英语词汇“costermonger”造句的方法、技巧、例句及翻译-英语例句辞典

Amongst costermongers this term is invariably applied to ladies, or the wives of tradesmen and females, generally of the classes immediately above them.” Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z

London’s filthy streets were a bedlam of costermongers, urchins, coffee wagons and tall-hatted bobbies. Darwin’s Dim View of the Second Sex 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z

Pearly kings and queens gather to celebrate their annual costermongers harvest festival at the Guildhall in London. There's more to cockney culture than being born in earshot of Bow bells 2012-06-26T11:50:01Z

That resistance held out for some of the first scene of Daniel Evans's production, where the flower girls were too clean and the costermongers too chirpy. My Fair Lady; The Dance of Death; Midnight's Pumpkin – review 2012-12-23T00:09:26Z

The costermongers sewed buttons onto their clothes to distinguish themselves and to mimic the rich, according to the Museum of London. London’s Other Royals, the ‘Pearlies,’ Keep Alive Cockney Customs 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

Mayhew has a special affinity for “street folk”, in particular London’s costermongers: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 66 – London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew (1851) 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z

What does Sir Roger himself make of the idea that a costermonger might have got there before him, in the 18th Century? The 18th Century four-minute mile 2014-05-08T23:29:32Z

"My granddad was a local costermonger," she says. Remembering London’s outcast dead 2012-12-23T09:07:34Z

The "pearlies" have their origins a century ago in a street sweeper named Henry Croft, who adapted the button-festooned clothes worn by London costermongers - apple-sellers - to help draw attention to his charity fundraising. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z

“If someone’s fruit went off, or the donkey was ill, or something like that,” said Mr. Bennett, describing how the costermongers would have a singalong and pass around a bucket for donations. London’s Other Royals, the ‘Pearlies,’ Keep Alive Cockney Customs 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z

Bothering the costermongers and the retail shopkeepers and the small householders. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z

Strains of music proceeding from the tea-houses, costermongers' cries, shrieks of quarrelsome children, and high-pitched voices in admonition; shouting and noise of all sorts and in endless variety are heard. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z

Those who learn the necessity of being provident cease to be costermongers. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z

"The visitor sprang on to a costermonger's barrow, and waving his hand, exclaimed—" When at the appointed time the Missionary turned the corner, he was surprised to see the place crowded. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z

At a costermonger's stall he bought a pennyworth of apples, and munched them as he went. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z

When will the cant and humbug of these costermonger times be reformed? The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z

I never knew or heard a costermonger in the Dials with such a repertory. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z

Mr. Mayhew says that "the regular or thoroughbred costermongers repudiate the numerous persons who only sell nuts or oranges in the streets." Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z

Her parents were old inhabitants, they had lived there for many years, and sustained the respectability of the costermonger's calling. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z

“And then he’ll rail like a rude costermonger, That schoolboys had cozened of his apple, As loud and senseless.” A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z

The bull-dog tenacity permeated all classes; it was shared by the peer, the country squire, the small farmer, the tradesman and the artizan; it was voiced by the Prime Minister, and echoed by the costermonger. A Cabinet Secret 2011-07-31T02:00:10.693Z

I saw him once with a couple of choice friends on a costermonger’s barrow, such as is used for hawking fish or vegetables. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z

The costermongers, according to Mr. Mayhew, are drunkards and gamblers,—living without religion or the family ties. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z

Upon the back-room door was a rusty old padlock, showing that the lodgers—costermongers—were out; but the front-room door was partly open. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z

In London a large sale is carried on in “Christmasing,” or in the sale of holly, ivy, laurel, evergreens, bay, and mistletoe, for Christmas sports and decorations, by the family greengrocer and the costermongers. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z

The swell and the costermonger all tear along at a frightful pace, and thus secure—what in England some good people are trying to insure—a pleasant Sunday afternoon. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z

‘Why, that a costermonger’s wife has a happier lot.’ Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z

I miss almost all the women who were there an hour ago, and most of the costermonger class have disappeared, though a few still linger on. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z

The costermongers might be seen pushing out their barrows of vegetables, fruit, and coarse fish. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z

All this may be very true; but Bill Smith, the costermonger, is a noisy vulgar fellow; therefore must be put down. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z

Listen, sir!" exclaimed Dogvane in high glee, "to the merry, but perfectly unintelligible cry of your happy costermongers. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z

People who never so much as suspected the existence of it, grew familiar with its name, in the refrain of a comic song dealing with costermongers. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z

All at once the biggest of them—a very powerful fellow of the costermonger type—dealt his opponent—a poor slim, weedy lad of the common shop-boy p. 72species—a tremendous blow. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z

The speaker was the wife of a costermonger who lived in a neighbouring court. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z

An example of living art in modern furniture is a costermonger's barrow. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z

We refute this base slander by pointing to your costermongers. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z

Does any one imagine that the German bakers and clerks and costermongers, who are now so much in evidence, have before landing entered into a contract of service? Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day 2011-04-19T02:00:17.257Z

Evidently the class of customers expected was a low one, greengrocers’ and costermongers’ boys apparently, and such like. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z

That answer was given in the unexpected form of a question addressed to a group of costermongers who were standing at the other side of the bar. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z

Why, a costermonger with his donkey might as well talk of his 'steed.' Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z

In front of that ancient English manor-house, she seems grotesquely out of place—as much as a costermonger, driving his moke-drawn cart among the Pyramids, or smoking a "Pickwick" by the side of the Sphinx. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z

"Why go along and mind your business," replied his worship—and the master costermonger retired from court without having taken anything by his motion. Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' 2011-04-08T02:00:09.863Z

Inside, some day, the newest, Falstaff, Will occupy a far from small staff Of band and chorus; Outside, as now, old slums ill-smelling, And costermongers, shouting, yelling, Will be before us. Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 2011-04-02T02:00:12.230Z

Till, with waking chirp of sparrows, Early costermongers' barrows Forth are drawn. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:12.713Z

And, oh, glorious, unmatchable Boat Race day: how we all cared, how everyone cared, the whole of London cared, the costermongers, the drivers of four-wheelers, those delicious hansom cabs, everyone cared. Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker 2011-03-23T00:06:01Z

In front of that ancient English manor-house, she seems grotesquely out of place—as much as a costermonger driving his moke-drawn cart among the Pyramids, or smoking a “Pickwick” by the side of the Sphinx. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z

“Such a dog as that ugly brute as comes brushing into the house every time the door is opened is only fit to go with a costermonger or a butcher.” Lady Maude's Mania

In the road, usually so crowded at that hour with vehicles of all descriptions, omnibuses, hansoms, private carriages, vans, and even costermongers' barrows, two dogs were fighting over a piece of food. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance

Besides, they used to be such pals as kids: it wasn't nice, now, to be quarrelling like any costermonger and his wife. Helena Brett's Career

Yes, the slaves bought their diseased fellow-countrymen, to work on their own allotments, treating them as the costermonger sometimes does his donkey. The West Indies and the Spanish Main

The gay have their theatres—the philanthropic their Exeter Hall—the wealthy their “ancient concerts”—the costermongers what they term their sing-song. The Night Side of London

A costermonger’s cart, laden with cabbages for Camberwell, breaks down, and there is a block extending back almost all the way to the Mansion House. About London

If we come here on a Friday, between ten and four, we shall find a market for the sale of horses and donkeys—a market much patronised by costermongers. Here and There in London

The Conveyances include most things on wheels—from a costermonger's truck with the smallest of donkeys, to a battered old Sheriff's carriage drawn by two large cart-horses. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853)

On the last occasion when we differed, you used the methods of the costermonger.” Cynthia's Chauffeur

The reader will see from these specimens how alien the costermonger race is in sympathy and life from the respectable and the well-to-do. The Night Side of London

From the Tower we break away into the far east, among the old clothes shops, the bird markets, the costermongers, and the weavers of Whitechapel and Spitalfields. Old and New London Volume I

But young potato-peelings, so called from his father's vocation of costermonger, defended himself with indignation. When Ghost Meets Ghost

To use a very homely illustration: a carrot dangled from the end of a stick before a donkey's nose makes no mechanical difference in the problem of traction presented by the costermonger's barrow. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King'

The plaintiff was a costermonger and the defendant a costermonger; they conducted the case in person. Law and Laughter

Well, the itinerant vendors of these delicacies are costermongers. The Night Side of London

