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Example sentences for "peddlers"

Lexicographically close words:
pedants; pedder; peddle; peddled; peddler; peddling; pede; pedem; pederasty; pedes
  1. De Indians fetch their pots and jars to sell, and peddlers come to big house wid their humps on their backs and bright yards of calico and sich things de missus lak to feel and s'lect from.

  2. When Jews en peddlers came with clothes an' gunger to sell, we as chillun would go to him an' ax fur money to buy whut we want.

  3. The food peddlers drove a profitable trade because almost every person present had been fasting for a lunar month and had a sharp appetite to satisfy.

  4. Travelers complain also of the pestiferous peddlers who pursue them beyond the limit of patience.

  5. Itinerant peddlers were disposing of sweetmeats to eager boys and girls.

  6. We got away from Bethlehem and its troops of beggars and relic-peddlers in the afternoon, and after spending some little time at Rachel's tomb, hurried to Jerusalem as fast as possible.

  7. The second assault, more brutal and cowardly than the first, followed as the logical sequence of that powwow of pietists, peddlers and politicians.

  8. It seemed odd in the midst of the wilderness to meet two peddlers loaded with gay gilt frames.

  9. Some peddlers will have pushcarts or toy express wagons, or even wheelbarrows.

  10. These peddlers will be young people dressed in fancy costumes, and each will try to sell his load of wares by calling from house to house.

  11. The peddlers had no time to put in a special line for the soldiers.

  12. It was Henriette who brushed the boots and cleaned the dishes and swept the floors and every night she waited on peasants and peddlers and reporters.

  13. The peddlers and beggars around the church redoubled their efforts and appeals, and kept a cordon around us till we reached the street.

  14. He had nothing in his pack but such wares as all peddlers have; and the people vowed he had done naught all the day but sell to all who came.

  15. Still, it is often the tales peddlers tell and the way they have with them that keeps a crowd always about them.

  16. And there, he falls in with Jewish fellow push-cart peddlers and puts up with them in a cellar similar to his in the Syrian Quarter.

  17. For what the rising tide spares, the rascally flyaway peddlers carry away.

  18. Its purpose was to prevent peddlers and wandering merchants from cheating the folk.

  19. The age of clock peddlers had not come then.

  20. It is a common notion that peddlers are very apt to make dupes of the ladies.

  21. I really don't know how much to believe of the anecdotes of Connecticut peddlers of former times.

  22. Now, I suppose, the peddlers sell more clocks than tin ovens and sauce pans.

  23. Uncle Juan, why is it that most of these street peddlers are Italians?

  24. Yes, Nino, most of the peddlers are Italian.

  25. They rose from dealers in old clothes and peddlers of hats to merchants, to bankers, to princes.

  26. He joined his companions; day broke ere long, and their business required the peddlers to leave the inn.

  27. Being busily occupied thus in all directions, Goton could do no more than whisper a word of hope to Dubourg, giving him to understand that the peddlers would be gone at daybreak, her employers asleep, and herself more at liberty.

  28. But one of the peddlers was not asleep; he, too, was engrossed by thoughts of Goton, and he was waiting for his companions to lose themselves in slumber before attempting to join the seductive servant.

  29. These words caused the peddlers to raise their heads, and they scrutinized the travellers, laughing contemptuously among themselves.

  30. Every penny he could earn or save went to buy a song or a story from the peddlers who occasionally climbed the hill to the solitary farm-house.

  31. Hurriedly dressing, Eli ran for aid, but found himself regarded with suspicion by those to whom he told his story; for he was a stranger in the place and certain peddlers who had gone before had left a bad name behind them.

  32. Peddlers rolled their push-carts back to the curb.

  33. Now, suddenly, all of it was meaningless, the peddlers with whom she had bickered and bargained in a loud voice with gestures, breast to breast, were strangers and the street an alien land.

  34. These peddlers doubtless obtained their supplies from smugglers.


  35. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "peddlers" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.