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
One may imagine the delight of a lonely town-end, when Willie the packman and the piper made his appearance, with his stories, and jokes, and ballads, his songs, and reels, and “wanton wiles.”
From Spare Hours by John 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
His early career was varied, and he was in succession a packman, a soldier in the Edinburgh garrison in 1745, and a school-master.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" by Various
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
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
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
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 Theo. Hampe
Norman Hylton had not followed the packmen beyond the gate.
From The White Lady of Hazelwood A Tale of the Fourteenth Century by W. (William) Rainey
The men of Surrey and the men of Kent, The men of Sussex and Northumberland, The shepherds of the downs, the Wealden forges, Fishermen, packmen, bargemen, masons, all The traffickers of England, made our bridge.
From In the Days of the Guild by Louise Lamprey
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