Once, when I was wandering in Walworth," he said, "I heard a costermonger threatening to give another costermonger a thick ear, a bunged-up eye and a mouth full of blood. Changing Winds A Novel

He had, in fact, been seeing the Metropolis, as an exponent or auxiliary of his father's vocation as a costermonger; and had made himself extremely useful, said Mr. Rackstraw, in the manner of speaking. When Ghost Meets Ghost

True, there was a market garden or two, and odors redolent of decaying vegetables; but, on the whole, it was rather an unsavory region, and much frequented by the costermonger and fishwoman. Wee Wifie

Preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language; with glossaries of two secret languages, spoken by the wandering tribes of London, the costermongers, and the patterers. Introduction to the Science of Sociology

Let me say a word about costermonger literature. The Night Side of London

But when the Major overstrains his voice, it misses fire like a costermonger's, and only a falsetto note comes on a high register. Somehow Good

I settled it in my mind that I was to leave the cells after this costermonger: he is in front of me, therefore the cell behind me is empty. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas

Here there were hungry faces, sottish faces, sickly faces, and an endless pushing and jostling around the costermongers' barrows. A Vanished Hand

But the sound was renewed; and she perceived that it was produced by some costermongers passing under her window and moving farther on. The Confessions of Arsène Lupin

He and his wife earned their living as costermongers in the market-place. The Brothers Karamazov

A duke will be a duke, and a costermonger a costermonger.” The Rough Road

Once more the warders pushed Fandor before them, as well as the poor costermonger: they were driven into a dark corridor on to which a row of cells opened. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas

His name is Lane—a costermonger, known as Lanky Lane. The Seven Secrets

One afternoon, at about four o'clock, there was a violent altercation between two costermongers at the bottom of the street. The Confessions of Arsène Lupin

The donkey-barrow of a costermonger passed me, loaded with a bluejacket, a flower-girl, several soldiers, and a Staff captain whose spurred boots wagged joyously over the stern of the barrow. Waiting for Daylight

And the costermonger will rise to the political position of an important tradesman. The Rough Road

The first to pass out was the costermonger. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas

But to the readers of newspapers the poisoning of a costermonger at Shadwell is of little interest as compared with a similar catastrophe in that quarter of London vaguely known as “the West End.” The Seven Secrets

You get hold of a scavenger, or a costermonger, who enjoyed the Newgate Calendar for literature, and "Pop goes the Weasel" for music. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing

His artist's kit revealed his profession even to the uncritical eye, but no student of men could have failed to guess his bent were he habited in the garb of a costermonger. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley

As I went off the ground I was struck with the clever way in which a London costermonger will turn anything and everything to account. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis

Philosophically, Jérôme Fandor was preparing to go to sleep on the plank bed which decorated one end of the cell, when the little costermonger, roused from his torpid condition, began to moan and groan. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas

After all, the death of that poor costermonger, Lanky Lane, was of greater public interest than the representatives of the Press anticipated. The Seven Secrets

Fortuny, who sold his first picture to a costermonger in Madrid for a bag of peas, is represented at the Champ de Mars by several canvases, the smallest of which would bring forty thousand francs. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science

His jerkin is well fortified; and therefore the costermongers "between the years 1790 and 1800" did more politicly than piously in lifting up a part of his upper garment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864

Under the stands and around the booths, tabernacling beneath costermongers' barrows, and even lying out openly sub dio, were still the hundreds of human beings. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis

At the exit door of La Capitale, in the noisy rue Montmartre, crowded with costermongers' barrows, Jérôme Fandor hailed a taxi. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas

Nitrate of amyl was not a drug which a costermonger would select with a view to committing suicide. The Seven Secrets

He was followed by two obviously comic men, who might have been costermongers or knockabout brothers from a music hall, and one comic woman. Diversions in Sicily

I love the pale, tender green of the cabbage stalks, and the voices of the costermongers are musical in the dawning. The Green Carnation

By-and-by the well-known paper bouquets and outrageous head-gear showed themselves as forming the cargo of costermongers' carts. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis

They seemed happy enough; good-natured; sometimes even with a word of chaff for the costermonger whom they ordered to move on, him and his barrow. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols

In an instant I recollected that the costermonger of the London Road was one of the ruffians. The Seven Secrets

One Saturday afternoon, while I was at home, a costermonger came to the door with walnuts. Eliza

Her hair is light brown, and cut short, the same as a man’s; and she has the gait of a man, and looks like a costermonger. Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves

The father of one of my boys was a costermonger, and had a horse that he had obtained very cheap because it had a disease of the legs. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell

On the morning of my leaving the inn he learned that a costermonger had found a young woman, sick and bewildered, who, having lost her way, was taken by him to a public-house. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898

It was not pleasant walking, but I was interested in the life about me—the people, the shops, the costermongers' barrows, and I might even say the public-houses. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta

I had yet to learn that they were costermongers waiting for prices to come down. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden

“And if I only had the flow of costermonger’s talk which some people possess—” began Crossfield. The Willoughby Captains

They fell out—there was a furious quarrel—and one day the father and son—ugh!—fought, with clenched fists, sir, like two—two costermongers!—and the boy did not get the best of it. Roger Ingleton, Minor

Some recollected an old lady who used to keep a costermonger’s stall and had a baby with fits. A Dog with a Bad Name

Next in a trice, with his box and his dice, Mac-pipin my son, but younger, Brings Mumming in; and the knave will win, For he is a costermonger. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV

Shaftsbury's mental processes show the generations of aristocratic breeding even in his costermonger's cart lovingly winning these men, or after midnight searching out the waifs of London's nooks and docks. Quiet Talks on Power

A costermonger hawked frozen rabbits from a donkey-cart, with a pallid woman following behind to drive away the mangy cats which quarrelled in the road for the oozing blood which dripped from the cart's tail. The Hand in the Dark

"He being thus lorded," i. e. ennobled "with what my revenue yielded," is surely a far superior expression to "being thus loaded,"—as if the poet were speaking of a costermonger's donkey! Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.

How he killed a mad dog, and nursed a man with smallpox, and knocked down a costermonger for kicking his pony. The Village by the River

I could not come to you, because I was hastily summoned to the cure of 5,000 costermongers and dock labourers.' Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies

Next, in a trice, with his box and his dice, Mac' pipin my son, but younger, Brings Mumming in; and the knave will win For he is a costermonger. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide

No costermonger's donkey is so overloaded as the stomachs of most rich people. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris

They could not be more indifferent, or more superior in appearance, were they dandies judging the class for costermonger’s donkeys at a provincial horse-show. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View

If she had been a little female costermonger she would have demanded her 'marriage lines' and clung to them fiercely. Robin

At an advanced age he opened a new and attractive chapter in his life by his friendly meetings with the London costermongers. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies

An officer from another school has written to tell me that he overheard two of you talking outside the canteen in language that would disgrace a costermonger. The Loom of Youth

Count the whole series of human souls between a costermonger and a Cambridge don, and you will see a nation in mutiny. Gilbert Keith Chesterton

Now that he is matured, he is gratified if he can make drunken costermongers stare, so he must have been a very forward creature when his conceit was in full blossom. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary

Any attempt at courtship after the style of the costermonger is resented by the whole corvine community. A Bird Calendar for Northern India

And at all times he was ready to mix freely and on terms of social equality with all who shared his sympathies, dukes and dustmen, Cabinet ministers and costermongers. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies

In the daytime I talked to costermongers, street venders, the unemployed, and the corner loafers. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine

He gave me a look like that of a costermonger weighing and measuring the gullibility of his customer. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady

My friend Donkey Perkins, the fighting man, curses me with perfect affability and I am on easy terms with about one hundred costermongers. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary

In one of our wards we harboured, for a while, a costermonger. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital

And if it is only one woman, then it was the same lady, more than half intoxicated, that I saw in the Whitechapel Road cruelly ill-treating a little costermonger. Certain Personal Matters

Just behind him a costermonger in a riot of buttons was indulging in philosophic quips of a cheerfully vulgar nature. The Parts Men Play

The costermongers lifted a large banner on which were inscribed these words: "I was sick and in prison and ye visited me." The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service

Then he seated himself in the barge, and had a sail on the Thames, followed by innumerable beggars, sycophants, and costermongers. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth

