packman
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The total effect was that of "some weird pedlar or packman."
From Time Magazine Archive
The Somali undid his bundle precisely like a packman of olden times, showing off the wares he had for sale.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon
A packman is a character which none esteems, and almost every one despises.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
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 Wilson, John Lyde
To beguile the weary hours of convalescence, she sings to the lute, tells stories, recounts legends, or reads aloud a romance lately bought from some wayfaring packman.
From Of Six Mediæval Women To Which Is Added A Note on Mediæval Gardens by Kemp-Welch, Alice
In the guest-room were the "packmen," and some equally wild-looking girls.
From Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)
The packmen who walk round the villages for tradesmen are a different class altogether: the pedlar does not confine himself to one district, and he sells for his own profit.
From The Life of the Fields by Jefferies, Richard
I was induced to this by the success of several who had left our neighbourhood, done well after a few years' travel as packmen, and were then settled in various towns, and prosperous.
From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 by Various
It was from packmen and hawkers that fine ladies bought their laces and ribbons and gloves; their precious toilet and hair pins, their paints and powders, and India scarfs and fans, and even jewellery.
From The Bow of Orange Ribbon A Romance of New York by Hampe, Theo.
The travelling stationers and packmen carried them in their thousands, in chapbook form, into even the most remote parts of the country, where they were bartered for and explored with avidity.
From Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk by Ford, Robert
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