pillars
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Eyeglass pedlars in the 18th and 19th centuries were notorious for scams and faulty lenses.
From The Guardian • May 10, 2018
Printed on cheap, thin paper, such books – which ran to around eight pages – were sold from house to house by pedlars in the 18th century.
From The Guardian • Apr. 6, 2010
They cost about one penny and were sold on the streets by pedlars.
From BBC • Jan. 23, 2010
These pedlars came to be generally called by what they had to sell, as a sort of nickname.
From The Man with the Pan Pipes and other Stories by Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)
Two speculative chap-book pedlars sold the first twenty to as many drinkers of chalybeate hastening home to breakfast.
From The Passionate Elopement by MacKenzie, Compton