"Oh, chuck 'im out!" cried the disgusted costermonger, spitting upon the floor. A Prince of Sinners

In Scene 7 of Sketches by Boz there is a mention of ‘the renowned Mr. Martin, of costermonger notoriety.’ Charles Dickens and Music

The screams of costermongers and of rowdies might surely be suppressed by the police. Lost Leaders

It is for no abstract reason that 6 is thus made the turning-point, but simply because the costermonger is adding pence up to the silver sixpence, and then adding pence again up to the shilling. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development

No costermonger, or common cad, or true Englishman, ever yet had that indefinable touch of the opera-supernumerary in the streets. The English Gipsies and Their Language

A roar of laughter, during which a wag in the crowd quietly picked the costermonger's pocket of the fish with a deftness born of much practice, and sent it flying over the room. A Prince of Sinners

Officers of the army and navy, merchants, doctors, and clergymen consorted with costermongers, poachers, and pickpockets. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned

In all decent quarters householders would vote against the licensed bellowings of cads and costermongers. Lost Leaders

The streets were still deserted, except by milkmen, bakers, costermongers, and other "early birds." The Lost Lady of Lone

Joe, the costermonger, Bill, the market-labourer, Tom, the fish-porter, and the rest come home in a straggling way; and, if they can buy a pennyworth of coal, they boil the little kettle. Side Lights

"More bloomin' tracks," the costermonger interrupted, and spat upon the floor. A Prince of Sinners

And lo! a cart that held a squad Of costermonger line; With one poor hack, like Pegasus, That slaved for all the Nine! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

You get hold of a scavenger or a costermonger, who enjoyed the Newgate Calendar for literature, and 'Pop goes the Weasel' for music. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin

There, take it gently from the ground, O costermonger, to thy barrow, And shout, with loud discordant sound, The praise of Vegetable Marrow! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892

One day, however, I watched a costermonger steering a boat-load of flowers under a bridge, and no words of mine can describe the loveliness of their Page 154reflection. A Wanderer in Holland

The costermonger waved a wonderful red handkerchief, and spat once more on the floor. A Prince of Sinners

I heard afterward that my Frenchman had been a costermonger and was now half journalist, half financier, and that my art student was an employee of one of the older magazines. The Inheritors

Here is a clever invention of some costermonger or street stander in the market-place for the shading of their candles on Saturday nights, when they are selling their greens, or potatoes, or fish. The Chemical History of a Candle

His ample front was decked with a blue apron, suspended from his shoulders, and confined round the convexity of his waist by an old strap which no respectable costermonger would have used as harness. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland

A score of humanitarian societies would spring into being to prevent it: possibly with some reason, for one has little faith in the considerateness of the average English costermonger or barrow-pusher. A Wanderer in Holland

They hustled him out good-naturedly except that the costermonger, running him down the room, took his cap from his head and sent it spinning across the road. A Prince of Sinners

Gentility, nobility, royalty, would appeal to that donkey in vain to do what he does for a costermonger. The Bed-Book of Happiness

Moreover, some of us, perhaps even Mr Beerbohm, know a good deal about the technique of acting, even if we could not "make-up" Mr Bourchier to look like a costermonger. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette"

But the child of the thief, the costermonger, the racecourse swindler, the thriftless labourer, is now practically emancipated through the action of sentimental persons. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour

A proctor is regarded by an undergraduate, especially by a fast man, with the same affection that a costermonger looks on a policeman. Rides on Railways

"I am for one," declared the costermonger, moving away from before the desk. A Prince of Sinners

He has been hostler, costermonger, and taverner, and sings the delights of the city. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4

The wheels were heavy, cumbrous and ill put together; they were not well adapted for the costermonger's purpose, and will probably fall to pieces before long. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876

Mark that these bookmakers, as they are called, are not gentlemen in any sense of the word; some of them are publicans, some look like prize-fighters, some like promoted costermongers, some like common thieves. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour

At the quarter, the scene thickens; there are few Hansoms, but some night cabs, a vast number of carts of all kinds, from the costermonger’s donkey to the dashing butcher’s Whitechapel. Rides on Railways

He was figured in the costermonger's dress, with his arm tucked under the girl's, and her hat on his head. The Philanderers

His costermongers and policemen, his omnibus drivers and conductors and cabbies, are inimitable studies; and as for his 'busses and cabs, I really cannot find words to express my admiration of them. Social Pictorial Satire

This is very familiar to the costermonger fraternity as the oil which is burned in the flaring lamps which illuminate the New Cut or the Elephant and Castle on Saturday and other market nights. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes

Bless you, I know scores who were once as sweet as you who can now drink any costermonger of them all under the stools in the Haymarket bar. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour

A baker sold rolls, a costermonger vended cherries. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes

This she had learned from seeing a costermonger fill his cart with children, and push behind, while the donkey in front pulled them along the street, to the praise and glory of God. Paul Faber, Surgeon

As for the trenches themselves—well, as the immortal costermonger observed, "there ain't no word in the blooming language" for them. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand

Do this, as a rule, by means of classical tags vulgarised down to the level of a costermonger's cart. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890

It would not pay to bring on to the ground the scrawny, bony creature that generally tugs in the costermonger’s cart. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's

The stately figure which bore itself so majestically in Courts and Parliaments naturally unbent among the costermongers of Whitechapel and the labourers of Dorsetshire. Collections and Recollections

And lo! a cart that held a squad Of costermonger line; With one poor hack, like Pegasus, That slav'd for all the Nine! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829

Gentility, nobility, Royalty, would appeal to that donkey in vain to do what he does for a costermonger. The Uncommercial Traveller

We are as great friends to horses, hackney-coach and otherwise, as the renowned Mr. Martin, of costermonger notoriety, and yet we never ride. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people

Since this offer was made, a very decided improvement has been noticed among the donkeys of the London costermongers, as if the competition for the first prize was to be a very large one. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's

Too far, in fancy, above the rest of mankind to trouble about their petty distinctions, he is equally at home with duke or costermonger. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow

Blood, he speaks terribly! but, for all that, I do not greatly believe him: he looks as like a 155 conjurer as the Pope to a costermonger. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616

We arrived at Lincoln's Inn Fields without any new adventures, except encountering an unlucky donkey in a costermonger's cart, who suggested painful associations to my aunt. David Copperfield

He recites things, tells stories in costermonger dialect, and mimics public characters. Ponkapog Papers

If a man born a gentleman is ever in the mood to kick his wife to death, as costermongers do, he was in that mood. The Shuttle

Mounted costermongers! whose trade it was to sell 'nutmegs made of wood, and clocks that wouldn't figure.' Tracks of a Rolling Stone

It seems to be chiefly composed of costermongers and Americans. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis

And, because it was queer that a song should seem to be coming out of the ground, a costermonger stopped, and then a little boy, and then a workingwoman, and then a lady. The Lost Prince

Among these is the reappearance of flowers on the costermongers' carts and at the kiosks. Paris War Days Diary of an American

"The theatre must be a 'great teacher of morals,' then, if we come here to be initiated into the vices of costermongers," said George, rather sarcastically. Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City

You remember the costermonger whose family quarrelled with him for marrying beneath him? There & Back

Second, I believe that a man might be as a tailor or a costermonger, every inch of him a saint, a scholar, and a gentleman, for I have seen some few such already. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography

Oh no! it is only a costermonger with his donkey and a pannier of cabbage! The Virginians

Elliott has rigged up two of his guns so ingeniously that they look more like costermongers' barrows than anything else. The Mystery of Cloomber

The wild bustle and uproar of the costermongers' night market no longer rioted round him: the street by daylight was in a state of dreary repose. The Fallen Leaves

Here ballad-bellowing, and organ grinding, and voices of costermongers, singing of poor men's luxuries, never ceased all through the hum of day, and penetrated far into the frowzy repose of latest night. Hide and Seek

And by-and-by the dense moving crowds, noise of bawling costermongers, and glare of gas and naphtha torches were left behind, when she reached the welcome gloom and comparative quiet of her own squalid street. Fan : the story of a young girl's life

There was even the observation of the costermonger leaning over his barrow near the Assize Court when one morning Sir Henry was going in with little Jack. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton)

Your very costermonger trolls out his belief that “there’s a good time coming,” and the hearts of gamins, as well as millenarians, answer, “True!” Yeast: a Problem

