Alps was Cardinal Fesch, brother of Madame Letitia Bonaparte by the side of her mother, who, in a second marriage, chose a pedlar of the name of Nicolo Fesch, for her husband.
I saw how this little, red-bearded pedlar was like a cake of yeast in the big, heavy dough of humanity: how he travelled about trying to fulfil in his own way his ideals of beauty.
To whom the pedlar cunningly said yes verily I will therefore return home and follow my business not heeding such dreams hence forward.
Pedlar of Swaffham has been interpreted in carving.
All this suggests that we have here the last relics of the pedlar legend located in London.
Pedlar legend in Lambeth, and the costume of the Pedlar, though later than that shown in the Swaffham carving, exhibits analogous features which are of interest to the argument.
There chanced to be a pedlar bold, A pedlar bold he chanced to be; He rolled his pack all on his back, And he came tripping o'er the lee.
Then the pedlar he pulled off his pack, And put it a little below his knee, Saying, 'If you do move me one perch from this, My pack and all shall gang with thee.
It was a piece of luck, father, wasn't it, that pedlar wanting Chinese things?
Fina often wondered afterwards whether that pedlar was a real pedlaror a magician in disguise.
And he met that pedlar and bought the pagoda off him for two pounds and a highly-coloured cockatoo he was bringing home.
Bethel came in, and as usual joined the group at the fire without a word; he looked at the pedlar curiously and then seemed to recognise him--then he went up to him and soon they were in earnest conversation.
Children were always watching out for the pedlar at certain seasons when he usually arrived.
A few yards behind followed a bare-headed priest, chanting prayers for the departed, and heading a diminutive procession, in the midst of which the body of the unfortunate pedlar was carried on a bier.
In this sense would the sturdy pedlar take my daughter's question.
The pedlar meanwhile entered my doorway and greeted me with a smiling face.
Partly from one, partly from another, I gathered that a certain neighbour had owed the pedlar something for a Rampuri shawl, but had falsely denied having bought it, and that in the course of the quarrel Rahmun had struck him.
He stared at the pedlar with his bleared eyes for an instant, and then, walking round behind the counter, asked in a very obsequious tone what he wanted.
The pedlar did so, with wonderful accuracy; and Carlini, having been called in, gave exactly the same account.
After some further conversation of the same kind, the pedlar plodded on upon his way.
An old brick house of a good size, with a little green court in front, stood before Henry Hayley and the pedlar at the end of the lane.
Henry Hayley and the pedlar walked on, and very naturally the former inquired into the history and character of the persons he had just seen.
The moment after, the door was again opened, and Mr. Mingy Bowes entered, his face suddenly assuming a look of extreme surprise on perceiving the person of the pedlar before him.
The pedlarwas soon introduced, and in graceful terms the young nobleman expressed his gratitude, making him sit down beside him.
We left Mr. Mingy Bowes just entering the room where Carlo Carlini and the pedlar sat, with a look of surprise upon his countenance.
That is hardly fair, sir," said the pedlar with a smile.
And then, she did not know how, but the pedlar coaxed her into buying for herself a pear-shaped pomander with a strong scent in it--she had once seen something of the kind on a gypsy woman.
The pedlar said that whoever wore it had the power to read the future; but she did not really believe that, or care much either.
But one evening a pedlar woman came to the castle and was selling trinkets to the maids.
He hails a pedlar of drinks and orders one for himself.
The old domestic and the pedlar meanwhile exhausted themselves in entreaties to Norna, of which, as they were couched in the Norse language, the master of the house understood nothing.
The pedlar and old Tronda, confident that the house would never fall while the redoubted Norna was beneath its roof, held themselves ready for a start the instant she should take her departure.
At length Mordaunt saw the honest pedlar fix his views upon a strong sea-chest, framed of some Indian wood, well secured by brass plates, and seeming to be of a foreign construction.
The pedlar beheld them approach with a deep groan.
As he came nearer, Mordaunt was at no loss to recognise the pedlar whom the day before he had met with at Harfra, and who was known to him before upon many occasions.
The pedlar seized on his little knapsack, and began hastily to brace it on his back; the old maid-servant cast her cloak about her shoulders, and both seemed to be in the act of leaving the house as fast as they could.
Tessa went to the other side of the street that she might ask the pedlar the price of the crosses, fearing that they would cost a little too much for her to spare from her purchase of sweets.
Rather surprised at a deportment so unusual in an anxious trader, Tito went nearer and saw two women go up to Bratti's basket with a look of curiosity, whereupon the pedlar drew the covering tighter, and looked another way.
And by a question or two Baldassarre extracted, without any trouble, such a rough and rambling account of Tito's life as the pedlar could give, since the time when he had found him sleeping under the Loggia de' Cerchi.
Never did a pedlar accept the cancellation of a bargain so gleefully as this one did.
They made a few purchases, and then hastened to Elizabeth, to tell her that the handsomest pedlar in England was at the back-door, and to beg her to come and patronize him.
While Denny, the Big Mower, and the two Meehans were thus engaged in giving expression to their peculiar opinions, the Pedlar held a conversation of a different kind with Anne.
The third was a noted pedlar called Martin, who, under pretence of selling tape, pins, scissors, etc.
In orderly formation the party set off to the place where the pedlar had left his cart.
The Hebrew pedlar of gems closed his box and effaced himself, leaving the steps about the well clear for the most prominent patrons of the market.
The pedlar deemed them a couple of madmen, whose ways were beyond the understanding of a sober citizen.
Another conspicuous character of the court was a quaint little hunchback, a pedlar by trade, whose sad deformity and resentful temper caused him to become the butt of every street gamin’s joke.
With admirable agility the tinker reattached the limb, and the pedlar went on his way rejoicing.
And at that moment he was aware of a ragged pedlar coming along the forest glades, and whistling as he came.
But we have long given over chasing butterflies, and feel, as the Pedlar did, that they are beautiful creatures, and that 'tis a sin between finger and thumb to compress their mealy wings.
We may seem to have treated the Pedlar with insufficient respect in that playful parallel between him and Ourselves; but there you are wrong again, for we desire thereby to do him honour.
So far the tale told by the pedlar to Damaris had been true.
The pedlar had said that everything was given to my cousin, but the people I was with would not believe it.
One day in the new year there came by a pedlar whom I knew; we had bought little objects of him once or twice, when Catherine and I had been at St. Jean at the same time as he.
The Pedlar Hark, people, to the cry Of this curious young magician-pedlar Seeking a golden bowl!
Pedlar I am who through this wood to roam, One lock of her hair is gold enough for me, For apple, peach, comfit, or honeycomb!
Now only night is where the Pedlar was; And bleak as frost upon a quickling bud His magic steals in darkness, O alas!
Then cried the Pedlarin a bitter voice, "What, in the thicket, is this idle noise?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pedlar" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
