packman
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packmen
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The total effect was that of "some weird pedlar or packman."
From Time Magazine Archive
Sandy McNab, the packman, was found on the point of starting, with his two half-starved shelties, scarcely the size of ordinary donkeys, but with wonderful strength of limb and power of endurance.
From Ronald Morton, or the Fire Ships A Story of the Last Naval War by T. Hoggans
Wilson knew that to a man like himself there was degradation in such a calling; and he latterly vented his contemptuous sense of it, exaggerating the baseness of the name and nature of packman.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by John Lyde Wilson
But the half-crown weekly payments have a habit of lengthening themselves out till the packman has made fifty per cent. by the business.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
He is a travelling packman, who infests communities of working-men, and disposes of his goods on the credit system, receiving payment in instalments.
From The House with the Green Shutters by George Douglas Brown
They hardly heeded the coming and the going of the pack-train and their gossips the packmen!
From The Frontiersmen by Mary Noailles Murfree
Some, of small means, had commenced modestly with a shoulder-bundle and went through the new land, as peddlers and packmen in older lands had done before them.
From The Settler and the Savage by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
And the pack-horses they purveyed to carry off the plunder--why, the packmen avoid Stratford ever since as though we had the Black Death!
From The Story of Francis Cludde by Stanley John Weyman
Abe and Saunders would conduct this expedition, while Kars and Bill traveled via Fort Mowbray, with Peigan Charley, and an outfit of packs and packmen such as it was their habit to journey with.
From The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon by Ridgwell Cullum
Despite the cold—for the morning was sharp and frosty, though free from wind—there were half a dozen packmen drinking and squabbling before the inn, while the beasts they drove quenched their thirst at the trough.
From A Gentleman of France by Stanley John Weyman
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