Starving boys and girls lurked among the costermongers' barrows, and begged piteously on pretence of selling cigar-lights and comic songs. The Fallen Leaves

He passed a navigator, an ostler, and two costermongers wandering wearily backwards and forwards before a closed public-house door. Hide and Seek

This conversation took place at the conclusion of a meeting which had been held by the costermongers. Beneath the Banner

Many a warm shake of the hand I had from poor costermongers and grey-headed men, for what had been done for their belongings in taking them from the sin and want around. God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada

Those love songs have not ceased in Covent Garden; the amorous duets are to be heard to this day from the throats of countless costermongers' donkeys. Inns and Taverns of Old London

It was plainly asking—Are you a knight grand-cross of some martial order, or a sort of costermonger? Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2

The cry of the costermonger and the screech of the vagabond London boy were banished out of hearing. Hide and Seek

The noble Knight of the Garter was not only interested in the costermongers themselves, but in their animals too. Beneath the Banner

Capital is nothing but the means of undertaking any industrial or commercial enterprise, of setting up an Allan line of steamships or setting up a costermonger's cart. Lectures and Essays

The costermongers as smart as sparrows Brought their wives in their donkey barrows. Right Royal

I am content to look nearer home—at coal-heavers and costermongers, poets and engineers—and to found my theory of life on less deniable data. Without Prejudice

These are the costermongers and barrow men of the religious world. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

"And where shall we write to?" asked one of the costermongers. Beneath the Banner

He stumbled upon a crowd of hand-carts, in which numerous costermongers were arranging their purchases. The Fat and the Thin

He had loved too well to imagine himself a glorious racehorse, and now he was condemned to toil without honour like a costermonger's donkey. Lord Jim

People smile at him—costermongers, clerks, and shoppers—and whisper among themselves, "There goes the American admiral!" and he invariably smiles back at them, especially at the children. A Traveller in War-Time

The day was dull, the gutters were full of cabbage stalks and the air resounded with the cry of costermongers. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

He cannot but think most virtuously, both of me, and the sender, sure, that make the careful costermonger of him in our familiar epistles. Every Man in His Humor

Retail dealers, costermongers, and greengrocers were making their purchases in haste. The Fat and the Thin

She crossed Lupus Street, where her nostrils were offended by the smell of vegetable refuse from the costermonger stalls, to walk in the direction of Victoria. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl

In this respect, there's no distinction between Cecily and the wife of the costermonger. The Emancipated

Behind, a costermonger, out of work, sprawled on the curbstone, viewing the invader; he, with resentful eye, his lip suggestive of words unreportable. Will Warburton

Why, a costermonger's wife wouldn't disgrace herself so. The Town Traveller

It was asserted, too, that he was a money-monger, a usurer, and lent petty sums by the day to costermongers, and let out barrows to them, exacting a scandalous rate of interest in return. The Fat and the Thin

I should be ill if I had to live in one of those long, dismal streets, where the houses are all the same shape, and costermongers go bawling about all day long. The Unclassed

In vociferation the butchers doubtless excelled; their 'Lovely, lovely, lovely!' and their reiterated 'Buy, buy, buy!' rang clangorous above the hoarse roaring of costermongers and the din of those who clattered pots and pans. Thyrza

The navvy, the scaffolder, the costermonger, the cab-tout—innumerable would be the varieties of texture, of fold, of knot, observed in the ranks of unskilled labour. The Nether World

There was a certain costermonger richness about her. Women in Love

Hence the distribution of fish depends almost wholly upon the costermonger or basket-man, who takes his fish round to the public. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken

In the way of the fugitive was a costermonger's stall; unable to check herself, the woman rushed against this, overturning it, and herself falling among the ruin. The Unclassed

They're only half a dozen ignorant and conceited costermongers without five shillings between them. Candida

With his voice blended that of the costermonger, 'Penny a bundill!' The Nether World

The costermonger yonder, if he had the opportunity, Might rival the political career Of the orator who poses as the pride of the community, The Radical Hereditary Peer. The Days Before Yesterday

The basket-man, or costermonger, or dealer—call him what you will—is an indispensable personage, and what is more, he fills a most useful office. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken

Look here, young man," said a breezy costermonger to whom he had appealed, "I think you had better take a 'ansom for the 'orse will know more about London than you seem to do. Love Eternal

Behind the car came a motley string of figures—street Arabs, beggars, clowns turning somersaults, and costermongers hawking their wares. The Gadfly

Mr. Mayhew has informed us of the disposition of the English costermongers on religious matters. Irish Race in the Past and the Present

"The wretchedest costermonger that comes to grief has a barrister in a wig and gown to give him his chance of escape." The Last Chronicle of Barset

At Billingsgate, where they are termed "bummarees," it is stated that they fulfil a useful office in that they act as distributors to the small costermongers, who could hardly get along without them. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken

With an uncle a costermonger, and an aunt who sold matches. Fanny and the Servant Problem

Rag pickers and costermongers of all kinds were crowding round the taverns in the dirty and stinking courtyards of the Hay Market. Crime and Punishment

It relates to another contrast between the English and Irish costermongers on the score of temperance. Irish Race in the Past and the Present

But I am not a costermonger, Mr. Toogood,—though more wretched perhaps than any costermonger now in existence. The Last Chronicle of Barset

He did not lead the way or drag her by the arm, as it seemed to her quite probable that he might, as costermongers do on Hampstead Heath. T. Tembarom

The London costermonger told Mayhew that he thought every man would like his son or daughter to have a better start in the world than his own. Oldport Days

He cannot comprehend the gallantry of costermongers or the delicacy that is quite common among cabmen. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays

Such cares as these never seem to afflict the English costermonger. Irish Race in the Past and the Present

In public, the very costermongers who hawk cakes and fruit about the streets are invariably provided with some means for determining by a resort to chance how much the purchaser shall have for his money. Historic China, and other sketches

She may be the daughter of a duke, or the daughter of a costermonger. Armadale

Indeed his attire was more like that of a bankrupt costermonger than of a man of letters. New Grub Street

The average weekly earnings of the hawkers and costermongers are not more than ten to twelve shillings. The People of the Abyss

She stood square on her feet, her hands on her hips, for she was dressed as a costermonger. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life

The total result of a conference between four policemen, the costermonger, and, by that time, Mr. Travers—was to draw the animal off the street and into the square. The Amazing Interlude

May it, perhaps, be hoped that once again the multitude will be somehow touched with disgust?—that the market for “literary” news of this costermonger sort will some day fail? The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft

The strenuous voices of the costermongers called invitation to the fruitful earth. Paul Kelver, a Novel

I struck a bargain with young Wakeham; I undertook to teach him to be funny in return for his teaching me this costermonger's whistle. Paul Kelver, a Novel

