chawbacons

I walked over to Poplar Cove and sat around the post-office and store, talking with the chawbacons that came in to trade.

Short Stories for English Courses Rosa Mary Redding [Editor] Mikels

I walked over to Poplar Cove and sat around the postoffice and store, talking with the chawbacons that came in to trade.

The Ransom of Red Chief 1907

Is it because he hath seen the backs of a parcel of rascally militiamen, and because he hath drawn a few hundred chawbacons from the plough's tail to his standard, that he ventures to hold such language to the President of

Micah Clarke His Statement as made to his three grandchildren Joseph, Gervas and Reuben During the Hard Winter of 1734 Arthur Conan Doyle 1894

I walked over to Poplar Cove and sat around the postoffice and store, talking with the chawbacons that came in to trade.

Whirligigs O. Henry 1886

'Ay, ay,' said the chorus of chawbacons; 'he can't say no fairer nor that, he can't.

St. Ives, Being the Adventures of a French Prisoner in England Robert Louis Stevenson 1872

And so there are none of the groups of vacant faces, the joyless chawbacons lounging gloomily from stall to stall, the settled inanity and dreariness of the crowd that drifts through an English fair.

Stray Studies from England and Italy John Richard Greene 1860

The chawbacons that we sneer at are not always in smock-frocks, take my word for it; they many of them wear wide-brimmed hats and broadcloth, and sit above the gangway.

Lord Kilgobbin Charles James Lever 1839

Some dozen of these curiosities were staggering, and swaggering, and smoking in front of Nonsuch House, to the edification of a lot of gaping grooms and chawbacons, when Mr. Sponge cantered becomingly up on the piebald.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

Indeed, he had been painted in the act of addressing his hereditary chawbacons in the hall in which the picture was suspended.

Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour Robert Smith Surtees 1833

"I comes up from Tonbridge this 'ere very afternoon, an', 'avin' drunk a pint over at 'The Bull' yonder, an 'axed questions as none o' they chawbacons could give

The Broad Highway Jeffery Farnol 1915