"Peddling" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... reckless with their cash, far readier to commit themselves to buying than the cannier country bodies round. Lord! there was money in the scheme. No sooner thought of than put in practice. Wilson gave up the cloth-peddling after five or six years—he had other fish to fry by that time—but while he was at it he made money hand over fist ...
— The House with the Green Shutters • George Douglas Brown
... who are meddling With merchandise, pounds, shillings, pence, and peddling, Or wandering through southern climates teaching The A, B, C, from Webster's spelling-book; Gallant and godly, making love and preaching, And gaining by what they call hook and crook, And what the moralists call overreaching, A decent living. The Virginians look Upon them ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 • Various
... now came out of their tents. Daniel S. Dickinson, no longer peddling his griefs in private ears, declared "there was no doubt of the President's triumphant election;"[1017] the tone of Bryant and the Evening Post changed; Beecher renewed hope through the Independent and preached a political ...
— A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3 • DeAlva Stanwood Alexander
... William. The Skipper, who is as sensitive to climate as a lily of the hot-house, prattles lovingly during the summer months of selling ice-creams to the Eskimos, and during the winter months of peddling roast chestnuts in Timbuctoo. MacTavish and the Babe propose, under the euphonious noms de commerce of Vavaseur and Montmorency, to open pawn-shops among ex-munition-workers, and thereby accumulate old masters, grand pianos ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, June 6, 1917 • Various
... the punishment due to their misdeeds. Their manner of life in Lisbon is worthy of such a goodly assemblage of amis reunis. The generality of them pretend to work in gold and silver, and keep small peddling shops; they, however, principally depend for their livelihood on an extensive traffic in stolen goods which they carry on. It is said that there is honour amongst thieves, but this is certainly not ...
— The Bible in Spain • George Borrow
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