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例句	costermonger Amongst costermongers this term is invariably applied to ladies, or the wives of tradesmen and females, generally of the classes immediately above them.” Is “shiksa” an insult? 2013-03-06T17:20:00Z London’s filthy streets were a bedlam of costermongers, urchins, coffee wagons and tall-hatted bobbies. Darwin’s Dim View of the Second Sex 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Pearly kings and queens gather to celebrate their annual costermongers harvest festival at the Guildhall in London. There's more to cockney culture than being born in earshot of Bow bells 2012-06-26T11:50:01Z That resistance held out for some of the first scene of Daniel Evans's production, where the flower girls were too clean and the costermongers too chirpy. My Fair Lady; The Dance of Death; Midnight's Pumpkin – review 2012-12-23T00:09:26Z The costermongers sewed buttons onto their clothes to distinguish themselves and to mimic the rich, according to the Museum of London. London’s Other Royals, the ‘Pearlies,’ Keep Alive Cockney Customs 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Mayhew has a special affinity for “street folk”, in particular London’s costermongers: The 100 best nonfiction books: No 66 – London Labour and the London Poor by Henry Mayhew (1851) 2017-05-08T04:00:00Z What does Sir Roger himself make of the idea that a costermonger might have got there before him, in the 18th Century? The 18th Century four-minute mile 2014-05-08T23:29:32Z "My granddad was a local costermonger," she says. Remembering London’s outcast dead 2012-12-23T09:07:34Z The "pearlies" have their origins a century ago in a street sweeper named Henry Croft, who adapted the button-festooned clothes worn by London costermongers - apple-sellers - to help draw attention to his charity fundraising. London's Cockneys compete for Olympic attention 2012-07-20T07:16:09Z “If someone’s fruit went off, or the donkey was ill, or something like that,” said Mr. Bennett, describing how the costermongers would have a singalong and pass around a bucket for donations. London’s Other Royals, the ‘Pearlies,’ Keep Alive Cockney Customs 2023-04-29T04:00:00Z Bothering the costermongers and the retail shopkeepers and the small householders. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105, November 11, 1893 2012-04-12T02:00:28.173Z Strains of music proceeding from the tea-houses, costermongers' cries, shrieks of quarrelsome children, and high-pitched voices in admonition; shouting and noise of all sorts and in endless variety are heard. Empires and Emperors of Russia, China, Korea, and Japan Notes and Recollections by Monsignor Count Vay de Vaya and Luskod 2012-01-08T03:00:16.523Z Those who learn the necessity of being provident cease to be costermongers. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z "The visitor sprang on to a costermonger's barrow, and waving his hand, exclaimed—" When at the appointed time the Missionary turned the corner, he was surprised to see the place crowded. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z At a costermonger's stall he bought a pennyworth of apples, and munched them as he went. A Hero of Romance 2011-11-30T03:00:11.457Z When will the cant and humbug of these costermonger times be reformed? The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z I never knew or heard a costermonger in the Dials with such a repertory. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z Mr. Mayhew says that "the regular or thoroughbred costermongers repudiate the numerous persons who only sell nuts or oranges in the streets." Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Her parents were old inhabitants, they had lived there for many years, and sustained the respectability of the costermonger's calling. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z “And then he’ll rail like a rude costermonger, That schoolboys had cozened of his apple, As loud and senseless.” A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z The bull-dog tenacity permeated all classes; it was shared by the peer, the country squire, the small farmer, the tradesman and the artizan; it was voiced by the Prime Minister, and echoed by the costermonger. A Cabinet Secret 2011-07-31T02:00:10.693Z I saw him once with a couple of choice friends on a costermonger’s barrow, such as is used for hawking fish or vegetables. The Bath Road History, Fashion, & Frivolity on an Old Highway 2011-11-06T02:00:11.073Z The costermongers, according to Mr. Mayhew, are drunkards and gamblers,—living without religion or the family ties. Knowledge is Power: A View of the Productive Forces of Modern Society and the Results of Labor, Capital and Skill. 2011-12-24T03:08:00.833Z Upon the back-room door was a rusty old padlock, showing that the lodgers—costermongers—were out; but the front-room door was partly open. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z In London a large sale is carried on in “Christmasing,” or in the sale of holly, ivy, laurel, evergreens, bay, and mistletoe, for Christmas sports and decorations, by the family greengrocer and the costermongers. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z The swell and the costermonger all tear along at a frightful pace, and thus secure—what in England some good people are trying to insure—a pleasant Sunday afternoon. Crying for the Light, Vol. 3 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:11.900Z ‘Why, that a costermonger’s wife has a happier lot.’ Crying for the Light, Vol. 1 [of 3] or Fifty Years Ago 2011-07-23T02:00:10.740Z I miss almost all the women who were there an hour ago, and most of the costermonger class have disappeared, though a few still linger on. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z The costermongers might be seen pushing out their barrows of vegetables, fruit, and coarse fish. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z All this may be very true; but Bill Smith, the costermonger, is a noisy vulgar fellow; therefore must be put down. A History of the Cries of London Ancient and Modern 2011-08-19T02:00:15.893Z Listen, sir!" exclaimed Dogvane in high glee, "to the merry, but perfectly unintelligible cry of your happy costermongers. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z People who never so much as suspected the existence of it, grew familiar with its name, in the refrain of a comic song dealing with costermongers. The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike 2011-07-04T02:00:17.130Z All at once the biggest of them—a very powerful fellow of the costermonger type—dealt his opponent—a poor slim, weedy lad of the common shop-boy p. 72species—a tremendous blow. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z The speaker was the wife of a costermonger who lived in a neighbouring court. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z An example of living art in modern furniture is a costermonger's barrow. Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society 2011-05-30T02:00:17.247Z We refute this base slander by pointing to your costermongers. The Life of a Celebrated Buccaneer A Page of Past History for the Use of the Children of To-day 2011-07-06T02:00:45.180Z Does any one imagine that the German bakers and clerks and costermongers, who are now so much in evidence, have before landing entered into a contract of service? Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day 2011-04-19T02:00:17.257Z Evidently the class of customers expected was a low one, greengrocers’ and costermongers’ boys apparently, and such like. Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray 2011-07-12T02:00:29.167Z That answer was given in the unexpected form of a question addressed to a group of costermongers who were standing at the other side of the bar. The Man with the Book or, The Bible Among the People. 2011-12-19T03:00:47.530Z Why, a costermonger with his donkey might as well talk of his 'steed.' Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z In front of that ancient English manor-house, she seems grotesquely out of place—as much as a costermonger, driving his moke-drawn cart among the Pyramids, or smoking a "Pickwick" by the side of the Sphinx. Gwen Wynn 2011-04-09T02:00:12.230Z "Why go along and mind your business," replied his worship—and the master costermonger retired from court without having taken anything by his motion. Mornings at Bow Street A Selection of the Most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which Have Appeared in the 'Morning Herald' 2011-04-08T02:00:09.863Z Inside, some day, the newest, Falstaff, Will occupy a far from small staff Of band and chorus; Outside, as now, old slums ill-smelling, And costermongers, shouting, yelling, Will be before us. Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 2011-04-02T02:00:12.230Z Till, with waking chirp of sparrows, Early costermongers' barrows Forth are drawn. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 105, July 15th 1893 2011-03-26T02:00:12.713Z And, oh, glorious, unmatchable Boat Race day: how we all cared, how everyone cared, the whole of London cared, the costermongers, the drivers of four-wheelers, those delicious hansom cabs, everyone cared. Boat Race still takes British sport's venerable cream cracker 2011-03-23T00:06:01Z In front of that ancient English manor-house, she seems grotesquely out of place—as much as a costermonger driving his moke-drawn cart among the Pyramids, or smoking a “Pickwick” by the side of the Sphinx. Gwen Wynn A Romance of the Wye 2011-02-09T03:00:45.007Z “Such a dog as that ugly brute as comes brushing into the house every time the door is opened is only fit to go with a costermonger or a butcher.” Lady Maude's Mania In the road, usually so crowded at that hour with vehicles of all descriptions, omnibuses, hansoms, private carriages, vans, and even costermongers' barrows, two dogs were fighting over a piece of food. Pharos, The Egyptian A Romance Besides, they used to be such pals as kids: it wasn't nice, now, to be quarrelling like any costermonger and his wife. Helena Brett's Career Yes, the slaves bought their diseased fellow-countrymen, to work on their own allotments, treating them as the costermonger sometimes does his donkey. The West Indies and the Spanish Main The gay have their theatres—the philanthropic their Exeter Hall—the wealthy their “ancient concerts”—the costermongers what they term their sing-song. The Night Side of London A costermonger’s cart, laden with cabbages for Camberwell, breaks down, and there is a block extending back almost all the way to the Mansion House. About London If we come here on a Friday, between ten and four, we shall find a market for the sale of horses and donkeys—a market much patronised by costermongers. Here and There in London The Conveyances include most things on