12 adjectives to describe peddlers
Presently comes along a pleasant peddler, all the way from Cabool, with a pretty bushy-tailed kitten of Persia in the hollow of his arm, and a cunning little mungooz cracking nuts on his shoulder.
Separated from his nearest neighbor by a journey of half a day, visited only rarely at his hato or farm-house by some casual traveller, or by the itinerant Galician peddler, whom he contemptuously denominates the merca-chifles, the silent horseman lives wrapt up in ignorance of all but the care of the roving beasts that are intrusted to his vigilance.
As you told the story, the handsome peddler had accosted you at the exit of the post-office and asked you to look at his wares.
It seemed that some of the mischievous candy peddlers had got hold of him.
All vehicles, however, are now called "gherrys" in India, no matter where they come from nor how they are builtthe chariot of the viceroy as well as the little donkey cart of the native fruit peddler.
Travelers complain also of the pestiferous peddlers who pursue them beyond the limit of patience.
But still worse off than these pitiful peddlers of fraud is he who feigns without knowing that he feigns,feigns unfeignedly, and calls God to witness that he is faithful in the performance of his part.
The exhausted gas coughed resoundingly, the gears groaned and shrieked loudly when improperly lubricated, and the whole machine rattled like a runaway tin-peddler.
There are stolid Aymara peddlers with scores of bamboo flutes varying in size from a piccolo to a bassoon; the hat merchants, with piles of freshly made native felts, warranted to last for at least a year; and vendors of aniline dyes.
Then there was an Italian peddler, alien, confused, and in rags, soon, however, to be set free; and next a jovial drunk, slapping the officers on the back, lifting his legs in dance-like motions and shouting to the judge.
I can see now The form of that tall peddler, whose strange wares, Outlandish dialect and impudent gait Awoke Euktemon's laughter.
"'Wish you would apply it to this old tub at once,' said the professor; and the forlorn peddler went his way to cherish visions of coming glory.