costermonger

1 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. 

2 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.

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

4 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. 

5 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.

6 Let me say a word about costermonger literature. 

7 Pearly kings and queens gather to celebrate their annual costermongers harvest festival at the Guildhall in London.

8 Well, the itinerant vendors of these delicacies are costermongers. 

9 "My granddad was a local costermonger," she says.

10 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.

11 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. 

12 "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.

13 “And then he’ll rail like a rude costermonger, That schoolboys had cozened of his apple, As loud and senseless.”

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

15 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.

16 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.

17 I never knew or heard a costermonger in the Dials with such a repertory.

18 When will the cant and humbug of these costermonger times be reformed?

19 What does Sir Roger himself make of the idea that a costermonger might have got there before him, in the 18th Century?

20 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?

1 小贩

vendor butcher huckster chapman higgler pedlar

2 叫卖小贩

crier huckster chapman coster cadger barrow-boy trucker barrowman cheap-jack