewd head to run up these rows of figures--this little huckster account in which nothing very complex occurred.
Even in the cold and quiet of the woman walking by her side the homely power of the poorhuckster was wholesome to strengthen.
And this wretchedhuckster carries her deity about her,--her self-existent soul?
She did not see the slow sigh with which the girl smothered down whatever hope had risen just then, listened half-attentive as the huckster maundered on.
Somehow, the morbid fancies were gone: she was keenly alive; the coarse real life of this huckster fired her, touched her blood with a more vital stimulus than any tale of crusader.
This unadulterated huckster or pawnbroker type is rarely keenly sympathetic in matters of social and industrial justice, and is usually physically timid and likes to cover an unworthy fear of the most just war under high-sounding names.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "huckster" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
