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Example sentences for "pedlars"

Lexicographically close words:
pediments; pedir; pedis; peditum; pedlar; pedler; pedlers; pedometer; pedum; peduncle
  1. The girls and boys quickly found that money would buy what the pedlars brought.

  2. So, by and by, pedlars and merchants came up from the south.

  3. Lives were lost here every year; herds that had stayed on the Alps too late were surprised and destroyed by early snow-storms; pedlars and carriers were belated, and sent to a last sleep by that sudden plunge of autumn into frost.

  4. Neither pedlars nor gipsies would carry such articles as books unless there was a demand for them, and they thereby demonstrate the growth of the disposition to read.

  5. There are not so many pedlars as was once the case, and those that remain are not men of such substance as their predecessors who travelled on foot with jewellery, laces, watches, and similar articles.

  6. Practically, therefore, in the actual country there are no other traders distributing cheap books than pedlars and gipsy women.

  7. But these wind-pedlars with their hard-earned fee Mocked and forsaken of the fiend their sire 'Spite of all powers of spell and gramarye Passed long ago in fire.

  8. And close observers of kitchen comedy will have noted that it is always at this fallow hour of the afternoon that pedlars and other satanic emissaries sharpen their arrows and ply their most plausible seductions.

  9. Nowe cutt my ropes, itt is time to be gon; Ile fetch yond pedlars backe mysell.

  10. By degrees they began to forget their prayers and remembered only the feasting; country people flocked from far and near; the pedlars and hawkers came to find a market for their wares.

  11. He said much more as to the blindness of the English, in suffering the French pedlars to carry on, uninterruptedly, the most considerable branch of traffic in the world.

  12. Then called he forth his stout pinnace; "Fetch backe yond pedlars nowe to mee: I sweare by the masse, yon English churles Shall all hang att my maine-mast tree.

  13. Many of them have commenced pedlars among the Bedouins, and fabricators of different articles for their use, especially sheep-skin furs, while others have emigrated to Tafyle and Kerek.

  14. In former times they used to sell at Mekka ostrich feathers to the northern pilgrims, and many pedlars of Mekka came here in winter to exchange cotton stuffs for those feathers.

  15. A number of pedlars and petty shopkeepers left the town to establish themselves at Arafat, and to be ready there for the accommodation of the pilgrims.

  16. Pedlars there had always been from quite early times.

  17. Vendors of hot drinks are walking about with copper urns on their backs; barbers are ringing their bells; blind conjurers are playing the flute, sweetmeat-pedlars are striking gongs.

  18. Other pedlars come ringing at the studio and interrupt and annoy me.

  19. Didn't you show him the sign in the hall, 'No pedlars allowed'?

  20. We were becoming lions in Landrecies, who had been only pedlars the night before in Pont.

  21. We began to think we might be pedlars after all.

  22. We have been taken for pedlars again,' said he.

  23. The young moon outside shone very clearly over Pont-sur-Sambre, and down upon the ale-house where all we pedlars were abed.

  24. They can at least give us the news from the family; and though it might seem in the course of things for pedlars to visit the Nest House, it will be just as much so for them to halt at the wigwam.

  25. At no respectable New York inn is a gentleman now asked to share even his room, without an apology and a special necessity, with another, much less his bed; but the rule does not hold good as respects pedlars and music-grinders.

  26. There are the very two pedlars of whom I told you, Martha," she said, "and now you may hear the flute well played.

  27. As the slave of a Littlepage, he held pedlars as inferior beings; for the ancient negroes of New York ever identified themselves, more or less, with the families to which they belonged, and in which they so often were born.

  28. But we are now poor pedlars of vatches, und dem dat might make moosic in der streets.

  29. We are three pedlars a-walking on to Dublin, With nothing in our pockets to pay for our lodging.

  30. If Burgundy hears of a ruffle between my garrison and the mountain churls, whom he scorns, and yet hates, it will drown all notice of the two pedlars who have perished in the fray.

  31. In the United States hawkers and pedlars must take out licences under State laws and Federal laws.

  32. The occupation of hawkers and pedlars has been regulated in the United Kingdom, and the two classes have also been technically distinguished.

  33. An orchard near the town was filled with cattle and horses, and near by, in the shade, a number of pedlars had arranged their wares.

  34. Godfrey led the pedlars into the hall, and shouted for the sewer, whom he bade to set a table, and serve the wearied men with food.

  35. Your Grace hath mind of the two pedlars that came hither a few days gone?

  36. Here, Dame, be pedlars bearing mercery and jewelling," said she.

  37. It were not in thy writ of matters allowable, I reckon, that the pedlars should come up and open their packs in my sight?

  38. Every tree he cuts, every sheaf he reaps and gathers in, is so much gain to him; and even these pedlars must have a measure of enjoyment when their sales are good.

  39. No harder than the pedlars of tin-ware and dry goods have, that go about the country in all weathers.

  40. Waggoners and pedlars carry it across the hills to distant towns.

  41. At the door were pedlars selling little books, in which were printed the offices for Christmas-tide, with stories of S.

  42. The pedlars had no one to watch them after that.


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