Well-to-do people have very little idea of the number of firms that employ travelling canvassers and touts to hawk their wares from door to door in the mean streets.
More might certainly be done to prevent back-door trading, and there is no more reason why area touts should be allowed to infest the streets than the lower class of bookmakers.
Green-goods men and blue-sky stock salesmen, race-course touts and sure-thing politicians get away with the same proposition in the U.
Presently the team emerged and walked slowly up the village street, where half a dozen touts were fast asleep, because they must be up at dawn to haunt the entrance to the Starkey Lodge Stables.
No good running it this morning," said the trainer, shouting some abuse at the touts and galloping his hack in the direction of the horses.
All the touts set hard to work to solve what was called the Starkey Lodge Puzzle; Winsley and the hamlets round were frequented by inquisitive men whose pockets were bulging with sheaves of telegraph forms.
Il les achate touts He byeth them all Tels quils soient, Suche as they ben, Soient embles ou enprintees, Be they stolen or enprinted, 36 Ou aultrement pourchacies.
Anthoine est ung preudhomme[3]; +Antonye is a wyse man; Il se lieue touts les nuyts He ariseth alle the nyghtes 16 Pour oyer mattines.
At this intimation, Mr. Jorrocks clambered down, and was speedily surrounded by touts and captains of vessels soliciting his custom.
Mr. Jorrocks was then passed out, to take his chance among the touts and commissionaires of the various hotels, who are enough to pull passengers to pieces in their solicitations for custom.
I fear the touts troubled their heads very little about this graceful two-year old, though she had the blood of Old Melbourne and West Australian in her veins, to say nothing of other aristocracy upon the maternal side.
Touter~, a looker out, one who waits at railway stations and steamboat piers, and touts for customers; a hotel runner.
At last, her baggage on board, she found herself breathless at the foot of the ladder, with three passengers imploring her to ascend, and six toutsclinging to her skirts and crying for drink-money.
Niagara is the central home and breeding-place for all the touts of earth.
Niagara is the central home and breeding- place for all the touts of earth.
His marvellous capacity for “out-touting” the touts with which Newmarket was infested was once exemplified during the trials for the Stewards’ Cup at Goodwood.
As twenty-four hours later Aylmer climbed the steps from the water's edge to the pierhead of Tangier, a red fez was doffed from a close-cropped skull and out of a little crowd of hotel touts a Moor saluted with a welcoming smile.
The flap of his slippers slammed upon the boards, boat boys jeered, hotel touts made comments which no Bowdler could render into reputable English.
He smiled at Jew and Moslem, Christian and Infidel, with a pleasant patronage which one or two itinerant pedlars and shop touts returned with obsequious affability.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "touts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
