I know I have disgraced the family, but I shall never understand why riding with the peddler should do this.
It was I who thought of being children of the Irish peddler and I who suggested that we hop on his cart.
I have heard her making up gibberish to the tunes that that peddler sings on his way.
There was not one word of truth in this, for we had often ridden with the peddler before, and the idea of playing that we were his children was my own, and without thinking I told them so.
An Irish peddler lived on the outskirts of our village, and this was before the day when foreigners were plenty.
These are the same children that came with the Irish peddler to my house.
It leaked out that they had been as far as the village, ten miles away, and that the peddler had given them a lift back.
But on this point Betty could say nothing; Mr. Graeme had merely told her that the negro peddler had been warned off the "Hundred" property.
He had admitted the peddler at the back entrance, and had taken him to the butler's pantry.
The peddlerleft the room and Nanette sank down dazed and trembling on the nearest chair.
While they were talking, they had passed through a long corridor and the young man laid his hand on one of the doors as the peddler asked, "Can I see Miss Nanette alone?
The peddler looked so frozen and yet so venerable that the youth had not the heart to turn him away.
I am particularly interested in the dead lady's gloves," said the peddler when they were alone again.
He's a peddler and he's got some trifles here you might like to look at.
An old peddlerwas trying to find shelter from the rapidly increasing storm under the lea of the castle wall.
The girl sank back on her chair pale and trembling, while the peddler resumed his pose of a tired old man leaning against the stove.
The old peddler seemed to like the young man's honest indignation.
The dog rushed up to the bars, barking loudly, but when the peddler had taken a silk muffler from the pack on his back and held it out to the animal, the noise ceased and the dog's anger turned to friendliness.
Kniepp must have really gone to the city, for although the man behind the pillar waited for some little time, the Councillor did not return--a contingency that the peddler had not deemed improbable.
The peddler threw a look at George, who nodded in answer.
The cook brought the peddler a cup of steaming tea, and purchased several trifles from him, before he left the house.
The peddler laid his hand on the servant's arm and halted a moment.
The peddler stood for a long time motionless behind the pillar, then he looked at his watch.
Mrs. Flanagan, I mean in their incarnate spirits; the evil one knew there was no one we would arrest sooner than the peddler Birch, and he took on his appearance to gain admission to your room.
The peddler turned his face from the view of most of the family; but Frances noticed his glistening eyes and quivering lip, and, for the second time, Harvey rose in her estimation.
Should she return, Henry and the peddler would most probably pass the night in fancied security upon that very hill towards which she was straining her eyes, in the vain hope of observing some light that might encourage her to proceed.
Afterwards, neither woman nor peddler was to be found.
The order was immediately obeyed; but the movements of the peddler were too quick; in an instant he swallowed the paper.
Disregarding all but the fact that his father still lived, the peddlerstole gently into the room of his dying parent.
The officer to whose keeping Dunwoodie had committed the peddler transferred his charge to the custody of the regular sergeant of the guard.
Most of the movements of the peddler were made at the hours which others allotted to repose.
Some lads and lasses were dancing on the green before the house, while others of the young men were buying ribands, gloves, and such toys, of a peddler at the door.
When I was young, I used to load my love with presents; but you have let the peddler go, and have bought your lass no toy.
The peddler immediately closed the bargain and handed the ring over, then devoted his attention again to the table.
Thus consoled, the peddler hopped on with alacrity.
He was a Jewish peddler who traded small wares with the Arabs, and who was constantly somewhere on the road between Syria and Yemen, being liable to appear suddenly at the most mysterious times, and in the most unlikely places.
The peddler looked up, and his face blanched with fear.
The peddler shrugged his shoulders, and looked up with a shrewd glance.
The peddler placed his fingers on his lips, rolled up his eyes, and nodded assent.
The peddler besought Yusuf, for friendship's sake, to eat with him; but the Persian made a gesture of disgust.
A hue and cry was raised, but the little peddler had disappeared as completely as if the earth had opened up and swallowed him.
The quick, shifting glance which Levi instantly gave him somehow served to strengthen the conviction in the heart of the young soldier that the little peddler was playing a suspicious if not a double part.
Advancing to his side, Noel prepared to accompany the littlepeddler on his way, a decision which within a short time he had cause deeply to regret.