wheels—from a costermonger's truck with the smallest of donkeys, to a battered old Sheriff's carriage drawn by two large cart-horses. Punch - Volume 25 (Jul-Dec 1853) On the last occasion when we differed, you used the methods of the costermonger.” Cynthia's Chauffeur The reader will see from these specimens how alien the costermonger race is in sympathy and life from the respectable and the well-to-do. The Night Side of London From the Tower we break away into the far east, among the old clothes shops, the bird markets, the costermongers, and the weavers of Whitechapel and Spitalfields. Old and New London Volume I But young potato-peelings, so called from his father's vocation of costermonger, defended himself with indignation. When Ghost Meets Ghost To use a very homely illustration: a carrot dangled from the end of a stick before a donkey's nose makes no mechanical difference in the problem of traction presented by the costermonger's barrow. God and Mr. Wells A Critical Examination of 'God the Invisible King' The plaintiff was a costermonger and the defendant a costermonger; they conducted the case in person. Law and Laughter Well, the itinerant vendors of these delicacies are costermongers. The Night Side of London Once, when I was wandering in Walworth," he said, "I heard a costermonger threatening to give another costermonger a thick ear, a bunged-up eye and a mouth full of blood. Changing Winds A Novel He had, in fact, been seeing the Metropolis, as an exponent or auxiliary of his father's vocation as a costermonger; and had made himself extremely useful, said Mr. Rackstraw, in the manner of speaking. When Ghost Meets Ghost True, there was a market garden or two, and odors redolent of decaying vegetables; but, on the whole, it was rather an unsavory region, and much frequented by the costermonger and fishwoman. Wee Wifie Preceded by a history of cant and vulgar language; with glossaries of two secret languages, spoken by the wandering tribes of London, the costermongers, and the patterers. Introduction to the Science of Sociology Let me say a word about costermonger literature. The Night Side of London But when the Major overstrains his voice, it misses fire like a costermonger's, and only a falsetto note comes on a high register. Somehow Good I settled it in my mind that I was to leave the cells after this costermonger: he is in front of me, therefore the cell behind me is empty. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Here there were hungry faces, sottish faces, sickly faces, and an endless pushing and jostling around the costermongers' barrows. A Vanished Hand But the sound was renewed; and she perceived that it was produced by some costermongers passing under her window and moving farther on. The Confessions of Arsène Lupin He and his wife earned their living as costermongers in the market-place. The Brothers Karamazov A duke will be a duke, and a costermonger a costermonger.” The Rough Road Once more the warders pushed Fandor before them, as well as the poor costermonger: they were driven into a dark corridor on to which a row of cells opened. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas His name is Lane—a costermonger, known as Lanky Lane. The Seven Secrets One afternoon, at about four o'clock, there was a violent altercation between two costermongers at the bottom of the street. The Confessions of Arsène Lupin The donkey-barrow of a costermonger passed me, loaded with a bluejacket, a flower-girl, several soldiers, and a Staff captain whose spurred boots wagged joyously over the stern of the barrow. Waiting for Daylight And the costermonger will rise to the political position of an important tradesman. The Rough Road The first to pass out was the costermonger. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas But to the readers of newspapers the poisoning of a costermonger at Shadwell is of little interest as compared with a similar catastrophe in that quarter of London vaguely known as “the West End.” The Seven Secrets You get hold of a scavenger, or a costermonger, who enjoyed the Newgate Calendar for literature, and "Pop goes the Weasel" for music. The Crown of Wild Olive also Munera Pulveris; Pre-Raphaelitism; Aratra Pentelici; The Ethics of the Dust; Fiction, Fair and Foul; The Elements of Drawing His artist's kit revealed his profession even to the uncritical eye, but no student of men could have failed to guess his bent were he habited in the garb of a costermonger. The Strange Case of Mortimer Fenley As I went off the ground I was struck with the clever way in which a London costermonger will turn anything and everything to account. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis Philosophically, Jérôme Fandor was preparing to go to sleep on the plank bed which decorated one end of the cell, when the little costermonger, roused from his torpid condition, began to moan and groan. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas After all, the death of that poor costermonger, Lanky Lane, was of greater public interest than the representatives of the Press anticipated. The Seven Secrets Fortuny, who sold his first picture to a costermonger in Madrid for a bag of peas, is represented at the Champ de Mars by several canvases, the smallest of which would bring forty thousand francs. Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science His jerkin is well fortified; and therefore the costermongers "between the years 1790 and 1800" did more politicly than piously in lifting up a part of his upper garment. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 Under the stands and around the booths, tabernacling beneath costermongers' barrows, and even lying out openly sub dio, were still the hundreds of human beings. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis At the exit door of La Capitale, in the noisy rue Montmartre, crowded with costermongers' barrows, Jérôme Fandor hailed a taxi. Messengers of Evil Being a Further Account of the Lures and Devices of Fantômas Nitrate of amyl was not a drug which a costermonger would select with a view to committing suicide. The Seven Secrets He was followed by two obviously comic men, who might have been costermongers or knockabout brothers from a music hall, and one comic woman. Diversions in Sicily I love the pale, tender green of the cabbage stalks, and the voices of the costermongers are musical in the dawning. The Green Carnation By-and-by the well-known paper bouquets and outrageous head-gear showed themselves as forming the cargo of costermongers' carts. Mystic London: or, Phases of occult life in the metropolis They seemed happy enough; good-natured; sometimes even with a word of chaff for the costermonger whom they ordered to move on, him and his barrow. The Beautiful Wretch; The Pupil of Aurelius; and The Four Macnicols In an instant I recollected that the costermonger of the London Road was one of the ruffians. The Seven Secrets One Saturday afternoon, while I was at home, a costermonger came to the door with walnuts. Eliza Her hair is light brown, and cut short, the same as a man’s; and she has the gait of a man, and looks like a costermonger. Sinks of London Laid Open A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves The father of one of my boys was a costermonger, and had a horse that he had obtained very cheap because it had a disease of the legs. A Labrador Doctor The Autobiography of Wilfred Thomason Grenfell On the morning of my leaving the inn he learned that a costermonger had found a young woman, sick and bewildered, who, having lost her way, was taken by him to a public-house. Oswald Langdon or, Pierre and Paul Lanier. A Romance of 1894-1898 It was not pleasant walking, but I was interested in the life about me—the people, the shops, the costermongers' barrows, and I might even say the public-houses. A Bid for Fortune or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta I had yet to learn that they were costermongers waiting for prices to come down. Brownsmith's Boy A Romance in a Garden “And if I only had the flow of costermonger’s talk which some people possess—” began Crossfield. The Willoughby Captains They fell out—there was a furious quarrel—and one day the father and son—ugh!—fought, with clenched fists, sir, like two—two costermongers!—and the boy did not get the best of it. Roger Ingleton, Minor Some recollected an old lady who used to keep a costermonger’s stall and had a baby with fits. A Dog with a Bad Name Next in a trice, with his box and his dice, Mac-pipin my son, but younger, Brings Mumming in; and the knave will win, For he is a costermonger. In The Yule-Log Glow, Book IV Shaftsbury's mental processes show the generations of aristocratic breeding even in his costermonger's cart lovingly winning these men, or after midnight searching out the waifs of London's nooks and docks. Quiet Talks on Power A costermonger hawked frozen rabbits from a donkey-cart, with a pallid woman following behind to drive away the mangy cats which quarrelled in the road for the oozing blood which dripped from the cart's tail. The Hand in the Dark "He being thus lorded," i. e. ennobled "with what my revenue yielded," is surely a far superior expression to "being thus loaded,"—as if the poet were speaking of a costermonger's donkey! Notes and Queries, Number 184, May 7, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. How he killed a mad dog, and nursed a man with smallpox, and knocked down a costermonger for kicking his pony. The Village by the River I could not come to you, because I was hastily summoned to the cure of 5,000 costermongers and dock labourers.' Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies Next, in a trice, with his box and his dice, Mac' pipin my son, but younger, Brings Mumming in; and the knave will win For he is a costermonger. A Righte Merrie Christmasse The Story of Christ-Tide No costermonger's donkey is so overloaded as the stomachs of most rich people. Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris They could not be more indifferent, or more superior in appearance, were they dandies judging the class for costermonger’s donkeys at a provincial horse-show. Germany and the Germans From an American Point of View If she had been a little female costermonger she would have demanded her 'marriage lines' and clung to them fiercely. Robin At an advanced age he opened a new and attractive chapter in his life by his friendly meetings with the London costermongers. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies An officer from another school has written to tell me that he overheard two of you talking outside the canteen in language that would disgrace a costermonger. The Loom of Youth Count the whole series of human souls between a costermonger and a Cambridge don, and you will see a nation in mutiny. Gilbert Keith Chesterton Now that he is matured, he is gratified if he can make drunken costermongers stare, so he must have been a very forward creature when his conceit was in full blossom. