costermongery

Example Sentences

• "France, after all, takes the attention first, in spite of the splendid and praiseworthy costermongery of the Crystal Palace."
• "I DEALS in costermongery, But in my callin' makes no noise; For 't ain't amongst the hungry As I cries taturs and savoys."
• "For my own part I have yet to learn that, in the eyes of Heaven, a grim, infidel, Sabbath and week-day dealer in costermongery is one whit a more pitiable object than a West End, wealthy idler, who fritters away life in club, turf, park, opera, and St. John's Wood—so-called pleasure—without one real, serious though upon a life to come, or one real, serious effort to do good to a single fellow-creature."
• "So he now rode like all possessed through the wares of fish and costermongery in the Naples market, making everything fly about as in a whirlwind; cackling and curses followed his course, angry fists were clenched at him."
• "The occupations of waterside work, costermongery, basketmaking, paper-bag making, of carman and puller-down, fish hawker, and such like, belong to the very humble walks of life."
• "In the course of these last few months of active costermongery, of transactions in early peas and new potatoes, spring-cabbage and ripe strawberries, he had acquired not only an insight into commerce but apparently an intimate knowledge of every street in London, and a very fair acquaintance with its celebrities;"