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The running patterer was selling his broadsides almost as fast as he could yell.

From "The Whipping Boy" by Sid Fleischman

"What! you're afraid, old patterer, are you?" said the Chouette, with fierce contempt.

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Sue, Eugène

Deuce take me," cried Malicorne, "if that old patterer is not going fast asleep!

From The Mysteries of Paris, Volume 2 of 6 by Sue, Eugène

Since the highwayman wandered, fur-coated, into the City, the patterer has lost his occupation.

From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles

And the climax is reached, when you find yourself eclipsed by some minion, some dancing- master, some vile Alexandrian patterer of Ionic lays.

From Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 by Fowler, F. G. (Francis George)