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary Any attempt at courtship after the style of the costermonger is resented by the whole corvine community. A Bird Calendar for Northern India And at all times he was ready to mix freely and on terms of social equality with all who shared his sympathies, dukes and dustmen, Cabinet ministers and costermongers. Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies In the daytime I talked to costermongers, street venders, the unemployed, and the corner loafers. From the Bottom Up The Life Story of Alexander Irvine He gave me a look like that of a costermonger weighing and measuring the gullibility of his customer. The Master of Appleby A Novel Tale Concerning Itself in Part with the Great Struggle in the Two Carolinas; but Chiefly with the Adventures Therein of Two Gentlemen Who Loved One and the Same Lady My friend Donkey Perkins, the fighting man, curses me with perfect affability and I am on easy terms with about one hundred costermongers. The Chequers Being the Natural History of a Public-House, Set Forth in a Loafer's Diary In one of our wards we harboured, for a while, a costermonger. Observations of an Orderly Some Glimpses of Life and Work in an English War Hospital And if it is only one woman, then it was the same lady, more than half intoxicated, that I saw in the Whitechapel Road cruelly ill-treating a little costermonger. Certain Personal Matters Just behind him a costermonger in a riot of buttons was indulging in philosophic quips of a cheerfully vulgar nature. The Parts Men Play The costermongers lifted a large banner on which were inscribed these words: "I was sick and in prison and ye visited me." The Investment of Influence A Study of Social Sympathy and Service Then he seated himself in the barge, and had a sail on the Thames, followed by innumerable beggars, sycophants, and costermongers. The Adventures of My Cousin Smooth "Oh, chuck 'im out!" cried the disgusted costermonger, spitting upon the floor. A Prince of Sinners In Scene 7 of Sketches by Boz there is a mention of ‘the renowned Mr. Martin, of costermonger notoriety.’ Charles Dickens and Music The screams of costermongers and of rowdies might surely be suppressed by the police. Lost Leaders It is for no abstract reason that 6 is thus made the turning-point, but simply because the costermonger is adding pence up to the silver sixpence, and then adding pence again up to the shilling. The Number Concept Its Origin and Development No costermonger, or common cad, or true Englishman, ever yet had that indefinable touch of the opera-supernumerary in the streets. The English Gipsies and Their Language A roar of laughter, during which a wag in the crowd quietly picked the costermonger's pocket of the fish with a deftness born of much practice, and sent it flying over the room. A Prince of Sinners Officers of the army and navy, merchants, doctors, and clergymen consorted with costermongers, poachers, and pickpockets. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned In all decent quarters householders would vote against the licensed bellowings of cads and costermongers. Lost Leaders The streets were still deserted, except by milkmen, bakers, costermongers, and other "early birds." The Lost Lady of Lone Joe, the costermonger, Bill, the market-labourer, Tom, the fish-porter, and the rest come home in a straggling way; and, if they can buy a pennyworth of coal, they boil the little kettle. Side Lights "More bloomin' tracks," the costermonger interrupted, and spat upon the floor. A Prince of Sinners And lo! a cart that held a squad Of costermonger line; With one poor hack, like Pegasus, That slaved for all the Nine! The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood You get hold of a scavenger or a costermonger, who enjoyed the Newgate Calendar for literature, and 'Pop goes the Weasel' for music. Selections From the Works of John Ruskin There, take it gently from the ground, O costermonger, to thy barrow, And shout, with loud discordant sound, The praise of Vegetable Marrow! Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, July 23, 1892 One day, however, I watched a costermonger steering a boat-load of flowers under a bridge, and no words of mine can describe the loveliness of their Page 154reflection. A Wanderer in Holland The costermonger waved a wonderful red handkerchief, and spat once more on the floor. A Prince of Sinners I heard afterward that my Frenchman had been a costermonger and was now half journalist, half financier, and that my art student was an employee of one of the older magazines. The Inheritors Here is a clever invention of some costermonger or street stander in the market-place for the shading of their candles on Saturday nights, when they are selling their greens, or potatoes, or fish. The Chemical History of a Candle His ample front was decked with a blue apron, suspended from his shoulders, and confined round the convexity of his waist by an old strap which no respectable costermonger would have used as harness. Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland A score of humanitarian societies would spring into being to prevent it: possibly with some reason, for one has little faith in the considerateness of the average English costermonger or barrow-pusher. A Wanderer in Holland They hustled him out good-naturedly except that the costermonger, running him down the room, took his cap from his head and sent it spinning across the road. A Prince of Sinners Gentility, nobility, royalty, would appeal to that donkey in vain to do what he does for a costermonger. The Bed-Book of Happiness Moreover, some of us, perhaps even Mr Beerbohm, know a good deal about the technique of acting, even if we could not "make-up" Mr Bourchier to look like a costermonger. Our Stage and Its Critics By "E.F.S." of "The Westminster Gazette" But the child of the thief, the costermonger, the racecourse swindler, the thriftless labourer, is now practically emancipated through the action of sentimental persons. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour A proctor is regarded by an undergraduate, especially by a fast man, with the same affection that a costermonger looks on a policeman. Rides on Railways "I am for one," declared the costermonger, moving away from before the desk. A Prince of Sinners He has been hostler, costermonger, and taverner, and sings the delights of the city. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 4 The wheels were heavy, cumbrous and ill put together; they were not well adapted for the costermonger's purpose, and will probably fall to pieces before long. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Mark that these bookmakers, as they are called, are not gentlemen in any sense of the word; some of them are publicans, some look like prize-fighters, some like promoted costermongers, some like common thieves. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour At the quarter, the scene thickens; there are few Hansoms, but some night cabs, a vast number of carts of all kinds, from the costermonger’s donkey to the dashing butcher’s Whitechapel. Rides on Railways He was figured in the costermonger's dress, with his arm tucked under the girl's, and her hat on his head. The Philanderers His costermongers and policemen, his omnibus drivers and conductors and cabbies, are inimitable studies; and as for his 'busses and cabs, I really cannot find words to express my admiration of them. Social Pictorial Satire This is very familiar to the costermonger fraternity as the oil which is burned in the flaring lamps which illuminate the New Cut or the Elephant and Castle on Saturday and other market nights. The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes Bless you, I know scores who were once as sweet as you who can now drink any costermonger of them all under the stools in the Haymarket bar. The Ethics of Drink and Other Social Questions Joints In Our Social Armour A baker sold rolls, a costermonger vended cherries. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 06 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes This she had learned from seeing a costermonger fill his cart with children, and push behind, while the donkey in front pulled them along the street, to the praise and glory of God. Paul Faber, Surgeon As for the trenches themselves—well, as the immortal costermonger observed, "there ain't no word in the blooming language" for them. All in It : K(1) Carries On A Continuation of the First Hundred Thousand Do this, as a rule, by means of classical tags vulgarised down to the level of a costermonger's cart. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 99, July 26, 1890 It would not pay to bring on to the ground the scrawny, bony creature that generally tugs in the costermonger’s cart. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's The stately figure which bore itself so majestically in Courts and Parliaments naturally unbent among the costermongers of Whitechapel and the labourers of Dorsetshire. Collections and Recollections And lo! a cart that held a squad Of costermonger line; With one poor hack, like Pegasus, That slav'd for all the Nine! The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829 Gentility, nobility, Royalty, would appeal to that donkey in vain to do what he does for a costermonger. The Uncommercial Traveller We are as great friends to horses, hackney-coach and otherwise, as the renowned Mr. Martin, of costermonger notoriety, and yet we never ride. Sketches by Boz, illustrative of everyday life and every-day people Since this offer was made, a very decided improvement has been noticed among the donkeys of the London costermongers, as if the competition for the first prize was to be a very large one. A Walk from London to John O'Groat's Too far, in fancy, above the rest of mankind to trouble about their petty distinctions, he is equally at home with duke or costermonger. Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow Blood, he speaks terribly! but, for all that, I do not greatly believe him: he looks as like a 155 conjurer as the Pope to a costermonger. The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus From the Quarto of 1616 We arrived at Lincoln's Inn Fields without any new adventures, except encountering an unlucky donkey in a costermonger's cart, who suggested painful associations to my aunt. David Copperfield He recites things, tells stories in costermonger dialect, and mimics public characters. Ponkapog Papers If a man born a gentleman is ever in the mood to kick his wife to death, as costermongers do, he was in that mood. The Shuttle Mounted costermongers! whose trade it was to sell 'nutmegs made of wood, and clocks that wouldn't figure.' Tracks of a Rolling Stone It seems to be chiefly composed of costermongers and Americans. Adventures and Letters of Richard Harding Davis And, because it was queer that a song should seem to be coming out of the ground, a costermonger stopped, and then a little boy, and then a workingwoman, and then a lady. The Lost Prince Among these is the reappearance of flowers on the costermongers' carts and at the kiosks. Paris War Days Diary of an American "The theatre must be a 'great teacher of morals,' then, if we come here to be initiated into the vices of costermongers," said George, rather sarcastically. Life in London or, the Pitfalls of a Great City You remember the costermonger whose family quarrelled with him for marrying beneath him? There & Back Second, I believe that a man might be as a tailor or a costermonger, every inch of him a saint, a scholar, and a gentleman, for I have seen some few such already. Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet An Autobiography Oh no! it is only a costermonger with his donkey and a pannier of cabbage! The Virginians Elliott has rigged up two of his guns so ingeniously that they look more like costermongers' barrows than anything else. The Mystery of Cloomber The wild bustle and uproar of the costermongers' night market no longer rioted round him: the street by daylight was in a state of dreary repose. The Fallen Leaves Here ballad-bellowing, and organ grinding, and voices of costermongers, singing of poor men's luxuries, never ceased all through the hum of day, and penetrated far into the frowzy repose of latest night. Hide and Seek And by-and-by the dense moving crowds, noise of bawling costermongers, and glare of gas and naphtha torches were left behind, when she reached the welcome gloom and comparative quiet of her own squalid street. Fan : the story of a young girl's life There was even the observation of the costermonger leaning over his barrow near the Assize Court when one morning Sir Henry was going in with little Jack. The Reminiscences of Sir Henry Hawkins (Baron Brampton) Your very costermonger trolls out his belief that “there’s a good time coming,” and the hearts of gamins, as well as millenarians, answer, “True!” Yeast: a Problem Starving boys and girls lurked among the costermongers' barrows, and begged piteously on pretence of selling cigar-lights and comic songs. The Fallen Leaves He passed a navigator, an ostler, and two costermongers wandering wearily backwards and forwards before a closed public-house door. Hide and Seek This conversation took place at the conclusion of a meeting which had been held by the costermongers. Beneath the Banner Many a warm shake of the hand I had from poor costermongers and grey-headed men, for what had been done for their belongings in taking them from the sin and want around. God's Answers A Record of Miss Annie Macpherson's Work at the Home of Industry, Spitalfields, London, and in Canada Those love songs have not ceased in Covent Garden; the amorous duets are to be heard to this day from the throats of countless costermongers' donkeys. Inns and Taverns of Old London It was plainly asking—Are you a knight grand-cross of some martial order, or a sort of costermonger? Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 2 The cry of the costermonger and the screech of the vagabond London boy were banished out of hearing. Hide and Seek The noble Knight of the Garter was not only interested in the costermongers themselves, but in their animals too. Beneath the Banner Capital is nothing but the means of undertaking any industrial or commercial enterprise, of setting up an Allan line of steamships or setting up a costermonger's cart. Lectures and Essays The costermongers as smart as sparrows Brought their wives in their donkey barrows. Right Royal I am content to look nearer home—at coal-heavers and costermongers, poets and engineers—and to found my theory of life on less deniable data. Without Prejudice These are the costermongers and barrow men of the religious world. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler "And where shall we write to?" asked one of the costermongers. Beneath the Banner He stumbled upon a crowd of hand-carts, in which numerous costermongers were arranging their purchases. The Fat and the Thin He had loved too well to imagine himself a glorious racehorse, and now he was condemned to toil without honour like a costermonger's donkey. Lord Jim People smile at him—costermongers, clerks, and shoppers—and whisper among themselves, "There goes the American admiral!" and he invariably smiles back at them, especially at the children. A Traveller in War-Time The day was dull, the gutters were full of cabbage stalks and the air resounded with the cry of costermongers. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler He cannot but think most virtuously, both of me, and the sender, sure, that make the careful costermonger of him in our familiar epistles. Every Man in His Humor Retail dealers, costermongers, and greengrocers were making their purchases in haste. The Fat and the Thin She crossed Lupus Street, where her nostrils were offended by the smell of vegetable refuse from the costermonger stalls, to walk in the direction of Victoria. Sparrows: the story of an unprotected girl In this respect, there's no distinction between Cecily and the wife of the costermonger. The Emancipated Behind, a costermonger, out of work, sprawled on the curbstone, viewing the invader; he, with resentful eye, his lip suggestive of words unreportable. Will Warburton Why, a costermonger's wife wouldn't disgrace herself so. The Town Traveller It was asserted, too, that he was a money-monger, a usurer, and lent petty sums by the day to costermongers, and let out barrows to them, exacting a scandalous rate of interest in return. The Fat and the Thin I should be ill if I had to live in one of those long, dismal streets, where the houses are all the same shape, and costermongers go bawling about all day long. The Unclassed In vociferation the butchers doubtless excelled; their 'Lovely, lovely, lovely!' and their reiterated 'Buy, buy, buy!' rang clangorous above the hoarse roaring of costermongers and the din of those who clattered pots and pans. Thyrza The navvy, the scaffolder, the costermonger, the cab-tout—innumerable would be the varieties of texture, of fold, of knot, observed in the ranks of unskilled labour. The Nether World There was a certain costermonger richness about her. Women in Love Hence the distribution of fish depends almost wholly upon the costermonger or basket-man, who takes his fish round to the public. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken In the way of the fugitive was a costermonger's stall; unable to check herself, the woman rushed against this, overturning it, and herself falling among the ruin. The Unclassed They're only half a dozen ignorant and conceited costermongers without five shillings between them. Candida With his voice blended that of the costermonger, 'Penny a bundill!' The Nether World The costermonger yonder, if he had the opportunity, Might rival the political career Of the orator who poses as the pride of the community, The Radical Hereditary Peer. The Days Before Yesterday The basket-man, or costermonger, or dealer—call him what you will—is an indispensable personage, and what is more, he fills a most useful office. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken Look here, young man," said a breezy costermonger to whom he had appealed, "I think you had better take a 'ansom for the 'orse will know more about London than you seem to do. Love Eternal Behind the car came a motley string of figures—street Arabs, beggars, clowns turning somersaults, and costermongers hawking their wares. The Gadfly Mr. Mayhew has informed us of the disposition of the English costermongers on religious matters. Irish Race in the Past and the Present "The wretchedest costermonger that comes to grief has a barrister in a wig and gown to give him his chance of escape." The Last Chronicle of Barset At Billingsgate, where they are termed "bummarees," it is stated that they fulfil a useful office in that they act as distributors to the small costermongers, who could hardly get along without them. The Art of Living in Australia ; together with three hundred Australian cookery recipes and accessory kitchen information by Mrs. H. Wicken With an uncle a costermonger, and an aunt who sold matches. Fanny and the Servant Problem Rag pickers and costermongers of all kinds were crowding round the taverns in the dirty and stinking courtyards of the Hay Market. Crime and Punishment It relates to another contrast between the English and Irish costermongers on the score of temperance. Irish Race in the Past and the Present But I am not a costermonger, Mr. Toogood,—though more wretched perhaps than any costermonger now in existence. The Last Chronicle of Barset He did not lead the way or drag her by the arm, as it seemed to her quite probable that he might, as costermongers do on Hampstead Heath. T. Tembarom The London costermonger told Mayhew that he thought every man would like his son or daughter to have a better start in the world than his own. Oldport Days He cannot comprehend the gallantry of costermongers or the delicacy that is quite common among cabmen. Utopia of Usurers and Other Essays Such cares as these never seem to afflict the English costermonger. Irish Race in the Past and the Present In public, the very costermongers who hawk cakes and fruit about the streets are invariably provided with some means for determining by a resort to chance how much the purchaser shall have for his money. Historic China, and other sketches She may be the daughter of a duke, or the daughter of a costermonger. Armadale Indeed his attire was more like that of a bankrupt costermonger than of a man of letters. New Grub Street The average weekly earnings of the hawkers and costermongers are not more than ten to twelve shillings. The People of the Abyss She stood square on her feet, her hands on her hips, for she was dressed as a costermonger. Scenes from a Courtesan's Life The total result of a conference between four policemen, the costermonger, and, by that time, Mr. Travers—was to draw the animal off the street and into the square. The Amazing Interlude May it, perhaps, be hoped that once again the multitude will be somehow touched with disgust?—that the market for “literary” news of this costermonger sort will some day fail? The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft The strenuous voices of the costermongers called invitation to the fruitful earth. Paul Kelver, a Novel I struck a bargain with young Wakeham; I undertook to teach him to be funny in return for his teaching me this costermonger's whistle. Paul Kelver, a Novel
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