Noel looked up quickly as she spoke, and saw the peddler standing in the doorway of the kitchen.
He was positive that the peddler also recognized him, although not a word was spoken by either.
When M'Leod saw the peddler was dead, he would have given three worlds to have made him alive again, as he afterwards said; but it was too late.
A man in the township had a dream that the peddler had been murdered and put in this loch, and he went with his neighbours and found the body there.
When they were out of sight of the houses M'Leod struck the peddler with a small mason's hammer, which he had concealed in his breast.
A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap and flashy goods pretended to be smuggled; a duffer.
A peddler or hawker, especially of cheap, flashy articles, as sham jewelry; hence, a sham or cheat.
I sang in The Peddler of Marseilles--which made Arthur fall in love with me!
I was running through Blanche, my old part in The Peddler of Marseilles, when Mr. Burroughs spoke to me.
The song I sang in The Peddler--The Peddler of Marseilles!
He saw me act Blanche in the The Peddler of Marseilles, and fell in love.
And this," she told herself, "is the way the missing peddlerand the one-armed fiddler have gone.
There was the story of a peddler with a pack who had gone up there at nightfall and had never been seen to return, and a one-armed fiddler who had never come back.
She recalled with a sudden shock the weird tales she had heard told of these people, of the peddler with his rich pack of linens and box of jewelry, and of the one-armed fiddler who had passed this way to be seen no more.
She thought of the peddler and the one-armed fiddler, and shuddered.
One time a peddler come to our house and after supper he goes to see 'bout his pony.
If she were surprised to find the peddler a handsome young man instead of the old woman with whom she had talked the day before she did not show it.
A peddler was to come to-day at four o'clock with pretty things for me to buy.
It is a peddler with many interesting wares for sale," said the servant who answered his knock.
You surely are not the peddler who came here yesterday!
As we do not know the market value of his Pilgrim's Progress, we can not tell whether the poor peddler did well by him or the contrary.
Illustration: Father Gusson the peddlercomes to the farm.
Now the peddler could go his rounds, selling only this specialty, without need of further advertisement.
He seemed right concerned about it, and ast me if I hadn't no clue that I could track the peddler by; but I couldn't think of any, and I went home a good deal down in the mouth.
There come along a peddler in a smart red wagon, with all sorts of women's trash packed into it, and Gracie took it into her head to want some of his things.
He often asked him to his house, but the tattered, underfed peddler invariably declined the invitation.
The practical, concrete nature of this sin came home to him with a more forceful blow than all the peddler had said about Shaya's ungodly theories.
But did she tell you that it had been bought on the installment plan, and that the custom-peddler threatened to take it away unless she paid more regularly?
He quailed before the thought that what he had heard from the learned peddler might prove true, and he cringingly begged his own mind to put off the culminating agony of believing it.
For the rest, Rouvke followed the regular peddler course with undisturbed assiduity.
The cadaverous face and burning eyes of the peddler were sneering at the drab-colored page before him; while his voice sounded melancholy, like a subdued bugle call.
She is seized by the populace and dragged to the pond just as the peddler who sold her the horn makes his appearance, but— “Before she can utter the name of the d— Her head is under the water level!
On one occasion I engaged in the character of counsel to conduct a case for an Irish peddler whose complaint was that one of our neighbors had turned him out of his house and had otherwise abused him.
But the peddler knew, of course, and she must have forgotten.
Perfectly astonished at what he saw and heard, the peddler attempted to question her, but failing to obtain any satisfactory answers he finally left, mentally pronouncing her "as crazy as a loon.
Sure there are other lasses besides thyself who would like to trade with a poor peddler who has travelled all the way from Gruenstadt just to please the pretty ones of Trutz-Drachen.
But, dear heaven," she said, "where then has the peddler man gone?
Jean Baptiste Tavernier was, in fact, a sort of peddler among princes.
Possibly the long-headed peddler feared that had he stated the amounts his readers might not have deemed his profit quite so honest.
As Ducklow thought of it, he felt almost certain that Mrs. Ducklow had returned home, and that she was bargaining with the peddler at that moment.
I had no suspicion it was Thoreau, and rather supposed it was a peddler of small wares.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peddler" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: cadger; huckster; peddler; seller; vendor
