10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HUCKSTRESS»
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huckstress in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Homo Sapiens: A Novel in Three Parts
Just then a huckstress from Jericho Street chanced to pass by." Falk broke into a
nervous laugh. " That remarkable huckstress from Jericho Street — do you know
the great Liliencron ? " " No." Ysa gave Falk a surprised look. " Liliencron wrote a
...
Stanisław Przybyszewski, 1915
2
Life and Character of the Rev. Sylvester Judd
Arethusa Hall, Sylvester Judd. Let me go down, and with the hucksters idle. I'll
buy an apple ; dare as much as that Beneath these columns, and before these
gods. Haply, the curse is squat behind a stall. He talks with a huckstress, who, ...
Arethusa Hall, Sylvester Judd, 1857
Elizabeth, the huckstress, had brought me cuffs and collars, pretty embroidered
collars, almost new. I had them cheap. They pleased Catherine Ivanovna
amazingly, and she tried them on whilst looking approvingly in the glass. 'Give
them me ...
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Beeton's Famous voyages, brigand adventures, tales of the ...
Mayken," quoth he, as the doll fell to the ground, " is too fond of earth to go to
heaven." And the crowd laughed at the foolish jest. The rage of the huckstress
was ungovernable ; she fairly howled, thereby bringing round her a very large
number ...
Samuel Orchart Beeton, 1873
5
Faust I & II: Goethe's Collected Works
4072—91 untraditional figures (persons disadvantaged by the political and
intellectual changes of the late 18th century). 4096 Huckstress-Witch A
huckstress is a figure in Renaissance Italian carnival processions. 4144—75 (
and 4267—70, ...
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 2014
6
There's a Word for It (Revised Edition): A Grandiloquent ...
SOME WORKING FOLKS You've probably dealt with plenty of hucksters, but
have you ever cut a deal with a huckstress? And while we're at it, have you ever
bargained with a chafferer or haggled with a higgler? Of course you have,
because ...
Charles Harrington Elster, 2005
7
Shtetl memoirs: Jewish life in Galicia under the ...
and each huckstress using a stall had to pay a few pennies for it. Peasant women
offered various types of fruits and vegetables, as well as flowers, from their
gardens and orchards. Others displayed eggs, butter, milk, and cheese. Still
others ...
8
Deutung und Bedeutung: Studies in German and Comparative ...
(II, 110 If., Podach, 253 and 255) In a first draft (Podach, 255), he speaks of "my
old huckstress". The final version puts this into an impersonal plural. And
strangely enough, this same old huckstress is mentioned in three letters weeks
after the ...
Karl W. Mauer, Brigitte Schludermann, 1973
... were of a different class : some workmen going to their labours, a constable, an
Irish huckstress with a basket of oranges. They stood in a knot at the entrance to
the porch ; above their whispers rose the authoritative voice of the constable.
James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch, 1881
One recent night the great curtains parted at the Metropolitan Opera in New York,
and who should presently step forth to make her debut as the lead in Verdi's La
Traviata but the former TV huckstress. Her beauty, acting and singing were a ...
